Williamson County, Tennessee, Obituary:  Mrs. Cornelia S. Nichols Cliffe

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The Hominy News
Vol. XXIV, Number 6
Hominy, Osage County, Oklahoma
Friday, Dec. 21, 1928
Inside page 10

Woman Who Made Klan's Robes Dead
Active Confederate Worker Dies in Tennessee

The ranks of the south's "unreconstructed" women were further thinned when 
Mrs. Cornelia S. Nichols Cliffe, widow of a Union soldier, but follower of 
the lost cause, died Sunday at the home in Franklin, Tenn., of her son, 
Dr. Daniel B. Cliffe.

It was Mrs. Cliffe who, aided only by an old man, faced fire of a federal 
battery to burn the Nashville bridge and halt temporarily the Union advance 
on Franklin.

After the battle of Franklin, Mrs. Cliffe was among the first on the field 
to minister to the wounded Confederates.  Her home was converted into a 
hospital.

The daughter of a prominent North Carolinan, John Nichols, Mrs. Cliffe gave 
her time and money to the confederacy.  She made the first robes for the 
Ku Klux Klan of reconstruction days in Williamson county where the Klan 
really meant something worth while.  Her husband was a captain in the Union 
army while her brothers served with the Confederates.