May 2013 Volume 3 Issue 9 Editor: Carla Brown 1560 George Brown Road Franklin, GA 30217-5253 Heard County Chapter 2587 Number of Members: 21 Georgia Division, United Daughters of the Confederacy® Number of Copies Printed: 22 Confederate Memorial Day Program The Heard County Chapter 2587 held a Confederate Memorial Day program at the Confederate Monument in the Veteran’s Park on the square in Franklin at 3:00 on April 24th. President Brown welcomed visitors and guests and led them in the singing of the National Anthem. Chaplain Hollis Crockett gave the invocation and Mary Lane read the Inside this issue: poem “Who Am I?” from the February 2013 issue of the President’s Message 2 UDC Magazine. Teresa Eady placed the Wreath and Selmah Bowen placed a Daughter’s Flag by the Monument. April Meeting Highlights 2 Members and guests honored our Confederate ancestors a My Personal Confederate 3 musical tribute of songs born during that time of war. The Memorial Day songs included in the tribute were Bonnie Blue Flag, Southrons-Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, Notes from April’s Confederate 3 Goober Peas, Suwannee River, When Johnny Comes Marching home Again, and Lines Dixieland. Information about each song’s origins was presented by President Brown as each played. Following the music, members remembered their ancestors with a Mildred Lewis Rutherford 4 moment of silence and Chaplain Hollis Crockett gave the benediction. Excerpts from The Truths of 5 History Members in attendance were Selmah Bowen, Hollis Crockett, Teresa Eady, Jeannine Jackson, Rebecca Lawley, Carolyn Bell, Carla Brown, Lela Craft, Betty de Vane, Mary Ballad of the Unknown Soldier 6 Lane, Jane Petsch, Carole Riddle, Martha Stapler, and Marifaythe Whitley. Guests Activity Calendar 6 included Lisa Nesbitt, Mary Catherine Martin, and Pam Stevens. Notes to Daughters: Remember to read a book Remember to support our veterans Plan to go to the convention next September Keep up with anything you do that reflects positively on our objectives. Pa ge 2 Heard County Chapter 2587 Volume 3 Issue 9 Chapter President’s Message Dear Daughters, I appreciate all who attended our Confederate Memorial Day Program and thank you so much for your support of our chapter. Our chapter rating sheets and reports are all due in June and I am excited about being able to fill in many of the blanks and especially the Historian’s questions on books read. Thank you for reading and sharing your books with others. Next year I would like to have you write a short 3 or 4 sentence paragraph on your books that we can put in our newsletter for all to read. Think about it! The Convention will be coming next fall and will be in Marietta October 3-5. I would like to encourage you to think about going. Sharing rooms makes it more affordable and the fellowship with other daughters is wonderful. Start saving your money now! I am excited about our prospective members and encourage you to invite anyone you think might be interested to attend our meetings and get to know us. If you have any ideas for the newsletter or chapter programs you would like to see, please let me know. In UDC Love and Friendship, Carla April Meeting Highlights The regular meeting of the Heard County Chapter 2587 was held on April 24 at the Heard County Historical Center and Museum following our Confederate Memorial Program. Members Selmah Bowen, Hollis Crockett, Teresa Eady, Jeannine Jackson, Rebecca Lawley, Carolyn Bell, Carla Brown, Lela Craft, Betty de Vane, Mary Lane, Jane Petsch, Carole Riddle, Martha Stapler, and Marifaythe Whitley were in attendance. Here are the highlights of the meeting: President Carla Brown called the meeting to order at 3:45 pm with Teresa Eady serving as acting secretary. President Brown led members through the UDC Ritual and the pledges to the flags and read the objectives of the Society. President Brown welcomed guests Lisa Nesbitt, Rebecca’s daughter, and prospective member Mary Catherine Martin. Hollis Crockett gave the Days of Observance. Hollis Crockett shared the members with birthdays in April and passed the Food Pantry jar. The minutes of the March meeting were read by March’s acting secretary Martha Stapler and approved as read. Selmah Bowen gave the treasurer’s report. The report was filed for audit. Selmah Bowen reported that the flags for graves had all been distributed. Lela Craft reported that she is working on two new Cross of Military Service awards. Mary Lane about insignia orders and will follow up on those that have not yet been received. Chaplain Hollis Crocket requested that members think about marking deceased daughters graves and will have information on costs and protocol at the May meeting. The meeting was adjourned at 4:20 with the singing of Blest Be the Tie That Binds Volume 3 Issue 9 Heard County Chapter 2587 Pa ge 3 My Personal Confederate Memorial Day April 26 is Confederate Memorial Day in Georgia. On this day I will go to a small cemetery on the side of the road in Heard County, Georgia. There I will visit the graves of three men who represent that war. I am no stranger to this place. Having been born in a log house next door, I often played there when I was a small child. What fun it was to search for Dewberries and Maypops among the graves of my ancestors. The first grave I will visit is that of my great, great Grandfather James Jefferson Adamson. James was bitterly opposed to leaving the Union. His own grandfather Basil Adamson had fought in the Revolutionary War and he wanted to keep the Union intact. The second grave is that of my great Grandfather Seaborn Henry Adamson. Seaborn strongly believed that Georgia had the right under the Constitution to leave the Union. He left his wife and children and served in the Confederate Army from 1862 to 1865. The third grave is that of an unknown Union soldier. He was attached to McCook’s Raiders. After being routed in Coweta County on July 31st in 1864, they headed to Alabama. Their objective was to rob, kill, and destroy. The soldier fell from his horse and was left to die among his enemies. It was my great, great Uncle Nathaniel Rufus Adamson who, as a ten year old boy, helped to nurse him in vain. At his death, he made a coffin and dug a grave for him in his family’s cemetery. He wrote a poem about the Unknown Soldier and years later would place a cement slab over the grave and inscribe his poem on it. (See story page 6) I have spent a lifetime wondering about this unknown man. What was his name? Where did he come from,? Did he have family? I will never know the answers to my questions, but what I do know is that when a man is willing to give his life for his beliefs, then the man should never be forgotten, whether he fought for the Confederacy or the Union. Marifaythe Adamson Whitley It should be noted that none of these men owned slaves. Notes from April’s Confederate Lines The Vice President's Manual is now available at the UDC Business Office for $10 plus shipping/handling. You may order using the March 2013 Supply form or phone the UDC Business Office and ask for Shannon. The 2013 Insignia Order forms have all been revised. These revised forms can also be found on the UDC General Web Site. Beginning September 1, 2013, only the 2013 Insignia Order Forms will be accepted. There are new application forms for original applications, supplemental applications, and CofC to UDC transfers. The application instructions have also been updated. The only form that has not changed is the UDC to UDC transfer form. Please visit the UDC website and download the new forms as soon as possible. President General, Jamie Likins, has set a national goal of $20,000 to help our wounded veterans through the Wounded Warrior Project. This would be less than $2.00 per member. Georgia Division UDC is asking all Georgia Chapters to help in reaching this goal. Each chapter is requested to make their chapter membership aware of this need and to collect donations of $1.00 per member or more, if possible, to cover those inactive members or members who cannot or will not participate. Each chapter would collect these donations from their members and then mail a chapter check payable to Georgia Division Treasurer, UDC to her. The Georgia Division Treasurer will then remit a Georgia Division check to General for all the donations. General Chair Russell is hoping to reach our goal by the November Convention in Tulsa. Pa ge 4 Heard County Chapter 2587 Volume 3 Issue 9 Mildred Lewis Rutherford Mildred Lewis "Miss Millie" Rutherford (July 16, 1851 – August 15, 1928) was a prominent educator and author from Athens, Georgia. She served the Lucy Cobb Institute, as its head and in other capacities, for over forty years, and oversaw the addition of the Seney-Stovall Chapel to the school. Heavily involved in many organizations, she became the Historian General of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC), and her speech given for the UDC was the first by a woman to be recorded in the Congressional Record. She was a prolific non-fiction writer. Also known for her oratory, Rutherford was distinctive in dressing as a southern belle for her speeches. She held strong pro-Confederacy views and opposed women's suffrage. She was born July 16, 1851, in Athens, Georgia, and was the daughter of Laura Cobb Rutherford and Williams Rutherford, a professor of mathematics at the University of Georgia.