She was the author of the seven volume Representative Women of the South, 1861-1925 (1920, 1923, 1925),[1][2] and was the official biographer of the Confederated Southern Memorial Association.

[3] Margaret Marion Wootten was born in Walker County, Georgia,[4] December 9, 1869.

[1] Every State where there was a Chapter of the two Southern organizations -Memorial Association and Daughters of the Confederacy- was represented in this compilation.

; 1923–25); Corresponding Secretary General of Confederated Memorial Association (beginning in 1917); and president of the Robert Lee Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy (College Park, Georgia).

[1][7] Margaret Wootten Collier died in Atlanta, Georgia, January 6, 1947, and was buried in Dalton.