The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-10-22

Grande; from ocean to ocean, Tn clty and town wherever there is a Chapter federacy. at o'clock yesterday after i noon by order of Mrs. Henderson. President General of the United Daughters of the Confederac.'. lne- service, was held for Mrs. Jefferson | Davis. wife of the one and. only Prcs- ident of the Confederacy.
 1 At the First Presbyterian Church of Mont gomery several hundred men and women-Daughters of tho Confeder- acy. members of the Ladies' Memorial 1 Association and of the First White ; House Association, Of Camp Lomax and Camp Falkner of the United Con federate, Veterans aud of Camp Holt.- claw, Sons of United Confederate Vef- 1 erans, assembled yesterday afternoon at the appointed hour in memory of the first lady of the confederacy" The services. though brief. were sol emn and impressive. Seated in the pulpit with Dr. Neal h. Anderson. pas ! tor of the Central Presby bytcrian Church, John a1' ' A. Rice. pastor If the Court Street Methodist Church: Dr. Charles A. Stakely. pastor of th. First Baptist Church, and Hon. R. ryIer Goodwin. who delivered the address of the oc- cason.
 The service was orenci with the singing of Nearer. My God to Thee, | by the COnSTeSftlOn, iOitp"Hu "'NA eprayer by Dr. Anderson.
 pr. Rice read as the scrirtural les son the first twelve verses of St. Mat thew V.
 The address of Mir. Goodwin WIS beautiful tribute to the life "f the no. ble woman who so recently passed away Not only did he do honor to the memory of her who as the hrst lady of the Confede :acv' was pecu- liarly placed to be the recipient or
 nI a. cry and humiliation if that should be the lot of the Confed".%cy. but to the women throughout the south who. with her, lived and suffered through | those trying times of war and devas- | tation, and who, like her. had given of their best to the cause. and had. after the war was over, striven to rise above the humiliation and sorrow ana vet perpetuate as something sacred the memories of those who nt tnclr | countrys call had given their lives.
 The tribute that we pay today to the memory of Mrs. Davis." said MT. | Goodwin, i've pay in great measure to every good woman who, with ncr, pa ssed through those days If distress and misery. Of those in Montgomery who have passed away, we hold in low ing memory the names of Mrs. J o. Phelan who had two sons killed While in the service of their country MIs; w. c. Baldwin. whose first born iaio
  E. C. Hannon. Mrs. R. s: Bibb' Mrs' William B. Bell. Mrs. Bellingcr. Mrs, Fillmore. Mrs. Hausman, Mrs. William Johnson. Mrs. Ware and others cqual ly noble. innumerable. a1l of whom II are dear today to the people Of Mont gomery, even though we have but the memory of their many good deeds. Of the women who are today liVinG in Montgomery and have done so r1ucn for the perpetuation of the memory "I
 
 especially of Mrs. M. D. Bibb and Ms u. c. Lee In his eulogy of the wo- man in whose honor the audience was , assembled. he gave brief sketch or , Natchez. Miss, in the neart of the old South of her education In Phliadel- phia and her marriage to MT. Davis a' , her girlhood home in Mississippi; He l spoke also of the career of MT. DaVls' : of how. after he was elected to Con- } eress. at the call for men to serve In l the Mexican war, he resigned his seat 5 and enlisted of his gallantry in the service and of the honors which ne won there, and of the wounds tha,
 brought him home again. He told ol
 when MT. Davis was elected Presiden' of the Confederacy and came to Mont . gomery to live. how Mrs Davis came immediately to make her home here
 to he with her husband He spoke O, their home on Lee Street. the house
 in which they lived while in Montgom
 ery-the First White House of th'
 Confederacy" Then. when MT. Davis
 went to Richmond to make his home :. she followed at once and was there with him during the greater part o those long. memorable four years o the war
 He spoke of the part which wa: played by the women after the wa
 and gave to them great honor ant credit for the help which they have been in restoring the country to it , present state of peace and prosperity pr. Anderson announced that com .. mittee had been appointed to draw III
 suitable resolutions and called on C , A. I.anier. Chairman of the Committe. . to report. Mir Lanier read the fol , lowing resolutions which were adopted ; by the assembled audience with ris
 ing vote:
 \ Resolved by members of all Con ' federate organizations the Capita , City of Alabama: in memorial meeting ! assembled.
 : That in the recent death of Mrs IVarina Howell Davis, widow of Presi dent Jefferson Davis. we earnestly de plore the loss of a brilliant woman, devoted wife and loving mother. Sel
 dom has a land produced a more ac