Virginia Faulkner McSherry (1845-1916) was an American leader of a non-profit. She served as the President-General of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC).[1] Loyalty to the "Lost Cause" was her watchword.[2]
Virginia Faulkner McSherry | |
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 McSherry in 1910 | |
| President General of the United Daughters of the Confederacy | |
| Assumed office 1909 | |
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| Born | Virginia Faulkner 1845 Boydville, Martinsburg, Virginia, U.S. |
| Died | February 25, 1916 Martinsburg, West Virginia, U.S. |
| Spouse | James Whann McSherry |
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| Occupation | Non-profit executive |
Biography
editVirginia Faulkner was born in Boydville,[2] Martinsburg, Virginia (now West Virginia),[1] in 1845.[3] Her father was Charles James Faulkner Sr., a U.S. Representative from Virginia and West Virginia, and U.S. Minister to France, just prior to the civil war.[1] She had at least two brothers, Charles James Faulkner, a United States senator from West Virginia,[4] and Judge Elisha Boyd Faulkner. Her maternal grandfather was Elisha Boyd.[2]
She was educated in the schools of Virginia, and later, during the residence abroad of her father, she took special training in Paris.[2]
She spent the greater part of her young life, with the exception of the years she lived with her father's family in Paris, at her ancestral home, Boydville, until her marriage to Dr. James Whann McSherry.[1] He was a prominent physician of Martinsburg.[5]
In 1895,[3] she organized a chapter of the UDC in her county of Berkeley. When the West Virginia Division of the UDC was organized, McSherry was elected its president, which office she filled until 1909, at Houston, Texas, when she was elected president-general of the UDC; she was re-elected, at Little Rock, Arkansas, at the succeeding election.[1] McSherry was also a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR).[6]
She died at her home in Martinsburg, West Virginia on February 25, 1916.[5]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e Logan, Mrs John A. (1912). The Part Taken by Women in American History. Perry-Nalle Publishing Company. pp. 499–500. Retrieved 20 November 2024 – via Wikisource.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ a b c d "Tribute paid to the late Mrs. M'Sherry". Martinsburg Herald. Martinsburg, West Virginia. 29 April 1916. p. 6. Retrieved 21 November 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b United Daughters of the Confederacy (1994). "Mrs. McSherry founded". The United Daughters of the Confederacy Magazine. 57. United Daughters of the Confederacy: n.p. Retrieved 20 November 2024.
- ^ Odenheimer, Cordelia Powell (April 1916). "From the President General". Confederate Veteran. 24 (4). Nashville, Tenn.: S.A. Cunningham: 152. Retrieved 21 November 2024.
- ^ a b "Mrs. V. Faulkner McSherry Dies". Evening Star. Washington, D.C. 26 February 1916. p. 2. Retrieved 20 November 2024 – via Newspapers.com. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ Daughters of the American Revolution (1926). "Virginia Faulkner McSherry. 88444". Lineage Book of the Charter Members of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Daughters of the American Revolution. p. 143. Retrieved 20 November 2024. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.