The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-08
United Daughters
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lk>>>$>>>>>>>>>>>>< United Daughters of the Confederacy. Editor. Mrs. Harvey E. Jones. State
 Historian. Spring Hill. Mobile County. Alabama.
 Our Fallen Heroes. The manner of their death was the
 crowning glory of their iives."--Jeffer- | son Davis.
 "But there are desds which should not pass away. And names that must not wither.
 state omeers, Alabama Division. U. D. c. Honorary President. Miss Sallie C. Jones, Camden.
 President. Mrs. J. N. Thompson. Tus- cumbia. First Vice President. Mrs Charles c. Brown. Birmingham. Second Vice President. Mrs. Lewis Cobbs, Montgomery.
 Recording Secretary, Mrs chappeii Cory, Birmingham.
 corresponding Secretary. Miss Mat tie McDavid, Florence. Treasurer. Mrs. w. T. Palmer. uni- versity Postofiice. Ala Registrar. Mrs. J. c. Lawrence. Un- ton Springs.
 Historian. Mrs Harvey E. Jones. Spring Hiil.
 The monument. of whose unveiling an account Is given below, is one the Alabama Division was asked to con tribute to in order that the names of Alabama soldiers might be inscribed thereon. Sheffield and Tuseumbia were the only ones to respond and I think the amount was returned. I publish at request of our Division President
 Confederate Monument.
 The Wisconsin State Journal, pub lished at Madison. Wis, gives the fol- lowing account of the unveiling of monument erected to Confederate pris- On dead, buried at Forest Hill Gene tery. overlooking the city of Madison on June Is. The State Journal of June 13 says
 Louis Fairchiid Post, C. A. R., will have charge, and the exercises will be held on June IS. at 6:30 p. m, So that the public may have an opportunity to attend All ex-soldiers. members of the Relief Corps and Sons of Veterans. are requested to meet at the entrance to the cemetery at o'clock, where q procession will be formed and a march made to Confederate Rest, led by the post drum corps The following pro- gram will be observed:
 Singing, by request of Richmond Chapter. United Daughters of the Con- federacy of How Firm a Foundation. Ye Saints of the Lord led by Mrs. E. c. ,DeMoe.
 Prayer by Chaplain of the Post Music. Reading of letters from the Governor of Alabama, the United Daughters of the Confederacy, and ad- dress by Commander Mckay.
 ''Unvei1ing of monument. by Major Hugh Lewis and Major F. W Oakley.
 Solo. The Blue and the Cray by Comrade NJ J. Rawson. Singing, america Taps by bugler."
 The paper goes on to say that "the monument Is of dark Barre granite, five and a half feet high, and consists of two bases and die. On the four sides of the die are inscribed the names of the 134 soldiers of the South who rest In Forest HILL Charles F. Abbott, the artist, who had the monument in charge. put 1t in place just previous to Memorial Day. It bears the inscrip- ton: Erected in loving memory by United Daughters of the Confederacy. to Mrs. Alice Whiting Waterman and Her Boys"
 Loyal sOnthern Woman.
 Mrs Waterman, whose name appears in the inscription, a native of Baton Rouge, La, married Charles Waterman of New York After his death she went West and, becoming resident of Mad ison, Wis, spent the closing years of her life in the home of Major F. W. Oakley. of that city. Learning that number of her countrymen were lying in alien graves, neglected and almost forgotten, she undertook and carried out the work If restoring their resting place to proper condition, and placing headboards. properly inscribed. at each grave She gubsebuently suitably en- closed the section with a granite cop- Ing Each Memorial Day she placed flowers on the graves. being assisted in her work by the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the Governors of Alabama and Louisiana, former Cover nor Lucins Fairchild of Wisconsin and many other Union veterans.
 The monument was erected by funds raised by the United Daughters of the all over the South
 Daughters Rejoice.
 Richmond Chapter. Daughters of the feels that 1t has special cause for rejoicing in the fact that the O. A R. Post of the city of Madison, in the State Of Wisconsin, has conducted the exercises at. the unveiling or monument to the memory of Southern soldiers. erected by the Daughters or the Confederacy. It Is felt to be vin- dication of the charge that the south has done nothing to memorialize the burial piaces of her sons, who died in exile.
 General Cabney H. Maury Chapter, of Philadelphia, was first in response to an appeal made by Richmond Chap ter for marking the localities where prison dead were laid. Af- ter 1t had raised money for nnonu- ment, tho G. A. R. Post, of Philadel- phia. objected to It's erection in that city, and 1t was placed here In Holly wood.
 Due to Southern Women.
 That there is such change in senti- -nent today Is due, 1t is believed, large