Elizabeth Camp Glover
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Grave site and marker for Elizabeth Camp Glover, located in Corsicana's Oakwood Cemetery. Elizabeth Glover was honored by the Sons of Confederate Veterans as the "Mother of the Confederate Reunions". The reunions, begun in 1867, continue today.
Waymark Code: WM551X
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 11/12/2008
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Elizabeth Susan "Lizzie" Camp Glover
Birth: Dec. 18, 1829, Greenville County, South Carolina
Death: Apr. 14, 1915, Corsicana, Navarro County, Texas
Dedicated by Camps 859, 943, and the family, the marker reads as follows:
Elizabeth Camp Glover
Mother of Confederate Reunions
In 1896 the SCV recognized this southern lady as the originator of the confederate reunions. In the centennial year the SCV honored her as "The Mother of the Confederate Reunions". She was the widow of Lt. Col. Thos. Glover of Co. A. 21 GA Inf. CSA. He died in the battle of III Winchestor.
In 1867 after the war between the states with "For God and Country" her motto she rode the country side of Campbellton Co., GA to assemble the comrades of her fallen husband to a basket dinner ant "to talk over the war". Thus began the Confederate Reunions. She lived to be 86 years of age, dying at Corsicana, Texas April 14, 1915.
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