Title
Tutwiler Memorial Marker, Havana Cemetery
Subject
Tutwiler, Julia, 1841-1916
Tutwiler, Henry, 1807-1884
Cemeteries
Description
A marker erected on Route 69 in Havana, Alabama, commemorating the burial site of Henry and Julia Tutwiler.
She was an active member of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, battling alcoholism.
Known as the "angel of the prisons" or "angel of the stockades", she pushed for many prison reforms. She fought to separate female prisoners from male ones and to separate juveniles from adult criminals. As a result, the first Boys' Industrial School was opened. She also demanded better prison sanitation, education, and religious opportunities for prisoners. She lobbied to end the convict-lease system.
The Julia S. Tutwiler Prison for Women in Alabama is named after her. Tutwiler Hall at the University of Alabama and a library at University of West Alabama also bear her name.
She died from cancer, leaving $15,000 for a scholarship fund at Livingston Normal College. She was inducted into the Alabama Hall of Fame in 1953. When Judson College established the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame in 1970, she was among the first group of inductees. As a poet, she wrote some of the lyrics to the state song, "Alabama", which was adopted in 1931.
In 2001, she was inducted posthumously into the Tuscaloosa County Civic Hall of Fame by the Chamber of Commerce of West Alabama, the first year of the award that was designed to honor citizens who had made long-term, significant contributions to the development of the county while at the same time celebrating the community's history and heritage.
Henry Tutwiler was born in Harrisonburg, Virginia, in 1807. He entered the first class of the University of Virginia, and following graduation with a master's degree in 1831 became a professor at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa.
In 1835 he married Julia Ashe (1820-1883). They had eleven children including Julia.
In 1847 he founded a private school for boys, the Green Springs School for Boys near Havana Alabama in what was then Greene County. The school gained a high reputation for the quality of its instruction and because of Tutwiler's decision, unusual for the time, to admit a few young women—including his daughters.
He died in Greensboro, Alabama, in 1884.
Julia Tutwiler was an Alabama advocate for education and prison reform and a poet. Graduating in the first class of Vassar College, she served as co-principal of the Livingston Female Academy, and in 1891 became the first woman president of Livingston Normal College (later the University of West Alabama). She supported the first female student to the college.She was an active member of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, battling alcoholism.
Known as the "angel of the prisons" or "angel of the stockades", she pushed for many prison reforms. She fought to separate female prisoners from male ones and to separate juveniles from adult criminals. As a result, the first Boys' Industrial School was opened. She also demanded better prison sanitation, education, and religious opportunities for prisoners. She lobbied to end the convict-lease system.
The Julia S. Tutwiler Prison for Women in Alabama is named after her. Tutwiler Hall at the University of Alabama and a library at University of West Alabama also bear her name.
She died from cancer, leaving $15,000 for a scholarship fund at Livingston Normal College. She was inducted into the Alabama Hall of Fame in 1953. When Judson College established the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame in 1970, she was among the first group of inductees. As a poet, she wrote some of the lyrics to the state song, "Alabama", which was adopted in 1931.
In 2001, she was inducted posthumously into the Tuscaloosa County Civic Hall of Fame by the Chamber of Commerce of West Alabama, the first year of the award that was designed to honor citizens who had made long-term, significant contributions to the development of the county while at the same time celebrating the community's history and heritage.
The text on the marker:
BURIED IN HAVANA CEMETERY
DR. HENRY TUTWILER
TEACHER - SCIENTIST
AND HIS ILLUSTRIOUS DAUGHTER
JULIE STRUDWICK TUTWILER
EDUCATOR - WRITER - PHILANTHROPIST
ERRECTED BY
THE HIGH SCHOOL CHILDREN AND
HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF HALE COUNTY
BURIED IN HAVANA CEMETERY
DR. HENRY TUTWILER
TEACHER - SCIENTIST
AND HIS ILLUSTRIOUS DAUGHTER
JULIE STRUDWICK TUTWILER
EDUCATOR - WRITER - PHILANTHROPIST
ERRECTED BY
THE HIGH SCHOOL CHILDREN AND
HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF HALE COUNTY
Creator
Elizabeth Bradt
Source
Elizabeth Bradt
Date
September 2020
Contributor
Elizabeth Bradt (Description)
Type
Photograph
Identifier
195
Coverage
Hale County (AL)
Original Format
Photograph