Adelicia Acklen
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Portrait by William Brown Cooper
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| Born |
Adelicia Hayes March 15, 1817 Nashville, Tennessee |
| Died |
May 4, 1887 (aged 70) New York, New York |
| Residence | Belmont Mansion |
| Occupation | Planter, socialite |
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| Children | 10, including Joseph H. Acklen and William Hayes Ackland |
| Relatives | Richard Cheatham (third father-in-law) |
Adelicia Hayes Franklin Acklen Cheatham (March 15, 1817 – May 4, 1887) was the widow of a planter from Nashville, Tennessee and then an owner in her own right.
Adelicia Hayes was born on March 15, 1817 in Nashville, Tennessee. Her father was Oliver Bliss Hayes (1783-1858), a lawyer and later Presbyterian minister from South Hadley, Massachusetts who was related to Rutherford B. Hayes (1822–1893), the 19th President of the United States from 1877 to 1881. Her mother, Sarah Clements (Hightower) Hayes (1795-1871). They lived at Rokeby.
In 1839, at age 22, Acklen married Isaac Franklin (1789-1846), a slave trader and plantation owner. They had four children: Victoria Franklin (1840-1846), Adelicia Franklin (1842-1846), Julius Caesar Franklin (1844-1844) and Emma Franklin (1844-1855), none of whom survived to adulthood. In 1846, after her first husband died, and she inherited the Fairvue Plantation in Gallatin, Tennessee, 8,700 acres (35 km2) of cotton plantations in Louisiana, more than 50,000 acres (200 km2) of undeveloped land in Texas, stocks and bonds, and 750 slaves. As a result, she became the wealthiest woman in Tennessee.
In 1849, Acklen remarried to Joseph Alexander Smith Acklen (1816-1863). Together, they built the Belmont Mansion in Nashville. They had six children: Joseph H. Acklen (1850-1938) who served as U.S. Representative from Louisiana from 1878 to 1881, Laura Acklen (1852-1855), Corinne Acklen (1852–1855), William Hayes Ackland (1855–1940), Claude M. Acklen (1857-unknown) and Pauline (Acklen) Lockett (1859–1931).
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