Mr. and Mrs. Hunt’s Female Academy (Red Roses Group)

Gallatin, Sumner Co.

Lucy Catherine Temple (1821-1904), known as Catie, was the daughter of Liston Elliott Temple, Jr. and Perlina F. Gaines. Although the family lived in Davidson County, they chose the send Catie to school at Mr. & Mrs. Hunt's Female Academy in Gallatin, Sumner County. Catie married twice. In 1839 she married her first husband, John H. Bostwick, and the couple moved to Texas where Catie gave birth to six children. After her husband died, she married Nathaniel Vice in 1868.

Catie’s impressive sampler has not been documented by TSS and is known only to us through a photograph. A four-sided geometric border encloses a lavish, four-sided floral border, of pink roses and greenery. Two manuscript alphabets, upper case and lower case, and the number 1 through 10 stretch across the top third of the sampler. Her verse, written by Catherine Matilda Thayer in Aug. 1819 for the Methodist Magazine, is followed by her signature band, with two floral sprigs.

GREAT GOD
Give me but this, to know that thou art
mine;
That thou my Advocate and Savior art;
All others bliss I freely can resign,
And clasp thy precious gospel to my heart.
Lucy C. Temple
Mr. and Mrs. Hunt’s
Female Academy
Gallatin, Tennessee
1834