The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-29
SOLEMN JACKS0NBURG
MEMORIAL PROGRAM
OBSERVED ON SUNDAY
Especial to The Palladium


JACKSONBURG. Ind, May %
Headed by the Germantown band, Me
mortal day observers Sunday marched
from he Jacksonburg church to the
cemetery, where a beautiful and sol
emn ceremony was given in memory
of the dead, ending kith TAPS" blown
by Estel Daley, with an echo blown
by John Murray
The ceremony followed q program
at the church, where Judge William
Bond. of Richmond, was the principal
speaker. The services were opened
with prayer by B. T. Reynolds. after
which Miss Ivy Nicholson of Green's
Fork. sang solo. and Miss Willis
Personette and Mrs. Wilbur Per
sonette gave a duet. A recitation by
Rhea Brooks, daughter of Joe Brooks,
also found favor with the audience.
The Introductory part of the program
was completed by the singing OF the
Star Spangled Banner" by Miss
Blanche Boyd.
THE high qualities of love, friend
snip and truth, evoked in the stress
OF war, are opposed to the horrors,
carnage, bloodshed, death, property
destruction and misery which also are
Inevitable accompaniments. al q
Judge Bond, in his address. The
speaker pleaded for higher develop
ment in peacetime of the virtues
which show in such strength during
war, arguing that this would mean
the progress of the nations beyond the
need for war.
Want No More War
"No more war is the idea of the
many individual minds, which, to-
gether. make up the national idea,
said Judge Bond, and if they have
their way, this nation will engage in
no more wars, unless forced. When
more of US have that love for our
brothers that is exemplified in the
story of David and Jonathan, nations
will become more generous and char
liable, and the causes for war, which
are always selfish, will vanish
band of IS gaily dressed children,
each grasping an edge of huge flag,
on which was a mass of flowers which
they bore to the cemetery, was the
prettiest feature of the afternoon
The flag bearers we're followed by a
dozen other children with their arms
filled with flowers, while the local Odd
Fellows lodge was next in line OF
march.
After flowers had been strewn on
the graves at the cemetery, an i'm
pressive service was conducted with
prayer by Charles Morris, a memorial
address by John Scott, roll call by
Orval Burg. and a prayer for the Un
known Dead by Judge Bond. After the
service. Taps" was blown, a faint
echo returning from a distance after
the first notes had quavered into
silence
Following the ceremony, the bane
marched to the village square, where
it entertained with an hours concert.
Honor Fifth CaVaIrymen.
Special honors were paid James
Dougherty, only Civil war veteran Of
Harrison township and one of the few
living Wayne county Fifth Indiana
Cavalry veterans. Others who were
In the same regiment are Albert J
Pickett, Richmond. and Michael Con
milf of Hagerstown, who were in the
same unit, Co. B, as Mr.. Dougherty
Others of the Fifth were Richard
(Dick) Williams of Fountain City
and Griffith Cooney, of Milton.
AS might be inferred from the name
Mr.. Dougherty is of fighting stock
his grandfather, Zadok Dougherty
having started the fashion by enlist
ing in the war of 1912. James Dough
erty also two brothers in the Civi
war, John and William, who wer
prisoners in Andersonville; a nephew
Ray Odom who was the only Harr
son township representative in tn
Spanish-American war, and four grand
nephews who enrolled in the Worl
farm in Harrison township, Harr
Martin and Cleo Stanton, the latter
member OF a machine gun unit and tn
first an overseas veteran, who ar
working in Cambridge City, and al
other nephew in the west