![E. [Edith] May Strother](https://images.findagrave.com/photos/2017/274/83721042_1506989029.jpg?size=photos250)
Known as "Aunt May" by her Phillips nieces and nephew, May Strother remained unmarried for life. For many years she resided and taught at the Fauquier Institute, a private school for girls in Warrenton. Because of her position there, her niece Margaret Strother Phillips (m Holbert Harris in mid-life), lived with her in her room and attended the Institute at a reduced tuition. Margaret did not enjoy her time there due to being harassed by the other students because of her aunt being a teacher.
May was instrumental in saving Aspen Hill farm (the family homeplace near Paris, now called Hollin Farm), from creditors after her father George William Strother died in 1900. Lawsuits filed in Fauquier and several other counties by creditors of the estate indicate that May had loaned her father money to pay debts for several years, prior to the dates the creditors claimed, and she had saved the receipts. Hence she had first claim, and saved the farm. She gave her brother Channing Delaplane Strother a life lease on the farm so that he would have a place to live out his life without worry for a home. It is reputed that he kept snakes on the 2nd story of the old farmhouse, but I do not know the source of the story.
Contributed by Nancy Toney Upshaw.
May was instrumental in saving Aspen Hill farm (the family homeplace near Paris, now called Hollin Farm), from creditors after her father George William Strother died in 1900. Lawsuits filed in Fauquier and several other counties by creditors of the estate indicate that May had loaned her father money to pay debts for several years, prior to the dates the creditors claimed, and she had saved the receipts. Hence she had first claim, and saved the farm. She gave her brother Channing Delaplane Strother a life lease on the farm so that he would have a place to live out his life without worry for a home. It is reputed that he kept snakes on the 2nd story of the old farmhouse, but I do not know the source of the story.
Contributed by Nancy Toney Upshaw.
Known as "Aunt May" by her Phillips nieces and nephew, May Strother remained unmarried for life. For many years she resided and taught at the Fauquier Institute, a private school for girls in Warrenton. Because of her position there, her niece Margaret Strother Phillips (m Holbert Harris in mid-life), lived with her in her room and attended the Institute at a reduced tuition. Margaret did not enjoy her time there due to being harassed by the other students because of her aunt being a teacher.
May was instrumental in saving Aspen Hill farm (the family homeplace near Paris, now called Hollin Farm), from creditors after her father George William Strother died in 1900. Lawsuits filed in Fauquier and several other counties by creditors of the estate indicate that May had loaned her father money to pay debts for several years, prior to the dates the creditors claimed, and she had saved the receipts. Hence she had first claim, and saved the farm. She gave her brother Channing Delaplane Strother a life lease on the farm so that he would have a place to live out his life without worry for a home. It is reputed that he kept snakes on the 2nd story of the old farmhouse, but I do not know the source of the story.
Contributed by Nancy Toney Upshaw.
May was instrumental in saving Aspen Hill farm (the family homeplace near Paris, now called Hollin Farm), from creditors after her father George William Strother died in 1900. Lawsuits filed in Fauquier and several other counties by creditors of the estate indicate that May had loaned her father money to pay debts for several years, prior to the dates the creditors claimed, and she had saved the receipts. Hence she had first claim, and saved the farm. She gave her brother Channing Delaplane Strother a life lease on the farm so that he would have a place to live out his life without worry for a home. It is reputed that he kept snakes on the 2nd story of the old farmhouse, but I do not know the source of the story.
Contributed by Nancy Toney Upshaw.
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