Felicia Ann Grundy Porter
Birth 26 Jun 1820
Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA
Death 27 Jun 1889 (aged 69)
Burial
Mount Olivet Cemetery
Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA
President of the Women's Relief Society, the Benevolent Society, and the Ladies' Memorial Society
Felicia Grundy Eakin Porter was the daughter of Senator Felix Grundy (1777 - 1840) and Ann Phillips Rodgers Grundy (1779 - 1847). A native and life-long resident of Nashville, she devoted herself to volunteer associations. She was President of the Protestant Orphan Asylum (as was her sister, Louisa Grundy McGavock). After Federal troops occupied Nashville, beginning in 1862, she organized the Women's Relief Society, to aid Confederate soldiers, and she, along with her other members, urged women throughout Tennessee to help Confederate soldiers. After the war, she founded the Benevolent Society, to aid Confederate amputees. She then formed the Ladies' Memorial Society, to help provide a beautiful setting for Confederate graves at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Nashville.
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