EVANGELICAL WOMEN IN THE SECOND HALF OF 1800; SUSIE KING TAYLOR P/2

                                                  Read Part One HERE

In this story I will continue to focus on a woman named Susie King Taylor. She lived from 1848 - 1912. As the Civil War began, Susie was sent back to the country to her mother. She, along with her uncle and his family, fled to St Catherine's Island to seek protection from the Union Fleet. 

After two weeks, they were all transferred to St Simon's Island. While on the gunboat during the transfer, she was questioned by the commander of the boat, inquiring where she was from. Susie informed him that she was from Savannah. He then asked her if she could read and write. When he learned that she could he handed her a notebook and asked her to write her name and where she was from. 

After being on St Simon's Island for three days, Commodore Goldsborough visited Susie and asked her to create a school for children on the island. She agreed to do so, provided she be given the necessary books for study.She received the books from the North and began her first school.

Susie married Sergeant Edward King and they returned to Savannah after the Civil War. While there she opened a school for African-American children (whom she called the "children of freedom.") and an adult night school. Sadly, her husband died soon afterwards.

Read Part Three HERE