The first brick mansion in Nashville, Tennessee, was built by General James Robertson for his wife, Charlotte Robertson, whose story is told in the July Delineator. It is easily to been seen from this tale of daring and suffering, how heroic a part was played by women in the settlement of America; not only in enduring the loss of everything commonly supposed to be necessary to their lives, but in the actual use of arms, and in the duty, often necessary to their lives, but in the actual use of arms, and in the duty, often necessary in the absence of their husbands, of defending a home or a fort against savages or wild beasts. Mrs. Robertson lived to see more peaceful times and to enjoy well-earned honor and ease. She and her husband lie side by side in the old City Cemetery at Nashville.
Contributed by Sara Hemp from The Ravia Tribune, Ravia, Johnston County, Indian Territory, now Oklahoma, June 16, 1904