Jeanna Hulda Mariana Christina Africana Hahr

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Full name: Jane Hulda Josefina Anna Maria Christina Africana Hahr; was a high school teacher at Limestone Female School, Gaffney, SC. Emigrated from Sweden 1850, returned 1858, emigrated again 1860. (From Nannie's notes:) Came to America with her brother Franz who was "traveling". When Nannie's (Annie von Schele Hahr's) parents died, did she go to Alabama to live with her aunt Hulda Legare? At Rosemount? Demopolis? According to the book, Travels in America 1851-1855 by Rosalie Roos, Hulda and Franz taught at Legare's school, Orangeburg Female College in Orangeburg, SC, after they left Limestone. "She has a very good salary at Orangeburg, $700, unusual even here. Franz gets the same, but he feels less content, for he is of the sort who are seldom satisfied with their lot and circumstances." (p. 136) On the 1860 US census for SC, Hulda was listed as a professor of music. (p. 409) (Franz Hahr not on census record) From: "Limestone College, a history, " by Dr. Montague McMillan: "Hulda married William W. Legare of the Charleston Legares, President of Harwood Seminary, Marietta, Georgia. This couple spent their last days in Forkland, Alabama, and are buried there." From letter from Phyllis Legare Evans: "This came brom my brother, Julian K Legare II in '93. The first 15 years of her (Hulda Hahr's) life spent in Swedish Embassy of her father in Tripoli. Fluent in Arabic, Italian, French, German, English, Swedish. Emigrated to Charleston SC before 1861 where she met Prof. William White Legare while teaching at the Orangeburg Female College." Phyllis' letter continues: "From newspaper clipping, "Early Days of Demopolis" by Miss Laura Prout. "1886--The Female Institute opened its doors to the girls of Demopolis and surrounding neighborhood. Prof. W.W. Legare was principal. His teachers were his wife, the Misses Hahr. The school, the old Allen Glover home burned in March of that year. A new school building was ready by Sept. 1887. The old Allen Glover home was grandparents' home of Amelia Walton Alcorn Glover Legare, wife of Dr. J.K. Legare, only child of Hulda Hahr and W.W. Legare." "Hulda was an exquisitely beautiful, tiny pianist who often played command concerts before crowned heads of Europe. She was born in Tripoli, Africa, while her father was minister representing Sweden. His work was highly rgarded by King Oscar of Sweden who honored this loyal representative. Minister Hahr's travels took him to many lands, even to South Carolina. On this trip he was accompanied by his talented and lovely daughter, Hulda. There she met William W. Legare and they were married while he was president of Orangeburg Female Academy, S.C. There was born their son Julian Keith Legare, the year before the end of the War Between the States. Prof. Legare was later head of the Presbyterian College of Memphis, Tenn. "Hulda never gave up teaching music at the schools of which her husband was president. Later, W.W. Legare assumed the presidency of the Marion Female Academy in Marion, Alabama. In 1886 he opened a private school in Demopolis, Alabama." From The Marion Standard, Wed, June 29, 1887: "Prof. W.W. Legare and family left last Friday for Marietta, Georgia, where he will take charge of a large school. The professor, his wife and his charming nieces, the Misses Hahr and his accomplished art teacher, Miss Love, have won the personal friendship as well as their esteem as teachers and educators and it is with double regret that Demopolis gives them up." Phyllis Evans says: "I'm not sure of the date but I think about this time, or a few years later, he returned to Forkland, which is near Demopolis, in failing health, to be cared for by his son, Dr. J.K. Legare. Dr. J.K. Legare was well educated in medicine...was an MD at a very early age."