Confederate Karens - The Lost Cause of Tyler’s United Daughter’s of the Confederacy

THE GREATEST DAY OF THE TYLER UDC - It was estimated some 5,000 or more were gathered on the grounds of Oakwood Cemetery, among them a number of choirs from all the area churches. Children dressed in white scattered flowers over the newly restored Confederate dead plot. For decades to come, this would be remembered as the happiest occasion the Mollie Moore Davis U.D.C. Chapter ever experienced. The celebration was more than a veneration of the dead but also a lesson in the cause of White Supremacy.