Volume 1, Number 6 Winter 1962

Society News

Mr. Hewitt L. FORSYTH, editor of the New Orleans Genesis, the publication of the Genealogical Research Society of New Orleans, would like to receive the first two issues of our Quarterly. His address: p. o. Box 30312, Lafay ette Square Station, New Orleans 30, La. He has placed our later issues in their library. Any WRVH Society member who would like to receive a loan copy of the New Orleans Genesis may request one from Mr. Forsyth.

President GOOD was host to members of the Executive Com mittee at a Jianuary meeting. Among other business to be dis cussed at the Annual meeting of the Society in June is a recom mendation that dues be raised from $1 to $2 a year. The officers would apprecialte knowing how members feel about this recoimendation. While the present dues permit the Society to publish and mail a Quarterly, they leave little or no money available for projects of the Library, Museum, Historic Sites and Program Committees.

Charter Member Mrs. S. L. LARSON, of Verona, Mo., sends in teresting information about the Spring River Cemetery, just south of Verona. One stone in the old section is dated 1852. There are many Civil War soldiers buried there, including

R. W. NEWMAN, Co. D. 139th Ill. Inf.
Charies BLEDSOE, Co. G. 1st Ark. Cav.
Solomon YOKUM, Co. L. 1st Ark. Cav.

Mrs. Larson has an article which was reprinted in the Aurora Advertiser from an old Ver. ona newspaper explaining that these men were buried there after Gen. Prices raid across Missouri. The story goes that some seventy. five of Prices men were trying to get back to their homes in Ark ansas and ran into a Union am bush about seven miles south of Verona. It is presumed that the dead from that skirmish were buried in the Spring River Cemetery, although it is not recorded in the history of the War.

We have received from the Memorial Division, Dept. of the Army, information and applica tion forms regarding Government headstones for graves of deceased veterans: Government markers are furnished free of cost to the applicant and are shipped freight prepaid, alt Government expense, to the freight station nearest to destination; however, all expenses incident to the trans portation of the stone from the station to the cemetery and its erection at the grave must be borne from private funds.

Government markers are now available in marble, granite and bronze. Members who know of veterans graves Which do not now have permanent markers are asked to notify the Secretary, Elmo Ingenthron, Forsyth, Mo.

The following note comes from Mary Scott HAIR: "CORRECTION: The picture of Edmund Adays grave marker appears in the Fall Quarterly. However, it would seem that Aday. was not a Confederate, as area residents have supposed, but a Union man. We thank Elmo Ingenthron for his letter in which he said, Both the First and Second Arkansas Cavalry operating in this area were Union. The 2nd was stationed in Springfield in November 1864, and was sent from there into Arkansas on scouting expedi tions. At one time, they were sta tioned in Ozark. They patrolled the area around the telegraph line as it was often cut during the war and many skirmishes took place along it. We still seek an answer to this question: Does the name Edmund Aday mean anything to you? If so, please tell us about it."

Mrs. Ernest HUTCHERSON of Rockwood, Tennessee, added $2 "for the postage fund" to her an nual dues, commenting on their being so little. She also writes us that Mary Scott Hairs story, "When Courage Wore A Petti coat", was especially interesting to two of her friends, Miss Dorthy Tarwater and Miss Margaret Howard of Rockwood. They are descended from the Kendrick (Kindrick) family, and Nancy Kindrick Short, mentioned in the article, is buried in a family cem etery near Rockwood.

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As many of you have read in the White River Leader, plans are underway for the celebration of the 50th anniversary of Lake Taneycomo, with the towns of Branson, Hollister, Rockaway Beach, and Forsyth working together to make this one of the outstanding events in the history of Taney County.

No matter what happens, there are plenty of people who predicted it. -Monasch.

Most of our suspicions of others are derived from an accurate knowledge of ourselves. - Raymond Massey.

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