The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-11-12
HER LETTER OF THANKS
BEAUVOIR TO BE MADE A CON
FEDERATE HOME.
THE UNITED DAUGHTERS ELECT OFFICERS
Mrs. { G. Weed, Of Jacksonville, Fla +, Elected
President. Among Other Officers Elected
Is Mrs. Mary F, Meares, Of North
Carolina, Cor. Secretary.
Carolina, Cor. Secretary.

Richmond, Va, Nov 11.-At the
morning session of the Convention or
the United Daughters of the Confeder-
acy the following letter was received
from Mrs. Jefferson Davis:
ITO the Daughters of the Confeder-
acy:
My friends and countrymen: Accept
my grateful acknowledgements and
those Of my daughter, Mrs. Hayes, for
the splendid manifestation of your love
and esteem for my Winnie. For the
short remnant of life left to me it will
be a never-failing source of happim-
ness to me and TO her sister.
another and ever-rccurring source Of
satisfaction to us is that you have
graciously assumed the controlling and
active interest in the effort to build tine
Confederate monument TO my husbands
memory.
such Il manifestation of approval
from his own beloved people will be the
richest heritage you could confer upon
his child and her descendants.
Whether your noble efforts are
crowned with success or not, we shall
know your patriotic hearts are in the
work and love you for what you have
striven to accomplish.
Il thank you with all my heart for
yonr loving welcome and hospitality
during our visit here and beg you 10
believe he with cordial appreciation
The convention endorsed the nroyement
of several gentlemen to buy Beauyoir
and turn ii into Il home for Confederate
soldiers and sailors.
Mrs. Davis offers to sell Beauyoir for
that purpose for $4,000 The idea or
the promoters Of the scheme of pur-
chase is at present to issue certificates
of one dollar each and sell them through
out the South. 1t is probable tilat Gen
eral Fitzhugh Lee, General Joseph
Wheeler, or some other distinguished
Confederate will be asked the position
Of President Of the Association, which
will be known as the Southern Home
Association for Confederate Veterans, >
and that Vice-Presidents will be appoint
ed in each State.
Mrs. Parks offered the following which
was adopted:
Il move that each State Division
of the United Daughters of the COnfed
cracy appoint a Museum committee of
three, Of which the State President shall
be a member ex-ofhcio; the State re-
gent shall be chairman and the other
two members shall be appointed by
the State president. This committee
shall have charge of the interests of
the museum and keep it before their
State division.
Il move further. that each State pres
ident shall, after presenting the mat
ter TO her State convention, recommend
the appropriation of a sum cf money,
varying according to the financial con-
dition of her treasury fer the running
expenses of this sacred treasure house,
which expense has heretofore been
borne by the Confederate Memorial Lit
terary Society alone.
Il further move that each State pres
ident shall recommend that each chapter
in her division set apart annually a
sum according to its ability for the
maintenance and enrichment of the
room appropriated to its own State
Mrs John G. Brown moved that Mrs.
II. G.. Weed of Jacksonville, Fla, wife
of Bishop Weed, of Florida, be elected
President Of The United Daughters by
reclamation. This was done amid great
enthusiasm.
The ether officers elected are:
Mrs. William Reed, New York, First
President
Mrs. f. T. Mccullough, Staunton,
Va, Second VicePresident.
Mrs. john X. Hickman, Nashville,
Tenn, Recording Secretary.
Miss Mary i. Meares, North Carolina,
Corresponding Secretary.
Mrs. Jefferson Thomas, Atlanta, Ga,
Treasurer.
Montgomery, Ala, is to be the next
meeting place.
The United Daughters Of the Confed-
eracy, at their final session tonight,
which did mot adjourn until midnight, res
ended with great manimity their action
of the morning in regard to purchasing
tho Beauvoir estate, and requested the
newspapers throughout the country to
take notice of the fact
The Daughters voted $500 from their
treasury to the Davis monument fund.
The monument committee, consisting OF
one member from each State, held =
meeting and decided to constitute small
working executive committee to be locat-
ed here, which can cooperate with the
Davis Monument Association, and the
matter of raising funds for the monu-
ment is to be vigorously pressed.