Sewell Family History

The drawing room, with its beamed ceiling, tapestried walls, and the massive Jacobean mantel is an outstanding feature. The oriental furnishings are completed with a very large hand woven Persian rug, the only one of its kind in America. The library has choice books and pictures, and is a very restful room. The modernistic solarium has deep red draperies, red chairs and a unique star shaped chandelier, which came from Czechoslxxovakia is another inviting part of the home. 

The dining room opens to the right from the entrance hall and is a most stately room. A heavy, hand carved dining room suite is blended to the spaciousness of the room. Two alabaster lamps, with their delicate tints add to the beauty of the buffet. A handsome crystal chandelier, which also came from Czechoslovakia completed the charming details of this room. 

One very interesting feature of the garden is the number of twin oak trees. From the front entrance to the end of the rear terraces these unusually large trees abound, hence the name, "TWIN OAKS".

A tiled terrace leads to the garden which covers eight acres all beautifully landscaped. Trees, shrubs of many varieties and quantities of blooming flowers give color and fragrance almost every month in the year. 

To the rear house level there is a tree shaded terrace. Just below is a court terrace with an artistic lily pool and white figured fountain. This court and all symetrical designed flower beds are bordered by luxuriant miniature age old boxwoods. 

From the court a silver Cherokee flagstone walk leads to a formal sunken rose garden, where white iron furniture is invitingly placed. 

The concrete tennis court and outdoor living room equipped with a Cherokee flagstone barbecue pit leads toa rose bordered "Lovers Lane" and to the stable where the saddle horses are kept. 

Mr. Sewell is one of Atlanta's most prominent business men, known to his associates as "Sewell, the Middle Man". He founded the Sewell Manufacturing Company at Breman, Georgia, and at that time was the youngest manufacturer in the South. He also established and owns Sewell Hats, Ltd., Red Oak, Georgia, and this plant had the distinction of being the only hat manufacturing plant south of Pennsylvania. Mr. Sewell is a faithful steward in the Druid Hills Methodist Church, a devoted, loyal Christian gentlemen. He is modest and unassuming and his many continuous generous deeds for underpriviledged persons are hidden from the world. Love for his family is a paramount trait. He is an active member of the Druid Hillsl Golf Club and Yaarab Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. He is highly valued by his church, business and fraternal associates. 

Mrs. Sewell is active in teh Altanta Woman's Club where she served as Chairman of Georgia Writers. she is a member of the National Association of University Women, also Dogwood and Peony Garden Clubs.

There are four children: Robert Anderson Sewell, Jr., a Junior at Emory UNiversity; Victor Hugo Sewell; Joseph Montgomery Sewell' and Helen Virginia Sewell.

The only girl of the family, Helen Virginia, though just eight years of age is an accomplished harpizt. she played at the White House in Washington, D.C. May 1939, with the Dobbs Miniature Harpists and renewed her acquaintance with President Roosevelt whom she had known in Georgia. A picture of the President with Helen is seen in the accompanying photograph of the library. The small harp is her instrument. She is also talented in piano, toe-dancing and elucution, and a perfect athletee in swimming, diving, and equestrienne, which makes her a most unusual child for her age.