and Mrs. Garnett Reed Chenault
Mt. Sterling, Kentucky
My dear Mr. and Mrs. Chenault,
I have just received your very kind and thoughtful letter,
together with the newspaper enclosure concerning the Tipton
family in Montgomery County, Kentucky. You are a most considerate
couple. On behalf of my sister, Mrs. Margaret D. Bridges, now
about 90 and almost blind and quite deaf, and myself, I thank
you. Mrs. Bridges, in the early 1880s, and as a sprightly young
Miss, visited her cousin, Amanda Black Tipton and husband Burwell
. . .
You possibly might be interested to know that Burwell's daughter
Bettie (who married a Lindsay and after marriage lived in
Winchester, Ky.), through a combination of ability,
aggressiveness, chance and fate, came to be a famous woman
nationally. Asbury College (now DePauw University) a staid
Methodist school here in Greencastle, opened its doors to women
students in 1870--an unheard-of thing. And here came Bettie,
bringing along her charming southern ways. Females were frowned-
on by the young college men as interlopers and undesirables, and
were subjected to some indignities. Bettie et. als. persisted.
Bettie, along with three other young women students, founded the
first Greek Letter Sorority in the world, Kappa Alpha Theta.
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