Isabel Rawn (NC) 1885-1936 Collector Brown/Sharp
Isabel Nauman Rawn was born in Fort Elliot, TX on Oct. 30, 1885 and died in Asheville, NC on Aug. 19, 1936. Her father was Maj. Charles C. Rawn and mother, Isabel Douglas Nawman. She married Thomas Lockwood Perry, son Thomas Lockwood Perry (Jr.) (1916-1991), daughter Priscilla Perry Forte, d. 2012.
Rawn (later Mrs. W. T. Perry) was a collector for the Brown Collection; also a friend of the Campbell family, gave ballads to Olive Dame Campbell, published without credit in Sharp EFSSA, 1917, 1932. Miss Isabel Rawn, attended Wellesley (graduated c. 1909), English teacher at the Mount Berry School, Mount Berry, Ga. (by 1914), writes that she has collected nine ballads in Georgia, largely from the girl students of her school. The ballads are Nos. 4, 7, 20, 68 (2), 73 (3), 84 (5), 85 (2), 95, 105 (5). "How Christmas came to Truelove: Mountain ; mystery play," by Isabel Rawn, p. 7 (In Southern Highlander, vol. 8, no. 1, Feb. 1915.)