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Midville Chapter U. D. C. Among the Best
in the State—lts Activities Many and
Varied—Short Sketchessof Citizen
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M /™ and Mrs - Burr ell Drew in honor
of E. F. Newman, grea,t maternal un
cle.
Mary Veazey Lowe daughter of Dr.
w«.i Mrß, W. R. Lowe, in honor of
William Cleveland Veazey, great mater
nal grandfather. Will Robert Lowe,
Jr., son of Dr. and Mrs. W. R. Lowe,
in honor of Rev. Charles C. Lowe]
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grandfather. Hayden H. Banks, Jr.,
son of Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Banks in
honor of Robert R. Stone, maternal
grandfather. Roy Stone Banks, son
of Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Banks, in honor
of Robert Stone, maternal grandfath
er. Sam J. Overstreet, Jr., son of Mr.
and Mrs. Sam J. Overstreet, in honor
of Jessie A. Brinson, great maternal
grandfather, Clarence W. Powers, Jr
son of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Powers,
in honor of Thomas Powers, grand
father, Robert Hill Powers, son of
Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Powers, in honor
of A. W. Murphree, great maternal
grandfather. William B. Little, Jr.,
son of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Little, In
hoonor of Colonel John Pickett Jones,
maternal grandfather. Ralph Augus
tus Youngblood, I. S. Youngblood and
Oliver Stone Youngblood, sons of Mr.
?,nd Mrs. Sam Youngblaad, for their
grandfather, Mr. Robert R. Stone.
The members of the John Wesley
Sandeford Chapter are:
Mrs. W. R. Lowe, president.
Mrs. J. V. Higdon, Ist vice president
Mrs. J. B. Murphree, 2d. vice presi
dent.
Mrs .A. W. Strozier, Recording Sec
retary.
Mrs. J. A. Franklin, Corresponding
Secretary.
Mrs. R. M. Murphree, Registrar.
Mrs. W. C. Mulling, Custodian.
Mrs. C. A. Jackson, Historian.
Mrs. Guy Drew r , Press reported.
Mrs. J. W. Sandeford, Honorary
president.
Mrs. R. L. Staton, Treasurer.
Mrs. F. N. Harlow—Parliamentarian
Mrs. W. J. Alexander, Mrs. Julius
Asher, Miss Annette Asher, Mrs. C. A.
Brux, Mrs. C. M. Brack, Mrs. G. M.
Barnes, Mrs. C. M. Boyd, Mrs. Wilson
Drew, Mrs. Paul Drew, Mrs. B. J.
Drew r , Mrs. J. F. Farmer, Mrs. Isabell
Hammock, Miss Maude Hodges, Mrs.
"has Inman, Mrs. W. P. Ivey, Mrs. J.
C. Johnson, Mrs. Mattie Jordan, Mrs
W. B. Little, Mrs. Smiley Moring. Mrs.
Elizabeth Mulling, Mrs. C. B. Mulling,
Mrs. C. M. Murphree, Mrs. A. S. Mar
shall, Mrs. Louise Mayo, Miss Maxie
Mayo, Mrs. H. H. Banks, Mrs. H. M.
'Tovall, Mrs. Sam Overstreet, Mrs. T.
S. Pippin, Mrs. C. W. Powers, Mrs.
•loses Register, Mrs. Joe Rackley, Mrs.
Robert Stone, Mrs. J. G. Stone, Mrs.
Russel A. Singleton, Mrs. Maymie B.
Stevens, Mrs. Ralph Smith, Mrs. J. B.
I’hurman, Mrs. Chas. Wingfield, Mrs.
H. A. Wasden, Mrs. Annie Stone Wells
Mrs. William E. Whitehurst, Mrs. Sam
Youngblood, Mrs. W. E. Read, Mrs. W.
F. Rudisill,
Mrs. G. M. Barnes is chairman of
Stone Mountain Memorial Committee
and served two years very efficient
ly as president of our chapter.
Mrs. J. C. Johnson is attending the
Veterans re-union in Memphis as a
representative from the John Wesley
Chapter.
AUGUSTUS WILLIAM MJRVHREE
FATHER OF MR. R. M. MURPHREE
A. W. Murphree was born May 25th,
1831. He was reared in Burke county
nc(ar McCollouglVs M|ll< After he
»vas married he settled three miles
from Midville and lived there the rest
of his life.
THE TRUE CITIZEN, SATURDAY, JUNE 7TH, 1924
When war was declared in 1861 he
immediately enlisted in the Burke
Guards. This company was assigned
to the 3d. Georgia Regiment as Com
pany “A” The company was re-or
ganized in 1862. Mr. Murphree was
small of statute and near sighted. He
was mustered out of this regiment.
However he had a cousin, Capt. W.
D. Jones, who was in the cavalry. So
he joned his regiment. This was a
part of C'obb’s legion, which surrend
ered in North Carolina with Johnson’s
army in 1865.
Mr. Murphree died, December 22,
1885. His influence still lives in the
lives of his son.
If any one citizen in Midville could
be named as, a leading spirit in every
move for the bettermen of the town —
that citizen w r ould without doubt be
Mr. R. M. Murphree. Mr. Murphree
owns the oldest mercantile business
in the city He is a leader in the
church, school and civic work and has
the distinction of being among the
most upright business men in this sec
tion. Mr. Murphree was born in 1859
on a farm near Midville, where he liv
ed until 1878, when he came to Mid
ville as a clerk. In 1882, Mr. Mur
phree and Mr. Allen W. Jones, began
a mercantile business and continued
until 1899, at which time Mr. Mur
phree formed a partnership with his
brother and continued until 1897. In
1899, Mr. Murphree began a mercan
tile business alone and been continu
ously in the same stand since that
date.
Mr. Murphree has served the city in
every capacity and has done more
than any other man for the upbuilding
of our institutions. It was through Mr.
Murphree’s influence that the Morton
Oil Company, built the first good Gin
System, in Midville in 1899. In 1904
Mr. Murphree helped to organize the
Bank of Midville and was vice-presi
dent of this bank until it was merged
with the new Georgia State Ba,nk in
1923. Mr. Murphree has served on the
Board of County Commissioners of
Burke county for a number of years
and also on the Board of Education.
His greatest service has always been
in splendid citizenship. A man who
conceives noble and unselfish ideals,
and who makes personal sacrifice to
accomplish them. A man who sup
ports the institutions of the town thru
good, bad conditions and who al
ways does what is right in the right
manner, that is R. M. Murphree. As
an official of the Bank of Midville he
helped numbers of our best citizens to
make a start in life and in their' busi
ness c?,reers. He has always done
more than his part to carry the bur
dens of the people of this section.
During the hard and oppressive years
he worked manfully to keep the farm
ing interests organized. Mr. Murphree
has been refrered to as the Daddy of
Midville. We are fortunate indeed in
having him for a citizen.
Frederick Palmer Writes of National Mem
orial Day in a Happy Vein in Legion Weekly
There are days when after reading
the news from polices to sports dish
ed up in the most attractive manner,
you lay aside your paper without hav
ing had a single real thrill. You feel
flat and stale. You conclude that it
is tiresome old world full of crimo,
scandals and money-grubbing.
Then, for went or something better
to do, you take up your paper again.
You are glancing through the back
pages when your eye lights on an item
which the editors did net think worth
playing up. But something in your
heart, or your imagination, or out of
your experience, plays it up to you. It
gives you that thrill that you have
been wanting.
You may laugh at it, cr wonder at
it, or it may bring a frog in your
throat. The sum of it’is that it makes
you conclude that this is a pretty de
cent old world, after all. The fact that
you have dug for the treasure, yourself
under the surface of the news, as you
have to dig for gold, makes it the
more satify'.ng.
Through a small iteir oi Uis kind I
learned that Private J,>hn J. Kenney
will not be resting in a pauper’s grave
this Memorial Day. He was burled
in one in April, 1922, by the authori
ties of Newark, New Jersey. They
did not even know he’d been in the
service. He died penniless and with
out friends.
A woman who thought that she
knew him spent nearly two' years es
tablshing his identity. When she had
established it she took her informa
tion to Newark Post of the Legion,
which—all honor to it!—acted prompt
ly. It gave Kenney a military funer
al. The body was taken from the un
honored grave in a flag-draped casket
on a gun caisson to the Cemetery of
the Holy Sepulchre, where a volly was
fired and Taps sounded over the new
and honored grave.
They say that news is something
new. Probably this incident is not
new, and therefore not worth much edi
torial playing up. However, the
thought that many times before vet
erans have saved the bodies of com
rades from remaining in pauper graves
did not interfere with the thrill I got
I shall have the thrill again when I
hear of another such instance.
What were Kenney’s vicissitudes, af
ter he left the service, I do not know.
The thing that counts was that he was
in uniform and honorably discharged.
He had matched in step with other
men and shared their life as a sol
dier. This fact, though he died desti
tute and ni rags, gave his life dignity
to other ex-service men. .And all who
read this will understand the feelings
of the buddies of Newark Post as Taps
was sounded, and they knew that they
had saved his body from resting in a
pauper’s grave for all the Memorial
Days to come.
Of all our national holidays, Memori
al Day, is the most beautiful and its
significance the most heartfelt. •It
comes in the most beautiful season of
the year, when spring’s promise is
turning into summer’s fruitulness and
flowers are in bloom.
It originated with Civil War Vet
erans who would set aside one day
for decorating the graves of all sol
diers. On this day we summon the
dead back into our thoughts and pay
tribute to them for having died for
their cause. Flowers will not bring
them back to life in the body, only to
life in our minds. So we are really
doing something for ourselves as well
?,s for them through revitalizing the
memory of their deeds and sacrifice.
Our imagination transports us to
Gettysburg, with its rows of white
crosses, and overseas to other rows
of white crosses on the battlefieds of
France. The ones in France and the
ones of the men who served in the War
with Spain remind us how the frater
nity of blood against a common foe
has reunited a country which was di
vided against itself, with brother shed
ding brother’s blood in the Civil War.
Long after the Civil War, bitterness
J. W. SANDEFORD ONE
OF THE LEADING CITIZENS
For fifty year Mr. Sandeford has
been a citizen of Midville. He has al
ways been identified with every cause
that was for the betterment of the
town and always been a friend to
those who needed help. Who would
attempt to estimate the good deeds
that he has done in a period of fifty
years? We all know that he has made
and is still making Midville a better
own for us all. A good man’s life
is greater than banks, railroads
and factoriees.
Mr. Sandeford was born in Burke
county near Waynesboro in 1847. He
was educated at the best school that
this section afforded at that time,
Pine View Academy, Bacon in Screven
county, Waynesboro and later to Dr.
A. C. Thompson, a well known educa
tor at Habersham. School in those
days was in session only for short pe
riods each year and a boy was for
tunate t oget even an elementary edu
cation.
Mr. Sandeford enlisted in the Con
federate army before he was seventeen
years old and served in A. R. Wright's
Brigade. He was wounded early n
his career as a soldier, but only stayed
in the hospital one night. He served
as-only a good and brave men can un
til the close of the war. He surren
dered at Appornatox Court House with
Gen. Lee and came back to Burke
county to begin a life of usefulness
such a few men have. He labored
where he was needed most as a farm
er and carpenter, helping to build up
and enrich his native county.
Mr. Sandeford came to Midville,
(then known as station 9 V 2 )in 1847.
His first work was as a, school teacher
and the only school here at that time
was on the Cross place now owned by
S. A. Jones. Later the school was
moved near the station on the lot now
wned by J. L. Parish. While Mr. San
deford taught he farmed between the
school terms and lived on his farm at
the Burton place.
After teaching for five years he was
marired to Miss Beatrice Murphree
nd moved to a small house on the site
of the present Sandeford Hotel. This
mall house was the beginning cf the
Sandeford Hotel.
At that time, 1879, Midville had on
ly two stores; Evans &Carswell and
Davis and Marks. Mr. Sandeford kept
books for Evans and Carswell and la
ter went in business with S. C. Evans,
always farming in connection, in 1880
Mr. Sandeford, Robert Burton and S.
C. Evans organized the Methodist
church and built the chiurch biulding
that we are using at present. It has
bee suggested that J. W. Sandeford
memorial tablet be carved on the great
Confederate monument at Stone Moun
tan. We believe that this should be
done by the citizens of Midville.
remained alive. The South thought of
flowers only for the Confederate dead;
the North, only for the Federal dead.
The South saw American heroism
at high water mark in Pickett’s
charge; and the North saw American
heroism at its high water ma,:rk in the
repulse of Pickett’s charge.
For a long time it was hard for the
people at home in the South to under
stand that a Northernor could be he
roic at all and the people at home in
the North to understand that a South
erner could be heroic at all. It al
ways happens that bitterness at home
is stronger than at the front, where
soldiers test the mettle of the soldiers
of the other side in battle.
When you fight a man in a clinch for
four years as the Northerner fought
the Southernor you have a close-quar
ter opportunity of knowing what kind
of man he is. So American manhood
tested American manhood in that fra
toricidal struggle. The manhood of
both North and South was in France.
When a G. A. R. veteran said to a
World War veteran:
“We had a stiffer job than you had
because we had to fight Americans,”
tne youth had to yiold the point to
the elder.
If the Germans had fought to the
bitter end with the stubborness of
Lee’s handful of starving battlaions
the World War might have lasted an
other year. The Germans fought well
till they saw the tide going against
them. Then they quit. Lee’s men kept
at it long after the tide had turned
against them.
Today the way that Grant’s men
fought and that Lee’s fought for the
faith that was in them is a common
heritage of pride for us all as Ameri
cans. Grant was a great American
and Lee was, and their soldiers were
all Americans. As such for this ccur
age we honor them on Memorial Day.
The honor that we did them in France
was to fighfi as bravely against a for
eign foe as they had fought against
each other. From the Civil War we
learned the value of unity for which
we paid a,n enormous price, but not
too much if it were the only way to
keep us true to the best American
traditions.
It is not the ceremonies, the speech
es, the placing of the flowers upon
graves which alone counts in what
we get for ourselves our of service to
the dead. Whenever I look at the
grave of a soldier who fell in battle
or died young, my respect so intensi
fied I think of what he missed by
dying, as well as what he paid for
what I have gained.
Many veterans of the Civil War are
Still alive. They have lived to see
their children and grandchildren, and
even their great-grandchildren, grow
up, and to watch the growth and
changes of their country and of civil!
zatuu. They have ridden in automo
biles, watched the flight of airplanes
and listened to. the radio, which were
wonders undreamed of in Civil War
(lavs. They have had life—tha ?nos:
precious thing there is.
But those who fell at Gettysburg
or Cold Harbor never knew whether
Federal or Confederate won. They
never knew that we were to have wire
losb or turbines or that there was to
he a Spanish or a World War. Am
the men who died in France never
know whether or not we won the
World War They were never to set
tl.eir homes again.
Before the living stretch the long
vista o' years which stretched before
'he Cvil War veterans in 18',*, fift;-
odd years ago. Veterans of the World
War, who will then be fathers, will
still be still living be living in 1980.
These long lived ones have a long way
yet to go . They will see many chang
es of whose nature we may as yet on
ly dream. As we decorate the grave
of our soldier dead fro mWashington’s
day to Pershing’s we must think of
how to keep worthy of what they did
for us and how to make the most of
life while we have it.—American Le
gion Weekly.
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