The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-24
MRS. SUE L. VAUGHAN
DEAD IN WASHINGTON
Her Appeal Was Responsible for In
augurntion of Confederate
Memorial Day

Washington, July 2S.-Ars. Sue Lam
don vaughan. whose appeal to the
women of the falling Confederacy to
decorate the graves of their soldier
ueao oetore the battle-scarred banners
were given UP TO the enemy at the
little town of Jackson, Miss, in April
1859, gave birth TO the present Deco
ration Day exercises. oied in the East
ern Star Masonic Home, of this CITY.
yesterday from the inhrmities of old
age The funeral will take place at
80 O'Clock to- morrow afternoon from
the A j. Schippert undertaking estap-
| lshment. at zoos Pennsylvania Ave-
nue. The services will be conducted
by Rev Thomas E. Clarke, pastor of
the Presbyterian Church OF Takoma
Park, and Naomi Chapter, No 5, Order
OF the Eastern Star. Interment will be
made In the family burial plot at Mount
olivet Cemetery. Ballston. Va
stirred by Poem.
Just before the close of the war Mrs
vaughan was stirred by the strains
OF poem written about that time
entitled Our Banners Are Waving on
Vicksburg No More" by a. Confede-
rate sympathizer. 1t was Inscribed 10
the dead OF the Confederate army who
had given UP their lives In the re-
markable defense OF that place. She
l.'''heu'eteiS wrote stirring letter to
, Confederate women to decorate tho
graves of their dead before the Con-
tederate States passed into history
Her appeal met with immediate re-
Spouse, and several weeks later April
70, 1850, was formally recognized as
Confederate Memorial Day Three
years later on May 80. 1868, the Union
States adopted the custom OF deco
rating tho graves OF the soldier dead.
and Decoration Day became general
throughout the country
or Distinguished Lineage.
Mrs. Vaughan was the daughter of
John Adams. OF Rockbridge. Va. She
was born in 1886. and was of distin-
guished lineage. claiming direct de-
scent from several OF the crested fami-
lies OF Scotland and England The
Adams family in America Is connected
with the Washingtons. Balls, Bayards
Hardins and Turnstails When shc
was about twenty i've years OF age she
married the late Judge George
Vaughan. of California. who moved
TO that State from Virginia about
forty years ago. At his doath in 1897,
Mrs. Vaughan moved back to Virginia
She entered the Eastern Star Masonic
Home two years and half ago, and
she has lived there ever since. She
is survived by two sisters. Mrs. l.. a.
Lloyd. of Hamilton. TEX. and Mrs. c.
IS. Scages, of Oakland. Cal.
Miss Anne II. Watson.
ISneclni to The Times Dispatch
charlottesville. Va, July 23.-Miss
Anne f Watson, one OF the Oldest resi-
dents of charlottesville, died last night
at the home of her grand-nephew
Andrew NJ, Brechin In the ninety first
year of her age The end g. sud
denly as she was about the house
during the day. The funeral will take
place tomorrow afternoon. Her near
est relatives are three nieces-Mrs T.
r. Gilmore. OF New York City; Mrs.
John Kinnier, of Roanoke. and Mrs.
Richard G. Haden. Of Haden, Va. Mrs.
Watson was born on what is now
known as Rose HIN, a suburb of the
city, and has spent nearly all of her
life here She leaves considerable
property.