Holland Nimmons McTyeire (1824-1889), son of Elizabeth Nimmons and Captain John McTyeire, was born on 28 July 1824 in Barnwell County, South Carolina. He received his AB degree from Randolph Macon College in 1844 and was licensed as a pastor in the Methodist Episcopal Church. He married Amelia Townsend in 1847. He served as a pastor in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana before he was elected Bishop and moved to Nashville in 1867. In 1872, he initiated a plan to create a Central University of the Methodist Episcopal Church. After receiving the financial support of his wife’s cousin-in-law, Cornelius Vanderbilt, McTyeire became president of the newly minted Vanderbilt University in 1873. He died on 15 February 1889 in Nashville, Tennessee.

Jane McTyeire Baskervill (1862-1942), daughter of Amelia Townsend and Holland Nimmons McTyeire, was born on 8 April 1862 in Mobile, Alabama. She married William Malone Baskerville in 1881. After his death in 1899, she served the Dean of Women at the Woman’s College (later renamed Huntingdon College) in Montgomery, Alabama, and at Sullins College in Bristol, Virginia. She died in Bristol on 5 November 1942 and was buried in Nashville, Tennessee.

William Malone Baskervill (1850-1899), son of Elizabeth Malone and Reverend John Baskervill was born on 1 April 1850 in Fayette County, Tennessee. He studied at Randolph-Macon College and at the University of Leipzig (PhD, 1880). In 1877, he married Florence Adams, but she died suddenly in 1878, and he married Jane McTyeire in 1881. He taught English at Wofford College from 1876 to 1881 and at Vanderbilt from 1881 to 1899 and became widely recognized as a historian of Southern literature. Baskervill died in Nashville, Tennessee, on 6 September 1899.