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Mrs. John Willis Ellis (Mary White)
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Mrs. Ellis was the wife of the North Carolina governor who signed the secession order aligning North Carolina with the Confederacy. The governor died in office on July 7, 1861.
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Credit lineMrs. John Willis Ellis (Mary White). 1846. John Henry Brown, born Lancaster, PA 1818-died Philadelphia, PA 1891. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Catherine Walden Myer Fund. CC0.
