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Rh She is the mother of three children, W. P. Bocock, Mrs. Thomas Carey Johnson and Mrs. Sallie D. Reynolds. She makes her home at Richmond, Virginia; is an active worker in the Daughters of the Confederacy and in all patriotic and philanthropic work of her state and city.

Mrs. Mollie R. Macgill Rosenbery, of Galveston. Texas, is prominent in the work of the Daughters of the Confederacy and a philanthropist of note in Texas and other states.

Mrs. Percy V. Pennybacker, of Texas, is president of the Texas Federation of Women's Clubs, and author of "An Abridged History of Texas," which is use in the public schools of that state. She is a women of fine attainments, and an easy, ready speaker. She is also a member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.

Among other women who have done conspicuous work in the United Daughters of the Confederacy, we mention Mrs. Grant, who is of a distinguished Virginia family, that of Lewis. She is the wife of Chief Justice Grant of the Supreme Court of Missouri. She has done splendid work in her state along educational lines.

Miss Katie Daffan was twice state president of the Daughters of the Confederacy of Texas, and author of "Woman in History," "The Woman on the Pine Springs Road," "Texas Hero Stories," and "Verses and Fables."

Miss Simpson was a native of Charleston, South Carolina. She was a young woman when the war between the states began. She was heart and soul with the Confederacy and devoted her time, energies and money to the help and needs of the Southern soldiers, nursing the sick and wounded in the hospitals of Charleston and Columbia, South Carolina. At the close of the war, she, with other devoted women, formed the Memorial Association and founded the Confederate Home, both of Charleston, South Carolina. She was secretary of the former, and vice-president and one of the Board of Control of the Home from its formation until her death, at the age of eighty-five, in 1905.

Miss Baxter was born in Athens, Georgia, and is the daughter of Andrew Baxter and Martha Williams Baxter. She was graduated with distinction from