Biography:

Teacher; journalist.  Born– August 31, 1855, Atlanta, Ga. Parents– Wiley Person Mangum and Hannah Page (MacIntyre) Cozart. Education– Florence Normal College, 1893; Cook County Normal, Chicago, 1893; Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, 1901. Taught in public schools of Troy and Montgomery, Ala.; Aberdeen, Mississippi. Newspaper work: Montgomery Times from 1910-1913.  Active in several historical and patriotic organizations; historian of the Ladies’ Memorial Association of Montgomery; designed the monument erected by that organization on the battlefield site at Chickamauga.  Also served as the historian of the Sophie Bibb Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy; wrote the words to the song “The Bonnie Flag,” which was adopted by the UDC for use by the Children of the Confederacy.  A member of the DAR, the Alabama Historical Society, and the Montgomery School Improvement Association.  Died February 4, 1939.

Source:

Obituary, Montgomery Advertiser, February 5, 1939.

Owen’s Story of Alabama.

Publication(s):

“Sketch of Henry Hilliard” in Volume IV of Transactions of the Alabama Historical Society.  Montgomery, Ala.; The Society, 1904; reprinted as a separate volume by Forgotten Books, 2016..

(Song) “The Bonnie Flag.”