LOYAL LEGION HISTORICAL J O U R N A L

The Publication of The Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States VOL. 73 No. 2 Summer 2016

Original Letter from Levi Gupton to his Wife Head Quarters, 116th Reg't Vet. Inf., Co. C, Camp Near Winchester, May 27th, 1863, 2 o'clock My Dear loving wife, As I was on guard this morning I thought while the rest were asleep I would answer your letter of the 24th which I recd. last night by the hand of A.J. Morris and which I was very glad to receive and it found me well, and I was glad to hear that you were all in pretty good health and I was glad to hear that A.J. Floyd had got back safe for I was afraid that he was amongst the killed. If he comes out there give him my best respects and tell him to write to me. Well Dear, I should have liked to have been at home on last Sunday to have had seen Jim and Lydia and Uncle George, but more particularly to have seen you for I am not so very anxious to see anybody but you and the children. If I could only see you every day I would be satisfied without seeing the rest. Well Dear, I wish you would tell me what R.A. lectured you about for you did not say in your letter only that she gave you fits. Now I would like to know what it was about and I will drop her a few lines by way of advice for I don’t care what the provocation was she had no right to say anything to you under the circumstances for you have enough to bear without being lectured by her. I am very thankful to you for your forbearance on my account, but if they cannot tend to their own business and let you alone why don’t spare them for me, but give them their just due, for what they say against you they say against me, for although we are separated at present we are one and only one, and I would rather they would talk to me than to you for I am more able to bear it, and if there is anything wrong I am to blame for it more than anyone else, but enough of this for the present. You stated in your letter that Clark and Elwood had wrote home that we were expecting a fight here. I don’t think there has been anything that looked much like it, at least I have heard no such news lately and there has been no enemy very near except a few guerrillas and bush wackers, but I do not think there is much danger here with the fortifications we have and they are still working more and there is some more troops coming in. The 18th Connecticut Regt. came in on Monday and I hear that there is three more coming. We have very good news from Gen. Grant. He has beaten the enemy pretty badly and has probably taken Vicksburg before this time so that things seem to be going along finely. Well I must stop and go and visit the guards. Well I found them all wide awake and all quiet in the Shenandoah Valley. I found out by talking to G. Gannon the cause of Clark’s & Elwood’s stating that we expected to be attacked, some of our men captured a Secesh mail. In amongst the letters there was one that had in it something about [General John] Imboden going to attack us last week, but it was all just some of the Secesh women when they spunky will tell our men that it will only be a few days until the Rebels will drive us out and then they will have their own way, but still they have not come and I don’t think they will very soon, but if they do they will have a warm time of it. Well I must bring my letter to a close for my paper is full so good bye Dear wife. May the Good Lord bless you is the prayer of your loving husband. Lieut. L. Lupton Levi Lupton, was 39 years old, when he enlisted on July 25, 1862, at Columbus, Ohio, as a 2nd lieutenant. He was commissioned into Co. C, 116th Ohio Infantry, on September 19, 1862, at Gallipolis, Ohio. He was promoted to 1st lieutenant on June 13, 1863, but was never mustered at that rank because he was captured the next day, June 14, 1863, at Winchester, Va. He spent time confined in Libby Prison, Richmond, Va., and at Macon, Ga., and Charleston, S.C., where he died on September 12, 1864. -Submitted by Adam Gaines

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Commander-in-Chief’s Message National Officers 2015-2017

Companions, Commander-in-Chief: Capt. James Alan Simmons As we march into 4304 Woodlake Drive, Fort Worth, TX 76135 [email protected] Summer, I wish you all Senior Vice Commander-in-Chief: an enjoyable season with Col Eric Armando Rojo (DC) 4430 Tindall Street, NW Washington, DC 20016-2718 your family and friends. [email protected] I represented MOLLUS Junior Vice Commander-in-Chief: in Waterloo, New York, Joseph Thomas Coleman, Ed.D. (PA) 85 Beddington Lane Strasburg, PA 17579-1451 the Congressionally [email protected] recognized birthplace of Registrar-in-Chief: Memorial Day. We were Michael Timothy Bates (DC) 8 Boice Ln Belle Mead, NJ 08502-4334 also well represented in [email protected] Washington DC, and at Chancellor-in-Chief: Adam Polhemus Flint Memorial Day 396 Colebrookdale Rd. Boyertown, PA 19512 ceremonies around this great Country of ours. I 484-415-9227 [email protected] encourage all who can, to attend the sesquicentennial Judge Advocate-in-Chief: Gerald Fitzgerald Fisher, Esq, (NY), Chair of the GAR/SUVCW this August 11-14, at their National 77 Seventh Avenue, Apt 16E New York, NY 10011 Encampment in Springfield, Illinois. I will be there [email protected] along with many MOLLUS Companions who are also Recorder-in-Chief: Capt. John Kent Kane, II USCGA Sons. 101 Sleepy Hollow Lane, Yorktown, VA 23692 757-898-6953 [email protected] Treasurer-in-Chief: October 14 and 15, is our planned invasion of Lee Allan Tryon Pensacola, Florida, and our National Congress. 4 Raven Circle, Avon, CT 06001-3317 I have been to Pensacola many times, and it is an 860-676-9060 [email protected] Surgeon-in-Chief: amazing place. Please remember that Pennsylvania Dr. Daniel Henry Heller (IN) puts on the Congress every three years (next year in 201 East Desert Park Ln Phoenix, AZ 85020-4075 Gettysburg instead of Philadelphia), and DC hosts our Chaplain-in-Chief: Rev Robert G. Carroon, PCinC (CT) Mid-Winter Business Meeting every year in February. 24 Park Place #22A Hartford, CT 06106 While we are very grateful for all of the hard work that [email protected] Editor-in-Chief: goes into those functions, we are occasionally Robert E. Rock, (OH), Elizabeth Rock, Ass’t encouraging State Commanderies to host a Congress 68 W. Marion Street, Doylestown, OH 44230 somewhere other than the North East. Please come and 330-212-9969 [email protected] National Webmaster & Membership List Coordinator: enjoy the brotherhood of your fellow Companions, Keith Graham Harrison, PCinC (MI) while we continue the good work of our Order. 4209 Santa Clara Drive Holt, 48842-1868 Pensacola also gives PCiC Kinny Post an opportunity 517-694-9394 [email protected] National Historian: to sport his Brooks Brothers blue and white striped Adam Gaines (MI) seersucker jacket. I'll see you in Springfield and 293 Lakeside Drive Harrow, Ontario Canada N0R 1G0 Pensacola, where we'll toast to our ancestors and to [email protected] Quartermaster: our fellow Companions. Joseph T. Coleman, Ed.D. 85 Beddington Lane Strasburg, PA 17579 National Membership Contact For the good of our Order, Laurence Alan Converse (TX) 17105 Northavens Cove Pflugerville, TX 78660 [email protected] Captain James Alan Simmons Commander-in-Chief Printed by: Davis Printing Barberton, Ohio Loyal Legion Historical Journal 3

WELCOME NEW COMPANIONS

LOYAL LEGION HISTORICAL The following Companions have joined the Military JOURNAL Order of the Loyal Legion since the Winter 2015 The Publication of the military Order of issue of the Journal. Commander-in-Chief James the Loyal Legion of the United States Simmons extends congratulations and a warm welcome to each one.

Vol. 73, No. 2 Summer 2016 Insignia Commandery Companion Hereditary 22671 WI Bryce L. Nelson 22673 NY Jonathon Jensen Letter Home from Levi Lupton Cover 22674 MI Peter L. Sheerin 22676 OH Denny L. Schillings 22678 PA Philip Price, Jr. Junior Commander’s Message 2 22675 PA Quinn James DeCoursey 22677 PA Ronan William Carter Associate Commandery News 4 A292 VA Melchor M. Rosabal Jr. A293 OH Scott C. Derr A294 RI Henry A. L. Brown Honorary Trustee’s Corner 7 22672 PA Oliver St. Clair Franklin

Hereditary Member Recruitment 131st MOLLUS Congress 8-9 New membership represents the future of our Order. In recognition of that fact, the Commandery-in-Chief honors those Companions who recruit three or more Merchandise Order Form 12 hereditary Companions during a membership year (October 1-September 30) with the Lincoln Medal Award. Companions who qualify for the Medal may receive the award at either the Annual Congress, the Mid-Winter meeting in Washington, or the Lincoln MOLLUS WEBSITE Tomb Ceremony in Springfield. Please contact the Loyal Legion Historical Journal is now online! Commander-in-Chief, or Membership Committee http://www.mollus.org Chairman Col. Eric Armando Rojo, for more details.

Remembering “MOLLUS” In Your Will After you provide for your family and other matters, would you consider including a memorial gift in you will to our hallowed Order? Your gift to the Loyal Legion Memorial Fund, which is tax deductible, would be used to support the preservation of battlefields, monuments and programs that serve to memorialize the Civil War. In this way you would be perpetuating the memory of your Civil War ancestors and fellow companions. Loyal Legion Historical Journal 4

NY Commandery where PUROTC Cadets Katherine of Union Blue on April 12. They Maffey and Matthan-Matthew Martir are members of the University of The New York Commandery held received Loyal Legion ROTC awards regular business meetings in from the New York Commandery. Richmond’s “Spider Battalion,” March and April with a highlight which includes students from six being our April luncheon at the area schools. Harvard Club of New York where members from the Florida and Air Force ROTC Cadet Brianna Pennsylvania Commanderies and Washington of Mary Baldwin prospective applicants joined us College received her award from for an enjoyable afternoon. Companion Edmund Potter on April 22. She is a junior from A number of members of the New Concord, N.C. majoring in York Commandery attended the Leadership Studies, and a annual Gold's Dragoon's Mess member of Mary Baldwin’s Dinner in Wesport, Conn. “Virginia Women’s Institute for towards the end of April. This Leadership.” formal black-tie military mess dinner has it's roots in colonial Two cadets at the “Revolutionary America, the organization being Guards Battalion,” juniors founded in 1660 and today Princeton University Midshipman Nicholas B. Best from Manassas, focuses on the US/UK 'special Second Class Brett Hinrichs received the Va. and Henry C. Fox from New York Commandery NROTC Award Ashburn, Va., received awards on relationship'. on April 15, 2016 at the Imperia Room in Somerset, N. Jersey. Presenting is CAPT April 18 from Recorder-in-Chief On May 19th the annual meeting Dave Wright, USN. Commanding Officer Jack Kane. Best is a Middle of the New York Commandery NROTC Princeton / Rutgers. Eastern Studies major, and Fox studies Political Science. Their was held at the Squadron A Club in midtown Manhattan where we VA Commandery battalion is drawn from students heard remarks from past CinC at the College of William and The Virginia Commandery Mary and Christopher Newport Kinny Post on his time in the top awarded five Medals of Merit to slot. Annual reports were University. cadets at three battalions this received and election of officers spring. Army ROTC cadets Kiana for the 2016-2017 year were R. Miller and Dereck L. Gunn, WI Commandery voted upon. The Wisconsin Commandery held its annual winter meeting Jan 22, Princeton University: The Princeton 2016. The major topic of University Army discussion was the 2018 ROTC Convention. Tiger Battalion First, the Commandery reaffirmed awards its commitment to hosting the dinner this year was convention; decided that the host city would be Milwaukee; the held at the both sophomores at Virginia Trenton dates of the convention would be Country Commonwealth University, Club received their medals and copies (Continued on page 5) Loyal Legion Historical Journal 5

(Continued from page 4) certificates at three different Oct 5-6, with registration on Oct Michigan universities. ROTC 4. Some of the tasks were Awards Coordinator, Companion assigned, with the task of booking Fred Roberts made the hotel space being assigned at the presentation to Army Cadet next meeting (2 years in Thomas Barlow at Eastern advance). Michigan University. Barlow claims his ancestry from General From left, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth, A general discussion of events Francis Barlow. Companions Aurand, Shaw and Davis at and speakers continued with Companion Keith Harrison Lincoln Tomb Observance many different options offered. made two presentations at The Michigan Commandery was One event that was agreed upon Michigan State University to represented at the 60th Lincoln was a tour of the Civil War Army Cadet Shane Neal and Air Tomb Observance on April 16th Museum of the Great Lakes in Force Cadet Nathan Gaggin. in Springfield, Illinois. Kenosha, WI which has a very Three Awards were made at the Companions Dale Aurand, Don interactive layout and a not-be- University of Michigan to Army Shaw and Paul Davis participated missed interpretation of the Cadet Brandon Goethals, Air in these activities. The Lincoln Cyclorama form popular after the Force Cadet Emily Patrick and Tomb Observance is sponsored Civil War. Details will be NROTC MIDN Wesley Howell. jointly by the SUVCW and reported as they developed. These Showing The MOLLUS MOLLUS. details will be reported MOLLUS Colors Historical Journal as well the Wisconsin Commandery Journal available on the MOLLUS website.

MI Commandery Winter was unpredictable and slow to leave Michigan this year. Now with Spring finally here, the Companions of Michigan have Commander Davis had the opportunity been busy with several activities. A number of our Companions to speak with C-In-C James Simmons and pose for a quick photo op. have been involved in a variety of MOLLUS ROTC Awards efforts to show our flag and Presentations Companion David Smith elected promote MOLLUS. Companions The Michigan Commandery DSVC SUVCW Keith Harrison, Dale Aurand, and presented 6 medals and Companion David Smith, Paul Davis attended the 150th currently MOLLUS SVC, GAR Celebration at the GAR Michigan Commandery, was Memorial Hall and Museum in recently elected Department of Eaton Rapids, Michigan in April. Michigan Senior Vice DOLLUS Dame Jan Davis also Commander for the Sons of attended handing out flyers and a Union Veterans of the Civil War. couple of applications to interested parties. In addition, Dame Jan Davis was elected to the Department of Keith Harrison making presentation to Cadet Shane Neal (Continued on page 6) Loyal Legion Historical Journal 6

(Continued from page 5) Today, Vernors is part of Plano, Texas-based Dr. Pepper Snapple Group, an integrated refreshment beverage business marketing more than 50 beverage brands throughout North America. On October 29, 1927, at the age Companion James Vernor Civil War era (left) and in later years (right) Insignia of 84, James Vernor died in Number 4714 Grosse Ile, Michigan from pneumonia and influenza. He is Michigan Cavalry as a Union buried in Woodmere in Following the Lincoln Tomb Army Hospital Steward in 1862. , Michigan. Observance, the same MOLLUS He was promoted to 2nd Although he will be most well Companions also attend the services in known for creating Vernors Petersburg, Illinois for Benjamin Lieutenant and served to the end Stephenson, founder of the GAR. of the Civil War in 1865. The 4th Ginger Ale, James Vernor was Michigan Presidency for the Michigan Cavalry is credited with also one of the original members Auxiliary To The Sons Of Union the capture of Jefferson Davis. of the Michigan Board of Pharmacy, which was formed in Veterans of the Civil War. Without the Civil War, there 1887, and he held License No. 1 Michigan MOLLUS Companion would be no Vernor’s. Before throughout his career. In addition, Still Making History Vernor left to serve in the Civil he served on the Detroit City Vernor’s Ginger Ale And Its War, he had stored some of his Council for 25 years and on many Civil War Connection: Without experimental ginger ale in an oak civic and philanthropic The Civil War There Would Be cask. When he returned to Detroit organizations. No Vernor’s Ginger Ale four years later, he opened the In 2016, Vernor’s Ginger Ale cask and found that the drink had MA Commandery celebrates its 150th year making been changed by the aging Once again, in February, the it the oldest soda pop, older even process, tasting even better than it Massachusetts Commandery co- than Coke or Pepsi Cola. had before. He declared the sponsored the annual Lincoln Day James Vernor was an American ginger ale to be “Deliciously celebration in the town of pharmacist and druggist, and a Different,” which became one of Hingham. Companions attended a Civil War Lieutenant who the many slogans for the drink. special service and talk at the Old became famous for the invention Around 1880, James Vernor Ship Church and laid a wreath at of Vernor’s Ginger Ale. Born on opened his own drug store on the foot of the President’s Statue. April 11, 1843 in Albany, New Woodward Avenue in Detroit, York, Vernor moved to Detroit, Michigan at the corner of Clifford Michigan with his parents during Street, where he sold “Vernor’s his youth. As an employee at Ginger Ale” at the store’s soda Higby and Stern’s Drug Store in fountain. He closed the drug store Detroit, Vernor began to in 1896, opening a soda fountain experiment with flavors in an closer to the center of the city on attempt to create a new recipe for Woodward Avenue, south of ginger ale. Jefferson near the riverfront ferry docks, so that he could With the onset of the Civil War, concentrate solely on his soda Vernor enlisted in the 4th business. (Continued on page 10) Loyal Legion Historical Journal 7

Trustees’ Corner

Trusts are creatures of the law. They maintain, under the control of named "trustees," a legal existence separate from the individuals or organizations that created them. They have their own tax obligations, their own rights and responsibilities, and their own institutional "lives" that can extend across generations.

The Loyal Legion Memorial Fund has, since 1955, been the legal entity through which the Order has interacted with the general public. It does this by making philanthropic gifts, helping pay for public events, and underwriting publication of the Loyal Legion Journal. It has a securities account, where its assets are invested and managed.

It is important to understand that the Fund's actions are directed, not by the Order as such, but by the seven trustees of the Fund. These seven (the five leading officers of the Commandery-in-Chief, plus two other Companions named by them) must consider the Fund's interests first and foremost when acting as trustees. The trustees have a high legal duty to act prudently and responsibly.

FL Commandery

How does Florida relate to the Civil War 1861-1865?

Fort Pickens and the Santa Rosa Island battlefield (within Gulf Islands National Seashore) www.gov/guis/planyourvisit/fort- pickens.htm is a worthy place to visit enroute to or from Congress. With Florida seceding January 1861 (the third to do so, after South Carolina and Mississippi) and for a month an independent nation, Fort Pickens could easily have been contested before Fort Sumter. Fort Pickens did not fall despite repeated attacks, the first of which was remembered in a sesquicentennial observance September 2011 attended by Companions Heiple and Ward. Fort Barrancas (www.gov/guis/planyourvisit/fort- barrancas.htm ) and Fort McRee on the mainland did fall, and engaged in massive artillery duals with United States Navy vessels and Fort Pickens November 1861 and January 1862. All forts and Pensacola itself returned to Union forces in May 1862.

With 1845 statehood, Tallahassee was selected as Florida capital because it was halfway between Pensacola and Jacksonville. It was the only confederate state capital east of the Mississippi River to avoid Union capture until the end of the Civil War. April 2, 1862 President Andrew Johnson proclaimed the insurrection in Florida and nine other former confederate states to be at an end.

1,239 Union Veterans are buried at Barrancas National Cemetery (www.cem.va.gov/cems/nchp/barrancas.asp) at Pensacola Naval Air Station. The Pensacola Navy Yard with two Civil War era buildings is also at NAS Pensacola. Historic Pensacola Village consists of 27 historic sites www.historicpensacola.org.

In Bay County, Lynn Haven was founded and developed as a home for Union Veterans. In 1920 one of the first privately funded Union monuments in the South not located in a cemetery was built. It is a statue of a Union soldier on a 40-foot pedestal.

In Osceola County, Saint Cloud was also developed as a home for Union Veterans. Many are buried at Mount Peace Cemetery, including Medal of Honor Recipient Amzi Davis Harmon.

For lighthouse fans, the considerable Florida shoreline led to several being constructed, which often were disabled, shelled, or burned during the Civil War.

Reference: Florida Civil War Heritage Trail www.flheritage.com

Contacts for information and questions on the Congress are: Jim Ward [email protected] Robb Allan [email protected] Loyal Legion Historical Journal 8

MILITARY ORDER OF THE LOYAL LEGION OF THE UNITED STATES 131st MOLLUS National Congress Meeting Pensacola, Florida 14-15 October 2016

Greetings Companions, Dames and Guests:

The Commandery of the State of Florida invites you to Pensacola, Florida for the 131st National Congress to be held Friday October 14 and Saturday October 15 2016. The primary purpose of this Congress will be to focus on the business of the Order, report good works advancing our mission, and address pertinent opportunities and challenges. A number of area Civil War opportunities are available before and after the Congress. A program is planned in a city and state with significant military history.

The headquarters of the 2016 Congress will be the Pensacola Grand Hotel, 200 East Gregory Street, Pensacola, Florida 32502, telephone (850)433-3336 www.pensacolagrandhotel.com Ask for our “MOL”-code group rate.

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131st MOLLUS NATIONAL CONGRESS RESERVATION FORM PLEASE INDICATE THE FUNCTIONS YOU PLAN TO ATTEND

Registration fee …Number attending ______$55 per person ……………………….... $ ______(Registration fee is required for all Companions, Dames, and Guests)

FRIDAY 14 October 2016 3:00 pm Registration opens 6:00 pm Guided tour of the Pensacola Grand Hotel and environs ….. No Charge 6:00 pm Dinner on your own, options include: McGuire’s Irish Pub, 600 East Gregory Street (850) 433-6789: steak plus Dharma Blue,300 South Alcaniz Street (850) 433-1275: seafood from harbor docks in Destin A list of other options will be available 8:30 pm FL Commandery hosts OPEN HOUSE in the C-in-C suite … No Charge

SATURDAY 15 October 2016 8:00 am Continental breakfast with Civil War display table……… No Charge 8:00 am Meeting for MOLLUS in the “Grand Ballroom” 9:00 am Meeting for DOLLUS in the “Boardroom” 11:00 am Transportation to Naval Aviation Museum Lunch at Cubi Café Tours Number for lunch and tours ______$60 per person …..….….. $ ______6:00 pm Reception with cash bar in the “pre-room” – (music) 7:00 pm Dinner in the “Grand Ballroom” (white or black tie, or uniform, with decorations)

Speaker: Civil War historian & Palm Beach Atlantic University faculty member Dr. Wesley Borucki

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10:15 pm FL Commandery hosts OPEN HOUSE in the C-in-C suite … No Charge

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(Continued from page 6) DC Commandery Following another annual Commandery tradition, in April, Francis T. Adams, III DC MOLLUS Companion Brendan O’Connell presenting the MOLLUS ROTC award to (pictured), son of past MOLLUS Cadet Jason Hang. Cadet hang is the C-in-C Lenahan O’Connell), Operations Officer for the College Infantry Battalion.

included a personalized MOLLUS Challenge Coin which was extremely well received by the students. Presenters of the awards included Commander Matt Dupee, Recorder Gary Grove, Brad Mills and Andy Waskie. We were especially delighted that Alice Schmidt was presented awards to outstanding able to carry on the fine tradition ROTC cadets from the University The MOLLUS ROTC award was that her late husband Mitch of Massachusetts (Amherst), and presented to Cadet Hartman at Widener initiated by being the presenter the Massachusetts Institute of University on Saturday, April 23, 2016 for the 3 Penn State ROTC by Francis T. Adams, III DC MOLLUS. Technology; and Associate programs. Companion Robert Schecter presented an award to an Mt. Moriah Civil War Veterans outstanding ROTC cadet from Plot Maintained Northeastern University. Each of The PA Commandery is the the cadets, chosen by their owner of the former Soldiers commanding officers, received a Home plot in Mt. Moriah special medal, a certificate, and Cemetery in Delaware County. $500. (Parts of the cemetery are located in both Philadelphia and Delaware County). Everyone PA Commandery now knows the story of the "Silent Sentry" statue which had stood watch over the plot since The PA-Commandery is pleased the late 1800’s and was to report that in 2016 it awarded vandalized, repaired and MOLLUS Medals of Merit to relocated to Laurel Hill Cemetery deserving cadets and midshipmen after many years in storage at a from 17 different ROTC foundry in Chester, PA. While programs in Pennsylvania, New the base (which was moved to Jersey and Delaware. Each Gettysburg in 1986) and statue awardee received the medal, a were moved, the graves of 92 signed certificate and a copy of Civil War veterans remain on the Union Blue. This year we also (Continued on page 11) Loyal Legion Historical Journal 11

(Continued from page 10) conditions there. take a tour and Yeadon side of Mt. Moriah in enjoy a talk by Delaware County. The entire OH Commandery Thomas cemetery, once a Mackie, picturesque resting place for Director of the many prominent Philadelphians - A lovely afternoon meeting day Abraham including Betsy Ross, fell into was held on April 23rd for the Lincoln Library Ohio Companions, Dames & & Museum at Guests. Four new Companions Lincoln were welcomed, and our Jr. Vice Memorial University, who Commander traveled from traveled up from TN to be with us Florida to be sworn into office. for the day. All in attendance enjoyed lunch at the Golden Lamb Restaurant in The Commandery is currently Lebanon, Ohio. Since 1803, it’s preparing for participation at the been a community gathering Hayes Presidential Library & Museum’s Centennial Ceremony on Sunday, May 29. Cokie Roberts will be the guest major disrepair and was speaker for this 100th essentially abandoned. The anniversary of the opening of Friends of Mt. Moriah Cemetery America’s first presidential (FOMM) have spent countless library. The weekend of events hours trying to clean up the will include tours of the Hayes cemetery and honor those buried Home, Library & Museum, the there. Under the work and grounds, a wreath ceremony at leadership of past PA place – for neighbors, travelers, the tomb, chicken barbecue and Commander, Adam Flint, the statesmen, presidents, families much more. The Ohio MOLLUS plot has received basic and friends. Today, the Golden Commandery will be dedicating a levels of maintenance over the Lamb is Ohio's longest new plaque to be placed on this last few years and is continuously operating business, Library, describing who we are. accessible. Current efforts, also a familiar weeknight spot to meet headed by Adam, are being made and a place to celebrate special to place a marker on the plot occasions that mark our lives. where the statue had been. The picture shown here was taken by Following lunch, members Sgt. Tom Reynolds of the Yeadon Police after the FOMM participated in the Wreaths For more information visit: Across America program http://www.rbhayes.org/hayes/ honoring the veterans of our armed forces. Sgt. Reynolds Join the Ohio Commandery on keeps an eye on the MOLLUS May 29th at: The Rutherford B. plot during his daylight patrols Hayes Presidential Center through Yeadon and contacts his Spiegel Grove, Fremont, OH cousin, past PA Commander Joe adjourned to the Warren County 43420-2796 Coleman, with updates on the Historical Society Museum to Military Order of the Loyal Legion Pre Sorted Std. Keith Harrison U.S. Postage 4209 Santa Clara Drive PAID Holt, MI 48842 Akron, OH Permit No 29 ADDRESS SERVICE REQUESTED

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