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Sara Agnes Rice Pryor

Pryor co-founded a home for women and children in Brooklyn, New York. Pryor helped found heritage organizations, including Preservation of the Virginia Antiquities, the Daughters of the American Revolution, the National Mary Washington Memorial Association, and the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America. She was active in fundraising to support their goals. She was a central figure in fundraising for a yellow fever outbreak to benefit children in Jacksonville, Florida.
In the early 1900s, Pryor published two histories, two memoirs of the Civil War era, and novels with the Macmillan Company. The United Daughters of the Confederacy recommended her first memoir, which encouraged southern women writers to defend Southern chivalry. Her memoirs have been sources for historians on the life of her society during and after the war. Provided by Wikipedia