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, Lafayette 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 Committee at a January meeting. Among other business to be discussed at the Annual meeting of the Society in June is a recommendation that dues be raised from $1 to $2 a year. The officers would appreciate knowing how members feel about this recommendation. 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 interesting 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.
Charles 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 Verona newspaper explaining that these men were buried there after Gen. Price's raid across Missouri. The story goes that some seventy-five of Price's men were trying to get back to their homes in Arkansas and ran into a Union ambush 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 application forms regarding Government headstones for graves of deceased veterans: Government markers are furnished free of cost to the applicant and are shipped freight prepaid, at Government expense, to the freight station nearest to destination; however, all expenses incident to the transportation 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 Aday's 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 expeditions. At one time, they were stationed 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 annual dues, commenting on their being so little. She also writes us that Mary Scott Hair's story, "When Courage Wore A Petticoat", 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 cemetery 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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