Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-29
MEMORY OF MRS. DAVIS
TRIBUTES PAID BY LOCAL CON-
FEDERATE VETERANS.
Exercises Held Under Auspices Of
Daughters Of the Confederacy-
Resolutions Adopted.

More than eight hundred persons, most Of
whom were members of Confederate Veter-
ans and of the Daughters of the Confed-
eracy, held memorial services in Confeder-
ate Veterans Hall, 141O H street northwest,
yesterday afternoon, as tribute to the
memory Of the late Mrs. Jefferson Davis.
The exercises were particularly impressive.
and numerous eulogies were offered. Ac-
cording to those who arranged for the serv-
ices yesterdays occasion was the largest
attended and most successful ever held in
the veterans new hall.
In addition to the notable tributes spoken
in memory Of the mother of the confed-
eracy" as the widow of the confederate
president was known. resolutions of condo
lence were unanimously adopted, and sew
eral sweet-voiced singers added pathos to
the exercises by rendering number OF Mrs.
Davis favorite hymns.
The exercises were held under the aus
pices of the United Daughters of the Con-
federacy, District of Columbia Division,
and Mrs. John NJ. Hickey as chairman OF
the committee of arrangements, presided.
Mrs. Magnus S. Thompson. president OF
the District of Columbia division. United
Daughters of the Confederacy, was among
those on the platform.
In her opening remarks Mrs. Hickey said
that as each succeeding year concludes It's
labors and we bring in the sheaves Of the
harvest of our loving work for the sacred
cause so dear to us. too often we have to
record the ended service of some co-Worker.
death she stated, that the exercises were
called for.
Judge Goodies Eulogy.
Possibly the most beautiful tribute paid
to Mrs. Davis was that of John Goode. a
former judge in Virginia and now a resi-
dent of Washington. He said:
saSbo uoc typica1 daughter of the BEAU
tfful southland AS a maiden she was ra-
diant and lovely; as wife, brought joy and
happiness to her husband, and as mother,
left an impress for good on all that mad the
right to call her by that sacred name. IN
her every gesture there was dignity ana
love. Language, my friends, fails me In
describing her excellent qualities. She dem
onstrated from marriage to death all OF the
virtues Of womanhood, and was q woman
of unusual intellectual attainments.
"She stood by her husband In his tri-
umphs as well as In adversely. When ne
was captured and taken from the Deiea-
guered city of Richmond and thrust into
prison at Fort Monroe she followed, SO as
to be able to minister to his wants AT
Richmond first had the honor OF meeting
Mrs. Davis and was impressed with the
grace with which she received all. The
story that Jefferson Davis ATTEMPTED to es-
cape from prison disguised in his wife's
clothes Is untrue. He was a man Oh loity
and Ideals.
As Wife and Mother.
The next tribute was by former Judge
John w. Wright Of Tennessee who said:
1.-The life of woman, from her situation,
is SO seldom marked by acts of heroism or
any public exhibition which distinguishes
her above others of her sex that in COM
upon her when dead it is difficult
to find epochs in her life to which reference
can be made illustrative of her virtues. or
Mrs. Davis, whose death we meet to de-
plore, it is perhaps enough to say that dur
ing her long life she passed through times
and events seldom equaled and never ex-
celled in the history of any country on
earth, amid scenes of war. deprivation and
thrilling and trying. and that
never did she do an act utter word
detracting from her character as a pure,
loyal and loving wife, devoted mother and
exalted citizen.
"Such an intellect and such virtue. in
other lands and other times, when woman
occupied a more conspicuous station, might
have been distinguished by deeds which
would have filled the world with her fame.
The death of this venerable and distin-
gushed woman reminds us how rapidly the
men and women of that eventful period are
passing away. The rose leaves are drop
ping fast and the spring is running dry"
The next speaker introduced was J. T.
Callaghan, president of Camp III, U. V. c.
He talked upon the remarkable courage of
Mrs. Davis and her beautiful character. He
spoke of the great love borne her by her
unfalterng devotion to the southern cause
during the dark days of the war. He said
she was recognized by the confederate vet
Grams as the Mother of the Confederacy."
Resolutions Of Respect.
The resolutions adopted were:
LAS the District of Columbia Division,
United Daughters of the Confederacy,
shares with the whole south in the sorrow
occasioned by the death of the widow of the
president of the confederacy. and feels that
1t should give expression to that sorrow in
the most unreserved manner, not alone by
memorial services, but also by suitable reso-
buttons of coincidence; now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That. we manifest our deep
grief at the loss we have sustained and our
great sympathy with the members of Mrs.
Davis family in their af1iction by joining
in the numerous testimonials to the noble
qualities of the illustrious dead.
Endowed with many talents, capable and
energetic possessed OF all the attributes of
true womanhoOd, an affectionate daughter,
devoted wife, a tender mother, anal a
warm-hearted friend, her many gifts of
mind and character Cha.i@ lged the adnl1ra-
ton and won the 1T of all worthy
hearts.
I'm all the vicisstudes of an eventful
life, she bore herself with exemplary dig
nifty and endured with Christian resigna-
ton the sings and arrows of outrageous
fortune, the bitterness of adversely, the loss
of loved ones, the nfirmites of invalidism
and of old age While to her death may
have come as a true delivery, to the sulvi-
vors he has brought a great sense of loss
and bereavement.
There is, however, a silver lining to our
cloud of sorrow in the conviction that she
is now reunited with those most dear to her,
and that those survivors who can, like her.
look back Upon a well-spent life may hope
for q similar peaceful end and a reunion be-
yond the grave with their beloved dead in
the better land of immortal life
wishing for her family all sthe blessings
she would have bestowed upon them If it
had been in her power, and bidding them
godspeed in their journey through this life,
we subscribe ourselves with sincere affec-~
ton and warm sympathy,
THEIR FRIENDS AND COMPANIONS"
The remainder of the program consisted
of the invocation by Rev. Mr.. Locke; the
singing of abide With Me" by a quartet,
composed of Mrs Blanche Mattinsly
Rodgers, Mrs. Arnold Gumprecht, William
D. Mcfarland and Charles e. Goodchld;
a solo, Face to Face by Mrs. Rodgers; O
recitation by Mrs. McDuffie, entitled II Am
a Pilgrim" and benedictlon by Rev. Mr..
Thompson.
Fatal Accident to Horse
A fatal accident occurred on 9th street
near the south end of the train shed of the