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Adelicia Acklen
One of the wealthiest women of the antebellum South, Adelicia Acklen was born March 15, 1817, the daughter of Oliver Bliss Hayes, a Nashville lawyer, judge, minister, land speculator, and cousin to President Rutherford B.
Hayes.
Adelicia acklen biography of barack
At 22, she married Isaac Franklin, a wealthy cotton planter and slave trader, 28 years her senior. They had four children, none of whom survived childhood. In 1846 Franklin died, leaving her an inheritance valued at approximately $1 million that included Louisiana cotton plantations, a 2,000-acre farm in Middle Tennessee and 750 slaves.
In 1849 Adelicia married Colonel Joseph A.
S. Acklen, a lawyer from Alabama, who signed a prenuptial contract giving his wife control of all her businesses, property, and assets. The couple began construction of Belmont, a large summer villa, now maintained as a house museum.
The Acklens lived a sumptuous lifestyle, traveling between Belmont and their Louisiana plantations. The couple had six children, two