The Journal of Sarah Haynsworth Gayle, 1827–1835: A Substitute for Social Intercourse

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Adams, John Quincy, 5, 14, 53, 107 Aiken, Mary Rees Gayle (daughter of John and Sarah Gayle) childhood, 118, 132, 147, 175, 209, 212, 224, 235 encounter with William T. Sherman, 320 marriage to Hugh Aiken, 320 Aiken, Wyatt, 320 Ashe, Julia, 251 Ashe, Paoli Pascal, 238 Bagby, Arthur, 17, 45, 46, 79, 85–86, 87, 101–2, 151, 202, 301, 302, 314 Bagby, Emily, 17–18 Bates, Joseph, 118 Bayne, Anna Maria Gayle (daughter of John and Sarah Gayle), 83, 86, 173, 177, 261, 308, 321 Bayne, Thomas Livingston (husband of Anna Maria Gayle Bayne), 318, 321 Beck, Eliza, 55, 63, 66, 193, 218, 291 Beck, Mrs., 55, 60, 63, 83, 97, 211 Bonaparte, Napoleon, 8, 11 Bonfils, Sauveur Francois, 233, 235, 238 Boykin, Burwell, 247, 248, 267–68, 280, 289, 290, 299 Brumby, Richard T., 237, 244, 255, 258, 260, 302 Buchanan, Jane, 3, 6, 11, 26, 57, 63 illness, 5, 7, 9, 21, 110 visitswithSarahGayle,12,16,22,83,109 Carson, Sarah (Anna), 15–16 Caskaden, Mary, 2, 4, 30, 76, 113, 114, 115, 125, 146, 194, 211 Chapman, Mary, 6, 61, 81, 150, 204 departs for Cahawba, 135, 136 family, 5, 44, 52, 55, 114, 144, 190 friendship with Sarah Gayle, 12–13, 21, 60, 75, 82, 83, 97, 101, 105, 106, 124, 218, 258 residence with her father, 107, 121, 126, 129, 155 Chapman, William, 9, 11, 56, 89, 102, 103, 111, 148, 190, 196, 197 Christopher, Dr. William, 3, 8, 11, 26, 36, 38, 51, 79 Clay, Clement Claiborne, 236 Clay, Clement Comer, 46, 61, 236 Clay, Henry, 5, 236 Clinton, Thomas, 1, 7, 24, 30 Cluis, J. J., 85 Cluis, Mrs. J. J., 47 Collier, Henry, 119, 169 Collier, Mrs. Henry, 168 Comegys, Edward F., 288, 290, 295, 307 Connell, Elizabeth, 79 Crabbe, Mrs. George W., 233, 241, 244, 252, 253, 256, 257 Crawford, Sarah Ann Gayle (daughter of John and Sarah Gayle) childhood, 2, 19, 29, 36, 42, 52, 54, 55, 64–65, 173, 220, 222, 239, 252, 311 Index Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations 344 index children, 319 education, 68, 143, 147, 188, 189, 208, 233, 236, 265, 299, 305, 313 health, 319 letter-­ writing, 137, 226 marriage to Dr. William Bones Crawford , 319 Creek Indian Nation, 260, 293, 303 Crenshaw, Anderson, 85, 95 Darrington, Col. John, 25, 88–89, 113, 133 Darrington, Mrs. John, 88–89, 129, 178, 218, 255 Dearing, Capt. James H., 239, 306 DesCourt, Alexander L., 156, 159, 173, 193, 208 Drish, Dr. John, 286, 287 Eastin, Lucinda Gayle (sister of John Gayle), 42, 56, 65, 109, 275, 281–82, 301, 305, 306, 308, 309 children, 210–11, 297, 298 family health, 223–24, 227, 245, 278, 292 financial matters, 78, 100, 216, 298– 99, 314 friendship with Sarah Gayle, 211, 214, 218, 219, 220, 229, 239, 254 Eastin, Thomas (husband of Lucinda Gayle Eastin), 65, 68, 109, 196, 204, 215, 217, 220, 229–30, 314 epidemics cholera, 212, 217, 221, 225–26, 227– 28, 288, 311 measles, 254 scarlet fever, 311 smallpox, 182, 240, 311 typhus, 227 Erwin, Mrs. John, 4–5, 6, 18, 28–29, 61, 127, 175, 188, 194, 218, 255, 258 children, 56, 206, 306 friendship with Sarah Gayle, 31, 36, 48, 62, 97, 125, 130, 144–45, 159, 161, 174, 203, 223, 226–27, 253, 267 religion, 144–45, 228, 245, 253 Ewing, Mrs. Sam, 95, 168, 169, 233, 241, 243–44, 275, 276, 281 Fearn, Dr. Thomas, 118 Fisher, Sarah, 19–20, 28 Floushey, Martha, 103–4 Gaines, George Strother, 71, 116, 242, 295, 302, 313 Gaines, Maj. Gen. Edmund Pendleton, 70, 71, 242 Gayle, Amaranth Phillips (wife of Matthew Gayle, cousin of John Gayle), 100, 118, 131, 152, 154, 160, 181, 188, 204, 214, 220 Gayle, Anne Brewer (wife of Levin Gayle), 44, 82, 83, 86, 119, 173, 177, 184, 195, 261 depression, 179, 184, 214, 225, 229, 230, 255, 295 difficulty managing servants, 258 family health, 154–55, 156, 168, 207, 223, 305, 310, 321 financial problems, 213, 221, 245, 259, 261–62, 276, 294 friendship with Sarah Gayle, 44, 105, 122, 125, 137, 214, 218, 220, 224, 225, 229 religion, 228, 255 Gayle, Benjamin (cousin of John Gayle), 131, 152, 199, 296 Gayle, Billups (deceased brother of John Gayle), 25, 178 Gayle, Billups (son of Levin Gayle, nephew of John Gayle), 1, 7, 111, 114, 117, 168, 178, 311 Gayle, Clarissa Stedman Peck (sec­ ond wife of John Gayle), 121, 245, 317 children, 318 death in...