Talliaferro Ruby, Manuscript by Mary Alicia Owen. Carbon copy of typewritten book length manuscript. Set in 1861, about a ruby in the wedding ring that was to be worn by the bride of the oldest son of the Talliaferro family. The ruby went off to the Civil War on the watch chain of Confederate Robert Talliaferro who was in Sterling Prices's army.
She tells of the occupation in Missouri of the Federal troops. The ruby is lost when Federal soldiers come to search for their kin thought a spy. The story moves on from there for 122 pages.
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Stories by Mary Alicia Owen, The Talliaferro Ruby, Owen Sisters, Owen, Mary Alicia, St. Joseph Authors
