Miss Agnes Suite

This room is dedicated to Miss Agnes Watkins Carrington, the oldest sister who operated the Sunny Side School for Young Ladies. Miss Agnes Carrington was born on March 23, 1833 as the fourth daughter of Tucker Carrington and Mary Watkins Carrington.

During the years that the School operated, she was the one that managed the farm, supplying the table of delicious fruits and vegetables. Miss Agnes was very skilled and was the one whom all of the sisters deferred. They used to call her in fun 'Bismark', when she would retire to plan new schemes for the farm and school. They would say 'Bismark is planning'!

For the girls that attended the School, Miss Agnes was their 'mother confessor' and if morals or manners needed to be corrected, she would call the pupils to her room quietly, one at a time, and tell in a gentle but firm way how to behave next time.

Miss Agnes was wonderful with children. She discovered the good in each one of them and developed it into the best. Her younger cousins gave her the pet name 'Ansie'.

Miss Agnes died in 1887, only 53 years old.

source: manuscript about 'the misses Carrington's Sunny Side School for young ladies 1872 - 1908' by J.D. Eggleston (1946).