Tulip Border Group

Clovercroft, Williamson Co.

Frances Louisa Nolen, who went by the name Louisa or Lou, was the eldest child of Allen Thomas and Frances Ann Davis. Her father was a prosperous farmer in the Clovercroft/Nolensville area of Dist. 14 in Williamson County. Louisa died in 1885 and is buried in the Nolen-Hyde Cemetery in Williamson County.

Louisa’s sampler was most likely made in a female academy. Louisa may have attended school in Franklin, Triune, or College Grove. The Nolensville Female Academy was not chartered until 1850.

Photograph courtesy of Bob Canaday and the Heritage Foundation of Franklin and Williamson County.