Evening journal., 1922-05-30
STREW GRAVES
OF DEPARTED
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grave with flowers. and the bell
in ST. Thomas Church tower. for
merly the Union Fire Company's
bell. was tolled
Members OF George p. Farrell
Camp, Spanish American War Vet
Grams. held memorial services in
Riverview cemetery and also fired a
salute over graves there.
In all the cemeteries in Whining
ton and vicinity the graves of SOL
diers were strewn with flowers as
loving remembrance on the part of
the living to deceased friends and
relatives. From early morning until
nearly noon on most every street cor
ner men, women and children could
be seen carrying baskets OF beautiful
flowers and huge bouquets on their
way to cemeteries TO place the floral
tributes on the graves Of departed
loved ones.
Never before probably in the his
tory of Wilmington has the day been
so generally and patriotically OBJ
served.
Members OF Thomas A. iSmyth
Post. No. 1, met at Fourth and
Market streets and went by trolley
to Newport where they visited two
Returning to the city
they went to Asbury. Riverview and |
the Wilmington and Brandywine
In addition to a firing |
squad the post was accompanied by
a band.
AT the Asbury Cemetery the post
decorated the graves of several vet
Grams of the Revolutionary War. At
the Wilmington and Brandywine.
they held special services at the
grave of General Thomas A. Smyth.
for whom the post Is named. Gem
sral Smyth was killed on April 8,
1865, the day on which peace was
declared.
Members OF Admiral S. r. DUPONT
Post No. 2 visited Mt. Salem and
,ther nearby cemeteries, while GEN
sral Phil Sheridan Post No. 2S went
o Sllverbrook and Cathedral ceme-
cries. The members OF Charles
sumner Post No. decorated the
raves OF colored veterans in Mt.
)livet Cemetery.
At noon the veterans assembled in
rish American Hall, COS French
treet, and after a lunch prepared /
" the Ladies' Auxiliary OF the Vet
rams Legion. took their place at
he right of the line in the Memoir
al Day parade. which formed on
hat thoroughfare.
Following is list OF the surviv-
ng members of the Grand Army In .
General Thomas A. Smyth Post ,
No. 1: William C. Baugh. Sr., De- ,
partment Adjutant-General; George
c. Morton. David r. Myers, Pierre ,
Joseph Honey, William T.
Smith, Fisher Ames. John p. Riley. ,
Joseph McKennon. William H. Mil ,
Ter. William Backius.
Admiral S. +. dupont Post No. o.
William Mendenhall. Charles Ter I
hey, William Kelley, Adam Stengle,
S. Sherwood johnson, Alfred Rum
ford, Elizur A. Hodge. John w. Dun
ming. John T. Mortimer, John c.
Ripperger, William v. Straughn.
James d. Boggs. S. S. Hall, Edward
A. Anderson, Wesley w. Boulden,
william H. Worth, William Jester,
Lewis Pyle. Edwin f. Wood
Charles Sumner Post No. 4. (CoD:
Asbury Sterling. John Banton. Ken
nard Moore, Isaac Wilson, Gibbons
Stewart.
General Phil Sheridan Post No. %:
:. A. w. Frishmuth, Charles w. Sti-
yers, william H. Middleton. Jesse
<. Baylis, Henry w. Perkins, Jesse
Iellings. orrin j. Cook. Lewis L.
wilcox, Caleb Woodrow, Moses Well,
william P. Windish, J. II. Mitchell,
I. j.. Henderson, James T. Alexan-
err, Daniel Richardson, c. w. Poin- ,
1T, Moses Peters. }
General u. S. Grant Post No. 10: Y
lrviving Members (Post non-exls- 6
nt): A. NJ. Blair, John Bullock. a
With flags at half STAFF on the
iblic Building and other structures IL
the center of the city, Whining r.
n is paying a tribute to the soldier a
MS Of Delaware who gave their 1