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Annie
Fellows Johnston
1863-1931
Author of the Two Little Knights of Kentucky
and the Little Colonel Series
 Mrs. Johnston wrote the Two
Little Knights of Kentucky in 1899, using William
and Craig Culbertson, young sons of Samuel
A. Culbertson and Louise Craig Culbertson of Louisville, as her
models. The boys spent several summers in Lloydsborough Valley
(Pewee Vally) visiting their aunts Mamie and Fannie.
Fannie Craig appears in Two
Little Knights of Kentucky as Aunt Allison.
Aunt Mamie Craig Lawton owned "the
Beeches," which later became Annie Fellows Johnstons' home (who
purchased it in 1911 and lived there until her death in 1931.)
Mamie was married to Henry
Lawton, who as an Indian fighter early in his career, is
credited with (or blamed for) the capture of the Apache Chief
Geronimo. Later, General Lawton backed up Teddy Roosevelt
and the Rough Riders at San Juan Hill in Cuba, and ended his career as
the "Super Hero of the Phillippines" during the Spanish
American War. (He was killed in action.)
Mamie Lawton's daughters
became the "Walton" girls (Allison, Elise
and Kitty) of the Little Colonel Series.
In the 1930's, the Little
Colonel, speaking in a newspaper interview, remembered her dearest
friends in childhood as the Culbertson boys (the Two Little Knights) and
their cousins, the Lawton girls. (Courier-Journal
June 10, 1932)
Below are
autographed notes left to the two Culbertson boys by Mrs. Johnston:
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"For Craig
Culbertson
to whom Nature gave her royal
accolade, long before he became
the Keith of the story--
'The Two Little Knights of Kentucky' "
--Annie Fellows Johnston"
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"For William
Culbertson
whose boyish grace and courtly
manners suggested the character
of Malcom in the story of the
'Two Little Knights of Kentucky' "
--Annie Fellows Johnston"
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More
on William and Craig Culbertson, the models for the Two Little Knights
of Kentucky, with pictures
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Two Little Knights of Kentucky
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Artifacts
from the Samuel Culbertson Mansion Collection
This Site:
Home Page
What's New? Biography of Annie Fellows
Johnston,
Books on Line (Complete
Original Little Colonel Book Series)
The Little Colonel (link to U. Penn))
The
Giant Scissors
Two Little
Knights of Kentucky
The Little Colonel's
House Party
The Little Colonel's
Holidays
The Little Colonel's Hero
The Little Colonel
at Boarding-School
The Little Colonel in
Arizona
The Little
Colonel's Christmas Vacation
The Little Colonel, Maid of
Honor
The Little Colonel's
Knight Comes Riding
Mary Ware, The Little Colonel's
Chum
Mary Ware in Texas
Mary Ware's Promised Land
Check our home page for more titles by AFJ on other sites
The People & Characters:
The Little Colonel, Papa
Jack and Mrs. Sherman, The
Old Colonel, Two Little
Knights of Kentucky,
Two Little Knights of Kentucky(2),
Uncle Sidney & Aunt
Elise, parents of the Two Little Knights of Kentucky,
Grandmother McIntyre,
Aunt Allison, The
Waltons, Rob and Anna
Moore, Betty,
Joyce Ware,
Jack Ware, Mom Beck,
Walker, Katherine Marks,
Gay Melville,
The Lees of Arizona,
Small Parts
Their Final Resting Places
The Places: In Pewee (Lloydsboro) Valley:
Map,
Map 2,
Where it all began, The Locust,
The Beeches
Edgewood,
The Little Colonel's Cottage,
The Railroad Station,
"Lloydsboro Seminary",
Clovercroft, The
Post Office, Churches,
The Haunted House at Hartwell Hollow,
Confederate Home
Rollington,
Minor Places In Old Louisville:
The Culbertson
Mansion, "Home of a Hero"
in Indiana::
The Cuckoo's Nest (Indiana), In Arizona:
Lee's Ranch,
Camelback Mountain &
Hole-in-Rock, In Texas:
San Antonio,
The Little Town of Bauer (Boerne),
Penacres,
The Barnaby Ranch,
In France:
The Gate of the Giant Scissors
Letters from Annie
Fellows Johnston and "Mrs Walton"
Scrapbook
Links
Cooking with The Little Colonel
Guest Book
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