Add to ORKGThis undated photograph showing a portrait of Bessie Hooper (1883-1973) and a man in Big Ridge, North Carolina is part of the Sara Madison Collection. Bessie Hooper was a first cousin of William Dallas Wike (1867-1940), Sara Madison’s grandfather. Dr. Sara Jean Sutton Montgomery Madison (1931-2017) had a lifelong association with Western Carolina University, and was married to James A. Madison (1928-2015), grandson of the university’s founder, Robert Lee Madison (1867-1954). As a child, Sara lived in Davies Hall on the campus of Western Carolina University, and later on Buzzard’s Roost overlooking campus with her parents, Eddie Marie Wike Sutton and Ralph Coleman Sutton