They fell into a conversation, and the Northern lady became so
much interested in the effort being made at Tuskegee that before they
parted Miss Davidson was handed a check for fifty dollars. For some
time before our marriage, and also after it, Miss Davidson kept up the
work of securing money in the North and in the South by interesting
people by personal visits and through correspondence. At the same
time she kept in close touch with the work at Tuskegee, as lady
principal and classroom teacher. In addition to this, she worked
among the older people in and near Tuskegee, and taught a Sunday
school class in the town. She was never very strong, but never seemed
happy unless she was giving all of her strength to the cause which she
loved. Often, at night, after spending the day in going from door to
door trying to interest persons in the work at Tuskegee, she would e
so exhausted that she could not undress herself. A lady upon whom she
called, in Boston, afterward told me that at one time when Miss
Davidson called her to see and send up her card the lady was detained
a little before she could see Miss Davidson, and when she entered the
parlour she found Miss Davidson so exhausted that she had fallen
asleep.
While putting up our first building, which was named Porter Hall,
after Mr.
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