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Died: Mrs. Mary Simmerson Cunningham Logan, 84, widow of John A. Logan, Union General in the Civil War. It was she who conceived the idea of Memorial Day, which was first declared by her husband as Commander of the Grand Army of the Republic in 1868. After her husband's death in 1886 she wrote several books on the Civil War, and made a valuable collection of war souvenirs in memory of her son Major John A. Logan, Jr., killed at the battle of San Jacinto in the Philippines...