The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-05-09
SISTER ESTHER CARLOTTA

The many Ocala friends of this
noble lady will read with pleasure
the following reproduced from a let
ter written by Mrs. Isabella G..
Hopkins, charter president of Anna
Dummett chapter, U. D. c., of ST.
Augustine to the Tampa Times:
Sister Esther Carlotta, S. R., state
president Florida Division, United
Daughters of the Confederacy, is a
Virginian by birth and rearing, but
has for many years made her home
in st. Auustine, and is a staunch
Floridian; loyal to the interests of
THE state, a close student of his
tory, identified with many move
ments for progress and betterment
of conditions; especially worker
for a broader and more practical ed
ter Esther is charter member of
Anna Dummett chapter of ST. Angus
tine, for years it's historian and now
its president, and her devotion to
her chapter. Serving it also, grst, as
state historian, she was taken from
this Office to be made state president,
and for five consecutive years has
been elected to the Office. Under her
guidance and personal service the
state work has grown and prospered !;
many new chapters have been char
tered, no live ones have been lost ];
the organization of the Children of
the Confederacy, has been enlarged
strengthened; the highest ideals and
standards of the order have been
kept before her chapters, and the
whole work systematized and placed
upon business-like basis. In the
general association of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy, Sister
Esther's ability and singleness of
purpose have been widely recogniz-
ed; her familiarity with parliamen-
tary and constitutional law bring
many appeals for advice from many
quarters, and the press of the con-
Evention cities invariably give men
ttion of the value of her work on the
floor. Her work on committees has
been varied, and she is now chair
man of an important prize essay con-
test on southern literature.
Sister Esther's mother ran the
blockade more than once to secure
medicine for the Confederate wound
ed, and in 1864, when every man
was needed in the field, she volun-
teered for government service, and
was appointed by Adjutant and In
spector General Samuel Cooper, to
a post in the Confederate war depart
ment, where she served until the
close of the war.
The state presidents father, Sur
geon-Major ]. L. Burruss, C. S. A,
served first as a volunteer surgeon
with Virginia regiment, refusing
hospital service on account of his
! skill in saving the wounded. He was
assistant in General Hospital No. q
in Richmond, assistant also to Sur
geon Lewis in Stuart hospital, and
later in charge of ChimboraZo hos
pital, serving at the last named until
the surrender. He was noted for his
kindness to the wounded Confed-
crates and Federals alike, and be-
cause of the latter, he was rendered
a post under the government after
the war ended, by Secretary of War
Edwin NJ. Stanton, but declined be-
cause of his strong loyalty to the
South.
1nheriting this strong love of her
state, Sister Esther has several times
refused to allow her name to be pre-
scented for office in the General Asso-
citation, preferring to serve Florida.
She possesses in a marked degree
the love and loyalty of the bulk of
the membership of the state division
and has innumerable friends thruout
the country.