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| Description | Decoration Day Ladies of Mississippi – (Seated, left to right) Jane Fontaine, Martha Elizabeth Morton; (Standing, left to right) Kate McCarthy Hill Cooper, Augusta Murdock Sykes Cox. In 1866, these ladies developed plans to decorate the graves of both Confederate and Union soldiers in Friendship Cemetery, Columbus, Mississippi. |
| Date | circa 1866 |
| Source | Billups-Garth Archives, Columbus-Lowndes Library via The Dispatch, May 23, 2010 |
| Author | Unknown author |
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