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- 1 2 Phelan, p. 358.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Carole E. Christian, "Chappell Hill Female College", Handbook of Texas online, June 12, 2010, retrieved March 4, 2017.
- ↑ Phelan, p. 404.
- ↑ "Chappell Hill Female College", Cyclopædia of Methodism, ed. Matthew Simpson, Philadelphia: Everts & Stewart, 1878, OCLC 317671080, p. 197.
- 1 2 Stephen Chicoine, The Confederates of Chappell Hill, Texas: Prosperity, Civil War and Decline, Jefferson, North Carolina / London: McFarland, 2005, repr. 2011, ISBN 9780786464180, p. 194.
- ↑ Elizabeth A[very] Coulton, "Southern Colleges for Women", The North Carolina High School Bulletin 3.1 (January 1912) 3–19, p. 14; revised as "Standards of Southern Colleges for Women", The School Review 20.7 (September 1912) 458–75, p. 472 (misspelled as "Chapel Hill").
- ↑ Don Blevins, "Lizzie Johnson Williams: Educator, Trail Boss, Rancher, Miser", in A Priest, A Prostitute, and Some Other Early Texans: The Lives Of Fourteen Lone Star State Pioneers, Rowman & Littlefield, 2008; Guilford, Connecticut / Helena, Montana: Lone Star, 2016, ISBN 978-1-4930-2614-2, pp. 76–86, p. 80.