The morning news., 1899-02-07
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY
HELD LAST NIGHT.

the meeting.
The president, Col John screven, pre-
sided. The minutes of the previous annual
meeting were read by the secretary, Mr..
William Harden. and the minutes approx
ed.
The first business before the meeting be-
ing the election of officers, the president
appointed the following committee 70 NOM
mate officers for the ensuing year: VIII
liam r. Leaken, Frank F. Jones and r.
Lee Wylly. The committee retired and after
a short absence, returned and reported,
recommending the following oficersS
President-Col. John Screven.
First Vice President-Wymberly J. De-
Renne.
Second Vice President-Hugh v. WASH
ington.
Secretary-Wilrlam Harden.
Assistant Secretary-T. p. Ravenel.
Treasurer-Warlng Russell.
Northumberland S. Elliott.
Historian-Hon. Robert Falligant.
Chaplain-Rev. Charles H. Strong
Surgeon-Dr. T. B. Chisholm
Board of Managers-George L. Apple
ton, Frank F. Jones, Hon. Harvey John
son, r. Lee Wylly, George NJ. Gadsden,
w. R. Leaken, J. F. Minis. Hon. Pope
Barrow, George w. Owens.
Delegates to General Society-Hon.
Pope Barrow Gen. w. w. Gordon, VIII
liam Harden, Hon. F. G. duBignon, Col
John Screven; alternates. T. P. Huger,
Col J. Mcintosh Kell, F. S. Lathrop, John
w. Grant, DIR. George H Stone.
OF those named Mr.. Washington is from
Macon, and Messrs. Johnson, Grant and
Kell from Atlanta. The others are from
Savannah. The report was adopted and
the officers named were unanimously cleo
ted.
The historian, Hon. Robert Falligant.
announced the death of four members
since the last annual meeting, Freeman
w. Schley, Marion Twiggs William w
Chisholm and Col. John Milledge. Sketches
OF the lives of each of the deceased were
read by the historian
Capt. G. B. Pritchard. Maj. T. D. Ber-
tody, and DR.. L. A. Falligant were an
pointed a committee to examine the treas
urers DOCKS which was done and the
books reported to be correct
President Screven read his annual re-
port, which was listented to with inter
est by the members.
Col. Screven's report showed the nem
bership of the society to be the same as
at the last annual meeting, 140, there hav-
ing been four deaths and four admissions
during the year. There would have been
an increase by two additional members.
whose applications were pending but
death intervened, greatly TO the regret of
the members of the board of managers
and prevented this welcome addition.
Among the deceased members was Col
John Milledge, formerly second vice pres
ident of the society.
The fact that the membership had re-
mained stationary during the year was
attributed by Col. Screven to the fact that
the Spanish war had engrossed public at
tention and diverted patriotic sentiment to
the supreme interest of the moment He
spoke encouragingly, however, of a prob
able increase of the membership in the
near future
Cot. Screven dwelt upon the value of the
society to its members aside from its high
public value as an embodiment of con-
servative patriotic sentiment, in tracing
out and settling family records for the
benefit. not only of living individuals, but
in perpetuating the records in reliable form
for the benefit of their descendants.
THE researches for such records, often
made through the officers of the society,""
said Col. Screven, '-have been of great
value These officers, familiar with the
history of the country and having expert
control of documentary evidence not COM
monty known or easily accessible. have
rendered the most effective assistance to
individuals otherwise compelled to depend
upon doubtful family traditions, and have
enabled them to establish family records
which deny all misgiving or rebuttal and
have admitted them TO the privileges Of
the society
Col Screven alluded to his last annual
report. in which he gave a full account of
the proceedings of the two general socie-
ties of the Sons of the Revolution and
the Sons Of the American Revolution in
regard TO the proposed consolidation of the
two societies. The vote of the Georgia
society was unanimously in the negative
on this occasion, and the proposed union
was defeated by a negative vote of the
state societies representing a large major
ity of the individual membership
Thus said Col. Screven, "the Society
of the Sons of the Revolution was relieved
of propositions which would have obliter
ated its very name, subjected it to tbe
hazard of losing its coiors, seal and in
sigma, to the virtual extinguishment of
the older society, with all its cherished
traditions and associations, with the ab-
sorpton Of its monuments and dedications
and its merger in name and substance
into the junior society, which. originating
in an unhappy, but irreparable local
schism, became the hostile rival of the
oder, which was, in fact. the original pat-
tern if not the foundation, of the younger
society"
Col. Screven stated that the latest re-
port of the general society showed the TO-
tai membership to be 5,759. Notwithstand-
ing the fact that the Georgia society has
only 14O members it stands sixth on the
list, showing the bulk of the membership
to be concentrated in a few states.
On motion the report was received and
ordered spread on the minutes.
on motion by Mr.. Leaken il was decided
that a committee, of which the president
or the historian should be chairman
should be appointed to devise means 70
carry out that part of the preamble of tho
constitution looking to the securing ana
preservation of the historical manuscrints
rolls, records, etcetera for the erectio, nf
suitable memorials of historic and revoln-
tionary truths. to confer with the socie,,,
of Colonial Danes and other patriotic ~
cieties to the same end. to keep in tbe mn
lie mind the memory of the services -
their ancestors and TO report to tbo so
ciety when ordered by its president ana
hoorA of t1,aDaUarc N'AN