
She records her activities and those of her friends and family, as well as the events of her hometown of 250 people-Cleveland, an Appalachian community in Southeast Tennessee. Thirteen-year-old Myra Adelaide Inman writes the first entry in her diary on New Year’s Day, 1859. She then moves her family to a new home, which is used as a boarding house. Inman-Ann Jarnagin Inman-sells all of their property to survive. While Myra is still a child, her father dies without leaving a will. The family buys an inn, known as the Inman Inn.

Myra Adelaide Inman is born, one of eight children, in Cleveland, Bradley County, Southeast Tennessee.į/memorial/39704093/myra-carter The Inman family comes to Tennessee from North Carolina in the 18th century.
