The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1902-12-11
BILL ARp'S LETTER
Daughters on Confederaoy Ply
Him With Many Questions.
THEY SEEK HISTORY OF THE WOMEN
William AppIauds Their Iioble Efforts
and EnIightens Them to the Ex-
tent of His AbIity-keglect
of Historians Deplored.

A chapter of the Daughters OF the
Confederacy writes to me for list OF
The Georgia senators and representa-
uves who seeded in January, 1861, and
also for a list of their successors in
the confederate congress. But few
men can answer these questions, and
indeed the answer is hard to find in
any book. But these women are after
information that is worthy of preserva-
ton in their archives and they will
soon know more about the civil war
than the men.
Well, our state senators before the
war were Robert Toombs and Ben
Hill. Toombs made a withdrawal
speech which was grand and defiant.
Our representatives were Martin j.
Crawford, Peter E. Love, Thomas j.
Hardeman, Lucius ]. Gartrell, John w.
H. Underwood, James Jackson, John
Jones and Joshua Hill. All Of these
withdrew except Joshua Hill, who re-
signed. They are all dead.
The members of the first confeder-
ate congress were Senators Ben Hill
and Herschel V. Johnson. Toombs
was elected, but had serious opposi-
ton, and it irritated him so that he re-
fused to serve and later on Johnson
was elected. Toombs said, ''The man
ner in which this trust has been con-
ferred on me relieves me from any OBJ
legation to accept it, So he unsheath-
ed his sword and went to fighting. The
representatives elected were Julian
Hartridge, ]. c. Munnerlyn, Hines
Holt, A H. Kenan, David w. Lewis, w.
w. Clark, Robert P. Trippe l.. ]. Gar
trell, Hardy Strickland and Augustus
r. Wright These are all dead. Time
cuts down all, both great and small"
A letter from another chapter wish
es to know the maiden names of the
wives of the presidents and the names
of the mothers of the presidents. l
tell you, these women are in earnest.
For centuries their sex has been under
the ban. You can't find history or
cyclopedia that tells anything about
the wives or the mothers of great men,
and yet it is the mother who makes
the man. George Washington's faith
er died when he was IL years old, and
his mother trained him and taught him
and planted within him all those vir-
tues that made him great-and yet
there are but few of our American
people VINO know who his mother was
/ have three sets Of standard encyclo-
pedias, but only meager mention is
made in them Of the mothers or
wives of the presidents. Who knows
anything about the mother of Webster,
Clay or Calhoun? | have found the
maiden names of all the wives of the
presidents and the names of all their
mothers except those of Zachariah
Taylor, William H. Harrison, Franklin
Pierce, James Buchanan, R. B. Hayes
and Ben Harrison. Maybe they had
no mothers. Well, to begin:
George Washington's mother was
Mary Ball. His wife was Widow Park
Curtis, nee Martha cambridge.
John Adams mother was Susennah
Boylston. His wife was Abigail Smith.
Jane Randolph His wife, Martha
Wales.
James Madison's mother, Fanny
Taylor. His wife, Dolly Payne. That
Fanny Taylor's brother was grandfath-
er to Zachary Taylor
James Monroe's mother Eliza Jones.
His wife, Elizabeth Kortrigllt.
John @. Adams had a grandmother
Quincy. No mother is named. His
wife was Louisa Johnson.
Andrew Jackson's motrer, Eliza
beth Hutchinson His wife, Hannah
Hoes
William H. Harrison's mother, not
named; wife, Anna Symmes.
John Tyler's mother, Mary Armis-
tead; wife, Letitia Christian
James K. Folks mother, Jane Knox;
wife, Sarah Childress.
Zachary Taylor's mother not named;
wife, Margaret Smith.
Willard Filmore's mother was
Phoebe Willard; he never married.
Franklin Pierce's mother not named;
wife, Jane Appleton.
James Buchanan's mother not nam
ed. He was bachelor.
Abraham Lincoln's mother, Nancy
Hanks; wife, Mary Todd.
Andrew Johnson's mother too poor
and ignorant to name. His wife, Eliza
McCardle, educated him.
u. S. Grants mother, Hannah Simp-
son; his wife, Julia Dent.
r. B. Hayes mother not named; his
wife, Lucy Ware Webb.
James A. Garfeld's mother was
Eliza Ballou; his wife, Lucretia Ru-
do1ph.
Chester A. Arthur's mother, Mai
VIVA Stone; his wife. Ellen Herndon.
Grover Cleveland's mother, Anne
Neal: his wife, Frances Folsom.
Ben Harrison's mother not named;
mis- wife was Miss Scott.
William McKinley's mother, Nancy