Clarke-Bibb County GaArchives News.....Relics of Winnie Davis Presented by Mrs. Lamar September 5, 1915
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The Atlanta Constitution September 5, 1915
After an address before a called meeting of the Laura Rutherford chapter of the 
Daughters of the Confederacy, in Athens, Mrs. Lamar, of Macon, president of the 
United Daughters of the Confederacy, presented to the chapter for transmission 
to the Winnie Davis memorial hall - a building on the campus of the State 
Normal school, which was erected by the daughters in memory of "the" daughter 
of the confederacy - several interesting relics and souvenirs of Winnie Davis.

Among the articles presented was a Bible given to Winnie Davis by her motehr, 
Mrs. Jefferson Davis; a hand-painted placque presented to her mother by Winnie 
Davis; a pencil box, handpainted, given to Winnie Davis by a friend in Germany; 
an invitation from the Athenaeu (an Athens social club) to Winnie Davis to 
attend an affair given in her honor when she was on a visit to Athens in 1887.  
This last article is hand-painted upon velvet and is a very pretty piece of 
work.

There were also other articles of interest as having belonged to the daughter 
of the only president of the C. S. A.  These will be placed in a glass cabinet 
and kept in the Winnie Davis memorial hall - treasured souvenirs of the heroine 
of Dixie.

Mrs. Lamar spoke to those present of the work of the past year in the several 
states in which the U. D. C. has organized and she gave also an itneresting and 
enthusiastic review of the work yet to be done.

She spoke with interest of the plan to make of Stone mountain a monument to the 
confedracy. 

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