Addendum II: Notes about Captain Nathan Atkinson Brown's wife, Louisa Nicholes, I don't know who wrote these, but it must have been about 1904, since the female college in Cuthbert is mentioned as having existed for 40 years at the time this was written:
She was born on her father's plantation, Cedar Grove, near Beaufort, S.C. on Feb. 4, 1840. In her early childhood her parents removed from S.C. to Ga. to their rice plantation in Camden County, on the Santilla River. (Her family owned several plantations: Jamaica in Glynn Co., Thorn Hall [1] and Long Bluff in Camden Co. and one near Hazelhurst.) In 1859 Louisa Nicholes graduated from the Cuthbert Female College [2], a flourishing institution for 40 years in south Georgia. On March 12, 1861 she was married to Capt. Nathan Atkinson Brown, who was a first cousin of the late judge Spencer Atkinson and Judge Samuel C. Atkinson, both of the Supreme Court of Georgia. Her grandparents were Dr. Isaac Nicholes and Susan Fuller, a sister of Dr. Richard Fuller, the most noted minister of his day. Her mother, Eliza Witter Turner, was a first cousin of the late Dr. W.T. Royal, a Baptist minister and an educator who was Professor of Greek at Wake Forest College, N.C. for sixty years. Her father, Henry J. Nicholes was a first cousin of Henry Holcomb, a noted minister and founder of Mount Enon Academy, the first institution of learning of Baptists of the South, and was one of the early advocates of the founding of Mercer University at Macon, Ga. He was an ancestor of many well-known men of Georgia, among them the late Dr. H. H. Tucker of Atlanta, and U.S. Senator A. O. Bacon of Macon, Ga.
EBS notes:
[1] Thorn Hall is featured in Loulie's letters as her main family residence.
[2] Andrew Female College in Cuthbert, Randolph County Ga, south of Columbus, established in 1854, and still thriving as a small co-ed literal arts institute.
From the college's website: 'Andrew College is a private, liberal arts junior college located a few blocks off the town square in Cuthbert, Randolph County, Georgia, United States. It is associated with The United Methodist Church and is the ninth-oldest college in Georgia. Andrew College was granted its charter as Andrew Female College by the Georgia General Assembly on January 15, 1854. At the time, it was the second oldest charter in the United States to give an educational institution the right to confer degrees upon women. In 1864, Andrew College was taken over by the Confederate Army and served as Hood Hospital during the American Civil War. It was one of three hospitals in Cuthbert'
Loulie's Widow's Pension application in 1911, from the Georgia Archives.
http://vault.georgiaarchives.org/cdm/fullbrowser/collection/TestApps/id/137612/rv/compoundobject/cpd/137617/rec/6