(1855-1913)
« return to database listLoula Scales apparently lived all of her life in Augusta, Georgia. She attended the N&K School in the years around 1870, in her mid -teens. She appears as a 15-year-old among the Nasg & Kollock students listed on the 1870 US Federal Census for Hillsborough.
In an 1871 letter to the local newspaper, a Hillsborough neighbor, Mrs. Cornelia Phillips Spenser, spoke admiringly of Lula’s performance during one of the Nash & Kollock’s musical recitals:
“Ms. Scales sang Schubert’s ‘Cradle Song’ most touchingly. She truly has what the French call ‘les larmes de sa voix’ and truly she brought tears to my eyes by the tears in her voice..So closed the finest concord of sweet sounds ever heard in Hillsborough.”
Loula Scales married Thomas Miller Jackson; they had a son, Thomas, and a daughter, Julia. Thomas Jackson died at about age 26, after which Loula and her children lived with her widowed mother in Augusta, GA [1] [2] [3] [4].
Louise was called Lula.
She was also called Loula.
Louise Elizabeth Scales was born 1855, in Georgia. She died on December 15, 1913, and was buried in Magnolia Cemetery [5].