The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-06-07
NORFOLKS MEMORIAL DAY
WEATHER WAS IDEAL FOR FIT.
TING OBSERVANCE.
THRoNes WENT TO CEMETERY
Tribute Was Paid to the Soldier Dead
by Patriotic Norfolkt-The Auditori.
UNI Stage Was Decorated with
Unique Camp Scene-The Address
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Memorial day in Norfolk proved an
ideal day for the patriotic exercises
held during the morning and after.
noon. A cloud covered the sky and,
while holding the possibility of show
ers, brought cool vigorous day for
the, morning march to the cemetery
and the afternoon exercises at the
Auditorium.
with flags over the city displayed
at half mast and with Norfolk avenue
lined with the national colors, the vet
Grams of the Grand Army and patriot.
ic citizens anxious to honor the sol.
der dead assembled on Norfolk nv
onuc at 10 o'clock. Headed by the
Norfolk band and consisting of repre-
sentativcs of the city council; the long
blue line of Norfolk frcmen; n score
of veterans marching for another time
to honor their comrades; other voter
ans, ladies' of the W.RC. and citizens
in carriages. the annual procession to
Prospect Hin cemetery passed down
Norfolk avenue.
At the entrance Of the cemetery the
firCmCn opened ranks and stood with
uncovered heads while the men from
the war, now forty odd years away,
passed to the front to lead the way to
the corner of the cemetery where
monument to the unknown dead had
been erected. Here in hollow square
the ritualistic exercises were carried
out
Commander Andrew N. McGinnis
read the words of the ritual Prayer
was spoken by j. w. Boveo, chaplain
Of the post, after which Adiutant w.
II. Widaman read the list of dead sol
diers and members of the w. II. G.
The soldiers are as follows:
VIM. Isham, First Michigan battery;
Major Joseph Mathewson, Eighteenth
Connecticut; James Pheasant, one
Hundred Ninety-hrst Pennsylvania;
John p. Sullivan, Gen Grants CIPHER
clerk; Daniel Desmond, New York
cavalry; VIM. S. Glass, One Hundred
Forty-first Illinois volunteers; Daniel
Palmer, U. s. navy; VIM, Bishop, Hi
nois volunteers; John Kyner, Seventy
| third Ohio; Geo. Brady, company and
regiment unknown; Uriah Gregory,
Forty-third Wisconsin; w. II. Rob
erts, physician Twentieth Ohio; John
Bondurant, Fifty-frst Missouri; d. A.
| Amarine, Twenty third Iowa; Capt,
| Pnmmer, Sixteenth Ohio; Capt. HILL
unknown; John Geiger, Mexican war
veteran, Geo. Gordon company cook !;
Geo. Davenport, First Ohio light ar.
tillery; ]. w. Smith, Fortysecond
Ohio; VIM. Winter, unknown; VIM. II.
Lowe, unknown; Thos. ]. Harter com
pany A, Forty-first Illinois; w. NJ,
Robertson company d, One Hundred
and Forty-second Illinois.
OF this list VIM. Winter is buried in
the Lutheran cemetery.
Following are the deceased members
Of the w. II. c.:
Mesdames Powell LaFarge, NJ. Kin.
dred M. Corrivan, J. Green, ID. A.
Amarine, VIM. II. Lowe, Glass Robt
Allen, Glenn, G. Wilkinson, VIM. Bes
wick, j. r. Wilds, Fred Landhoh, C
w. Braasch, S, w. Hayes, Wells
George Dudley, sr., Robert Mills
Thomas Long, A. McGinnis
The fremen whose graves lie in
Prospect Hill cemetery are II. l.
Spaulding Willis Dean, Ira Austin
George Washburn, Willis Binkley
Christ Madsen.
Parties We're formed among the vet
Grams to decorate the graves Of the
dead heroes. In the cemetery already
colOred with the flowers placed in ten
der tribute on the graves of friends
and relatives, the added blossoms
brought by the order lent to the beau
ty of the cemetery on the hill.
Public services were held at the
Auditorium in the afternoon. Attend
ed by Mathewson post Of the G. A. r..
patriotic citizens of Norfolk, the bic
audience that gathered comfortably
filled the Auditorium. Music by the
Norfolk band and by a male quartet
occupied part of the program, Rev
W. J. Turner delivering the Memoria
day address.
Mr.. Turner opened his address witt
a pea lot more Careful ODSeINduCt
of Memorial day, saying in part:
Former President Cleveland has
said that no play Of the imagination
and no amount of special pleading car
frame an absolutely creditable excuse
for our remissness in the observance
of memorial days.
"These memorial days stir our con
science with promptings. Such day
quicken the life of the nation tina
lives in us. The nation we live in Il
strong. The nation that lives in u
grows strong when its ideals and mem
cries are enshrined in noble hearts
Great honor is due the Grand Arm
for unfailing devotion to the sacre,
memories that cluster about this day
THE highest and truest interpreta
tions of the great struggle are keye
, to sacrifice rather than to heroism
These memorial days help us to est
mate the price with which we hav
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