The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-10-05
A WINNIE DAVIS MEMORIAL,
Arnel, Va

There are few names dear to south
ern hearts as that Of Winnie Davis. the
daughter of the beloved president of the
southern confederau, Jefferson Davis.
She was the only "dsHghter of the con-
federacy," and such. southern women
love and honor her memory. The United
Daughters of the Confederacy have hon
ored this noble woman by erecting q last
ing monument to her memory-a memo
rial building connected with the State
Normal school of Georgia at Athens,
where the daughters OF confederate sol
diers NAV be educated The Woman's
Home Companion for october speaks in
the highest terms Of the effort made by
southern women to accomSlish this end
and among other things says:
The Winnie Davis memorial. to speak
strictly. is the offering of the Georgia di-
vision Of the United Daughters Of tho
Eonfederacy. Scarcely did this young
woman sleep beside her father and eight
cen thousand southern soldiers in Holly
wood cemetery. Richmond, where the
magnolia blossoms of Mississippi repose
side by side with hardy roses of Maine
though born the daughter of the confed-
eracy. July 27, S64. she died the daugh-
ter OF a united country September 49,
Ises-than Georgia women inaugurated
memorial y
Mrs lanes A Rounsaville, Of Rome, Ga.
president of the United Daughters of the
Confederacy, which sanctioned Winnie
Davis oft-expressed desire to assist
southern children in az educational way,
they unanimously decided to make the
memorial not mute tongue of the gran
tie shaft but n service to the daughters
OF southern soldiers striving for an edu-
cation"
The United Daughters Of the Confeder-
acy have worked nobly 10 huild this beau
tifu building knowing. as they did the
great desire Winnie Davis expressed TO
assist in educating the confederate sol
diers' children; a more suitable monu-
ment could not have been selected and
dedicated to her memory.
Athens Is the seat Of the state univer-
sity and several large and hourishing
schools and is the educational center OF
the state. IT is dlled with handsome res
licences many In the old colonial style.
The Normal college and the Winnie Da-
Wis memorial hail is situated on quite
an eminence and surrounded by beautiful
grounds. The hall has only recently been
finished. and not yet furnished, neither
have the lights been put in. out SO urgent
was the need for d0rmitory rooms and
the young women We're SO eager TO get
into the new building that the morning
paper gives this telegram from Athens:
The new building Is a perfect model
Of beauty and convenience and the girls
were resolved to undergo any deprivation
s TO comfort In order TO get into 1t. so
they piled mattresses down on tho floor
70 take the place of bedsteads and for
bureaus they have improvised boxes from
the dry goods stores in the city and have
covered them with dainty cloth SO as to
make them as attractive as possible. The
lights have not yet been put into the hall.
but the girls are studying by the light OF
The old-time candle.
1T Is thought that the furniture Will
soon he made The arrangements for 1t
are being made by the Daughters OF tho
Confederacy. and it viii not be many
weeks until it arrives
Il win only be a short time before the
United Daughters Of the Confederacy win
have tho building in perfect order. and
many happy girl Will call them
blessed"