The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-11-15
Daughters American Revolution An
nounce Gift at Meeting Of Chap
ter Which 10 Held Yesterday
With Mrs. Reeves.
INTERESTING MEETING
Paper by Mrs. w. G. Blood Is Feature
Mrs. Collier Reports on Meet
ing and Ohio Visitor
Talks.

the American Revolution, held its
regular monthly meeting on Saturday
afternoon at the home OF Mrs. Harry
y. Reeves, $40 North Fifth street.
The meeting was one OF the largest
Of the year in attendance, there being
forty present. Mrs. Ralston Jones OF
Cincinnati, Mrs Hitler Of Kahoka,
Mrs. Reno Sales of Butte, Montana
and Mrs Harry Yer Steeg, OF Color
ado Springs, were guests. At the
business meeting which was presided
over by the regent, Mrs. E. B. New
comb, it was announced that the
chapters contribution to the Euro
pean Red Cross fund is SIS.
The clppter will at its next meet
ing, celebrate Forefather's day, at
which time DR.. Frank G. Beardsley
will deliver the address.
Miss Katherine Sage, Misses Wini-
fred and Edna Jones and Mrs Clifton
H. Cook of Salem, were elected TO
membership in the chapter.
Report Of State Conference.
Mrs. D. A. Collier who is state vice
regent OF Iowa. gave report OF the
recent state conference held in Ce-
dar Rapids The report was most IN
teresting and was told with the en-
thusiasm which is characteristic OF
Mrs. Collier One item reported was
that from the suggestion given by
Miss Anne B. Davis, in the roll call
Of chapters, that the state board
shall formulate a constitution to gov
ern the state society and for the gov
eminent of local chapters. The state
and local chapters in Iowa and
in all the other states, had only the
most inadequate rules for government
and procedure.
Mrs. 6lood's Paper.
Mrs. j. F. Elder, vice regent, pre-
sided during the program Of the aft
ernoon, following the business meet
ing. Mrs. w. G. Blood gave most
delightful paper on ancestral history.
She prefaced the paper by the fol-
lowing quotation from Daniel Web
ster Men who are regardless OF
their ancestors and OF their posterity
are apt to be regardless Of them
selves. Our ancestors belong to us
by affectionate retrospect, our des-
cendants by affectionate antfcipa-
ton" Mrs. Blood gave an incident
from the life of one of the ancestors
of the Blood family, Colonel Thomas
Blood, whose story is told in Sir Wal
ter SCOTS novel "Teveril Of the
Peak" Her fathers line Of ancestry
come from james Ewing. born In
Glasgow, Scotland, in 1850, removed
to Londonderry, Ireland and thence
to Long Island. He received q sword
from King William III for bravery IN
the battle Of Boyne. Thomas Ewing.
his grandson, was secretary OF the
treasury under President VIM. Henry
Harrison and when the department
of the interior was established In
the administration of President zach
airy Taylor, he was the first secre-
tary of the interior. His grandson
was General William Tecumsah Sher-
man. Mrs. Blood's mothers family
for five generations, lived in the same
house in Brownsville, Pa. MIS-.
Blood herself being the last genera
ton to live in the old home.
Mrs. Ralston Jones, who Is regent
of the chapter at Cincinnati, OHIO
having a membership of three hum
dred, was introduced by Mrs. Elder,
and gave a resume of the Ohio state
conference held recently in Oberiin.