Women of distinction/Chapter 93

CHAPTER XCIII.

MRS. DINAH WATTS PACE.

Dinah Watts Pace was born in Athens, Ga. She attended school at Atlanta University in Atlanta, Ga., and graduated from the normal department in June, 1883.

During the summer of the same year she began her work as teacher in Covington, Ga. She took two little

MRS. DINAH WATTS PACE.

orphan girls to care for and rear. This resulted in the founding of an Orphan Home, where orphans and other needy children are cared for. She has reared six children and has at present twenty-two in the home. The work has grown gradually each year.

During the past ten years her greatest aid has been from a brother, Lewis G. Watts, who lias given her regularly a part of his earnings toward the support of the work, otherwise the work is mainly supported by her own earnings.

She has received some aid from Northern friends. Mrs. A. C. Reed, of Manchester, Vt. , donated at one time the money for the erection of the present Home building, a large two-story frame structure. She has also given other aid. Friends in and near Boston have also contributed to the work.

The work is nothing like completed, but it is gradually growing.

The mission is known as the Reed Home and School for Colored Children, and, although yet in its infancy, the enterprise is a striking illustration of what a consecrated heart with well-defined purposes and sufficient energy and will to do can accomplish at the hands of an Afro-American woman of small means.