Detroit tribune. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1933-1933, 1933-06-24
MOTHERS SAIL
ON PILGRIMAGE
TO WAR FIELDS
p arty Will Also
Visit England
On Trip

New York City-(CNS) Eighty
colored Gold Star Mothers and
World War widows are scheduled
to sail from Hoboken. New Jersey
at noon Friday. June %. on pill
grimage to France and England,
to visit the graves of their soldier
dead in the American Cemeteries
located near Paris and London.
To date more than $5.125.000 has
been expended lin carrying out the
provisions of the legislation act
on Friday, June 20 at noon. the
sixth and last group of colored
women will sail on the American
steamship. the American Banker"
for Cherbourg, France.
In the party are 80 mothers. the
oldest rs years of age from Flynn
County Georgia: step-mothers,
3 legal parents, 2S widows, the
youngest from Edgecombe County
Georgia; and 2 common-law wild
ows.
The Official List
The official list OF 26 in Group
Mr." shows: Mrs. Blevins Fletcher.
Birmingham. Ala; Mrs. Annie
Williams, Birmingham. Ala; MI.
Rachael Holcombe. Washington.
d. c.; Mrs. Susan A. Middleton,
Jacksonville. Fla; Mrs Lena
Hughes, Cecil. Georgia; Mrs. Lettie
Powell Brunswick. Ca; Mrs. En-
ma Roberts Mitchell, Valdosta.
Ga; Mrs. Carrie G. Brown. Eaton
ton. Ga; Mrs. Lovella Carter. Oak
Ridge, La; Mrs. Matte Shewalter,
vicksburg. Miss; Mrs. Matte ].
Burks. st. Louis. Mo-; Mrs. Sadie
Goblin, Westwood. y. j.; Mrs.
Laura ID. Hamilton. Newark. n. j.;
Mrs. Emma Thomas. Brooklyn, n.
"; Mrs. vennie Brown, New York
--CifNfN. Y-;-MrA Emmn Best, Tar
boro. North Carolina; Mrs. Julia
Crews, Oxford. N. c.. Mrs. Bessie
Strawther. Urbana, o.; Mrs. Lucy
Nash, Akron, o.; Mrs. Leslie
Riggs. Philadelphia. Pa; Mrs.
Lula A. Nichols. Batesburg. s. c.;
Mrs. Maggie Carpenter. Jellico,
Tenn. Mrs. Linnie Williams. Dali
las. Texas; Mrs. Frances Poole
Johnson, Nixon. Va; Mrs. Mary
Rumley. Eckman. W. Va; and
Mrs. Alice Elliott. Milwaukee. Wis.
Il, Hroun IA
The twenty in Group On" are
Mrs. Aroma Moore. Joiner. Ark.
Mrs. Henrietta Barnes Hender.
Los Angeles. Calf; Mrs. Lavinia
Rembert Grant, Washington. II.
c.; Mrs. Mary Butler, Ocala Fla.
Mrs. Ada Holt benson. Macon,
Ga; Mrs. Daziel c. George. Macon.
Ga; Mrs. Clifford Jones. Waynes-
boro, Ga; Mrs. jamie Bell. Allan
Ia. Ga; Mrs. Alice Ward. Hazel
hurst, Ca; Mrs. Malvina Burrows,
New Orleans. La; Mrs. Rachel
Jones, Buffalo, n. Y; Mrs. Anna
bell Lewis Berkeley. New York
City. n. Y; Mrs. Martha Wade.
Rocky Mount. y. c.; Mrs. Maggie
Lewis, Hamilton, o.; Mrs. Lottie
Stanford, Cincinnati. O.; Mrs. Leila
Harris. Toledo. o.; Mrs. Lille
Gilyard Muskogee. Okla; Mrs
Ida Kelly, Chattanooga. Tenn;
Mrs. Lee Hagler. Gilmer, Texas;
and Mrs. Florence Gladys Banks.
Charleston, W. Va.
Another eighteen in Group
ST. M are: Mrs. Katie Dennis,
Montgomery, Ala; Mrs. Rose
Couch. Atlanta, Ga; Mrs. Mary
Wright Collins. Seperton. Ca.
Mrs. Cleo Wilson Jones. haywood.
ILL.,; Mrs. Liza J. King. Gary, Ind; |
Mrs. Julia Bell Hickson. Middles-
boro, Ky. Mrs. Mamie Johnson,
Shreveport, La; Mrs. Anna Lewis,
Raymond, Miss; Mrs. Cora Gas
ton, Cape Girardeau, Mo-; Mrs.
Maggie Marshall. Jacksonville, \.
c.; Mrs. Eliza Stidom. Cleveland,
o.; Mrs. Christine Hickson. Col
umbus, o.; Mrs. Lizzie Dockery.
Cincinnati, o.; Mrs. Sarah Mitch
ell, Holdenville. Okla; Mrs. Lulah
Moore, Sasakwa, Okla; Mrs. Liz
zie c. Stinson. Fort Lawn. S c.; |
Mrs. Mary Bennett. Jackson.
Tenn; and Mrs. Mary Phillips |
Alternately, Lubbock. Texas.
Group AM shows one. Mrs |
Lula Swift, Brownsville, Tenn.
Another Six in Group Sur"
shows: Mrs. Anna Richardson. !
Ensiey. Ala; Mrs. Exile II. Rand
len. Indian Springs. Ga; Mrs.
Maggie Paschal. Atlanta. Ga; Mrs
Annie Dunn, Grenada. Miss; Mrs.
Martha Thrope.' Rocky Mount, N.
c.; Mrs. Agnes Jones, Jackson.
Tenn.
In "Group Bkwd" there arc
three: Mrs. Lucinda Gray, Shire
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