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| | New Georgia Encyclopedia: Rebecca Latimer Felton (1835-1930) |
 | | NGE >> History and Archaeology >> Late Nineteenth Century, 1877-1900 >> People >> Rebecca Latimer Felton (1835-1930) |
 | | Rebecca Ann Latimer was born on June 10, 1835, the daughter of Charles Latimer, a DeKalb County merchant and planter, and his wife, Eleanor Swift Latimer. |
 | | When the young Latimer graduated, at the top of her class, from Madison Female College in 1852, the commencement speaker was William H. Felton, a recently widowed state legislator, physician, Methodist minister, and planter in Bartow County. |
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