The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1913-11-27
BOULDER UNVEILED.
old N tchez Trsce Memory Perpetu-
at, d By Handsome rlatker. I'M
presslve Ceremony.

in the chapel of Chamberlain. Hunt
Tuesday afternoon when the new
~ organized local chapter OF the
Daughters of the American Revo.
luton was presented to the state
regent, Mrs. A. F. Fox of West
Point, and the granite boulder to
mark the old military road, built
1902 to 1906 by Gen. Wilkinson
under direction of the Federal.
Government, and known as the
Natchez Trace, was presented to
Port Gibson by the state order.
The chapel was filled with inter
ested listeners, and the exercises
were appropriate indeed. A large
choir rendered music suited to the
occasion.
The first number on the program
was prayer by DR.. Melvin. This
was followed by an address of
welcome by Hon. ]. McC. Martin,
during which he presented the To-
cal chapter to the state regent.
He stated that one of the members
of the chapter, Miss Caroline
Buck, was a daughter of one who
travelled the Trace. He gave
.'Path Finders. as the name selec-
ted by the local organization, which
has as its members the following:
Miss Harriette A. Person, organ.
iziug regent; Mrs. Louise Person
AHderson, chapter registrar; Miss
Onllie b. Redus, secretary; Mrs.
Maud Kennard Shelby, treasurer;I
Miss Linda Watson, historian;
Mesdames Maria Morehead Ander
son, Ethel Marks Allen, Mary Nc
Alpine Bagnell, Martha Utz Bear
den, Louise Hughes Berger, Eliza
brady Floweree, Ruth Shreve
! Guthrie, Gene Hamilton Cannon,
May Redus Glennon, Katherine
Daniel Magruder, Sarah Jeferies
Mann, Emma Allen MoFehead, Sd
rab Wood Pearson Sad;
Harris Sager, Misses Priscilla Bra
dy, Emmle Bnscoes Caroline
Buck, Ellen Davis Drake, Mary
Daniel, Bobbie Earl Humphreys,
Belle M. Person, Frarces Walker
Person, Mary Person, Roberta M.
Person, Linda Watson.
Mrs. Fox accepted the chapter
with appropriate words, stating
that the organizer had accom-
pushed in two or three months
mha, usually required as many
years.
mrs. E. F. Noel, state chairman
If the Natchez Trace committee,
hen gave an account of her stew
ardship, and at the same time pre-
sented the marker to the town.
Mayor Smith accepted the mark
er in his usual graceful way. clos.
ing with the hope that. the old
trace may soon become national
highway.
DR.. Dunbar Rowland, state ar
| chivist, followed DR.. Smith. He
was the orator of the occasion, and
his address was full of patriotic
fire. While be thought that "Patt
Finders" was indeed a pretty name
still he regretted that the chaptei
had not selected either the nam'
of Leake, Meade or Clark, Val
Dorm or Humphreys, all notes
men of this county, or Claiborne
who made such record during S
short a lie. DR.. Rowland's speec
was of that high order of patriot
ism which makes one proud ths
he is a, Mississippian, especial
a resident of this part of the state
= He declared that the French
Spanish and English each covete
this section because they consi'
cred It the garden spot
y DR.. Rowland had many relics
; the early history OF this coun'
which be later showed to all wi
wished to see them
AT the conclusion OF Dr.. RoV
lands speech, all marched to 4
boulder, which was placed south
; the road and just east of the hon
Of Mr.. H. R. Guthrie, where 4
unveiling exercises took plac
Grechen Guthrie and Louise A
dersou removed the veil viii
shrouded the marker and the sIi
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