Thinning Veteran Ranks Join Memorial Day Ceremonies
Thinned ranks of Civil War veterans marched or rode to Boston area cemeteries to honor dead comrades. Flags waved over graves as rain fell, with ceremonies across towns and events in Boston Common Tremont Temple and Kinsley Post observances led by Herbert Parker and Mayor Curley.
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Boston
Herbert Parker
Edward W. Kinsley
Tremont Temple
Edward A. Horton
Senate
Boston Common
Soldiers’ and Sailors
John A. O'Shea
Curley
Charles B. Amory
Kinsley Post
Alexander M. Ferris
George E. Savory
A. Parker Browne
Post
Decorate Graves by Charlestown G A R Post
Major George L Stearns Post 149 Charlestown decorated 854 graves at Woodlawn and Holy Cross cemeteries escorted by Sons of Veterans from Roslindale Cardinal Cadets Charles town and C Company Ninth Regiment. Edward F O Dowd Frothingham headmaster delivered the oration and spoke at the Sailors and Soldiers monument in Winthrop square Charlestown.
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George S. Stearns
Charlestown
Sons of Veterans
Roslindale
Cardinal Cadets
C Company
Ninth Regiment
Woodlawn
Holy Cross
Edward If’. O'Dowd
Frothingham Grammar School
Sailors’ and Soldiers
Winthrop Square
Defeat Impossible Says German American Speaker on U S Defense
Karl Recknagel of Roxbury told Frederick Hecker Post that no nation can conquer the United States and German Americans will stand united to defend America. The address at Turn Hall honored Civil War veterans and contrasted German and American loyalties amid invasion fears.
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United States
America
Karl Recknagel
Roxbury
Frederick Hecker
Turn Hall
Middlesex Street
Forest Hills
Mt. Hope
Germany
War hysteria false in American soil mockery of German roots
A paragraph laments anti German sentiment arguing against the notion that Germany will wage war on America. The writer insists that many Americans of German descent number over twenty five million and dismisses the threat as preposterous.
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America
Honor Dead in Cambridge Veterans Parade
Cambridge veterans of the Civil War and Spanish War members from four G A R posts led a Memorial Day parade in Cambridge yesterday. Mayor Rockwood spoke at Cambridge Cemetery where William H. Smart’s grave and 109 Post 30 graves were honored, with floral tributes at the Unknown Dead monument.
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Cambridge
Daniel Haggerty
William H. Smart
Leslie
Shaw Monument Honors Boston Colored Soldiers Tribute
Commander G Henry Powell of the George H Patch Camp 8 Sons of Veterans led a noon eulogy at the Robert Gould Shaw monument. Colored veterans from the Robert A Bell Post G A R with the Women’s Relief Corps marched with muffled drums. Commander Edward A Ditmas directed services as wreaths and a large tribute piece were laid on the monument.
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G. Henry Powell
George H. Patch
Sons of Veterans
Robert Gould Shaw
Boston
Robert A. Bell Post
Women’s Relief Corps
Edward A. Ditmas
Women's Relief Corps
Tribute to Nurse Helen L Gilson Honored in East Boston
East Boston Post honors memory of Helen L Gilson with cemetery services at Woodlawn and graves decorated for John A Hawes Post 159 and Joseph Hooker Post 23. Special grave services for Helen L Gilson, Civil War nurse, and memorial rites in the post hall on Meridian Street.
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East
Boston Post
Helen L. Gilson
John A. Hawes
Joseph Hooker
Boston
Woodlawn
Post Hall
Meridian Street
Turtle bearing 1873 initials found near Pleasant Lake
May 30 Pleasant Lake James F Cahoon found a small yellow wood turtle near a swamp by the Brewster line. Its back bore the initials W W H and the date 1873 clearly inscribed. The finder seeks the engraver if alive.
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Pleasant Lake
James F. Cahoon
Cahoon
Brewster Line
Veterans place wreath at Sailors' Monument on Boston Common
White-haired Naval Kearsarge Veterans conducted a full ceremony at the Soldiers and Sailors' Monument on Boston Common during decoration day activities. The event highlighted tribute to fallen service members with a formal wreath lay and singing by veterans groups.
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Soldiers and Sailors’ Monument
Boston Common
Lena Stuart
Isabel Jones
Charles Lavery
Anna Nagle
Naval Kearsarge
Soldiers and Sailors
Sailors’ Monument
Kearsarge
Memorial Ceremony Honors Dead Shipmates In Charlestown
Early morning visits to the State House Soldiers and Sailors Monument naval hospital and Marine Park included wreaths in memory of fallen shipmates. Admiral Andrew Houghton led the monument exercises while Miss Ayres KE Barry placed a wreath with an anchor. Representative William E Weeks delivered a memorial address.
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State House
Soldiers and Sailors’ Monument
Charlestown
Naval Hospital
Marine Park
Boston Common
Andrew Houghton
Ayres KE. Barry
William E. Weeks
Veterans honor fallen at Mt. Calvary and Norwood cemeteries
South Boston posts Dahlgren No 2 and Washington No 32 led 1200 graves decoration with escort from Women's Relief Corps Sons of Veterans and Daughters of Veterans. Pupils walked to Marine Park to scatter flowers for unknown dead. Major O'Connor Camp Spanish War Veterans led Washington Post No 2 with Commander John Murphy. Union service held in Calvary Cemetery with State Senator Beck as orator. A St Vincent's Bay Brigade delegation decorated Rev James B Troy's grave in Norwood and wreath was laid on corporal James Powers' grave.
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Boston
Dahlgren
Washington
Women's Relief Corps
Sons of Veterans and Daughters of Veterans
Marine Park
O'Connor
Washington Post
John Murphy
Calvary Cemetery
West Roxbury
Beck
Chelsea
James B. Troy
St. Vincent's Parish
South Boston
Norwood
St. Vincent’s Bay Brigade
James Powers
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