The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-05-30
ANNUAL REPORT OF
LADIES' HOLLYWOOD MEM. ASSN.
May Ord. 1895:

This association has 1876 names on its
membership list. Nine meetings have
been held. with good attendance always,
the sure evidence of unfailing interest IN
the objects of the association.
Memoral-Day was kept last year in
manner somewhat different from the Gus
tomary observance. The graves were
decorated i'm the morning, very fully and
beautifully but the exercises were limit
ed TO PRAYER offered by Rev. Landon II.
Mason, and the singing Of a hymn by
such of the ladies. with their helpers and
friends as could be present, it having
been agreed that this a; sociaticn shoull
unite with the Soldiers and Sailors
Monument Association in the ceremonies
attendant on the unwilling of the i'm
posing column erected by them 10 the
private soldier and sailor.
A report Of the years work must be
brief. The grounds are under the care
II an excellent keeper a Confederate
veteran. engaged by the committee.
whose special province IT is TO over
look this work. and what is known as
the "Soldiers' Section in Hollywood" is
kept in satisfactory condition, both as
regards work and supervision.
ON the 18th of May. 1894, the remains
of two soldiers killed at the battle of
FORE were removed from the battle
field and re-interred in Emanuel church
yard. under the direction of the president
Of this association.
Since the last annual meeting the deed
conveying the grounds in Hollywood and
defining their limits has been secured.
With some pardonable pride and salts
faction, and with much thankfulness
the association reviews its history and
glances at results accomplished. TWEEN
ty-nine years ago IL was organized
while our people were stll crippled and
poverty stricken. but Of their little they
gave generously. all parts Of the South
contributing In few years the granite
pile had been erected roads, paths,
drains had been laid off graded and
paved, trees, shrubs and flowers had
been planted and were fiourishing all the
graves were green and had been marked
Yet more, Three thousand Confederate
dead were removed from Gettysburg and
reinterred on the hill named from the
battlefield.
After so much had been done death and
removal from the city Of many Of the
most energetic of its members so thinned
the ranks OF the association that II lam
gulshed and with difficulty kept up its
work. In 1856. however, II was re-
organized by younger generation. i'm
bued with the spirit OF its founders and
under the administrations OF its two
able presidents and the strenuous eff
forts OF its members. a heavy debt has
been paid off and work falling into decay
has been repaired, greatly added to and
kept in thorough order. An annual mass
meeting and observance Of a memorial
Sunday have been instituted and partici-
pated in by our citizens with enthusiasm
and ready sympathy. and junior
| branch OF the association has been
formed, which is intended TO supply the
mother association as Time and Change
remove the willing hearts and hands now
serving IN this work
CONFEDERATE MEMORIAL LITERARY SOCIETY.
1t is with the greatest pleasure and
pride, yet with some miseivlngs, that
the association views its off-spring-the
Confederate Memorial Literary Society,
vitr it's important acquisition CT the
Confederate Executive Mansion; for
while that society. in its living interest
and varied occasions for work. must
appeal to many. this association must
keep before IL the primary object of its
formation as expressed In the minutes
Of its first meetng-yiz: THAT the tombs
of our fallen heroes may be permanently
preserved from oblivion and their last
resting places saved from the slightest
appearance of neglect or want of care
citation has no fund invested. from