Marie Louise Scudder Myrick

Marie Louise Scudder (December 5, 1853 – June 10, 1934) was the owner, manager and editor of the Americus Times.

Marie Louise was the great-great-granddaughter of Dr. (Colonel) Nathaniel Scudder (1733–1781),[2] a prominent physician and member of the Continental Congress[3] as a representative of New Jersey.

Col. Nathaniel Scudder was a graduate of Princeton, a physician, a patriot, and one of two New Jersey delegates to the Continental Congress.

He signed the Articles of Confederation, the first constitution of the United States, and was the only member of the Continental Congress to be killed in action during the Revolutionary War,[4] just four short months before Lieutenant General Lord Cornwallis surrendered to Gen. George Washington at Valley Forge.

[citation needed] Louise's maternal grandparents, George Washington Davidson (1800–1854) and Caroline Elizabeth "Betsy" Chilcot (1807–1835), were born in Shelbyville, Tennessee.

[citation needed] Marie Louise married Colonel John Bascom Myrick, of Georgia, on March 30, 1875, in the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer, which was the family's parish on Belmont Avenue in Shelbyville.

One account of Louise's tenure at the Times-Recorder was:She is a brilliant newspaper woman, and her work has challenged the admiration of the journalistic fraternity throughout the South.Mrs.

With the proceeds she had received from the sale of the Americus Times-Recorder, Louis and Shelby began construction of a very grand home in the new Ardsley Park neighborhood of the city.

The imposing red brick colonial was built on a full city block which was made up of 16 lots of the new neighborhood at 2807 Abercorn Street.

The Scudder Family home on Belmont Avenue in Shelbyville, TN as it appeared in the early 1960s. The home originally had a full second floor which was destroyed by fire in the late 1800s. The home was demolished in the early 2000s.
The report on the funeral of Capt. Myrick from the Atlanta Constitution, 1895
Tomb engraving for Marie Louise Scudder Myrick in Bonaventure Cemetery (Savannah, Georgia)
The newer inscription on the Myrick Family Tomb in Savannah, Georgia
The Myrick Family home at 2807 Abercorn Street in Ardsley Park, Savannah, GA built by Shelby and his mother Marie in 1914.
The Myrick Family in Savannah, Georgia. Standing: Shelby Myrick and his wife Mary Ruth Myrick. Seated: Marie Louis Myrick with her grandchildren Mary Ruth (left) and Shelby, Jr (Right)