Memorial Sunday Observed By Bustonians In Boston
Memorial Sunday activities spread through Greater Boston with Grand Army of the Republic posts, Women’s Relief Corps, and Sons of Veterans marching to churches and cemeteries in rain. Sailors on the New Jersey witnessed wreaths as children laid flowers. services continued from morning to evening across churches and shore towns. Dr McElveen spoke on The Soul of America at Shawmut Church urging today’s youth to emulate Civil War forefathers for a strong nation.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts Grand Army
Grand Army of the Republic
Women’s Relief Corps
Sons and Daughters of Veterans
New Jersey
Boston
Grand Army
United Spanish War Veterans
Ner T. Stuart
John Dorgan
Charles W. Johnson
Samuel F. Silocomb
James H. Rose
Forest L. Whittridge
Jonas M. Place
William 8
Walsh
Samuel S. Marison
William S. Sumner
Albert Keating
George F. Wright
James F. Smith
William F. Chadwick
J. Hovey Rand
Moses P. Brown
Henry A. Whittemore
Ariel M. Cain
James A. Perkins
Everett
First Baptist Church
First Methodist Church
Women’s Relief Corps, Sons of Veterans and Daughters of Veterans
Kearsarge Naval Veteran Association
Thomas I. Gasson
S. J
Church of the Immaculate Conception
Kearsarge Sons of Naval Veterans
George J. Whitten
League of Spanish War Veterans
Denis J. O'Sullivan
Veterans of Joseph Hooker Post Hold Memorial Service
The Joseph Hooker Post No. 28 G A R and friends gathered at Masonic Hall East Boston for the annual tribute to fallen comrades. Joseph A Conry gave the oration praising Abraham Lincoln and Civil War heroes. The event included music by the Arlington Glee Club and Maxwell Swartz and Margaret Pearson with other memorial rites and a wreath.
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Masonic Hall
Boston
Joseph Hooker
G. A. BR
Martin Moore
Joseph A. Conry
Arlington Glee Club
Hilda Swartz
Margaret Pearson
Conry
Abraham Lincoln
Roosevelt
Harvard
Post 15 Observance Memorial Service and Cemetery Ceremony
John A. Andrew Post 15 met at 9 a m in full uniform with outside arms. The line formed at 9 45 headed by the battalion band as the post and Sons of Veterans members marched to Shawmut Church. Women’s Relief Corps occupied reserved seats. The memorial sermon was preached by Rev. William T. McElveen. At 2 p m details reported to headquarters and proceeded to Mt Auburn Cemetery where veterans graves were flagged along designated routes with route commanders listed for each.
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Charles Russell Lowell
Charles O. Newell
Sons of Veterans
Park Street
Tremont Street
A. Z. Conrad
John A. Andrew
The
Mt. Auburn Cemetery
John W. Cheney
William A. McLaughlin
Edwin A. Babb
Walter Payne
Theodore L. Kelly
James S*. McKenzie
James A. Penfield
James FE. Coolidge
William T. Loring
Michael Cleary
Bradford E. Treat
John Uynn
Melville EK. Shorey
John F., Chase
Samuel W. Sargent
Dennis J. Leefe
Charles H. Shattuck
John T. Mooney
Frank Gardner
Charles H. Welch
Leonard P. Rounds
William H. Pinkham
John G. Meserve
Lemuel Q. Morton
William EE. Corthell
Charlies T. Hill
Franklin E. Parker
William
Prightman
Timothy Co. Taylor
Howard T. Richardson
Sum
Gettysburg Post 191 G A R Attends Brookline Church Service
Gettysburg Post 191 of the G A R attended church at St Mark s M E Church Brookline corner of Marion and Park streets. They were met at Park and Beacon streets and escorted to the church by C L Chandler Post 145 of Brookline under command of A S Lovett. The sermon by Rev Dr W H Thomas South Norwalk Conn General Grant s chaplain used text My soul hath them still in remembrance and is bowed down within me.
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Gettysburg
St. Mark’s
Marion and
Park Streets
Brookline
Park and
Beacon Streets
C. L. Chandler
A.S. Lovett
W. H. Thomas
South Norwalk
Conn
Grant
Memorial Service Aboard the New Jersey for Unknown Dead Sailors
A memorial service held on the battleship New Jersey at Charlestown navy yard honored the unknown dead. George L. Stearns Relief Corps No. 9 led the ceremony with Lieutenant-Commander P. W. Hourigan presiding as weather briefly disrupted the program.
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New Jersey
George L. Stearns Relief Corps No. 9
Charlestown Navy Yard
P. W. Hourigan
Somerville G A R Post Attends Services at Churches
Willard C. Kinsley Post of Somerville attended services at the First Baptist Church in the morning and at the Broadway Congregation in the evening.
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Willard C. Kinsley Post
Somerville
First Baptist Church
Broadway
Jones Tablet Unveiled At First Baptist Church
A memorial tablet for Major Edward J. Jenkins Jones was unveiled at First Baptist Church on Commonwealth Avenue in a ceremony led by Edward M. Kinsley Post 113. The Rev. Francis H. Rowley spoke on Civil War lessons and civil rights, praising Jones’s long church membership and the Grand Army badge carved above the inscription.
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The
Loyal Legion
Jones
Ruddick
Edward J
Richard F. Jones
Allen
Edward J. Jones
First Baptist Church
Commonwealth Avenue
Edward M. Kinsley
Francis H. Rowley
D. D
Grand Army
Rowley
Major Jones
William H. Ruddick
Navy
Edward Jenkins Jones
Boston
Veterans honor fallen comrades with memorial mass and procession
At 2 p m the George J Whitten Camp United Spanish War Veterans led an escort from 1151 Washington to the Church of the Immaculate Conception for a memorial mass. Roxbury Camp 5 joined with the Mission Church Band and Ninth Infantry to Holywood Cemetery for graves decorum and an oration by Rev F S Henzel, followed by dinner at headquarters.
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George J. Whitten
United Spanish War Veterans
Washington Street
Church of the Immaculate Conception
Roxbury Camp
Mission Church
Ninth Infantry
Francis Street
Holywood Cemetery
F. S. Henzel
Memorial Services At First Baptist Church Held
Memorial services were conducted at the First Baptist Church in Malden this morning with Post 40, G. A. R. in attendance. The sermon was delivered by Rev. Charles H. Morse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John A. Hawes
Central Square Baptist Church
East
Boston
Charles A. Jones
Malden
First Baptist Church
Charles H. Morse
Gaelic School Marks Forgotten Chapter in Irish History
At the Boston Gaelic School on Washington Street the lecture titled A Forgotten Chapter in Irish History explored confiscation of Irish lands and mass banishments to Jamaica the Barbadoes and Massachusetts Bay. Lecturer M Mulroy cited Cromwell orders and noted 100000 displaced to colonies many perished at sea while descendants later opposed British rule. The delegation planned flowers for Governor Sullivan at Granary burial ground and Mt Auburn Cemetery inscriptions for Fanny Parnell John R Kelly and Professor OShea.
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Boston Gaelic School
Washington Street
West Indies
American
M. Mulroy
Munster
Connaught
Jamaica
Barbadoes
Massachusetts Bay
Cromwell
Sullivan
Mt. Auburn Cemetery
Fanny Parnell
John R. Kelly
Boston
Mt. Howe
Boyle O’reily
Professor O'Shea
Calvary Cemetery
Belmont Stakes Set For Belmont Park On Thursday
New York May 26 The Belmont stakes offering a 25000 purse will be raced at Belmont Park on Thursday over one mile and three furlongs Horses from James R Keenes stables include Superman Peter Pan Zambesi Grimaldi and Gretna Green Other starters listed include Don Enrftue Okonike Charles Edward Frank Gill McCarter Belecast Paumonok Salvidere Saracinso Senator Clay and The Wrestler If Superman starts his recent Brooklyn Handicap win gives him a strong chance to win the event.
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New York
Belmont Park
James R. Keene
Superman
Peter Pan
Zambesi
Grimaldi
Gretna Green
Don Enrftue
Okonike
Charles Edward
Frank Gill
New England Intercollegiate Tennis Starts at Longwood
The New England intercollegiate tennis championship opens today at Longwood with all top college players entered. The Central New Jersey championship will be played in Trenton as part of the tourney lineup.
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Longwood
New England
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Park SY. Church
JO Hoorma Post
F Boson
Tio Sennins Jones
Arenato Comstin Crizen
Pox Conichoss Gallantay
Serena
Rattles
Yay
Army
Conrad
Charlestown
Unitarian Church
John Evans
Trinity M. E
A. M. Osgood
Francis Washburn
Ellis W. Knowlton
Brighton Congregational Church
Edward Anderson
Joel D. Dudley
William H. Smart
Cambridgeport
Broadway Baptist Church
D. Kinnear
Nathaniel M. Neale
John Cronan
Mark J. Folsom
William Moody
George H. Hastings
Charles Ward
Newton
Church of the Messiah
Auburndale
Women's Relief Corps
Benjamin Stone, Jr
Post 68
Dorchester
Norfolk Street
Timothy Ingraham
Timothy Iangraham
Hyde Park
Rea ¥Ville
William F. Dusseault
Fifth Infantry
G. E. Lovejoy
Chartes J. Jones
Jennie A. Philbrick
Winthrop Unitarian Church
Central Congregational Church
East Boston
Veterans of the Soldiers’ Home
High School
John A. Higgons
Boston Post
Jamaica Plain
Chauncey J. Hawkins
Women's Relief Corps, Sons of Veterans and
Daughters of Veterans
William B. Eaton
G. A. R. Hall
William C. Litchfield
G A. R
Chelsea Bodies Unite
Theodore Winthrop
Chelsea
Frank E. Winslow
W. S. Hancock
VA. V. U
Henry W. Ayers
Walter J. Chadbourne
S.w.v
Mt. Bellingham M. BE
A. H. Nazarian
Grady
P. J. Grady Camp
Charles Berman
Trinity Baptist Church
Charles J. Jones
Robinson
O'Connor
U. 8
Grand Army Hall
West Fourth Streets
St. Vincent's Church
FE Street
Farah Brogan
Patrick J. Lyons
Carney Hospital
John H. Lyons
William H. Grant
Dahlgren
W. W. Kimball
Relief Corps
George IL. Stearns
James Finn
Martha P. Lyons
Elizabeth Nichols
Fred P. Greenwood
Seamen's Friend Society
Wabash Choir
Teresa Dorothy
William Ducy
James Murphy
Walinski
America
Kearsarge Naval Veterans
Trimount Garrison
Trimountain Garrison
Regular
Army and Navy Veterans’ Union
Calvary
St. Joseph's
Evergreen
Holy Cross
Mt. Hope
Old Dorchester
Watertown
Mt. Auburn
Holywood
Greater
U. S. S. New Jersey
Kinsley Post
the First Baptist Church
Kearsarge
Naval Veteran Association
James Russell Lowell
Post 7
Masonic Temple
MR. Conry
First Baptist
Shawmut Church
Sey
Immaculate Conception Church
Roxbury
Gaelic School
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