Year Erected: 1981 Marker Text: Author, poet, historian and Conferate heroe ~ Mary Ann Harris Gay (1828-1918) lived this hoe om 1850 to 1914. She is bt known for her Life Dixie Durg the War which scrib the Unn Siege of Atlanta and the tribulatns of the home ont. From this hoe, Miss Mary
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MARY GAY HOE
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La María Gay Casa una sa históri en 716 Wt Try Place en el centro Detur, Geia.
Era el hogar Mary Ann Harris Gay, quien se mudó allí n su madre y su hermana alredor 1850. El gpo también solicó n éxo al NRHP que la sa Gay nservara su tado históri spués la mudanza.
Marker Text: Author, poet, historian and Conferate heroe ~ Mary Ann Harris Gay (1828-1918) lived this hoe om 1850 to 1914. It was om si that hoe that a woman named Mary Gay wnsed the civil war and s effects on civilian life the South–experienc which she would one day document an 1897 book tled, “Life Dixie durg the War.
THE HISTORY BEHD THE MARY GAY HOE
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Rather than chroniclg stori om the battlefields, as many unn and nferate veterans did memoir published after the war, Gay sought to pture daily life durg the perd, which for her fay meant endurg an occupatn by unn forc of her town and her very home.
We paid a vis to that very hoe wh a lol expert on Gay and her wrgs, Anne Earle. While few have read Mary Gay’s book today, her wrg do live on thanks to Mark Twa.
MARY GAY HOE FACTS FOR KIDS
If you’d like to read Mary Gay’s full acunt of Southern life durg the Civil War, you n read as a PDF here. You n also fd out more about the Mary Gay Hoe at the webse of the Junr League of Dekalb County.
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