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Memorial Day Parades Comment on Quincy Events
Quincy observed Memorial Day with two parades featuring Veterans of the Spanish American War, Adams County units, Boy Scouts, Knights of Columbus, and Women’s Relief Corps. The processions formed on Vermont and Seventh, visiting Woodland Cemetery for tributes. church services followed with prayers, songs, and readings of Lincoln's Gettysburg speech and General Logan's order.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quincy
Adams County
Spain
Spain, Soldiers of the Reserve Militia, Boy Scouts
Chaddock School
Knights of Columbus
Women’s Relief Corps
Veterans of
John Wood Post
Vermont
Seventh
Elton
A. E. Zoller
Hampshire
Maine
Woodland Cemetery
Woman’s Relief Corps
Quincy Motor Club
Relief Corps
W. D. Endres
Christian Church
Salem
Tenth Infantry
National Guards
Taps—Bugler
Graceland
Dewey
Madison
Adams
Henry D. Harding
Emmett M. Urell
Washington, D. C
Wilson
Vermont Street
M. E
Central Baptist
First Christian
Presbyterian
F. A. McCarty
Floy Wright
First Congregational Church
G. A. Buttrick
Luther Memorial Church
Roy Bennett
St. John’s
St. James Lutheran
Soldiers Home
Soldiers’ Home
Home
Grand Army
Lincoln
Logan
Lippincott Hall
Maud Johnson
Rome Arnold
Flo Miller Jaminson
Women’s Relief Corps of
Ilinois
United States