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Caroline "Carrie" Winder McGavock (née Winder; September 9, 1829 – February 22, 1905) was an American slave owner and the caretaker of the McGavock Confederate Cemetery at Carnton, a historic plantation complex in Franklin, Tennessee. [1] [2] Her life was the subject of a 2005 best-selling novel by Robert Hicks, entitled The Widow of the South.
Carnton's Greek Revival style back porch. Carnton is a red brick Federal-style 11-room residence, that was completed in 1826 by Randal McGavock using slave labor.Built on a raised limestone foundation, the southern facing entrance façade is a two-story, five-bay block with a side-facing gabled roof, covered in tin, with two dormer windows, and slightly projecting end chimneys.
The McGavock Confederate Cemetery is located in Franklin, Tennessee. It was established in June 1866 as a private cemetery on land donated by the McGavock planter family. The nearly 1,500 Confederate soldiers buried there were casualties of the Battle of Franklin that took place November 30, 1864. They were first buried at the battleground, but ...
John McGavock was born on April 2, 1815. [3] His father was Randal McGavock (1766–1843), Mayor of Nashville from 1824 to 1825 and owner of the Carnton Southern plantation in Franklin, Tennessee. [2] His sister Elizabeth Irwin McGavock was married to William Giles Harding, owner of the Belle Meade Plantation. [2]
Reddick was born in Mississippi in about 1832. She was held as a slave by Colonel Van Perkins Winder and Martha Grundy Winder of Ducros Plantation in Schriever, Louisiana. [1] [2] In December 1848, she was given to the Winder's daughter, Carrie Elizabeth Winder, as a wedding present upon her marriage to Colonel John McGavock, son of Randal McGavock of Carnton Plantation in Franklin, Tennessee. [3]
Randal McGavock (1766–1843) was an American politician and Southern planter in Nashville, Tennessee. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Identifying as a Jeffersonian Republican , he served as the Mayor of Nashville, Tennessee from 1824 to 1825.
During the American Civil War, Colonel John McGavock and Carrie Elizabeth Winder McGavock of Carnton Plantation sent one of their pregnant house slaves, Mariah Reddick, to stay with Kempe at her house in Montgomery, Alabama. [13] [14] Following the South's defeat in the war, Howell fled to Canada.
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