The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-05-18
Mrs. Alice Caldwell Ray.

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The plan to erect monuments to
Southern women in every Southern
State seems to have taken a deep hold
on the people. Tennessee has already
appropriated $4,000 for the erection OF
such a.memoriaI on Capitol Hill, and
has also given the necessary ground
for the monument But $4,000 is not
,enough to meet the needs of the COM
mittee having the matter in charge,
and so a call has been sent out for
$4,000 additional. John p. Hickman,
Secretary of the general committee ap
pointed by the United States Confed-
crate Veterans, and also Chairman
for Tennessee, has recently collect
ed about SIS to be devoted to this
purpose. OF this amount StonawaIl
Jackson Bivouac of Mckenzie hau
contributed $50; Confederate Histori-
cal Bivouac of Memphis, $40, and Dan-
lei s. Donelson Bivouac of Gallatin,
$14.50. The people of the state will
be asked to contribute to the fund,
and it is thought that the appeal will
not go unheeded. A similar plan has
been inauguarted in the othe- South
ern States. The Tennessee Division
Of Confederate Soldiers at it's meet
ing last fall appointed the following
committee to assist the Chairman in
raising this fund:
Middle Tennessee-Baxter Smith,
LELAND Hume and j. r. Saddler, Nash
vile.
East Tennessee-John 1. Cox, Bris-
toll; John Mr.. Brooks, Knoxville, au1
z A. Shotwell, Knoxville.
West Tennessee. B. Simonton.
Cnvineton: T.. U. Rainey and R Fl.
Lake, Memphis.
A Woman Of the old South
In connection with this matter the
Secretary Hickman will be of inter-
est:
Dear Sir-Women of the South to
3e Vonored', from your pen in the
fnril Veteran, wa read just as I carr
ION the bedside of Mrs. Alice Gale
veil Pay, one whose life and works
IRE most worthy of individual and
~necial honor. Would it not chez
e days she is now nassing through
given while she lives? She would
he the last to ask it, yet most APP
~preciative. From childhood her
mission has been to give. Her noble
father, the late Col. Caldwell of Paris
Tenn. was very proud of the sterling
Qualities she early manifested and
gave them the broad freedom they
ave them the broad freedom they
meriteG. How sweet was thar con-
adeship! She vas the child after his
Nv~n heart. his joy, his pride. his sum
shine. Abundant means were eve
at her disnosal and wisely used in
good works. Many DAYS she followed
her brother in his rounds as a phv-
Tician: maid and coachman, proudly
aiding in a ministry often more need
ID than medical skill. Little did thev
ellie how soon the lessons learned
would he needed that were given in
the confidence love and freedom of
that dear home in Tennessee. |
Money for Soldiers.
"It was in the early sixties that Gen
Ray brought her, his bride, to our
hills and left her here while he went
out to battle for the cause so dear
to them. Stranger than fiction, were
it written, would be the story of her
life during the years of war. The
danger she passed through, the victor
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have failed them, at one time safely
carrying $4,000 through dangers un-
der the cushions of her carriages, that
the soldiers might be paid. LawlesS
men of both North and South
hiding from justice in tie noun
tains, hungry and reckless as wolves
and more to be feared than armeS
troops were robbing the unprotected
With the solicitude of a mother. at the
risk of even life. she carried out plans
which protected many homes from
but best and most needed OF
all was the hope she gave, %dispellin"
darkness with Light sorrow with
trust, and fear with courage. Brave
soldiers of every rank, hungry, foot
sore, wounded and DISCOURAGED. jour
neved back and forth, and thousands
Of these were fed from her home and
from her own stores.
Mrs Rays Dream.
when. Gen. Ray was wounded at
the battle of Chickamauga and trying |
to reach home she had a very strange |
1ream which caused her to go out to
meet him. She had pinned a star
and eagle on his hat when he left
her, telling him she would know him
by it. In her dream she was a wound
ed soldier with a star and eagle on
his hat, his sleeve wet with blood.
Waking, she fastened to Asheville.
and the stage was just leaving for
Greenville; they told her all the seats
were taken and that it would not be
safe for her to 90. Seeing her anxiety
a physician offered to give up his seat,
and, hastily exchanging her hat with
a hotel maid for her cap and apron,
they allowed her to go in this dis
guise. When they had journeyed six
ty miles or more, and had just ex-
changed their tired horses for eight
fresh ones, and were speeding on to-
ward Greenville, they met an order
ly driving a double carriage and in it
lying PROSTATE, literally as she had
seen in her dream, with star and
eagle on his cap, was a wounded sold-i
Ter. Hastily SDringinE to the ground |