Author, Lecturer, Teacher.
She was the author of twenty-nine books and pamphlets on stories of the South. Her books included, "The South in History and Literature"; "What the South may claim or, where the South leads"; "King cotton: The true history of cotton and the cotton gin"; and, "The South must have her rightful place in history". She published a monthly publication for three years entitled, "Miss Rutherford's Scrap Book." Miss Millie, as she was known, lectured at confederate celebrations dressed as a southern belle during her public speaking engagements. She served as historian general of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and was vice president of the Stone Mountain monument project. At age twenty-nine, she became the president, principal and teacher at Lucy Cobb Institute, a finishing school for girls in Athens founded by her mother,Laura Battaille Cobb Rutherford,a sister of Civil War Confederate Generals Howell Cobb and Thomas R.R. Cobb. Her father was University of Georgia Professor, Williams Rutherford. She died in her birthplace of Athens one year after a fire in her home destroyed many of her private papers.
REAL DAUGHTER--UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY (UDC).
She was the author of twenty-nine books and pamphlets on stories of the South. Her books included, "The South in History and Literature"; "What the South may claim or, where the South leads"; "King cotton: The true history of cotton and the cotton gin"; and, "The South must have her rightful place in history". She published a monthly publication for three years entitled, "Miss Rutherford's Scrap Book." Miss Millie, as she was known, lectured at confederate celebrations dressed as a southern belle during her public speaking engagements. She served as historian general of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and was vice president of the Stone Mountain monument project. At age twenty-nine, she became the president, principal and teacher at Lucy Cobb Institute, a finishing school for girls in Athens founded by her mother,Laura Battaille Cobb Rutherford,a sister of Civil War Confederate Generals Howell Cobb and Thomas R.R. Cobb. Her father was University of Georgia Professor, Williams Rutherford. She died in her birthplace of Athens one year after a fire in her home destroyed many of her private papers.
REAL DAUGHTER--UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY (UDC).
Author, Lecturer, Teacher.
She was the author of twenty-nine books and pamphlets on stories of the South. Her books included, "The South in History and Literature"; "What the South may claim or, where the South leads"; "King cotton: The true history of cotton and the cotton gin"; and, "The South must have her rightful place in history". She published a monthly publication for three years entitled, "Miss Rutherford's Scrap Book." Miss Millie, as she was known, lectured at confederate celebrations dressed as a southern belle during her public speaking engagements. She served as historian general of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and was vice president of the Stone Mountain monument project. At age twenty-nine, she became the president, principal and teacher at Lucy Cobb Institute, a finishing school for girls in Athens founded by her mother,Laura Battaille Cobb Rutherford,a sister of Civil War Confederate Generals Howell Cobb and Thomas R.R. Cobb. Her father was University of Georgia Professor, Williams Rutherford. She died in her birthplace of Athens one year after a fire in her home destroyed many of her private papers.
REAL DAUGHTER--UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY (UDC).
She was the author of twenty-nine books and pamphlets on stories of the South. Her books included, "The South in History and Literature"; "What the South may claim or, where the South leads"; "King cotton: The true history of cotton and the cotton gin"; and, "The South must have her rightful place in history". She published a monthly publication for three years entitled, "Miss Rutherford's Scrap Book." Miss Millie, as she was known, lectured at confederate celebrations dressed as a southern belle during her public speaking engagements. She served as historian general of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and was vice president of the Stone Mountain monument project. At age twenty-nine, she became the president, principal and teacher at Lucy Cobb Institute, a finishing school for girls in Athens founded by her mother,Laura Battaille Cobb Rutherford,a sister of Civil War Confederate Generals Howell Cobb and Thomas R.R. Cobb. Her father was University of Georgia Professor, Williams Rutherford. She died in her birthplace of Athens one year after a fire in her home destroyed many of her private papers.
REAL DAUGHTER--UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY (UDC).
Gravesite Details
Her two Cobb uncles and sister, Mary Rutherford Lipscomb are also buried in Oconee Hill Cemetery, Athens.
