Biography:

Civic leader. Born March 7, 1876. Parents– Chambers and Maria Melton (Jordan) McAdory. Married– Eugene LeRoy Huey, October 10, 1899. Children–one. Active in civic activities:  First woman member, Bessemer Board of Education; member, Bessemer Carnegies Library Board; member, Domestic Relations Board of Jefferson County.  Active in fundraising for Liberty Loans and other war work, World War I. Director, Second District, Alabama Federation of Women’s Clubs. Bessemer Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, Charter member and president for two terms; Alabama Division, United Daughters of the Confederacy, member and president two terms.  She was what was called in UDC a “real daughter,” her father having been a Confederate soldier. The Bessemer Chapter of the UDC was named in her honor, the Mattie Marie McAdory Chapter, after her death. Died August 16, 1938.

Source:

Owen’s The Story of Alabama, Vol. 5.

Author_and_Compiler;

History of the Alabama Division, United Daughters of the Confederacy, Vol. I. Opelika, Ala.; Post Pub. Co., 1937.