A history of Rome and Floyd County, State of Georgia, United States of America; including numerous incidents of more than local interest, 1540-1922 . 196 A History of Rome and Floyd County. A NOTED SCHOOLHOUSE AND SEVEN DWELLINGS. At top, left, is No. 6 E. Ninth Avenue, where Prof. Hay Watson Smith, brother of Louis Smith, president of Washington and Lee University, taught school. Next is theold Hines Smith home; the homes of W. H. Pickling, Mather D. Daniel, Ed L. Bosworth, J. , Dr. J. D. Moreland and Mrs. Martha Battey, follow from left to right. CHAPTER Desolati
A history of Rome and Floyd County, State of Georgia, United States of America; including numerous incidents of more than local interest, 1540-1922 . 196 A History of Rome and Floyd County. A NOTED SCHOOLHOUSE AND SEVEN DWELLINGS. At top, left, is No. 6 E. Ninth Avenue, where Prof. Hay Watson Smith, brother of Louis Smith, president of Washington and Lee University, taught school. Next is theold Hines Smith home; the homes of W. H. Pickling, Mather D. Daniel, Ed L. Bosworth, J. , Dr. J. D. Moreland and Mrs. Martha Battey, follow from left to right. CHAPTER Desolation Pictured in Diary T HE Rome Chapter (jf theUnited Daughters of theConfederacy has preservedin its archives a choice lit-erary morsel in the form of ex-tracts from the diary of Reuben , which was placed at itsdisposal by Mrs. Wm. M. Towers,his only daughter, and which shedsa flood of light on the dark daysbetween September, 1863, and theConfederate surrender in April,1865. These extracts follow: Mary Noi-ton, then twelve years ofage, was sent with friends of the fam-ily in 1863 to points of safety fartherSouth, but her mother and I decidedto remain in Rome and meet whateve
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