Tennessee, Deaths & Burials Index, 1874-1955

Name: May Winston Caldwell
Birth Date: 22 May 1856
Birth Place: Davidson, Tennessee
Age: 83
Death Date: 14 Dec 1939
Death Place: Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee
Burial Date: 16 Dec 1939
Burial Place: Nashville, Tennessee
Cemetery Name: Mt Olivet
Gender: Female
Race: White
Marital Status: Married
Residence Place: Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee
Occupation: House Keeper
Father's Name: Charles K Winston
Father's Birth Place: Louisa County, VA
Mother's Name: Ann Rogers
Mother's Birth Place: Barron County, KY
Spouse's Name: James E Caldwell
FHL Film Number: 1876881
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James and his wife, May, built Longview Mansion. They lived there for over half a century. Eight of their ten children were born there, and several died there. Both James and his wife passed away in the mansion.
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May Winston was a little girl when the Civil War came to Nashville. She lived in a big plantation type house on Fifth Avenue, South, on the hill just north of the Old City Cemetery. Her mother was related to George Rogers Clark.

When she grew up, May was married to Nashville financier James E. Caldwell, and became the mistress of the mansion Longview, on Franklin Road. She became a leader in the activities of the DARand other historical societies, and was the moving spirit in the restoration of Fort Negley and the erection of the Peace monument overlooking the battlefield at Nashville.

Mrs. Caldwell loved homes and gardens, and in 1911 she published "Beautiful and Historic Homes Around Nashville." In 1936, recalling her memories of the Civil War as a child, she published a little book for her children, "A Chapter From the Life of a Little Girl of the Confederacy."

THE NASHVILLE, TENNESSEAN, Sunday, Dec. 6, 1964