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Division President’s Report

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I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and were able to be with family and friends. Christmas is a time for sharing and thinking of others.

Ladies, we have a terrific Executive Committee. I want to say Thank You to them all for being willing to serve. Also, my appointed Officers wonderful….what would I ever do without them? I feel fortunate indeed to have such dedicated and industrious Daughters working hard to lead the North Carolina Division. Please feel free to contact them with any issues you have concerning the work of their offices. They will also be contacting their counterpart chapter officers with suggestions and updates.

My Committee Chairmen readily agreed when appointed. Thank you ladies, for all you will do for the UDC and for me. I appreciate all of you very much. Thank you again!

2015 is here and we have much to do. It’s exciting to think of all the tasks we’ll accomplish this year for our Organization. Time is short and we have to prepare for two conventions. Our Division Convention will be September 30-October 3, 2015, in Durham and the General Convention November 5-November 9, 2015, in Raleigh. I hope many of you are planning to attend both. District VIII, Dottie Barrett, District Director, is the host District for our Division Convention and I know it will be perfect. The 2015 General Convention Committee, Kathy Smith-Brewer Chairman, has been working diligently to make this one of the most memorable General Conventions of them all. Just think, the next opportunity for North Carolina to host a General Convention won’t be for a while. THIS IS OUR OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE NORTH CAROLINA SHINE!!

I would encourage you to check our website regularly as it is always being updated. Also, be sure to check the Calendar so you’ll be aware when events will happen and when reports are due, etc. You’ll also find needed information on the General Web site.

Please note that the General Spring Board meeting will be in Richmond March 7th, 2015. It will begin at 9am and the registration forms will be on the General web site. Every Daughter is invited to attend and should if possible. This is a great time to meet your General Officers and be present for their work shops.

March 27 and 28, 2015, the Children of the Confederacy will present their Division Convention in Charlotte. Please see the Division web site for the convention call. If you can attend, it would certainly be worth your while. These young people will surprise you! They certainly perpetuate our Confederate heritage well. Deadline for securing your room is March 2, 2015. Deadline for registration is March 15, 2015.

Our Division Spring Board will be April 11th, at 9:30 in Raleigh at our UDC House. All Daughters are en-couraged to attend. After the meeting we will go to Oakwood Cemetery and have the Dedication Ceremony for our North Carolina Sesquicentennial Marker. In lieu of lunch we will have a reception at the House of Memory. The cost will be $10.00. Please check the web site the latter part of March for the reservation form.

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Division President’s ReportI know you are planning your District Meetings. This is a wonderful time for the chapters to come together to meet new members and spend time with old friends, exchange ideas by reading their reports, and just have a great time. You may make your meeting simple or lavish, it’s up to you. The main thing is to take care of District business and spend time together.

I’m excited to tell you that there are several North Carolina Daughters on the General Executive Board.I am certainly proud of all of you ladies, thank you for accepting the positions.

Michele Miller..Children of the Confederacy Registrar of GeneralAileen Ezell.. Memorial Building Board of TrusteesLois Marlow…Chairman…Correct Use of the Confederate FlagMargaret Sink…..Member…..Credentials CommitteeSara Powell…..Member….Credentials CommitteeDonna Huneycutt….Member….Credentials CommitteeLaura Harris…Member…Credentials CommitteeGail Sifford….Member…Credentials CommitteeGail Sifford….Member…Education CommitteeKathy Smith Brewer…Member…Finance CommitteeJessie McLam… Member…Memorial Building Hostesses CommitteeKathy Smith Brewer…Member…Mrs. Simon Baruch University Award CommitteePat Gasson….Chairman…Patriotic Activities CommitteeBelva DeMendoza…Member…Veterans Affairs Voluntary Service Committee (VAVS)

The General Convention in Richmond was a wonderful experience. North Carolina won several awards and a personal award was given to Tammy Shropshire of Graham and Michele Miller of Guilford. During the tea at Headquarters Sunday after the Memorial Service, NC Daughters had the privilege of meeting the great, great grandson of the Confederacy’s only President, Jefferson Davis. This handsome gentleman, Bertram Hayes- Davis, was most gracious and allowed us to have a group photo taken.

We were given the opportunity to present our invitation to the 2015 General Convention to be held in Raleigh. Caroline Odom did an outstanding job with a power point presentation of the hotel, the tours, the restaurants, history of the area, and lots more while we Daughters stood at the front, wearing our 2015 General “Nothing Could be Finer” tee shirts. We even tried to sing along with Al Jolson….but had to lip sink and failed at that. BUT…we had fun and all of the Daughters with whom I spoke were eagerly looking forward to attending.

My President’s Project a follow up on Past President, Aileen Ezell’s, President’s Project which was locating and documenting our UDC statues and monuments. I would like each chapter to inspect the UDC statues and monuments in their town and complete an inspection report including photos. Please be sure that these monuments/statues are the property of the UDC. I have included in the President’s Packet a list of things that you can check as well as a list of some of the UDC statues/monuments in North Carolina. If you do not have a monument/statue in your town OR, if yours is in wonderful condition, please consider looking outside your area at one of our other monuments. These are OUR monuments/statues and we shouldn’t allow any of them to be neglected.

This is step one, step two is to repair the statues and monuments. A report including photos should be completed. The Chapter President will submit the report(s) when she sends her year end reports and I will give extra points for part one and part two to the chapters for completion of this project. You may also find report forms on our web site.

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Division President’s ReportIf the repairs to the statue/monument are costly, you may want to do the inspection this UDC year and the repairs in 2016. This is fine. We need to protect our monuments. After all, our Daughters worked hard to raise the money to build these tributes to our Confederate Soldiers and Sailors and it is up to us to keep our Southern, Confederate heritage from falling into ruin.

Thank you for all of your kind letters, invitations, emails and phone calls offering love and support and also for your confidence in me by electing me your Division President. I will always to my very best for you!

I’m thrilled that we will be working together on many projects for our Organization. Please let me know if you have any suggestions, ideas, etc. We are going to accomplish great things and have fun doing it. My motto is “Working Together to Honor our Confederate Ancestors” which goes along with that of our President General, Pam Trammell, which is “Daughters Making a Difference.” North Carolina is…making a difference!!

Pat GassonNC Division President

First of all, I h o p e t h a t

2015 has started off well for each of you. Secondly I want to thank you for voting me in as your Division Vice President.

I returned home from Division Convention with several orders for pins and insignia. More or-ders followed in the next weeks and at the writing of this all orders have been sent to Gener-al. I ask your patience in waiting for your orders. It does take time with the new General Officers being installed, the Thanksgiving and Christmas Holidays and I’m sure the engravers take time off as well.

There are some things I would like to remind you about. The Engraved Insignia Order Form No. 1 and No. 2 and the Non-En-graved Insignia Order Form are available on the General

Website (check with your Chap-ter President for username and password). Please make sure they have the revised dates of March 2013, March 2013 and January 2014 respectively. If the comput-er isn’t your thing, the November 2014 issue of the UDC magazine has them on pages 35, 36 and 37 and permission is given to make photocopies. If you fill out the order form by hand, please print neatly. Please do not staple checks to the order forms. You can use an address label for the “SHIP TO” section; it needs to be clearly printed and easy to read.

It’s 2015 and the 32A 150 Re-membrance Pin and the 32B 150th Commemorative Pin (ordered on the Non-Engraved Form) will only be available through the end of this year. So, go ahead and get your orders in – you only have 10 months left.

If you have some free time, go on-line and you can see pictures of the insignia, pins and ribbons.

Vice PresidentWhile there you can also find the Order of Insignia as it should be worn on your ribbon.

Some insignia/pins/bars require proof: A) #1 Badge set – proof must be provided, a copy of your membership certificate OR pages 1 & 4 of approved UDC membership or supplemental application; B) UDC House Maintenance Donor Bars – re-quires proof of donation; C) NC Division Page Pins; D) Chapter Officer or Division Officer pin; E) 10, 25, 35, 50 year continuous membership pin (proof from Richmond, member may obtain this proof); F) General Page Pin; G)Member for Member pin and star; H)VAVS and I)Under 40 member pin. The NC State Pin and the Sesquicentennial Pin (Sue Curtis) do not require proof.

Again, thank you for electing me as your Division Vice Presi-dent.

Donna Snipes

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Sesquicentennial Plate

North Carolina is proud to be hosting the 122nd UDC General Convention at the Sheraton Raleigh Hotel. Our theme is “Nothing could be Finer.” We have used this hotel for Division Conventions in the past and they have always been very good to work with. In 1995 we also used it for the CofC General Convention. We issued the “formal invitation” to the 2015 Convention at the recent UDC General Con-vention in Richmond. Caroline Odom, Convention Co-chairman, created a great Powerpoint presenta-tion showing our plans. We believe that we received a good response when we showed it. Lots of people told us that they are looking forward to coming to North Carolina since their ancestors served in North Carolina or were from North Carolina. For those of you who helped with the presentation - we thank you for that too - and thanks for singing although I prom-ised you wouldn’t have too! Your Convention Committee has met several times with the hotel and plans are well underway for this historic event. We will need the help of the entire Di-vision in several different ways as the plans progress. Caroline Odom also made a Convention website for us. Check it out at www.ncudc.org. We appreci-ate everyone’s cooperation with the funding efforts. Many of you have already paid the complete $15 per member assessment, and that is very encouraging to us as we make the plans. We also thank you for your purchase of the T-shirt and jackets. We presented one of the Convention T-shirts to the new President General, Mrs. Pam Trammell, and have photos of her with it. We bought one of the new Sesquicentennial Plates from General and are selling raffle tickets for

that, to be drawn at the 2015 General Convention. You don’t have to be present to win, but we really hope you will be! Tickets are $10 each and you can see any member of the 2015 Committee to purchase them. We need the ditty bag items and door prizes no later than the 2015 NC Division UDC Convention.We are also hopeful for good attendance in support of the Convention as well as the financial support and we will need volunteers to help with events during the Convention. We are planning for 400 people based on past attendance at General Conventions. We have asked each District to provide an item for the ditty bags and one door prize. Caroline Odom worked with the District Directors to coordinate that. Thanks for your cooperation and we now have com-mitments from each District, so that we will have a variety of items. We’ll need Pages, tour guides, ticket takers, people to give directions, help decorating the tables, a few door prizes, and other things as they come up. We will need, and appreciate, your support in all areas! North Carolina has not hosted the UDC General Convention since 1974, so it is definitely “our turn.” We really want to shine, and with everyone’s help, we will succeed. If our Committee calls on you for assistance, please say “yes.” If you don’t hear from us - then volunteer! Thanks in advance for your support!

Kathy Smith Brewer, Convention Chairman, ksbcofc@aol.com; Caroline Odom, Co-Chairman; Margaret Sink, Treasurer; Melanie Perryman, Com-mittee

2015 UDC General Convention

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Ladies, when you

prepare your reports for the minutes book this year, make sure your keep your words at 250. Please get the reports in before the dead-line. Be sure to cover what your chapter members have done during the year. You are record-ing our Confederate history for future generations. When you finish your reports send them to me as a WORD document. Make sure that your computer is virus free before you send the report. If you do not have my email address please let me know.

Looking forward to getting the best reports from all officers, chapters, committee chairman, district chairman for this edition of the Minute Book.

Mildred C. Goss

Thank you for voting me your Second Vice President of

the North Carolina Division. I am truly honored to have been elected to this position!

Though the start of college and specialty schools seems like a long way away in September, I can’t stress enough that you need to encourage your family and friends to start applying for a UDC scholarship now!

The deadline for General schol-arships is March 15! A student applying for a General scholar-ship may also be awarded a Divi-sion scholarship. The deadline for an NC Division scholarship is May 1.

Please read over the new Educa-tion Circular, which was includ-ed in your chapter’s Presidents’ packet handed out at Winter Boards. It should answer most of your questions.

New this year, is an advantage given to UDC and CofC mem-bers as well as those who are related to one of those. In the rating sheet, an additional 15 points (out of 100) is given to the applicant if they are a UDC or CofC member or an additional 10 points if they are related to a member.

Furthermore, to apply for a scholarship, they MUST be a linear descendent (as in grand-father) from a worthy Confed-

erate. If they are collaterally descended (as in great-uncle), then they must be a member of the UDC or CofC.The application forms for a scholarship have been updated and can be found online under UDC membership. Please read through the number of forms needed (a total of 9, one of which is the original plus 8 copies), and rules that must be followed for the application to be approved.

I look forward to helping those students your chapter has recom-mended apply for a scholarship. Remember, your chapter officer must meet with the student in order to know them well enough to recommend them. Now is not too early to start canvassing for a worthy recipient! Proving their lineage back to their Confederate ancestor can be a timely but nec-essary task if they wish to apply! If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me at either my email at wearecelts@aol.com or via phone at (910) 424-9657.

Thanking you in advance for all your chapter is doing to assist these wonderful students!

Sincerely,

Frances R. Kelly

The Confederate Courier is the offi-cial publication of the North Carolina Divi-

sion of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. It is published twice yearly. DEADLINE FOR THE NEXT ISSUE IS AUGUST 15, 2015. Please email your articles to amyhuss@aol.com. Please copy and paste the articles into the body of the email and do not send them as attachments.

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Second Vice President RecordingSecretary

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I would first like to say

how honored I was to be elected as the UDC third Vice President/NC Division Director of the Children of the Confederacy. I have big shoes to fill. Michele Miller has been an outstanding director and I am so thankful that she has agreed to be our Parlia-mentarian. She has already been a great advisor to me. I would also like to let everyone know that Michele has been appointed the CofC Registrar General. Con-grats!!! We are so proud of you.

William Gray is the CofC Presi-dent and he is doing a great job! He brought greetings at the UDC Division Convention in Durham in October and brought greetings at the annual Robert E. Lee Birth-day Celebration in Raleigh on January 17th. This was the first time in a long time that all four leaders of Confederate heritage organizations were present…Wil-liam from the CofC, President Patricia Gasson of the UDC, Commander David Ed-wards of the Military Order of the Stars and Bars, and Commander Danny Bolick of the Sons of Con-federate Veterans. This is a great honor for William to be a part of and we are proud of him.

The CofC convention will be held March 27th and 28th, 2015 at the Drury Inn in Charlotte, NC. The Charles F. Fisher 73 of the UDC and the Charlotte Grays 844 of the CofC are our hosts. Debo-rah Walker has done a great job of helping plan this event. We will be taking a tour of Histor-ic Rosedale plantation. I look forward to everyone attending. If you have never been, make this your first time. We have such a good time and make friends that

will last a lifetime. The con-vention call is on the NCUDC website and hard copies have been mailed to all CofC chapter directors. General CofC Conven-tion will be held July 16th – 18th in Lynchburg, VA. I hope every-one plans to attend this year. Let’s make the North Carolina Delega-tion the largest in attendance!

William’s theme this year is “Returning to Our Past to Prepare for Our Future”. He is promoting education of the War Between the States and urging everyone to help pass on the truth of our Con-federate History. His projects are: 1. USO of Charlotte. William is asking all members to bring items needed to our convention so that we can deliver them to the USO. 2. Scholarship fundraiser. We are selling raffle tickets for a Gen-eral Lee Canteen and the money we collect will split between the NC Division scholarships and the new CofC General Diamond Jubilee Scholarship. Tickets can be bought in the museum room to help support us on this project. 3. Diorama. We will be making a miniature copy of the Battle of Bentonville. The Pres-ident General Jessica Sizemore has sent out a challenge to each state to bring something to depict our state’s contribution to the war. William chose this since this was the last major battle of the War.

We also are continuing to collect Tabs for the Ronald McDonald house, stamps for the wounded, box tops for schools, card fronts for St. Jude’s Ranch and Cou-pons for the military families. We appreciate everyone’s help with these projects.

Hope to see all at convention!

Karen Powers

Board of TrusteesDivision Headquarters

It has been another year of generous support and major improvements to the house. All three bathrooms are being renovated. The downstairs bathroom was finished in time for our Winter Board Meeting. Rep. Mitchell Setzer is our tenant and his bathroom will be finished before he returns to the Legislature in January. We are so fortunate to have Mitchell. He pays the utilities year-round at the house, which is a large expense that we don’t have to worry about.

I want to thank everyone for your overwhelming support for me to continue on the Board of Trustees. It is an hon-or and a pleasure to take care of your house. Old homes need constant maintenance and care; ours is no exception. Thank you again for being generous in supporting the house. By working together we can accomplish any goal and continue to honor our Southern ancestors.

Happy New Year,

Teresa Langley,ChairmanBoard of Trustees.

Third Vice President

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Ladies,

I have three deaths to report on this Thanksgiving weekend.

Easter Rogerson Mizell, 9 Apr 1928-13 Nov. 204District VIIIChapter: Theodore Hassell 437

Peggy Lee Farrell28 Oct. 1933-19 Nov. 2014District IChapter: Asheville 104

Cassie Juanita Wells Herring20 Sept. 1919-25 Nov. 2014District VIIChapter: Cape Fear 3

A card will be sent to all families.

Karen EdwardsNC Division Chaplain

Division Chaplain

Lately it seems that I have

made so many calls about Sup-plementals being returned to your Division Regis-trar. Believe me, I appreciate all of the work that you do on all applica-tions but to date we have not had a single Supplemental approved. I do have information gleaned from our new Assistant Registrar General, Pam Schmidt, and our new Registrar General, Frances Woodruff. Both are very nice la-dies, but they are also very “by the book.” If you do not have a 2013 Registrars Manual, buy one or have your Chapter buy one for you.  Below are some of the most com-mon issues that will cause your application to be returned:

*The President General wish-es her name on applications to be Pam Trammell. Our Division President wishes her name on ap-plications to be Patricia H. Gasson.

•Make sure that you mark all generations, and label as links only those pages that are links. The Reg-istrar General shows links by using first names (link to Mary). It also appears that Link Gen 2 – 3, Mary is also acceptable.

•Place the generation marks in the upper corner and notes in the left margin. Please do not doodle all over the page, do not use crayons.

•On the back of each proof, place the applicants name, your chapter name and state. If you are using a previously approved application,

you must not change anything un-less you add proof for the change.

•All dates must be properly spaced. Please use this format: 7 Jan 2015.

•Publications used must include ti-tle page and copyright page.

•Please use all black ink on applica-tions including signatures.

•Print all applications back to front...four pages of information on two pages with the red UDC Original in the front lower right corner of pages 1 and 3. Only one copy needs to be on UDC acid free. •If you only have a middle initial for a name, below or above write middle name unknown. (Page-by-Page Guidelines for page 2/ Page 273 in the March 2013, UDC Handbook )

Unfortunately, I know that if these directions are not followed, it will result in applications be returned to us.Please do not say, “I have always done Applications this way.” Last night before I went to bed I looked up the comment, “Middle Name Unknown”.There is no way that I can add the needed information because the Applications are so marked that the only choice is to return them to you for retyping and new signatures.

Know how much I appreciate each of you and hope that you will continue to submit Original and Supplemental Applications.

Peggy W. Johnson

District I is proud to announce that ALL five chapters contributed generously to the campaign for do-nations toward the Veteran Christ-mas Bag Program. As indicated by the red arrow placed in the photo below, each District I Chapter was recognized in a printed program distributed to the deserving vet-erans, along with other relevant goodies.

District I

Registrar

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Per Capita forms were

distributed to chapter treasur-ers in Novem-ber. They are due to me by Feb. 15th, 2015. This includes the Remittance Voucher where chapters can make contributions to Division and General funds. It also includes for the 3rd of three years, the $5.00 per member assessment for the 2015 General Convention to be hosted by the North Carolina Division. If a member does not pay their dues at this time, they have until August 31 to pay for this year. Please send to me at any time dues are collected as we want to retain all members pos-sible. North Carolina membership is at 1341 members.

Former members that wish to be reinstated are always encouraged. For $40.00, a former member can be reinstated. Please include a note with member’s name and chapter with payment on a separate sheet of paper. I have the Reinstatement form to process for General.

The filing for 2013 of the annual electronic notice, Form 990-N, Electronic Notice (e-Postcard) for Tax-Exempt Organizations for the IRS as well as completing the UDC Annual Financial Form was per-formed in November. It is mandato-ry that the IRS filing be completed for each chapter, club and the Division.

Individual contributions are always welcome to any of our Division funds. Checks should be made payable to NC Division Treasurer. The form is available from me, from your chapter treasurer, and it is posted on our Division website, www.ncudc.org.

Caroline Odom

Thank you for electing me to serve as the Division Recorder of Military Service Awards. I hope all Chapter Recorders have received and read my page that was included in the Chapter President’s package which was distributed at the Winter Board Meeting. If you have not re-ceived it, please ask your Chap-ter President for a copy, or email me at sgsifford@aol.com and I will send you a copy. You will find it very helpful to have the current copy of the Recorder of Military Service Awards Manu-al-Revised March 2013 (available from the Business Office for $4). Please see my page in the Chap-ter Presidents package for other references you will need. One thing that I want to bring to your attention is the Lineage Chart. You will notice that the Military Service Awards Checklist for Memorandum of Fact indicates that on page 3 “Lineage proof must be verified by the Chapter or Division Recorder prior to sending to the Recorder Gener-al”. “Page-by-Page Instructions for completing the Memoran-dum of Fact for Military Service Awards” also addresses the verification of lineage. Several members have expressed con-cern about proving lineage, so I spoke with Ann Brown, our new Recorder General, to determine what she was looking for in the verification. We do need to see some sort of documentation such as birth certificate, death certificate, picture of tombstone, copy of an obituary, print out

from Ancestry, in other words, something that shows that our candidate does have a lineal Confederate ancestor. Please notice that the lineal page does not ask for dates or all the other information that we require on the membership application. When you send the Memo-randum of Fact to me, please include the proofs. If you have any questions at all about this, please contact me. As you are locating candidates, please remember that we will also need recipients for our Division Convention as well as the General Convention. On page 226 of the NC Division Minutes it states that “prospec-tive recipient’s names must be submitted by April 1, prior to the Convention and approved by the Division President and Record-er of Military Service Awards”. Daughters please find those deserving candidates and let’s honor them!If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me at 704-906-5769 or sgsifford@aol.com. Thank you again for the honor of serving you.

Gail Edwards SiffordNC Division Recorder of Military Service Awards

RecorderTreasurer

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Chapter News

Asheville 104 is working with Downtown Waynes-ville and The Shelton House Museum of North Car-olina Handicrafts in planning the 150th Commem-oration of the Last Shot: Surrender of the Western Army. This event features reenactments, living history camps, and tours of local War Between the States sites. Asheville 104 and District 1 will conduct a wreath lay-ing ceremony at the Last Shot Monument on Saturday May 9th at 11am. Aileen Ezell will speak about the history of the monument. NC Division has provided funds to repair the Last Shot Monument, built and dedicated in 1923 by District 1 Chapters. Parking information and other planned events will be posted on the Downtown Waynesville web site: www.down-townwaynesville.com Asheville 104 is also proud to announce that their partnership with 26th North Carolina Regiment in the fundraising effort for restoration and repair of the Vance Monument in downtown Asheville is now complete. While not a UDC monument, Asheville 104 does have a bronze plaque on the 65-foot granite obelisk honoring North Carolina’s War Governor. The restoration work is scheduled to begin in April with a dedication ceremony planned for May 16th. Chapter members look forward to documenting UDC monuments in Buncombe, Henderson and other near-by counties for the Division President’s Project. Kathryn Herrmann, President

The Graham 944 Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy has had an exciting beginning to our 2014-2015 year. On September 13th, we attended the lecture “Civil War Surgery and Medicine”, given by Dr. Jason McDaniel from the Sesquicentennial Lecture Series, sponsored by the North Carolina UDC.

At our first meeting on September 18th, we welcomed two new members to our chapter. At the October Division Convention in Durham, NC, eight members of our chapter and one guest were in attendance. Our chapter was presented with the “White Loving Cup” for the greatest percentage increase in membership in the Division for the year. Our Chapter President, Peggy Johnson, was elected to the office of Division Registrar.

Members of our chapter attended the United Daughters of the Confederacy General Convention in Richmond, Virginia in November. Our chapter was responsible for completing applications for three veterans, all who attended the convention and received Military Service Awards. One of the recipients is the husband of a mem-ber of our chapter. Tammy Shropshire, our chapter’s Recorder of Military Service Awards was presented with a Certificate of Appreciation for preparing the applica-tions of these brave men.

Our chapter also participated in the 1st Annual Gra-ham, NC, Veteran’s Day Parade presented awards to Essay contest winners, donated supplies to the Military, and celebrated an 1860’s Christmas In North Carolina.

Betty Halter, Sandra Lumley,

Robbie Bell & her granddaughter,

Willow ride in the Graham Veterans

Day parade.

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CHAPTER NEWS continuedCapt. Samuel A. Ashe 2572, Raleigh Looking back on last year, our chapter accomplished many things: fundraisers, field trips, community events and vol-unteer work. 2014 seemed to go by in a flash and we have hit the ground running in 2015. We started the year co-hosting a meeting with the 47th Regiment NC Troops Camp 166, SCV. Our speaker was Keith Hardison, Director of North Carolina State Historic Sites. He gave a great program entitled “Confederate Commander: The Military Qualifications of Jefferson Davis.” This joint meeting was a huge success with not only members of both groups attending, but also members of the Granville Grays UDC chapter, Cap-tain Waddell MOSB Camp, The Garner SCV Camp, Daughters of 1812 Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, Sons of the Revolution, and Sons of the American Revolution.

We also co-hosted the annual Robert E. Lee Birthday Celebration at the North Carolina State Capitol build-ing on January 17th . We had presidents from four of our Confederate heritage organizations bring greet-ings: UDC President Patricia Gasson, CofC President William Gray, SCV Commander Danny Bollick, and MOSB Commander David Edwards. Our speaker was Ronnie Kennedy from Louisiana, one of the authors of The South Was Right.

In 2014, The Ashe Chapter sponsored a wayside exhibit at Fort Anderson in Brunswicktown, NC. And in 2015 sponsored another wayside exhibit to be dedicated on March 21st at 11am at Bentonville battlefield during the 150th reenactment. We invite everyone to come and join us in the dedication.

The Ashe chapter has submitted a new membership application for Emily Cooper and has submitted several supplemental applications.

We are very proud of our chapter members who serve in the UDC leadership. Melanie Perryman serves as NC Division Historian, Sara Powell serves on the Board of Trustees for the UDC Headquarters house, Karen Pow-ers serves as NC Division 3rd Vice President, Deborah Fuller serves as the District VI Vice President, and Amy Huss serves as editor of the Courier.

We look forward to a busy year with many events in the planning stages including Confederate Memorial Day at Oakwood Cemetery in Raleigh in May.

Karen PowersPresident

The Capt. Ashe Chapter sponsored a WaysideExhibit in Bentonville, pictured above; and another at Fort Anderson in Brunswicktown, pictured at right.

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Great Great Great Granddaughters Club

of NCAs a representative of the NC Divi-sion 3G Club, I attended the Gen-eral 3G Club meeting during the General Convention in Richmond, VA. General has a total of 410 members and our NC Divi-sion has a total of 25 members.

Donations from the 3G General Club will be given as follows:• $500 Diamond Jubilee CofC Scholarship• $250 Archives Preservation at the UDC Memorial Building• $250 Texas Division CofC Project to preserve a glass window pane • $250 Memorial Building Re pair Fund• $250 Virginia Division to preserve the Crenshaw Battle Flag

Donations from the NC Division 3G Club were given as follows:• $30 Bennett Place Fund • $20 UDC Division Headquarters House Maintenance Fund in Raleigh, NC.

If you wish to purchase club pins to wear on your ribbon, fill out pin or-der form (on the website) and send $50 to Karen Powers, VP of the NC Div. 3G Club at 202 Allie Bell Lane, Rolesville, NC 27571-9577.

Michele Miller, President

Robert F. Hoke 78, Salisbury The Chapter’s Annual Lee-Jackson-Maury Luncheon will be held on January 16 in the Stanback Auditorium and Hurley Room of the Rowan Public Library. Prior to cutting the Lee-Jackon-Maury birthday cake, “Happy Birthday” will be sung. The stories of Lee’s “pet” chicken, Stonewall’s reported fondness for lemons, and Maury’s study of ocean currents and service to the Navy are told and reflected in the menu and fun door prizes. The Chapter began this tradition in 1992 and has had numerous speakers on one or all three Confederate heroes every year. This year Brian Davis, Director of the Historic Salisbury Foundation, Inc., will be giving insight into two homes associated with Gen. Lee - Arlington and Stratford Hall. History and camaraderie will be shared with members and guests.

Hoke members will assist the Salisbury Confederate Prison Association, Inc., an outgrowth of the Chapter’s Salisbury Confederate Prison Symposium, with its Sesquicentennial Exhibit on Friday, February 20 in the Stanback Auditorium of the Rowan Public Library. Individuals will be able to see a handmade model of the Prison, images of dozens of those associated with the Prison, quotes from letters and period newspapers, flags that represent the men who were at the Prison, etc. In the nearby Hurley Room a member from the Wilmington Chapter will be giving a talk on ladies clothing from that period.

The 18th Annual Salisbury Confederate Prison Symposium hosted by the Hoke Chapter will be held April 17-19. One of the goals of this event is to increase awareness of the only military prison the Confederate Government located in North Carolina. Another is to share more about the Confederate soldiers who served there between December 1861 and February 1865 and the prisoners – both Union and Confederate. Seven lectures will connect in some way to the Prison. Speakers will include authors, professors, researchers, and descendants. Guests are already expected from Texas, Florida, South Carolina, Georgia, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Wisconsin, Utah, Canada, and many areas in North Carolina. Flags and displays will be set up Friday for the Banquet and lecture at Landmark Church and Saturday at Catawba College for six lectures. There will be Memorial Services with 40 flags on Sunday morn-ing at the Salisbury National Cemetery and the Old Lutheran Cemetery. The last event on Sunday will be an afternoon tour of the site of the Pris-on. The Symposium is open to all who are interested in registering.

Plans are being made for the Chapter’s May 9 Bestowal Service that will combine recognition of Confederate Memorial Day and Armed Forces Day. National, state, military, and historical flags will be displayed along with original art focusing on the soldiers of all wars. Southern and patri-otic music will be played and a reception held. Donations of personal care items by members and those collected at this event will be taken to the hospitalized veterans at the Salisbury VAMC.

Sue Curtis President

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The Stonewall Jackson Chapter 220, Charlotte, NC, held our an-nual Awards Luncheon on May 1, 2014 at Cedarwood Country Club. Crosses of Military Service Awards were presented. In addition to the Military Service Awards, Chapter Member Cathy Herrstromer was presented with a Winnie Davis Medal for her work in researching and preservingConfederate artworks which had been donated to the Chapter. As a result of her diligent efforts the works were restored and sold to benefit the Chapter’s Patriotic Fund. A total of $345 was raised from this art. The Chapter also recognized Mr. John Ellis, member of the Robert E. Lee ConfederateHeritage Association and the Unit-ed States Marine Corps League, as our newest Honorary Associate Member. Mr. Ellis’ help to our Chapter is invaluable. Every year he helps with our Memorial Ser-vice and also brings his display of National, State and Confederate Flags to the Service. These 60 flags add so much to the Ceremony. Following the luncheon the 2014-2016 Chapter officers were installed by member Donna Aliotti. The Officers are: Beth Zeiss, President; Ritch Cain, Vice President; Gail Sifford, Second Vice President; Suellen Delahunty, Secretary; Wilda Council, Registrar; Caroline Yancey, Historian; and Kathy Smith Brewer, Treasurer and Recorder of Military Service Awards. Notpresent was Debbie Walker, Chapter Third Vice President, and Director of the Charlotte Grays Chapter 844 CofC.

The Annual Memorial Service was held on May 18, 2014 at the Confederate Section of Elmwood

CHAPTER NEWS continuedCemetery. The Stonewall Jackson UDC Chapter 220 was organized in 1898 by Mrs. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, who was our Chapter’s first president. Mrs. Jackson lived in Charlotte following the War until her death in 1915. Historic Elmwood Cemetery, a public ceme-tery, was opened in 1853. The Confederate section is Charlotte’s most prominent shrine to the soldiers who fought and died in the War Between the States. The center spherical monument in the Confederate section of the cemetery was erected by the Women of Charlotte in 1887 to honor the Confederate soldiers of Mecklenburg County. Participants at the Memorial Service included Stonewall Jackson Chapter members, Beth Zeiss, Joy Cooper, Ritch Cain, and Kathy Smith Brewer. Katie Edwards, President of the Charlotte Grays Children of Confederacy Chapter 844, members of the Robert E. Lee Confederate Heritage Association, and the Colonel Francis Marion Parker Civilian Alliance also presented Memorial Wreaths. Participating Confederate re-enactors of the First North Carolina Battalion: 30th North Carolina Troops, Co K, 43rd North Carolina Troops, Mecklenburg Beauregards, Latham’s Battery presented an Artillery demonstration. The Flags of the Confederacy display was courtesy of Honorary Associate member John Ellis, who also participated in the Service with his remembrance of Veterans of all Wars. Mr. Ellis is a Veteran and a member of the Robert E. Lee Confederate Heritage Association and The United States Marine Corps League Detachment 750 and played echo taps at the end of the Service with Mr. Terry Beaver.

The Stonewall Jackson Chapter 220 has been honoring the Veterans of all Wars and the Confederate dead at Elmwood Cemetery every Memorial Day since 1870, continuously for the last 144 years.

We held a second Cross Service at our January meeting. Brothers Joe Mullis and David Mullis were unable to attend the May Ceremo-ny. The Viet Nam Conflict Cross number 3794 was awarded to Joe Wayne Mullis of Fayetteville, NC. Mr. Joe Mullis served as a Ser-geant, United States Air Force, 12th Avionics Maintenance Squadron. David Lee Mullis of Cramerton, North Carolina, served as a Second Lieutenant, Headquarters Elec-tronics Command, United States Army. He was awarded a Viet Nam Conflict National Defense Medal number 2362. The Mullis Brothers are the great grandsons of Private Moses W. Thomas, Company D, 1st Regiment, North Carolina Infantry, CSA. Private Thomas was impris-oned at Point Lookout, Maryland and at Elmira, NY.

Mr. David Mullis, left, and Mr. Joe Mullis, right

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Governor Henry Toole Clark(February 7, 1808– April 14, 1874)

Henry Toole Clark was the 36th Governor of North Carolina. He served from 1861 to 1862 during the Civil War. His father James West Clark moved from Bertie County and purchased 800 acres of land in Edgecombe County. He married a young woman from Tarboro, Arabella Toole. In July 1830 he purchased a lot in Tarboro and built the family home. The home still exists on St. Patrick Street as a private residence. He was elected to the N.C. General Assembly in 1802. They had 3 girls and one son, Henry Toole Clark.

Henry attended the University of NC and passed the bar. He didn’t practice law, but instead chose to work with the Democratic Party. In February 1850, Henry married a widowed cousin Mary Weeks Parker Hargrave. He purchased land in Edgecombe County and on a small suburban plantation Henry built a home. It was located on land that is now Wilson Street in Tarboro, NC. He eventually named it Hilma for his five children: Haywood, Irwin, Laura, Maria and Arabella. The home was destroyed in the mid-20th century.

Henry Clark devoted over twenty years to the service of the Democratic Party at the local, state, and national lev-els, and over ten years as a state senator. He served six consecutive terms in the State Senate and in 1861; Clark was Speaker of the Senate. When NC Governor John W. Ellis died in office, Clark succeeded him (as was the law at the time). In his later years, he served the local Democratic Party and returned for one term as a state sena-tor in 1866.

Clark was a devote Episcopalian and leader of Calvary Episcopal Church in Tarboro, NC. When the church was started, he was one of the original subscribers pledging money to begin building in 1859. He is buried in the graveyard of Calvary Episcopal Church on St. David Street with his wife, parents and other members of his family. Graves at Calvary are well taken care of and Governor Clark’s grave is shaded by Dogwoods and other trees and covered with ivy. Calvary offers a tour of the graveyard since many renown people from Edgecombe County are buried there. Henry T. Clark’s grave is included on the tour.

Submitted by Bethel Heroes Chapter 636

Sources:National Governor’s Association, “North Carolina Governor Henry Toole Clark”, http://www.nga.org .NCpedia, “Clark, Henry Toole”, by Richard W. Iobst, 1979, www.ncpedia.org.The North Carolina History Project, “Henry Toole Clark”, http://www.northcarolinahistory.org.

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Division President Pat Gasson and President General Pam Trammel show off our General Convention

fundraiser T-shirts

Division President Pat Gasson and President’s Page Pat Bolander

at the Opening Ceremony

North Carolina’s Invitation to General Convention in Raleigh

General Convention Photos