Educator. Wrote and contributed poems, news-letters, and articles on education and art to southern journals and magazines. In Winnsborough, South Carolina, she successfully conducted a large boarding school until the Civil War began. She also published in the “Floral Wreath” and other periodicals tales, essays, and poems under the pen-names “Minnie Mayflower,” “Arcturus,” “Alida,” and “Morna.” She is also believed to be the originator of the first design of the Confederate Flag. (bio by: Laurie)