Kimberly Gilliland--   August 2

Fanester Gregory--     August 3

Rebecca Elois Thorp Woods --  August 5

Kathryn Hall -- August 16

Ellis Henry Townsend -- August 27

Women of the Confederacy.... (From “Our State”, March 2005, p. 125, 128-30)

In 1911, Julian S. Carr, a representative from Durham County, brought a bill before the NC House of Representatives to provide funds for the creation of a memorial dedicated to NC’s women who struggled for the Confederacy during the Civil War. The bill was defeated, but the cause was taken up by Ashley Horne. Horne was a representative from Johnson County, and he had served the Confederacy in battle for four years. He was one of six sons that his mother gave to the service of the Confederacy, and three did not return from the war.

Through years of hard work after the war, Horne had become independently wealthy and was in a position to offer $10,000 towards the creation of a statue to hone the Women of the Confederacy. The Council of State immediately accepted his offer and assigned to the project: sculptor Augustus Lukeman, who would later work on the massive Confederate Memorial on Stone Mountain in Georgia, and architect Henry Bacon, the designer of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC.

The stature – that of a mother and her young son ready for battle – was unveiled to a large crowd on the Capitol grounds on June 10, 1914. Many Confederate veterans were present, but not Ashley Horne. The old soldier had died before he could see the completion of the moving memorial.