Peggy (Felicity) Allen
December 11, 2015

Felicity Allen was born Peggy McComas in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1924. She subsequently moved to Nashville, Tennessee with her family and grew up in the Nashville city schools. She was the great-granddaughter of a Confederate veteran, John Frizzell. It was his daughter, Felicity’s grandmother, who instilled a deep love for the South in Felicity. She attended Vanderbilt University and graduated summa cum laude with a degree in French.  She married Ward Sykes (Luke) Allen of Nashville in 1951. They raised four children in Auburn, Alabama. In 1976 they left the Episcopal Church and were chrismated at the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church in Montgomery, Alabama in 1978. Felicity published a biography, “Jefferson Davis, Unconquerable Heart” in 2000 and a volume of Jefferson Davis’s correspondence “Letters from Prison: Jefferson Davis to his Wife” in 2014.  She was devoted to preserving the truth about Davis whom she greatly admired. After a 12-year struggle with Parkinson’s disease, Felicity passed away peacefully December 11, 2015. She is buried in her great-grandfather’s plot in the Confederate section of Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Nashville, Tennessee.