The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-31
EXERCISES WILL
BE HELD JUN { 3.
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Memorial Windows in Old Bland
ford Church to BE
Unveiled.
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petersburg, Va. May 80.
meeting OF the Ladies' Memorial
Association was held this afternoon to
consider the program Of ceremonies
for the unwilling of the eight me-
mortal Windows recently placed in old
Ylandford Chirch. The program, how.
ever was rbt completed. The I'm.
yelling ceremonies Will be held in the
church on The afternoon Of June 3.
and viii be opened with divine service
conducted b5 the Rev. Robert w. Barn
we'll, of ST Paul's Episcopal Church.
six of tresc memorial windows were
erected In memory of their dead heroes
buried in iBlandford Cemetery by the
States off South Carolina Alabama.
Mississippi, Tennessee. Arkansas and
Maryland the first four being OF ful
size, AMI the last two. for want Of
space, o. half size. There are two adj
dltional windows also to be unveiled
largi window in memoriam OF the
founders OF the Ladies Memorial AS
sociatbn over the main entrance to
The church. and a beautiful Jewel
crossg window in the gallery above.
TO the glory OF God.
rh. association has assurances that
Eeve.aI OF the States above mentioned
will have representatives present at
the iunveiling. Governor Ansell, OF
South Carolina. Will present the win
doy OF that state, and Mississippi viii
bel represented by Congressman
Humphreys and others. Governor An
ssi, while In the city Will be the
CHEST OF Colonel A. D. Hamilton.
Governor william Hodges Mann and
his full staff viii be present. and Gov
ernor Mann will accept the windows
on behalf of the Ladies' Memorial AS
Eociation.
Federal Decoration Day.
Appropriate ceremonies in observ-
ence OF the national Decoration Day
were held at the two national ccme-
teries near this city. AT the beautiful
cemetery in Dinwiddic county. where
the remains OF some 5000 or more
Union soldiers who fell around Peters
burg rest the ceremonies were simple.
At the cemetery at City Point. where
as many more Union dead arc in care
full keeping, the ceremonies were on
a some what elaborate scale. being par
ticipated In by the Spanish American
War veterans and other colored organ
izations of this city.
a committee OF the Ladies Memorial
Association. consisting of Mrs. Beas-
ley. Mrs Birdsong. Mrs Edwards and
Mrs. r p. Barham, today placed
wreaths OF flowers and evergreens on
the Pennsylvania monument at Fort
Malone and the marker at Fort Stead
man, in Prince George county These
memorials TO the soldier-dead of the
Third Division, Ninth Corps. OF the
Army of the Potomac. were erected by
tho state of Pennsylvania. and were
unveiled in May of last year With
n which Prey-
tdent Taft, the Governors of Pennsyl-
yania and Virginia and host of Union
and Confederate veterans took prom
inent part BY request of the Pennsyl-
vania Battlefield Commission the Con-
federate Ladies' Memorial Association
consented to annually decorate these
memorials on May 80 and to keep the
grounds around them in good condi-
ton.
1t Is understood that like request
will be made OF the association for the
care and decoration of the monument
to the Forty.cighth Pennsylvania Regi-
ment, near Fort Malone.
Mortunry and Birth Record.
The report of the Board of Health
for the month ending May IS, issued
to-day. shows a total Of u deaths In
.the city-whites. Il: colored. &c. The
rate of mortality of the whole popu-
aation is given at 1885 per 1000 per
iannum. of the white population. 1888,
and of the colored "a. OF the de-
cedents. thirteen were infants under
one year old, and five had passed the
age of four-score. During the month
the bodies of eleven non-residents
were brought here for burial. and the
bodies of ten were removed for burial.
Among the more prominent causes OF
death mentioned are: tuberculosis. S;
meningitis. 9; celebral hemorrhage, g.;