Full Name Adelicia Hayes Parents Oliver Bliss Hayes Name Adelicia Acklen | Occupation Planter, socialite | |
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Murrey lived at 1906 15th ave s across from 56 250 sq ft house adelicia acklen nashville
Adelicia Hayes Franklin Acklen Cheatham (March 15, 1817 – May 4, 1887) was the widow of a planter from Nashville, Tennessee and then a plantation owner in her own right.
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- Murrey lived at 1906 15th ave s across from 56 250 sq ft house adelicia acklen nashville
- Early life
- Adult life
- Death
- References
Early life
Adelicia Hayes was born on March 15, 1817, in Nashville, Tennessee. Her father was Oliver Bliss Hayes (1783-1858), a lawyer and later Presbyterian minister from South Hadley, Massachusetts, who was related to Rutherford B. Hayes (1822–1893), the 19th President of the United States from 1877 to 1881. Her mother, Sarah Clements (Hightower) Hayes (1795-1871). They lived at Rokeby.
Adult life
In 1839, at age 22, Acklen married Isaac Franklin (1789-1846), a slave trader and plantation owner. They had four children: Victoria Franklin (1840-1846), Adelicia Franklin (1842-1846), Julius Caesar Franklin (1844-1844) and Emma Franklin (1844-1855), none of whom survived to adulthood. In 1846, after her first husband died, and she inherited the Fairvue Plantation in Gallatin, Tennessee, 8,700 acres (35 km2) of cotton plantations in Louisiana, more than 50,000 acres (200 km2) of undeveloped land in Texas, stocks and bonds, and 750 slaves. As a result, she became the wealthiest woman in Tennessee.
In 1849, Acklen remarried to Joseph Alexander Smith Acklen (1816-1863). Together, they built the Belmont Mansion in Nashville. They had six children: Joseph H. Acklen (1850-1938) who served as U.S. Representative from Louisiana from 1878 to 1881, Laura Acklen (1852-1855), Corinne Acklen (1852–1855), William Hayes Ackland (1855–1940), Claude M. Acklen (1857-unknown) and Pauline (Acklen) Lockett (1859–1931).
Later, Acklen married Dr William Archer Cheatham (1820-1900), a physician and head of the State Insane Asylum whose father, Richard Cheatham (1799-1845), served as United States Representative from Tennessee from 1837 to 1839. However, she soon grew dissatisfied with this marriage and moved to 1776 Massachusetts Avenue in Washington, D.C.. In 1887, she sold the Belmont Mansion, which was later used for Ward–Belmont College, followed by Belmont University.
Death
Acklen died on a shopping trip in New York City on May 4, 1887, at the age of seventy. She was buried at the Mount Olivet Cemetery in Nashville, Tennessee.