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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 22. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.10 (search)
A mother of the Confederacy.
[from the Memphis, Tenn., appeal-avalanche, June 30, 1894.1
Mrs. Sallie Chapman Gordon law.
Just upon the eve of preparations by ex-Confederates to celebrate the Fourth of July in a becoming manner and spirit, the sad news is announced of the death of the venerable Mrs. Law, known all over the South as one of the mothers of the Confederacy.
She was also truly a mother in Israel, in the highest Christian sense.
Her life had been closely connected with tha f a long-lived race of people.
Her mother lived to be ninety-three years of age, and her brother, Rev. Hezekiah Herndon Gordon, who was the father of Gen. John B. Gordon, now Senator from Georgia, lived to the age of ninety-two years.
Sallie Chapman Gordon was married to Dr. John S. Law, near Eatonton, Ga., on the 28th of June, 1825.
A few years later she became a member of the Presbyterian Church, in Forsyth, Ga., and her name was afterward transferred to the rolls of the Second Presbyter
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 22. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index. (search)