Mildred Cabell Watkins

Miss Mildred C. Watkins was an instructor of Bible and faculty member of Seminary for Girls and Presbyterian College for Women from 1895 - 1909.  According to a manuscript on the history of our institution, Miss Watkins “[was] one of the ablest and most intellectual women of the Southern Presbyterian Church. Her influence over the young women she taught was in deed remarkable” (Harrell, 34). She left Presbyterian College for Women and went to China where she taught Bible in the Shanghai American School. From 1915-1917 she taught at Kashing High School in China. She died in China. Although buried in China, her death is recorded on her mother's tombstone in Elmwood Cemetery in Charlotte.

Miss Watkins once stated: " When I first began to teach, I prayed for my girls by name each night, but as my group has grown larger, I have to pray for them collectively."