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500 and many are the old soldiers of the Confederacy who rise up and call her blessed. Besides being a zealous member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Mrs. MeSherry is a leader in all good Works in her community. and is regarded as a most valuable member of society.

Mrs. Rose is a native Tennesseean. She was Miss Laura Martin, born at Pulanski, Tennessee. in the year 1862, daughter of William M. Martin and Lizzie Gorin Otis. Her grandfather, Mr. Thomas Martin, was born in Albemarle Couuty, Virginia, in 1799, and at the sure of ten years moved with his father, Abram Martin, to Sumner County, Tennessee. in the year 1809, when that country was still the happy hunting mound of the Red Man. His ancestors were of Welsh origin, emigrating to Virginia in the rally days. Mr. Martin as merchant, planter and banker impressed himself upon the history of Giles County, Tennessee, and left a name revered by all. He was a man of strong intellect, public spirited, and noted for his uprightness and charity. Through her mother, a beautiful and brilliant woman, Mrs. Rose claims French descent. The Gorins were descendants of the Huguenots of France, two brothers emigrating to this country and settling, in Maryland. John Gorin, her great-great-grandfather, was a revolutionary soldier, moving to Barron County, Kentucky, in 1789. Mrs. Rose was married in 1881 to Solon E. F. Rose, of Pulaski, Tennessee, son of Colonel Solon E. Rose, an eminent Tennessee lawyer. This union brought together two of Tennessee's most prominent families. She is the mother of three children, a daughter and two sons. Her daughter, Lizzie Otis Rose, died some years ago. Her sous. Martin and Solon Clifton, live with their parents at West Point, Mississippi.

Mrs. Row at the present time enjoys the distinguished honor of being the president of the Mississippi division. United Daughters of the Confederacy. Prior to her election to this high position, she was historian of the division for two years. She did good work along historical lines. She has written several papers of interest and value, namelyr, "The United Daughters of the Confederacy. Its Objects and Missions." "Arlington, Its Past and Present." "The Klu Klux Klan." giving authentic history of the origin of that famous "Klan." Her public work has been along United Daughters of the Confederacy lines, and she has thrown into it all the love and enthusiasm of her nature for her beloved Southland. She has stood for the truth of history. believing that "History is the life of a nation." and has been untiring in her efforts to present in her work the truths of the history of the Southern Confederacy, that “Storm-cradled Nation" that fell.

Mrs. Annie H. Bocock, the second wife of Thomas S. Boncock, the distinguished Virginia statesman, was a worthy companion during the latter part of his distinguished career. She was the daughter of Charles James Faulkner. who was minister from the United States to Paris at the outbreak of the war.