 She gave birth to Lucille, the first of their six children, on June 29, 1900, after they had settled in Florence.Around that time, William Hooper Councill, the president of what had become the Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical College for Negroes (the same college Handy had refused to teach at in 1892 due to low pay), hired Handy to teach music.He became a faculty member in September 1900 and taught through much of 1902.