(1846-1883)
« return to database listMildred Carrington, born in Virginia, attended Nash & Kollock School during the Civil War years. Later, married to a fellow Virginian and living in Texas, she brought her oldest daughter, Elise, to attend the school under the care of her former teachers [1].
Mildred Carrington was born into the close-knit planter communities of Halifax Countyand Prince Edward County counties in Virginia. Her parents were Dr. William F. Carrington, a naval surgeon, and Elizabeth Venable. Mildred attended the N&K School during the early Civil War years. Ann S. Nash wrote in Ladies in the Making, her memoir about the school, that Mildred “inherited her mother’s beauty and charm, and [who] was sent when little more than a child to the Nash school at Hillsborough. The conditions she found in this simple establishment, operating under the restrictions of war, were in marked contrast to the free and easy life at Mildendo, her hospitable home in Virginia. But she must have adopted herself happily to her strange surroundings, for she absorbed the best the school had to offer, and in later years remembered it so kindly that she chose it as the place for her own little daughter’s early education.”
In 1867 Mildred married Joseph Chappell Hutcheson, a Confederate veteran and graduate of the UVA School of Law; they settled in Anderson, TX and later Houston, TX. Joseph, devoted to his wife and children, established a successful career in law and politics. The couple had nine children. Mildred brought her oldest daughter, Elise (given the middle name of Nash) to Hillsborough to attend the Nash & Kollock School. Only a few months later, in March, 1883, Mildred died suddenly, three days after giving birth to her son John while Elise was in Hillsborough at school. Mildred’s gravestone reads:
“A loving, dutiful, unselfish wife
and Mother, full of womanly grace
and gentleness, firm, yet soft in spirit.
Her death was the sunset of a life
of sunshine. She lived fond of the world
and died sure of Heaven.” [2] [3] [4]
Mildred Lightfoot Carrington was born on October 12, 1846, in Farmville, VA. She died on March 19, 1883, post-partem illness, and was buried in Glenwood Cemetery.