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Mar 18, 1829 Decatur, Georgia, United States Died on 21 Nov 1918 (aged 89)
American author, poet
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About Mary Ann Harris Gay
- Mary Ann Harris Gay (March 18, 1829 – November 21, 1918) was an American writer and poet from Decatur, Georgia, known for her Civil War memoir Life in Dixie During the War (1897).
- This described events in Atlanta during the war.
- Author Margaret Mitchell said this memoir inspired some of her passages in her novel Gone with the Wind (1936).
- Gay also published a book of poetry (1858), which she republished after the war to raise money to help support her mother and sister.
- She also was active in the work to preserve Confederate battlefields and helped raise money to construct monuments and cemeteries.
- Gay raised thousands of dollars in Texas to pay for a fence and gate at the newly established McGavock Confederate Cemetery in 1866 in Franklin, Tennessee.
- Her brother was among the nearly 2,000 Confederates reinterred there from temporary battlefield graves.
- In 1997 Gay was named a Georgia Woman of Achievement.
- Her home during and after the Civil War, the Mary Gay House, has been preserved in downtown Decatur.
- It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
