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Adelicia Acklen, "the mistress of Belmont," was one of the wealthiest and most interesting women of the antebellum south. She was the daughter of Oliver Bliss Hayes , a prominent Nashville lawyer, judge, Presbyterian minister, land speculator, and cousin to President Rutherford B. Her mother was Sarah Clements Hightower Hayes — Born in Nashville, Tennessee in , she was engaged at age 17 to Alphonse Gibbs when he precipitously died.

Five years later in she married a year old wealthy cotton planter and slave-trader, Isaac Franklin. They were married for seven years with four children all died in childhood when Isaac died of a stomach virus while tending to his plantations in Louisiana. Adelicia was left with an inheritance of one million dollars that included seven Louisiana cotton plantations, the two-thousand-acre Fairvue Plantation in Gallatin, Tennessee, more than 50, acres of undeveloped land in Texas, stocks and bonds, and slaves.

See The Slaves of Isaac Franklin. Adelicia married her second husband, Colonel Joseph A. Acklen , in Joseph, a handsome attorney from Huntsville, Alabama, didn't quite sweep Adelicia off her feet; two days before they were to be married, Adelicia presented Joseph with a prenuptial agreement specifying that she would be sole owner and final authority over all the properties she brought into the marriage.

The couple began immediate construction of Belmont completed in , a twenty-thousand-square-foot summer villa, with 36 rooms, including an art gallery, conservatories, lavish gardens, aviary, lake and zoo. The Acklen's with their four surviving children two died in childhood lived a sumptuous lifestyle, traveling between Belmont in the summer and their Louisiana plantations in the winter.

Joseph was a superb businessman and plantation manager, who gave up his law practice to manage the family businesses, to triple his wife's fortune by Joseph died in at the Angola Plantation in Louisiana, age 47, a carriage accident during the Civil War, and shortly thereafter Adelicia journeyed to Louisiana in an attempt to save the nearly 3, bales of cotton stranded on the Acklen plantations.