The Education of Lula A. Scott - Part I

Sydney Borden Scott wasn’t the only one of my 2x Great-Grandmother’s siblings to receive a strong academic education. While Borden (as he called himself) was starting his fourth year in the Academic Course at Atlanta Baptist College, his sister Lula was beginning her first year at Spelman Seminary!

Lula Scott was born about 1882 in Georgia, likely in either Washington or Hancock Counties. She was about 2 years younger than Borden and about 22 years younger than Scoatney, her half-sister (they shared the same father, but had different mothers). And within just a few years of her brother starting his education in Atlanta, Lula followed in his footsteps.

The Education of Borden Scott: Atlanta Baptist College

Hey Cooper Cummings Family! If you attended our Virtual Family Reunion, you heard the 5-second synopsis of Sydney Borden Scott’s time at Atlanta Baptist College - this blog post fills in the details (as best I understand them).

Sydney Borden Scott, or Borden, as he seems to have preferred, was the younger half-brother of my 2x great-grandmother Scoatney Scott Cooper. She was born in the early years of the Civil War, he about 20 years later. Both seem to have been the children of cotton country, and of the people whose unpaid labor had made that crop so profitable. But whereas she remained in rural Georgia, marrying, having children and even owning land, he left on a path that took him through Atlanta, Georgia all the way to Chicago, Illinois, and to a career as a physician and postal clerk. She planted her roots more deeply, while he, in a sense, uprooted his.