The National tribune., 1897-12-16
THE RELIEF CORPS
News and Gossip of the Great
Auxiliary.


has secured munificent gilt from thu
| City of Boston, which will be of materia
| and IN the carrying out the project OF th'
Board to beautify and improve the hnder
| SOnville Prison grounds. This is the pre-
Sentation to the Andersonvile Board o
! what is known as the West street gates
Mayor Quincy having signed the orde
granting the bequest. They will be placed
at the main entrance to the Andersonvlllt
| Prison grounds.
The Boston gates are of iron, and with the
stone blocks upon which they swing weigh
| about % tons. Their original cost to the
| city was between SIC. 900 and S12 900
Mrs. Turner cOngratulateS the Anderson
vile Board upon being the recipients o
this substantial gift, and is very grateful
| to Mayor Quincy for his part in the trans
action, and to Alderman Barry and Senior
| Vice Commander John T.. Gilman, GAR,
for courtesies and assistance.
Nothing, perhaps, in which the Woman s
| Relief Corps has engaged has been attend
| ed with greater misapprehensiOn upon the
part OF the membership than the Ander-
| sOnville Prison work. Owing to this mis-
understanding and the stress of the times
| the Board have not received the contribu
tons from Corps they had expected, which
| gives a new value to the Boston gift.
1t may be again reiterated that the inten-
| ton of the Andersonville Prison Board is
| not to revive the horrors of the prison pen,
many thousands lost their lives.
suggestion which the Board may be
asked to consider is that the United States
Government has in contemplation the cree
| ton of another National Soldiers Home,
and it has been urged that the Relief Corps
| tender to the Government the whole or a
| part of the AnderSonvile Prison Property,
providing it is properly marked.
RELIEF CORPS PRESIDENTS
II 10. L,,r
Pa, was born in Lisburn, mberland
County, in September. 1Si9. Her ancestors
were QuakerS, and related to Bayard Tay-
lor' S and other prominent Quaker families
in Chester County. In 1869 she was mar
| ried to &. W. Iiauck, a prominent business
man of Merchandising. Her father. X. +.
Starr, served in the war of the rebellion, in
the 192d Pa
During the war she took pleasure in work
Tor the comfort OF those at the front, and
the unfortunates in the hospitals. She is
patriotic IN every sense OF the word, and
believes in teaching the children that the
Union was right, Is right, and always will
be right.
She is an active, persistent worker, and
has filled the office OF Department Junior
Vice President, InStituting and Installing
Officer, and served as President of the
Seventh District for two consecutive years,
also filled all the prominent offices in her
home Corps. She has been Chairman of
the State Committee on Patriotic Teaching,
and member Of the Board Of Managers of
the BroolviIe Memorial Home.
In all the varied positions she has been
called upon To fill, Mrs. Ilauck has retained
the full confidence, and esteem, and re-
spect Of all with whom her official duties
brought her into relationship.
Georgia q. Balm. Department of the PO-
tOmac, is native of New York, and a
graduate from the State Normal School.
She has lived in Washington IS years.
Eight years ago she Joined the WR C., and
has worked untr;nsly for the advancement
of our beloved Order. She served two years
as Department Treasurer one year as
Chairman of the Executive Board, and is
now President, elected Ivy the largest ma
jority ever given a candidate by the Con
vention.
Department President of Illinois, Jennie
Bross, has been an earnest worker in the
W.R.C. since 1885. Through her efforts
Corps 10, Morris, ILL.,, was organized, and
was its first President, being retained in
that Office for five consecutive years. She
has successfully filled the Offices in the
DEPARTMENT. of Senior Vice-Presidcnt, Chair
man of the Executive Board, Delegate-at-
Large, Department Secretary and Inspector.
During the administration of National
President Emma X. Wallace Miss BrOsS
was her efficient Secretary. Her devotion
to the Union veteran and his best interests
BrOss, fell at the head of his regiment, the
10Th U. S. (colored), in front of Petersburg;
while her eldest brother, the late Lieut.
Gov. VIM. Bross, Of Chicago, is well known
throughout the entire State of Illinois.
THE JACKSON HOUSEHOLD.
Through a misunderstanding, and by no
fault of Mrs SherwOOd's, she was made to
say, in her articles on her visit to the
" Hermitage" Nashville, that Mrs. Rachel
:. f. fer Il
Andrew jackson OOnelsOn, and that An
drew Jackson DOnelsOn once lived at the
Hermitage. An explanation of the relation
ships may be made.
Gen. Jacks having no children of his
own, and being generous man, made as
his own the relatives of his wife, who was
Rachel DOnelsOn. On the birth OF twin
boys to Severn jackson, a brother of Gen
Jackson's wife, who lived near by, the Gen
eral went to see the babies. He looked
them over carefully; then he named one
Andrew .JackSO for himself, and the other
Thomas Jefferson, for the man he most adj
mired in American politics. He tied blue
ribbon around Andrew Jackson S wrist and
gained permission to adopt him. Soon the
little one was taken to the Generals home,
and became in all respects his beloved son.
Andrew Jackson DOnelSOn was a cousin
of the adopted son and a nephew of Mrs
jackson. He was educated by Gen. Jack
son. He married his cousin, Emily DOnel-
son, and Mrs. jackson having died in
December, 1923, shortly before Gen. Jack
sons Inauguration as President, she be-
came the mistress of the White House
But in the Fall of 1891, the adopted son,
Andrew Jackson, married Miss Sarah York,
a Philadelphia belle, who at once took, first
place not only of the first lady in the land
but of the old herO'S heart, and from that
time until his death she was in all respects
as a daughter.
The children Of this marriage are Mrs
Rachel jackson Lawrence and Col Andrew
ia ckson, resident Of Cincinnati. Both
these children lived at the Hermitage
where their mother died in 1887. The great
bulk of the jackson relics, which were
exhibited at the Tennessee Centennial at
Nashville, are i'm tn cir possession.
The home of Andrew jackson DOnelso
was never at the Hermitage, but at Tulip
Grove, on an adjoining plantation His
daughter, Mrs. Mary Wilcox, who resides
at Washington, is sometimes spoken of as
Gen Jackson's granddaughter, an honor
through the adoption of her father, Andrew
jackson. Mrs. Lawrence has one daughter,
Mrs. John Cloves Symmes, of Nashville.
and three grandchildren, the two little
daughters and a little son Of Mrs. Symmes.
e. FLORENCE BARKER PATRIOTIC BAND.
movement has begun in f. b. WolcOtt
Relief Corps, Milwaukee, Wis, which
should commend itself to Corps everywhere.
as the true method of popularizing patriotic
teaching. This is the organization of a
band of children, auxiliary to WOlcOtt Corps.
to be known as the u. Florence Barker