Harriette Kershaw Leiding

[7] Harriette Kershaw was born in Sewanee, Tennessee, and raised in Camden and Sumter, South Carolina, the daughter of Rev.

[8] Her paternal grandfather, Joseph B. Kershaw, was a major general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, and later a politician.

[10] Leiding wrote four books[9] of local history and folklore about Charleston, emphasizing a romantic, nostalgic view of the Southern city.

[9] She donated "extraordinarily" large stone crab claws to the Charleston Museum, which also holds a collection of her photographs.

[15] In 1915, she was local chair of the Southern Commercial Congress, when it met in Charleston, and she was active in the Woman's Committee Council of Defense during World War I,[16] the Charleston Civic Club, the State Federation of Women's Clubs, the Art Association of South Carolina, and many other organizations.