List of United Daughters of the Confederacy members

The United Daughters of the Confederacy is an American hereditary association for women descendants of Confederate veterans of the American Civil War. Notable members includes the following list.

Living members

• Georgia Benton, schoolteacher and first African-American member of the UDC in Georgia
• Patricia M. Bryson, UDC president general 2016-2018
• Julie Noegel Hardaway, UDC president general 2024–present
• Jamie Likins, UDC president general 2012-2014
• Lisa Richardson, journalist
• Pamela Veuleman Trammell, UDC president general 2014-2016
• Lynn Forney Young, 43rd President General of the Daughters of the American Revolution ^[1]

Deceased members

• Annie Lowrie Alexander (1864–1929), physician and educator
• Kate Walker Behan (1851–1918), club leader
• Fanny Yarborough Bickett (1870–1941), First Lady of North Carolina and first female president of the North Carolina Railroad
• Elizabeth Lee Bloomstein (1859–1927), academic and clubwoman
• Virginia Frazer Boyle (1863–1938), author
• Ella Brantley (1864–1948), clubwoman and civic leader
• Lena Northern Buckner (1875–1939), social worker
• Frances Boyd Calhoun (1867–1909), teacher and author
• Florence Anderson Clark (1835–1918), author, newspaper editor, librarian, university dean
• Virginia Clay-Clopton (1825–1915), political hostess and activist in Alabama and Washington, DC. ^[2]
• Sarah Johnson Cocke (1865–1944), writer and civic leader
• Margaret Wootten Collier (1869–1947), author
• Cola Barr Craig (1861–1930), president, U.D.C.; author and clubwoman
• Emma Guy Cromwell (1865–1952), Kentucky State Treasurer and Kentucky Secretary of State
• Nelma Crutcher (1950–2022), President General of the United Daughters of the Confederacy
• Elizabeth Caroline Dowdell (1829-1909), secretary, U.D.C.; ideator, Woman's Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South
• Amanda Julia Estill (1882–1965), writer, teacher, folklorist
• Sarah E. Gabbett (1833-1911), medal designer and first Custodian of the Southern Cross of Honor
• Sarah Ewing Sims Carter Gaut (1826–1912), socialite and Confederate spy
• Caroline Meriwether Goodlett (1833–1914), founding president of the UDC
• Ethel Hillyer Harris (1859–1931), author ^[3]
• Laura Montgomery Henderson (1867–1940), president, Alabama Federation of Women's Clubs
• Una B. Herrick (1863–1950), American educator, the first Dean of Women at Montana State College. ^[4]
• Mary Hilliard Hinton (1869–1961), historian, painter, anti-suffragist, and white supremacist
• Willie Kavanaugh Hocker (1862–1944), teacher and designer of the Arkansas state flag
• Margaret Gardner Hoey (1875–1942), First Lady of North Carolina ^[5]
• Vernettie O. Ivy (1876–1967), politician and member of the Arizona House of Representatives
• Mary Woodson Jarvis (1842–1924), First Lady of North Carolina
• Kitty O'Brien Joyner (1916–1993), electrical engineer and the first woman engineer at NACA, the predecessor to NASA. ^[6]
• Dorothy Blount Lamar, historian and activist
• Adele Briscoe Looscan (1848–1935), president of the Texas State Historical Association (1915–1925). ^[7]
• Lena B. Mathes (1861–1951), educator, social reformer, and ordained Baptist minister
• Gertrude Dills McKee (1885–1948), politician and first woman elected to the North Carolina State Senate
• May Faris McKinney (1874-1959), President-General, UDC
• Virginia Faulkner McSherry (1845-1916), President-General, UDC
• Corinne Melchers (1880–1955), painter, humanitarian, and gardener
• Jeannie Blackburn Moran (1842/50–1929), author, community leader, and socialite
• Lula C. Naff (1875–1960), General manager of the Ryman Auditorium ^[8]
• Florence Sillers Ogden (1891–1971), newspaper columnist, Jackson Clarion-Ledger, pro-segregation activist. ^{[9] [10]}
• Elizabeth Fry Page (?–1943), author, editor
• Eliza Hall Nutt Parsley (1842–1920), founder and president of the North Carolina Division & Cape Fear Chapter of the UDC
• Loula Roberts Platt (1863–1934), suffragist and first woman to run for a seat in the North Carolina Senate
• Edith D. Pope (1869–1947), second editor of the Confederate Veteran ; president of the Nashville No. 1 chapter of the UDC from 1927 to 1930. ^[11]
• Eugenia Dunlap Potts (1840–1912), writer
• Anna Davenport Raines (1853–1915), founding vice-president of the UDC
• Mattie Clyburn Rice (1922–2014), second African American to be recognized as a "Real Daughter of the Confederacy"
• Laura Martin Rose (1862–1917), historian and propagandist for the Ku Klux Klan
• Letitia Dowdell Ross (1866-1952), president, Alabama Division, UDC
• Mildred Lewis Rutherford (1851–1928), educator, writer, and White Supremacist activist
• Jennie Hart Sibley (1846–1917), president, Georgia WCTU; president, UDC for Greene County
• Cornelia Branch Stone (1840–1925), president-general, UDC; president, Texas Woman's Press Association
• May Erwin Talmadge (1885–1973), 19th President General of the Daughters of the American Revolution
• Rosa Lee Tucker (1866–1946), State Librarian of Mississippi
• Panthea Twitty (1912–1977), photographer, ceramicist, and historian. ^[12]
• Rosa Kershaw Walker (1840s–1909), author, journalist, editor
• Almyra Maynard Watson (1917–2018), officer in the United States Army Nurse Corps
• Fay Webb-Gardner (1885–1969), First Lady of North Carolina
• Jeanne Fox Weinmann (1874–1962), UDC president general, 8th president national of the U.S. Daughters of 1812
• Jane Renwick Smedburg Wilkes (1827–1913), nurse and hospital foundress
• Margaret O'Connor Wilson (1856-1942), civic leader
• Angelina Virginia Winkler (1842–1911), journalist and publisher
• Kathryn Slaughter Wittichen (1896–1985), UDC president general, founder of Southern Dames of America, president of Miami Women's Club
• Rosa Louise Woodberry (1869–1932), educator, journalist, and stenographer
• Marie Hirst Yochim, lineage society leader

References

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