The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-12-22
LOVING CUP FOR RATTLEsHIP
FLORIDA


The Division Loving Cup, presented
by the Florida Division of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy was un.
yelled on Monday in Pensacola by
Miss Nadia L'Engle of Jacksonville,
the pretty daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Porcher L'Engle, assisted by two love
ly maids of honor, Miss Julia Beville
OF Jacksonville and Miss Genevieve
Brent of Pensacola. This charming
trio were chaperoned by Sister Esther
Carlotta, state president, and were
guests at the ST. Carlos Hotel.
; The official record of these young
ladies entities them to the honor be-
slowed upon them by the Florida
chapter. Miss L'Engle is the
great granddaughter of Governor Reid
of Florida and a granddaughter of
Col. F. L. Dancy and Capt. L'Engle,
who were both prominent Confeder-
ate officers.
Miss Beville is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. A. S. Beville and the grand
niece of Mrs Martha Reid, for whom
the Jacksonville chapter was named;
granddaughter of John D. Young, who
was captain of a cavalry company
through the entire civil war, and
great granddaughter of General Jo-
Iseph Finegan.
Miss Genevieve Brent is the daugh-
ter of Mr.. S. C. Brent, one of Pensa-
cola's most influential business men,
and is entitled to prominent place
in the ceremonies attending the un-
yelling of the cup. Her ancestors
were identified with the Confederate
navy and were loyal supporters of the
cause.
Miss L'Engle, Miss Beville and Miss
Brent are popular society girls in
their respective cities, and performed
their function most gracefully.
The loving cup bears the following
inscription:
With greetings and good wishes to
the officers and men, this loving cup
is presented in loyal pride to the bat
tleship Florida by the members of the
Florida State Division of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy, and
their auxiliary, the Florida Division
of the Children of the Confederacy
Presented at Pensacola, Fla, Deem
Der IS, 1911"
Besides the handsome silver service
which has been described in detail
in this paper, and this silver loving
cup, the big battleship was presented
with bronze tablet in memory of the
late Senator W. J. Bryan
The Bryan memorial tablet is also
the gift of the Daughters of the Con-
federacy, that society having made
successful campaign for funds to pro-
vide the testimonial to the late sena-
tor, who was instrumental in having
the battleship named after this state.
Miss Catherine Hawkins of Jack
sonville, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Walter Hawkins, formerly of this city,
unveiled the tablet, and her two
maids of honor were Miss Mildred
Hendricks, the exceedingly attractive
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. T. R. Hen
bricks, and Miss Lucy Bowden, the
popular and vivacious daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. ]. E. T. Bowden.
Miss Hawkins also had as one of
her assistants Master Allan Bryan,
OF DANA, son of the late Senator Bry-
an.
Miss Hawkins is the granddaughter
on her maternal side of DR.. P G..
Snowden, who was a member of the
secession convention that met in Co.
lumbia, S. c., when South Carolina
also a member of Rutledge Rutledge's
mounted riflemen when Fort Stump
ter was fired upon. He was after
wards made a surgeon in the Confed-
crate army, and served with distinc
ton until the end of the war.
Miss Hendricks grandfather, Thorn.
as Jefferson Hendricks, was a repre-
sentative of Clay county and signed
the ordinance of secession when Flor
ida seeded.
Miss Bowden's maternal grandfath
er, Capt. Francis Fatio L'Engle, had
charge of the Florida commissary de-
partment during the civil war, and
her paternal grandfather, J. Ramsey
Bowden, was surgeon with rank of
captain.
Miss Hendricks will arrive in
Ocala the latter part of the week to
spend the holidays here as the guest
Of Miss Hester Dewey.
Miss Bowden, the other pretty maid
: of honor, is cousin Of Mrs. ]. Wes-
ley Stevens of this city, so Ocala has
particular interest in this bevy of
L pretty sponsors and maids of honor.
Miss Elizabeth Fleming, the only