The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-12
MRS. ]. TAYLOR ELLYS0U
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President Reports Much War Work
by A. r. v. A. nj Annual Meet
ing Yesterday.
PILGRIMAGE IN MAY.
Celebrate Three Hundredth Anniver-
sary OF First Legislature in August.
jamestown Settlers Forgotten in
England.

A large number of members were
present at the annual meeting of the
Association for the Preservation of
Virginia Antiquities held at the Jeffcr-
son hotel yesterday afternoon at $3.50
o'clock. The Rev. Freeland Peters
opened the meeting with prayer. Miss
Frances B. Scott presided while the
president, Mrs. j. Taylor Eliyson,
read her annual address.
The reports OF the officers and
chairmen of committees were read
and received. as well as those of the
branch associations. The report of
the Fredericksburg branch was re-
ceived with much enthusiasm.
Reports we're read from Colonel
S. II. Yonge. chairman Of the bridge
committee at Jamestown. and also
one from George p. Coleman, state
highway commissioned, under whose
construction the work on the bridge
and ca useway was completed. In APP
probation of the splendid services OF
Mr. Coleman, the corresponding sec
rotary was requested 10 write him h
letter of thanks. and he was also
made a life member of the associa-
ton.
The following officers, directory
pctAtd anu &AdSiSoiS bSatu WHY
mated and elected, Colonel j. Aston
Cabell presiding during the election:
President, Mrs. j. TAYLOR Ellyson;
first vice president. Mrs. +. v valen
tine second -vtct- president, Mrs
w. Il. Cox: third vice president. Mrs.
Icseph f. Willard: fourth vice presi-
dlnt. Miss Emily Harvie: fifth vice
president. Mrs. S. II. Hawes siYh
vice president, Mrs. J. b. Lightfo6t:
recording secretary, Mrs. f. D.. Wash :
burn: corresponding secretary, Mrs.
J. Enders Robinson; treasurer. Airs.
3. West Tabh.
Director Board. 1919.
Mrs. George Ainslie,. Miss Ellen
Bagby, Mrs. W. c. bentley. Mrs. st.
George Bryan, Mrs. J Aston Cabeil,
Mrs. j, Caskie CabeA. Mrs Hunsdon
Cary. Mrs. Waiter Christian, Mrs.
beverley r. Crump. Mrs. John Dunn.
Mrs. Westmoreland Davis, Mrs, r. O.
James. Mrs, J. Arthur LEROY. Mrs.
John X. Mason, Mrs. T.. L. Moitit,.
Mrs. }. q. A. Montague, Mrs Preston
w. holland, Mrs W. r Robins. Mrs.
n. Il. Savage, Miss Frances Il. Scott
Mrs. John IL. Southall Mrs Henry
Taylor, Jr.. Mrs w. -. Thomas Mrs
christopher Tompkins. Mrs G.. G.
y aientine, Mrs. f. Randolph Will
fhams. Mrs. Frank p. Williams. Mrs
A. l.. Wilmer, Mrs. S. III. Yonge
Advisory Board, 1919.
r. Y. Valentine, Bishop f. A. Glib.
son, George Bryan, w. c. Stanard
$, II. Yonge, Hunsdon Cary, Bisilor
u. ]. O'Conneli. L. Stewart, bryan
J. Aston Cabell. Henry S. Hutzler
4. A. Lancaster, Jr.. Hon. j. Taylor
Ellyson, DIR. Thomas c. johnson. Hon
H. st. George Tucker, Eppa Hunton
NJ. M. Mcclure. Morgan p Robinson.
Or. John Dunn, Henry Taylor, Jr
j. O. Winston. George +. Coleman.
Mrs. Ellyson's Report.
'ssassssaae sssssesYssassf1 sissi Members 81
The A. r. v. A.:
The Association for the Preserva
ton of Virginia Antiquities is toda,
, on the threshold of It's thirty first
year. II was organized January 1
| 1888. in Williamsburg. Va, the colo
NAL capital of Virginia
Under the charter of 1889 and
1892 the association has adhered
strictly TO the object for which 1t was
overwhelmingly. ito acquire, re.
store and preserve the ancien'
grounds, buildings. monuments and
tombs in the commonwealth of yir.
ginia. and to receive and protect ann
relics which may become it's propert,
by gift or purchase.
The patriotic women whose name.
appear as incorporators saw with dis
| may. the decayilis structures, neglect.
| ed tombs, church ruins and abando,
ed burial places in Virginia, impor
tant links in our history, and impress.
ed with this made, made possible tbs
work of preservation. which has beer
of unparalleled success.S
The first step was 10 purchase the
, old colonial magazine in Williams.
| burg, common known as the Powder
| Horn. This was followed ny the pur-
chase of the Mary Washington house
; in Fredericksburg. Va. in which the
mother of Washington lived and died
| Several years after this, the ambition
| of the association to secure that par
of jamestown Island on which still
stood the old Church Tower was re
warded, through the munificence o.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Edward e. Barney. tn,
| owners of the island, who by deed O
| gift conveyed to it twenty-five ant
one-half acres of land, which, a
, proved by investigation, to be tn
most historic portion.
Thirty years and more ago Amos
any schooiboy could tell you some
thin- about the landing of the Puri
tans at Plymouth Rock. But hov
many could give you the date of tn,
| landing of our colonists at James
| town. or tell the names of the ship
and their commanders that brough
them r?--namely, the Sarah Con
1 slant, Captain Christopher Newport
| commander of the voyage. the Goot
! Speed. Captain Bartholomew Gosnold
the Discovery. Captain John Radcliffe
which sailed from The Downs. Eng
land. December 10, 1905. and landes
at jamestown May ls. 1907.
| Anniversaries OF the event had beer
| celebrated by the citizens of Williams
! burg. but It remained for the A. r
! Y. A. to inaugurate annual pilgrim
ages to the sacred spot. and cele
brated the tercentenary May 13, 1907
with pomp and ceremony. whci
1 among many other notable and dis
t-tinguished persons who were presen
| was his excellency the Hon. jane