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Photographer: Allen C. Browne
Taken: August 17, 2017
Caption: Death of Genuine “Barbara Fritchie”
Additional Description: Mrs. Mary Quantrill, formerly of this place, but who for some years has resided in Washington, died suddenly in that city on Sunday last. The deceased was the lady who during the war waved the American flag in the face of Stonewall Jackson upon the occasion of his passage through the city. This act on the part of the deceased gave rise to John G. Whittier's poem “Barbara Fritchie”

Mrs. Quanrill's obituary notice as it appeared in Frederick Daily News, August 7, 1879.
Submitted: August 18, 2017, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p395011
File Size: 1.247 Megabytes

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