Sewell Leach house

page 180 of Matt Clinton's Scrapbook: "The Sims Female Academy was located north of Fourth (Pine) Street and west of Twenty-Second Avenue (Madison Street). In that block are lots 71, 72, 73, and 74. At the land sales of 1821 Sims bought (at auction) lots 72, 73 and 74, and James Irwin bought lot 71. In 1826 Irwin sold lot 71 to Sims. Therefore, in 1828, when the academy was established, Sims owned the entire block."

from 1887 city map 

from the January 8, 1831 Alabama State Intelligencer (Tuscaloosa)

Thomas McAdory Owen comment

from the August 25, 1910 Tuscaloosa News

from a June 11, 1921 Selma Times Journal clipping about Colonel Sam Will John, a member of the University Corps of Cadets

from the August 30, 1830 Vermont Patriot and State Gazette (Montpelier)

from the August 19, 1916 Montgomery Advertiser

from Tuscaloosa: 200 Years In The Making  by G. Ward Hubbs

 page 53: "Thus the town was dark, quiet, and calm-with a single exception. Voices were heard and lights flickered at the Jemison Mansion down Greensboro Street beyond the business district. There, a wedding between Captain James Slaughter Carpenter and Miss Emily Alston Leach had just ended and the guests were dancing."

Page 95: "Although the war once again intervened, Jemison did succeed in lighting his own house with piped gas. And thus it was the brightly lit Jemison House, in an otherwise dark town, that attracted Croxton's raiders to the wedding party that fateful April 1865 night."