“Earth to Earth: Burial of Mrs. Ellen Call Long”

“Earth to Earth: Burial of Mrs. Ellen Call Long”

The Grove Museum

Tallahassee (Fla.)

Cemeteries

This obituary of Ellen Call Long details the funeral service that took place at The Grove. It describes the day, who was in attendance, and The Grove. The following article discusses Ellen Call Long's writing career and family heritage. The obituary praises her father Richard Keith Call as a pioneer, rather than a colonizer, and does not condemn Call for killing indigenous people or for enslaving Africans to exploit their labor. It also neglects to mention that Ellen Call Long, like her father, exploited the labor of enslaved Africans.

The Weekly True Democrat

Original digital item located in Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn95047417/1905-12-22/ed-1/seq-1/

1905-12-22

English

Newspaper

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