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Mortimer

Location:

Fairvue Plantation and likely Belmont Mansion

Relations:

NA

Documentation:

1847 – Mortimer was listed in an estate inventory of Isaac Franklin as being the cook at Bellevue Plantation and owned in share with John Armfield. It appears that Adelicia and her Father O.B. Hayes took him to the house they had rented in New Orleans on Canal Street. It was first rented by Isaac Franklin and Armfield (the contents of which are also listed in the estate inventory).

1849 – May – Listed in the marriage contract between Adelicia and Joseph Acklen as belonging at least partially to Adelicia. The document states that she had “an undivided interest of money” in him.

1850 – June – Mortimer is listed (with no last name) as a cook on the Louisiana Plantation, Belleview. Adelicia had half interest in him valued at $500. At this time, the house at Angola had not been completed and the Acklen family were still living in the house at Belleview. [Court case inventory page 834]

Notes - In 1861 Mortimer was not listed as part of the Acklen property used for collateral for a loan (this included some but not all of the Louisiana plantations). It seems likely Mortimer was brought to Tennessee sometimes after June of 1850.

Other Possible Sources:

NA

GPS ADDRESS

Belmont Blvd & Acklen Avenue 

Nashville, TN 37212

MAILING ADDRESS

1900 Belmont Blvd

Nashville, TN 37212

615-460-5459

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The architecture of Belmont Mansion makes it one of the most significant homes of 19th century Tennessee.

Sold by the Acklen family in 1887, the house went to a developer who began one of Nashville’s early suburbs.

It was then purchased by two women who in 1890 started a college which evolved into Belmont University. Today the Belmont Mansion Association, which was formed in 1972, owns the collection, runs the museum, and shares this unique story of 19th century Nashville with visitors from far and near.

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