The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-09-29

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| relief of cur Confederate veterans and
Tor their present happiness. but for the
perpetuation of the knowledge of their
! endurance and heroic deeds as we'll. Like
Old Mortality" she has striven to
deepen the Inscriptions. During the
war her father lost his ALL consisting of
real estate within the Yankee lines. re
1useed' at Townsville, N. c., and at
| brownsville it was that her love for the
| Ionfederacy had it's birth, where, as a
little girl she wore the secession cock
| abe and waved the Stars and Bars over
the Confederates marching on to the
| carnage of war, and over the Yankees
| VINO We're being carried to Salisbury to
| prison. from the one she received cheers
ana from the other groans. A little
1 later, after the fight at Bentonville,
| when the wounded and dying were car
| RED to her town for medical attention.
she Went to the hospitals, (the churches)
| reading to the convalescent singing
| hymns to the dying. and in case of
DEATH weeping the bitterest tears she
mad thus far shed AT the close of the
| war Or. Baker gave her many of the peck
! ct necessaries left in his charge. Some OF
these have been returned to families of
the deceased, but all others are in her
confederate corner-her dearest treas
ure-Where she spends most of her leis-
ure time reading. There as she looks
up through the lens of tear she sees
the faces of those WHO lived in the
plteous days of forty years ago, and
she lives in the past again.
Later still. when the Ladies Memo
! ria, Association was formed Mrs. Cali
was one Of the first members, being
! elected secretary, which office she still
holds. The first work of this organiza-
| ton was to erect a monument to the
Confederate dead. OF the money neces-
sary for this purpose Mrs. Call raised
two hundred and thirty-five dollars by
| individual work, besides laboring joint
ly with other devoted women.
| When a chapter of the Daughters of
the Confederacy" was organized she
was charter member and is it's second
honorary president for life. AS was our
! Lords last injunction to his disciples
| to bear witness of the m, so also in a
| cause only less holy and sacred to South
ern hearts was the injunction of dying
and dead Confederacy TO this noble wo-
man, "Ye shall bear witness of me-"
/ With this fixed purpose in her heart she
organized the washington Gray Chap
! ter, Children of the Confederacy," which
! was the third chapter to be started in
the whole South and the first in North
! Carolina This chapter is one hundred
strong and each and every child an act
{ i've, willing worker under her direction
, the dues being only penny per MONTH
i Since its organization this chapter has
presented an oil portrait of Gen. Bryan
/ Grimes to the North Carolina room of
! the White House of the Confederacy at
Richmond. This cost one hundred dol
lars. At the time of its presentation a
, poem by Mrs Call, dedicated to Gen.
| Grimes was recited. The next year a
| portrait equally handsome of Maj. Thos.
/ Sparrow, who organized the first COM
pany in Beaufort county, was presented
| by the children to the Johnston Petit
grew Chapter, Daughters of the Con-
| federacy, of Raleigh, n. G. This chap
ter has also marked the graves of thir-
ty-two of our Confederate dead. and is
continuing to mark others as the vet
Grams fall by the wayside. Recently
these children sent a box of clothing
weighing seventy pounds to the family
| OF a needy veteran.
| On the 10Th of January past Mrs. Call
conducted our Lees birthday eelebra-
ton, composing and reciting for the oc-
casion a poem dedicated to the sacred
memory of Robert Z. Lee. In this she
was assisted by eleven of the largest
| children" For this occasion the adj
mission fee was only five cents, and yet,
after paying for the opera house and all
expenses, the sum of twelve dollars and
a half was added to the treasury.
The next move of this chapter under
/ n
| crate our Confederate veterans with the
! Southern Gross of Honor Therefore,
I on Memorial Day seventy five of these
i .rosses were presented to seventy five
of our southland's defenders. y The pre-
sentation speech of this occasion was
delivered by Mrs. Call. At an early
date the Daughters of the Confeder-
| acy will continue the work in Beaufort
| county, having the necessary funds al
ready on hand.
For the last ten years Mrs. Call has
I had charge of the dinner given the vet
Grams on Memorial Day. on May 10th,
past, entertaining three hundred veter-
ans and sons of veterans. She is ever
seeking to throw sunshine athwart the
! veterans lives and is called by them
! the NANNY of the Confederate Sol
der"
1 With this incomplete outline of her
Confederate work one would suppose
her life to have been full, still this love
| holds second place in her heart, the first
being held by, her church. for she is,
Land has ever been, loyal, devoted
/ member of the Methodist Episcopal
church, raising by individual work more
than one thousand dollars towards the
old church building.
! In conclusion we would say that Mrs.
Call is loyal to her friends, that she is
a woman of large brain, warm heart
and magnetic personality.
May she live long and prosper
The above sketch was written by the
late Miss Olivia Rodman Myers. laugh
ter of the late Rodman Myers and
grand daughter of the late Judge War
rem, of North Carolina. Ere it was fin
ished her pure white soul took flight to
the Beautiful Beyond" and the casket
left was beautiful in it's ruins She was
true to the memories of the past, taught
by mother strong in her convictions.
There is an empty seat which can never
be filled in our Confederate circle. In
her young womanhood she has been
robed and crowned by the King of
| Kings