The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-04
Miss. Annie Jones Hart
BY THETA CHAPTER, DELTA KAPPA GAMMA,
National Teachers Honor Society
1844-1931
Pioneer Wilmington Teacher

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ers for many years.
Miss Hart possessed a full rich
alto voice and for many years
assisted in the choir at st. James
church. She was composer OF
music and in her possession was
a thick manuscript containing her
musical compositions. Plays and
operettas which she composed
demonstrated her ability in dra-
matte art.
She was so advanced in her
ideas in those early days that
physical education was stressed
through calisthenics, games, and
plays. Endowed with these varied
natural talents, she inculcated into
her pupils an appreciation OF the
finer things of life. Copies of the
commencement programs dating
as early as June 1869, reveal the
cultural training her pupils re-
ceived in literature, music, dra-
matte art, and physical educa-
ton.
Miss Hart displayed rare abili-
ty in mathematics. Her pupils
were trained to think quickly and
accurately. Some of them can
recall the little narrow bench,
polished from use, where they sat
during the mental arithmetic class
when their youthful minds were
taxed with problems to be solved
without paper or pencil.
There always existed in her
school a sympathy of aims and
cooperation between teachers and
pupils, resulting from mutual re-
gard and esteem. From letters
and editorials written in years
past, Wilmington owes much to
the instruction given by one who
possessed a brilliant mind and
in spite of serious physical
handicap entered into the interest
of her pupils, trained and taught
them thoroughly and faithfully.
Miss Hart was so well thought
OF by the educators of Whining
ton that in 1898. when making
change in the public schools, the
chairman Of the Board of Educa-
ton, Mr.. James H. -Chadbourn,
tried to persuade her to become
supervisor of instruction in the
city schools. After much consid-
Grafton, on account of personal
reasons and loyalty to her own
school, she thought best not to
accept.
In the Wilmington Morning Star,
June %, 1920, there appeared the
following card: miss Hart and
Miss Brown, having decided not
to open their school the coming
October, wish to express regret
at this severance of many ties;
as well as their sincere thanks for
long-continued unsolicited patron
age with, in numerous instances,
gratifying appreciation"
A few years later in the same
paper, notice was given of the
death of Miss Hart, September 9,
1881. Funeral services were con-
Quoted from St. James, the church
she loved and served. She was
laid to rest in beautiful Oakdale
cemetery.
Copies of newspaper clippings
and letters show the esteem in
which she was held by her
patrons, pupils, and one of her
own instructors. They are as fol-
lows:
This is to certify that Miss Annie
Hart was a member of the senior
class of the Columbia Female Col
lege of the term of '64-5, and was
within few months of graduating
with distinction when the institution
was suspended on account of Sher-
mans raid.
II prepared Miss Hart on mathe-
mates for admission into college
and she, therefore, went over the
whole course in this department
up to the time of suspension, under
my personal instruction. can truly
say that on mathematics as we'll as