The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-10-31
GOVERNOR WILSON
JOINS C. N. [. S.
FIVE LANGHoRsE SISTERS ALSO
BECOME LIFE MEMBERS OF
MEMORIAL SOCIETY.
MISS MAURY RESIGNS
sHE HAS BEEN REGENT EVER
SINCE THE MUSEUM WAS
OPENED, ABOUT SEVEN
TEEN YEARS AGO.
MISS MAURY RESIGNS

Prestige from both political and So
ciai standpoints was given to the list
OF members of the Confederate Memo
rial Literary society at the regular
meeting Of that society yesterday.
when the names OF Governor Wood
row Wilson. OF New Jersey. and the
FIVE Langhorne sisters--Mrs. Waldorf
Astor. Mrs. Elizabeth Langhorne Per-
kins. Mrs. Reginald Brooks. Mrs.
Charles Dana Gibson and Mrs. Paul
E'nipps-were added as life mein-
bers of the society.
The membership of the society.
which founded and maintains the
Confederate museum, is very repre-
sentative, including the names of men
and women prominent In State and
society.
Miss Isabelle Maury presented her
resignation as house regent of the
museum at the meeting yesterday.
Miss Maury, who has held the re-
gency since the museum was opened,
more than seventeen years ago, Is
unusually well versed in Confederate
facts. and her resignation was accept
ed with the deepest regret by the So
ciety.
Old Autograph Album.
added to the museums priceless store
is an old fashioned album, filled with
wood cuts and autographs Of proni-
nent men as far back as Daniel Web
ster. and bearing this memorandum
on the fly leaf: This was taken from
Jefferson Davis library in Hiredt
county. Miss.. on July IL, 1863, by
Ezra L. Mowers, Of Company /, Fiji
teenth Illinois regiment"
The album was presented by Mrs.
Frederick Grant Gleason. OF Chicago,
whose father, DR.. j. A. Kennicott,
bought It in Chicago. Miss Matte
Harris reported q frame or scraps
from soldiers clothes and a lace
handkerchief with interesting Con-
fejera&e associations from Kentucky.
A complete coat that belonged to
Robert Randolph, captain Of Black
Horse troop. Of Fauquier county. Va,
who was killed In action near Mead
ow Bridge. Va. four miles from Rich
mond, as Northumberland command
Ing the Fourth Virginia cavalry, May
~. 1854. was received. Colonel Ran
doiph was an uncle of Irs. 5ohr b.
Lightfoot. OF this city.
Portrait q Jefferson Davis.
An original portrait of Jefferson
Davis. taken from the treasury room
OF the Confederate States during the
war. and since recovered and pre-
scented to the society by Lee camp.
will be hung in the Solid South room
Of the museum.
Arrangements were made for the
unve:ling of a memorial window tc
Sam Davis a Tennessee youth, who
was shot by the Federals as a Con-
federAte spy, In the Tennessee room
OF the museum. and the unwilling of
q portrait of General M. G. Butler
in the South Carolina room. The
memorial window is* the gift of the
Tennessee division, z. d. C.. and will
be presented by Mrs Harriet Holland.
president OF the division. who will
stop over in -Riehmend- en- route TO
the general L. D. c. convention In
Washington. Mrs. n. Y. Randolph.
vice-regsnt of the Tennessee room.
will accept the memorial on behalf OF
the museum. The portrait of General
Butler will be unveiled by a commit
tee of South Carolina women, and
in accepting II.
Crosses OF Honor.
The last volume Of the record OF
Crosses OF Honor has been turned
over to the museum by Mrs l. II.
Raines, OF Georgia This volume con-
tains the record Of crosses bestowed
in South Carolina, and completes the
record Of every cross that has been
presented. Mrs Randolph turned over
a number OF original letters given by
E,s. Samuel Grimm.
Miss Sally Archer Anderson, presi-
dent OF the society, was elected
delegate to the e. D. c. convention
in washington. which convenes on
November 18th.
Those present at the meeting yes
terday were Mesdames James X.
werth, c. G. johnson, d. C.. Elicit.
Charles Boiling. D. A. Brown. Van
Dorm. Taylor Ellyson. Bcoten Hill.
N, v. Randolph. J. Enders Robin
SON, Edgar d. Taylor. William Ruffin
Cor. and Misses Anderson. Ellen
Jones, BEETLE Eilyson. Kate Mason
Rowland and Lucy Munford.