Lizzie Rutherford, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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credited as the originator of Confederate Memorial Day
Date of Birth: 01-Jun-1833
Place of Birth: Columbus, Georgia, United States
Date of Death: 31-Mar-1873
Profession: volunteer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Lizzie Rutherford
- Lizzie Rutherford (later known as Mrs.
- Roswell Ellis) was an American woman who is associated with the founding of Confederate Memorial Day, which itself is the forerunner of Memorial Day an annual holiday to decorate soldiers’ graves. The basis for most biographies of Lizzie Rutherford is A History of the Origin of Memorial Day as Adopted by the Ladies’ Memorial Association of Columbus, Georgia, a revised history of the Memorial Day holiday published in 1898.
- These biographical sketches include the one in the New Georgia Encyclopedia by David S.
- Williams and Georgia's Landmarks, Memorials and Legends by Lucian Lamar Knight as well as shorter references like that in Race and Reunion by David Blight.
- Few bother to delve any further back in time.
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