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Mary Ann Harris Gay: Author and poet (1829 - 1918), Wrer, Poet, From: Uned Stat of Ameri

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MARY HARRIS GAY

.d Author, poet, historian and Conferate heroe - Mary Ann Harris Gay (1828-1918) lived this hoe om 1850 to 1914. (A historil marker loted Detur DeKalb County, Geia.) * mary harris gay *

Mary Harris Gay, a Detur native, wrote Life Dixie durg the War (1892), which she reunted her memori of watchg the Civil War battle of Detur. The Mary Gay Hoe MarkerInscriptn.

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Author, poet, historian and Conferate heroe - Mary Ann Harris Gay (1828-1918) lived this hoe om 1850 to 1914.

Mary Ann Harris Gay. Gay's acunt of the siege of Atlanta spired some of the scen Margret Mchell's "Gone wh the Wd.

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The Mary Gay Hoe MarkerPhotographed By Felch Dumas, July 19, 2008 3. The Mary Gay and Swanton HoThe Swanton Hoe is the foreground. - om "Life Dixie Durg the War" A woman of nvictn and termatn, Mary Gay was born Milledgeville 1829.

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But the dignant Miss Gay, who lled him a “lerary humbug” the preface to a later edn, saw her book go through eleven edns, at least part due to her perseverance and tenacy marketg .

A vout Baptist, Miss Gay raised the money to build a postwar buildg for the Baptist ngregatn of Detur by solicg iends Kentucky and Maryland, areas ls ravaged by the war. The end of Mary Gay’s life was marred by a multi-year stggle wh failg health.

For her fah, urage, energy and acplishments, we take pri namg Mary Ann Harris Gay a Geia Woman of Achievement. lifedixiri00gaygoog.

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Mary Ann Harris Gay (March 18, 1829 – November 21, 1918) was an Amerin wrer and poet om Detur, Geia, known for her Civil War memoir Life Dixie Durg the War.

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Her home durg and after the Civil War, the Mary Gay Hoe, is a historic buildg downtown Detur, listed on the Natnal Register of Historic Plac on May 6, 1975.

Gay was born the dghter of William and Mary Stevens Gay on March 18, 1829, Jon County, Geia. Stevens owned property around the state, cludg DeKalb County, and when he died 1850 Gay moved (wh her mother and sister) to a hoe on Marshall Street Detur, Geia.

Miss Mary Gay later life. It even fluenced Margaret Mchell's book Gone Wh the Wd: some scen are drawn "directly om Gay's memoir".

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