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)TDDai-B-mSTARS AND STRIPES VISIT JEAN ESPV.Burlington Daughters of thefao Revolution Visit FortMadison.be A number of ladies of Stars and is Stripes Chapter, I). A. R., of Burling-e* ton, came to this city Wednesday on the dy Lutheran excursion with the object of se calling at the home of Mrs. Kate Robi-th son, 718 Third street, to see the various ar things of historic interest there con-of nected with the Hag of our country, 'or Those comprising the party were: he Miss Williams, regent; Mrs. Baugh-ild man, vice regent; Mrs. J. M. Jordan, secretary; Mrs. W. L. Shoot/, registrar, and Mesdames Chas. Alexander, J. N. ,n. Burt, 1’. M. Crapo and Mi«s Lahee.,ty Being advised of their coming, thene ladies of Jean Kapy Chapter, the local jle I). A. R.organization, arranged to meet we the Burlington ladies at Mrs. Robison’s H home at 1:110, when a pleasant, social ,ve timo was spent. Light refreshments )n were served.The articles of principal interest seen by the visitors were,: t)) Two chairs that were in Betsy Ross’ parlor when u committee composed ofin-8lt; (ieorge Washington, Col. Ross and (i•Idip-ID-ERobert Morris called upon her relative to the designing and making of the first (|1(^ American Hag. Toth were used by the ,p immortal father of our beloved country.(ly A large American fl ig made by Mrs Clarissa Wilson, daughter of Betsy Ross, mother of the late Mrs. Rachel re„ Albright and grandmother of Mrs, jjj. Robison. In 1857 Mrs. Wilson came from Philadelphia to Fort Madison to -jr( live with her daughter and lived with her until she died in 1804. she dying in the house in which the Burlington Chapter, I). A. R. were entertained | today.A large quilt, also node by Mrs. Wilson, made of appiiqued pieces of 00 French figured (H wers and birds) ity chintz, a beautiful sample of tine needle-fed work.lt;6s A small American flag made by the ral late Mrs. Ka hel Albright in her !K)thted year- I,pn A fancy work b x made by Miss Key..,h an aunt of Frances Key, author of “The ine Star SpanglnU Banner, and priseoted ub. by her to the late Mrs. Sophia Hilde-me brand (also a granddaughter of Betsy ity, l-OHP) with the remark that she thought ion that the aunt of the autbi r of the eo- national hymn ought to give something te,i to the granddaughter of the maker of tdl the tirst Hag.” It was made by Miss ful K°y wben she was 00 years of age, in1837. |A brass-bound mahogany writing desk owned by Jacob Wilson, son inns, law of Betsy Ross, bought by him in his 1804, used by his daughter Mrs. Alii bruht, and now in use by her daughter to Mrs. Robison.ith Through the labor of the ladies of li’e the Sta^s and strl|«es Chapter a m n- i re- ument .vas recently placed over the an graveofJohn Morgau, a revolution-, ary soldier buried in Aspen Grove; cemetery at Burlington, an appropria- _ m. tion being obtained from the State nd legislature for erecting the monument.On last Decoration day they dedicatedForw,ireH.P t)ti a broDze memorial tablet to ZebulonthmM. Pike, the explorer, who unfurled the stars and stripes for the lirst time where BurltDgtou now is on August 23, 1806, he and his party bjing pre- J h® sumably camped where is now Crapo park. The tablet is set in a huge lr- j Iowa boulder in Crapo park. Near it .b® is a flagstaff from which, as occasion eoffers llus alino flag, also given by Bil Stars and Stripes Chapter. IllJy i The ladies of Jean Espy Chapter; r8 , who had the pleasure of tntertaining *r- , Hie Burlington ii-dbs, t.rough the kindness of M Uo »•«. n, w. re: Mesdame-i; ,\1 L. B **. . \ E. Glt;«-’heinistI,c zier. A. E. .lohns n J B. VIoineon,meLaura lower, Georg- B Stewart, H.he D. McConc, . B shenha-d. N. C.Roberts, J. M. • *. M -s.s Caro* eD lyn Br-wu, Florence Johnson, Myrtle tre Meyeis, Margaret Frailey and Sarah llie Casey.i aIo:r
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Fort Madison Weekly Democrat
Fort Madison, Iowa, US
Wed, Jun 27, 1906
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