“Earth to Earth: Burial of Mrs. Ellen Call Long”
Dublin Core
Title
“Earth to Earth: Burial of Mrs. Ellen Call Long”
Subject
The Grove Museum
Tallahassee (Fla.)
Cemeteries
Description
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.
Creator
The Weekly True Democrat
Source
Original digital item located in Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn95047417/1905-12-22/ed-1/seq-1/
Date
1905-12-22
Language
English
Type
Newspaper
Identifier
JB_CallFamilyCemetery_I073
Collection
Citation
The Weekly True Democrat , ““Earth to Earth: Burial of Mrs. Ellen Call Long”,” Call-Collins Family Cemetery , accessed May 18, 2024, https://callfamilycemeterythegrove.omeka.net/items/show/73.