Historical Society Hears Tribe Tell Of Notable Negroes
Athens County Historical Society discussed notable African Americans connected to Athens in a meeting. Biographical sketches cited Milton M. Holland Civil War Medal of Honor recipient, James M. Froster officer and Recorder of Deeds nominee, Olivia Davidson linked to Booker T. Washington, Andrew Jackson Davidson lawyer, and Edward C. Berry founder of the Berry Hotel. Visitors from Meigs County observed.
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the Messenger
Athens
Ohio
Historical Society
Athens County
Black Historical Society
Iwan
Albany
John M. Tem
Poeton
Ohio University
Milton M. Holland
Col
Nelson T. van Vorhes
Holland
James M.frotter
Albany Manual Labor University
Grover Cleveland
Washington
Act
Harvard
Boston
Olivia Davidson
Booker S. Washington
George Custer
Andrew Jackson Davidson
Olivia
Edward C. Berry
Berry
University
Berry Hall
The
Meigs County Historical Society
Local Club News Highlights Community Group Meetings
Beta Sigma Phi Kappa Rho held a rush party at Mrs. William Watkins home 99 Franklin Ave with costumes skits and prizes for prettiest most original funniest and best dressed. Albany Community Garden Club met at Mrs. Frank Radcliffe with Trees Are as Old as the Earth contest won by Mrs. William Boggess. Joel Bethany Goodwill Club in Guysville worked on Christmas candles clothes pin holders and quilt blocks. Shade Homemakers gather with Kay Anway hosting prizes for costumes. Pirouette held a meeting with Mrs. Lloyd Gray and donations to Ohio Memorial Forest and Camp Fire Girls. Omega Alamas Association met with Mrs. Jerrold Griffis hearing a DAR talk. Pallas Club at Miss Lucille Emmons’s home presented America the Beautiful with photos and Christmas donation to Veterans Administration Hospital Chillicothe.
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Kappa Rho
Beta Sigma Phi
William Watkins
Franklin Ave
Albany Community Garden Club
Frank Radcliffe
William Boggess
Fred Walburn
Henry Tribe
Joel Bethany Goodwill Club
Guysville
Frances Clem
Tameh
Pirouette
Lloyd Gray
Ohio Memorial Forest
Robert Fick
Ways and Means
Gray
Mexico
Gene Pritchard
Ned Carter
Omega Alamas Association
Pallas Club
Lucille Emmons
Emmons
America
A. C. la Follette
Veterans’ Administration
Chillicothe
Correction Notices Clarify Griffin Birth Family Ties
Correction to a birth announcement states Mrs Lena Burd of Coolville was listed as great-grandmother instead of great-great-grandmother for James Brent Griffin, son of Mr and Mrs Robert Larry Griffin of White Plains Maryland.
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Lena Burd
Coolville
James Brent Griffin
Robert Larry Griffin
White Plains
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