Bettye Jenkins, Hawthorne House, Natchez Mississippi.

My parents bought this house in 1930. It was built in 1840. They got it in really bad condition and my family restored it. This was not really a plantation; it was a Spanish land ground of sixty-six acres. The plantation was some miles away from here. This house was a urban home. My husband’s family were cotton planters, they were some of the early settlers here. My family came from Virginia in the early 1800’s and moved to Natchez in 1938. My mother gave me this house and gave me this tradition of pilgrimage. I’m a member of the Pilgrimage Garden Club and my mother was one of its founding figures. Bettye Jenkins