The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-26
HISTORICAL.
Mrs. Harvey E. Jones.

Mrs. Harvey E.. Jones.
 The following clipping from The Huntsville Mercury. January, 1905, contains suggestions for the Alabama Division. Chapters are earnestly re- uuested to read and avail themselves of every opportunity for gathering historical facts:
 |Ths only practicable method of gathering and preserving data which will furnish something like com piete history of Alabama Is by organ txed effort A man may have an old letter, deed or other document which he thinks is of no interest to any but himself. but which would supply a valuable link in making up history. An organization which will go to work systematically to get together and preserve all data of the past that can be obtained will do an invaluable work, not only for Its own immediate vicinity and time. but for all the State and for the future.
 ''The old people who know some thing of the past, either by experi- ence. observation or records, are fast passing away. and soon 1t will not be possible to find one who was living when Alabama became a State, or even one whose memory carries him back to the days when the white man and the red man were contending for the right to exist on our soil But a few years longer and no man or wo- man can be found who saw or heard one of the Indian natives who were here seventy years ago, and then a few more years will take from us those who went through the trials and hardships of the great war between the States. Let historical societies be organized as the only means of per petuating Alabama history.
 Oklahoma City, May 5, 1907.
 Mrs. Harvey E. Jones. Spring Hill,
 take pleasure in acknowledging the invitation given by the Alabama Daughters to be present at the un- yelling of the monument erected to the memory of the Alabama soldiers who fell on Shiloh's battlefield. Am indeed sorry I cannot be present but I will think of you all on that day, and my heart will be in unison with all the dear workers to this end. Oklahoma has had a hard upward road to travel In organizing and as yet has had no part in the monumental work, but we when, we as Division will be known for our assistance outside our own territory. Fraternally yours,
 Mrs. Ruth H. Lesson,
 221 N. 9th St.. Oklahoma City.
 AuuTcSS OI ufS. virginia Clay ClOp- ton at the Tri-City convention of U. D. C.. May sth. 9th. and 10th, 1907.
 U. D. Confederacy and Friends:
 In the solitude of my wildwood" home. contemplating the possibility or attendance at this convention, 1t sud denly occurred to me, that if I came, I would probably be, not only the old est representative of the U. D. C., but the senior member of the State at large naQtA no1 0crfr rrh might be expected. coming from North Alabama town, to g,ve a word of welcome, a greeting from Huntsville. So I am here to tell you that Hunts vile sends love and warmest welcome to each delegate present, accompanied by the cherished hope that she. too, may in the near future enjoy the privilege and pleasure of entertaining you within her gates" To her three little sisters, the flourishing and pie turesque triplettes. 'adorning the banks of the Tennessee river, she bids me de- liver heartiest congratulations on your success in wooing and winning the con- vention to come to you and for the Highland welcome accorded to your home and your loving hearts. be- iieye that each one returning home will feIicitate herself on having made. even, so short an acquaintance with North Alabama. it's graceful river, its ever changing ranges of amethystine noun tains- it's enchanted valley and its cut- tured and cordial people. and will come again.
 Nor will time ever efface from your memories the sacred and imposing ceremonies of yesterday when occur rad the unveiling of the tasteful and costly monument reared in memory Of our nrecious dead on Shiloh's bloody S,aIds It was a pathetic tribute from sorrowing women to the asnes or the heroes who died for them. a reinter- ment of our gallant ones, nations 1uneraI Carry the spectacle to your homes and paint it to your children Tn colors that can never fade and when we are gone, columns of marble still fellins the story, will rise throughout Inc land showing we have mouldered to dustI I feel today so stirred and l. Inv a realization of the vast nm nortance of this organization in relation to our dead soldiers that continent of love, loyalty ana prloe akin to religion pervades my oeihs' . I deem myself fortunate in being per nitted to meet so many pure, sweet notriotic women most of them "to the manor born" feel. too, as if standing on consecrated gfound when I recall the number of distinguished men this end of the State has produced. ana also the lamentable fact that nearly ali of them are dead, some lying in -nameless graves. but still wearing of the gray. ,.,
 When Alabama in 1919 was admitted into statehood from territorial govern nnent we find heading the calendar of noted names the men who formed the Constitution of the State the two Bibbs, both Governors afterwards; walker, grandfather of the late Leroy Pope Walker. first secretary of the States, and one of the prominent guar let of brothers of that name. Clay c. C., father of the late Senator c. C.. Clay, Chapman Reuben, later Governor of Alabama. ct i'd omni genus. Glanc- ing down the vista of years even 10 my day we meet in the highway of distinction Houston, Coleman. Hubbard Clemens, Parsons, Patton, Coffee, Win ston, Rather, Hobbs, CNeal, Pryor, Brickell, the Moores, Syd and John E. Ward, McClelland. McDavid. Cooper and Wheeler. nearly all of whom are sleep ing in their dreamless beds but whose varied careers. civic and military, have made illustrious the pages of our States history. And today the legal fraternity of North Alabama including the brilliant talent of the Magic City" ranks at home and abroad, the peer of any other bar in Ahe whole South. And en passent what Ia city is Bir- ngham. Well may it be called Magic for magical was It's birth. its growth and its untold wealth.
 What countless acres of iron ore and coaI daposit: what roua nf iawaIs nS