MEMORIAL OF FLORA MACDONALD The Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago, Illinois), Thursday, February 20, 1896 Contact: Myrtle Bridges May 1, 2016
It is well over a century since the death of Flora MacDonald, who made herself famous by the aid she gave in 1746 to "the Pretender," Charles Stuart, in his escape from the King's troops, but never before this has her memory been honored by a monument of any kind. Now, at last, a stained glass window is to be put up as a memorial of her courage and devotion in a church in the Isle of Skye. This is the place of safety, it will be recalled, to which she conducted Bonnie Prince Charlie disguised as her woman servant-a piece of loyalty to the exiled house for which she was rewarded by several months' imprisonment.
MEMORIAL OF FLORA MACDONALD Daily Evening Bulletin (San Francisco, California), Wednesday, December 20, 1871
A monument has been erected to the memory of Flora Macdonald, in the churchyard at Kilmuir, Isle of Skye, over the grave of the heroine. It occupies a commanding position on a height about three hundred feet immediately above the sea, at the extreme northwest of Skye, and will be a conspicuous object to persons passing up the Minch within sight of land.
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