Biography:

Writer. Born– February 7, 1865, Selma. Parents– John M. and Mary Willis (Cobb) Johnson. Married– Hugh Hagan, October 26, 1887 (d. 1898). Children– Two. Married– Lucian H. Cocke, 1903. Education– Lucy Cobb Institute, a girls’ preparatory school in Athens, Georgia.  Wrote sketches and articles for magazines and newspapers, often under the name of “Mammy Phyllis’s Sketches.” Member DAR, Colonial Dames, Society of Southern Writers.  Died January 18, 1944.

Source:

Biographical Dictionary of Southern Authors and  Woman’s Who’s Who of America, 1914-1918.

Publication(s):

Bypaths in Dixie. New York; E. P. Dutton, 1911.

The Master of the Hills. New York; E. P. Dutton. 1917.

Old Mammy Tales from Dixie Land. New York; E. P. Dutton, 1926.