Thomas Rutling was born in Wilson County, Tennessee in 1854. His father and brother were sold away from him before he was two years old. He stated on the plantation until 1865, when he moved to Nashville and soon after went to Fisk.
Left to right seated: B.W. Thomas, Julia Jackson, Ella Sheppard, Georgia Gordon, Thomas Rutling. Left to right standing: Maggie L. Porter, F.J. Loudin, H.D. Alexander, Jennie Jackson.
B.W. Thomas, Julia Jackson, Maggie Porter, Ella Sheppard, F.J. Loudin, Hinton Alexander, Georgia Gordon, Jennie Jackson, America Robinson, Thomas Rutling.
Left to right standing: Isaac Dickerson, Georgia Gordon, Thomas Rutling. Left to right sitting: Mabel Lewis, Greene Evans, Jennie Jackson, Ella Sheppard, Benjamin Holmes, Eliza Walker.
Painted in 1873 by Edmund Havel, Queen Victoria's court painter. Left to right (men): Benjamin Holmes, Isaac Dickerson, Thomas Rutling, Edmund Watkins, Left to right (women): Mabel Lewis, Minnie Tate, Ella Sheppard, Jennie Jackson, Julia Jackson,...
Left to right: Minnie Tate, Greene Evans, Isaac Dickerson, Jennie Jackson, Maggie Porter, Ella Sheppard, Thomas Rutling, Benjamin Holmes, Eliza Walker.
