The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-07
DAUGHTERS BANNER CHAPTER
WILL RECEIVE REPORTS AND
ELECT OFFICERS TOMORROW.

Charter Chapter of Daughters of the
COnfederacy the Largest in Geor-
gia-Has 230 Observation-Disclosures OF
Interest VIII Be Considered at the
Coming Annual Meeting-Story of
the Organization of the Chapter,
Its Enthusiasm and Its Continued
Success.
The Charter Chapter of Daughters Of the
Confederacy will hold its annual meeting
in Confederate Hall, in the " hitfield build
ing, at $50 O'Clock tomorrow afternoon.
The meeting will mark the close of the
sixth year of the chapters history. each
year with record of increased usefulness.
greater stability and more pronounced
success.
Officers of the chapter are TO be elected
at the annual meeting and the reports of
the retiring officers and of the standing
committees that have served throughout
the past year are to be submitted. The
delegates to the state and national con-
ventions of the Daughters of the Confed-
eracy will probably outline the plans of
these respective bodies. while interesting
matters relative to the work of the con
federation and the success with which Its
efforts are being met will be brought 10
the attention of the members of the Char
ter Chapter.
The present officers of the chapter are
as follows: Mrs. Margaret Branch Sex
ton, president; Mrs. Marie Eugenia
Branch, vice president; Mrs. Lettie Writ
DUPONT. secretary; Mrs. John M. Bryan,
treasurer, and Mrs. Thomas F. Screven,
historian. II is probable that as many
of these very excellent officers as desire
reelection may have it without much OPP
position.
Savannah shares with Nashville the
credit for originating the first organiza-
tons of the wives and daughters of Con-
federate soldiers and sailors. In the early
spring of 1884, Mrs. L. II. Raines of this
city, brought to a realizing sense of the
fact that in a few years the last veteran
of the war would have passed away, con-
ceived the plan of organizing the ladies'
auxiliary of the Confederate Veterans AS
ISOLATION, then existent here, into an in
dependent body, to be known as the
Daughters of the Confederacy.
The plan was uufoded to the other men,
bers of the auxiliary associa ton and re-
ceived by them with enthusiastic APP
prevail The organization was perfected
in April, with the following charter mem
bers: Mrs. Anna Davenport Raines, Miss
Margaret Dickerson Branch, now Mrs.
James L. Sexton; Mrs. Pamela Lamar,
Mrs. Marie Eugenia Branch. Miss Matte
Stone Raines, Mrs. Caro- Lamar duBignon,
Miss Mary s. Lamar, Mrs. Cynthia M.
Withers. Miss Irene Withers, Miss Mary
re q Myers. Mrs
Cornelia Jackson Barrow and Miss Eliza
beth Church Barrow. These Southern
women organized their association, named
it the Daughters of the Confederacy and
obtained for ii a charter from the state.
The first president was Mrs. Raines, who
had been the chapters founder. After the
grant of the charter it was learned that a
similar organization, with the same name
was in existence at Nashville, and CORE
spondence was begun with this Nashville
chapter that resulted in the formation or
the national confederation, body that
has been in successful existence since us
first meeting.
Mrs. Margaret Branch Sexton has been
the president of the chapter for the past
two years, and since she took hold it has
increased it's membership from 81 to 2SO.
1t has contributed literally to many of the
plans for the perpetuaton In history OF
the sacrifices and the devotion of the
Southern soldier and sailor and has been
in the forefront of every Confederate en-
terprise local to Savannah.
The chapter takes charge of the Con-
federate lot in Laurel Grove, and the care
of the soldiers graves in the other ceme-
teries about the city. Under its ministra-
tions the graves have ceased to look or
be neglected and on each successive Mem
orial day the members of the chapter
Irvine the simple stones that mark the
resting places of the heroes with wreaths
of laurel The first chapter organized in
the state, and one of the two that dispute
each others claims to seniority in the
national confederation, the Savannah
chapter is the largest and one of the most
enthusiastic in the state. 1t was the
Banner Chapter al the last state con-
vention in Athens.
Much of the success with which the
chapter has carried on its chosen work
and performed it's sacred duties has been
due to the untirng dev0tiOn to its inter-
ests of the present president, Mrs Marga-
ret Branch Sexton, whose very presence
at any Confederate gathering is an inspi-
ra ton to everybody else Mrs. Sexton will
reach the city from North Carolina prob
ably tomorrow morning, in ample time
to recover from the fatigue of the journey
and to attend the meeting in the after