The ladies of the General T. J. Churchill Chapter #1373, United Daughters of the Confederacy hosted a fundraising tour at Little Rock's most famous cemetery on Sunday afternoon, May 16th at 2:00. Mount Holly, circa 1843 is the final resting place of 11 Arkansas Governors, 14 Supreme Court Justices, 4 Confederate Generals, 22 Little Rock Mayors, numerous newspaper editors, military heroes, David O. Dodd, 17 year old hero of the Confederacy and even a "red light" district Madam.
The 90 minute tour featured such notables as William E. Woodruff, founder of the Arkansas Gazette Newspaper, Col. Sanford Faulkner, the author of the "Arkansas Traveler", Quatie Ross, the Cherokee wife of Chief John Ross, who died on the Trail of Tears near Little Rock and Dr. Matthew Cunningham who brought his family to Pioneer Little Rock in 1820. His wife, Eliza Wilson Bertrand Cunningham would be the first "white" female permanent resident of Little Rock, as the area was still widely populated with Quapaw Indians.
All proceeds from the tour benefited the scholarship program of the Chapter.
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