Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-10
MEMORIAL TO MRS. TANNER.
Proceedings at Meeting of Potomac
Post-Original Poem.

At a largely attended meeting of Poto-
mac Post. Grand Army of the Republic.
last Friday evening, after the transaction
of routine business, Capt. w. A. OMeara,
who was chairman of the Mrs. Tanner
memorial committee, addressed the post.
He referred to the death of Mrs. Tanner.
and gave an account Of providing and
dedcating the memorial.
Col. J. Tyler Powell also spoke feeIingly
of Mrs. Tanner. and paid her memory a
high tribute because of her work for the
veteran soldiers of the republic. w. H
Hoover declared he Is proud of his mem
bership in a post which had accom-
plished such grand memorial"
j. II. Randolph thanked the memorial
committee on behalf of Potomac Post for
its success, and read a letter from Cor
poral Tanner in which he said. in part:
Il have never felt more fully than at
the present moment the inadequacy of
mere words to express that which l would
like to say to You and Potomac Post on
behalf of both my children and myself, in
regard to the beautiful memorial dedicat-
ed last Sunday to the memory of Mrs.
Tanner.
1T has been my privilege through many
years to do some things for my comrades
and their widows. and now / can truly
say that through the splendid comrade-
ship of Potomac Post / have been paid in
full and with great interest"
Members of the G. A. r. here are said
to be arranging to have published d memo
rial volume to the memory of Mrs. Tan
ner containing the addresses delivered at
the monument dedication last Sunday,
and the following original poem dedicated
ITO Mrs. Tanner by DR.. Thomas Calver of
this city:
The springtime birds are singing their return in
carols sweet;
The flowers once more sDringing from the
turf beneath our feet:
And yet our eyes are misty and our hearts are
For she who here lies sleeping may return to us
no more.
Twas in this lovely. Flowed spot, one bitter.
mournful day.
To let the birds sing DER the form we sadly
laid to rest
And fowerets watch its sleeping on It's mother
earth's fond breast
Our eyes with tears clouded, so we could
not Alright;
Our hearts with grief were deadened to the
songs of angels bright;
For she who here seemed sleeping WAS before
the great. white throne.
And cherubim and seraphim had claimed her as
their own.
And now we raise monument to mark the spot
The tenement fOrsaken when she sped to heav-
env skies.
Most beautiful the story it will proudly tell
To all who come within its massive grandeur S
magic soell.
For it will tell the story Of loving. faithful
wife:
\ blrss.u to her husband. who made glorious
his life:
A tender mother who her children's pathway
strewpd with flowers.
And led them into noble virtues ever blessed
bowers.
A woman with a heart and brain prolific Of all
good;
A lovely. loving woman, showering blessings
where she could;
A fount of life and happiness to every she
knew:
A bar to wrong and falseness. aiding what was
right and true.
loving hearts,
Who cannot think of all she was. but that the
teardrOc starts;
Her grand and unassumins. beautiful but simple
This massive stone in eloquence sublime and
true .Ortrays.
The soldiers who ready for their land to
give their life
Sought neither fame hOnOrs as the outcome
OF the strife.
In memory Of her they loved they raise this
lovely stone
And get her monument shall be the great Grand
Army's own!