Sara Agnes Rice Pryor
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Sara Agnes Rice Pryor, born Sara Agnes Rice, was an American writer and community activist in New York City. Born and reared in Virginia, she moved north after the American Civil War with her husband
Sara Agnes Rice Pryor
Virginia Clay-Clopton
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Virginia Caroline Clay-Clopton, also known as Virginia Tunstall, Virginia Clay, and Mrs. Clement Claiborne Clay, was an American political hostess, activist, and socialite. She assumed various respons
Sara Agnes Rice Pryor
…power. In her Reminiscences of Peace and War (1904), Pryor wrote about antebellum society, but she also defended the Confederacy, as did fellow writers Virginia Clay-Clopton and Louise Wigfall Wright. The UDC recommended the works of these three for serious study by other women. Like her husband in his speeches Pryor argued…
Clay-Clopton c. 1860s
Graves of Clement Claiborne Clay and Virginia Clay-Clopton at Maple Hill Cemetery