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THE
SUNNY SOUTH NEWS
Official
Newsletter Of the
Lowry Rifles SCV Camp #1740
Rankin County
Mississippi
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| Editor: Bill Hinson | Co-Editor: Lisa Hinson | |
| Vol. 15 | No. 6 | Date: January 10, 2012 |
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Tell A Friend about The Lowry Rifles Camp #1740
Next Meeting
When: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 Time: 7:00pm
Where: Central Independent Baptist Church in Pearl, MS. Speaker: TBA
Program: TBA
***We look forward to seeing you all at our next
meeting. If any of you have any ideas for future programs or know some
speakers you would like to hear please contact me at my email:
ms_scv_1740@yahoo.com
or call me at: 601-672-3117. (Fellowship time is at 6:30pm come join
us and let’s celebrate our Confederate heritage!)
Thanks! Marc S. Allen - Program Chairman
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CAMP NEWS
Lowry Rifles
Prayer List
Jane Marsh, Steve Alford, Kay McWilliams, Chuck
Bond, Marc Lewis, Kay Marler, Adella Steinkamp‘s family (Lisa‘s
Grandma), William “Bunky” Robinson’s family, Glenn Taylor
Continued Prayer: Connie Byrd, Richard Flowers,
Randy Hinson (Bill & Glenn Hinson‘s father)
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From The Commander’s Desk
(No Report)
Adjutant’s Report
Happy twenty twelve! I hope you all had a very
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Twenty eleven was not one of the
best years of my life or my family’s life. Lisa’s step father Frank
from Pearl passed away in May her grandmother Adella from Indiana
passed away in mid-November, my cousins Bunky from Louisiana passed
away a week before Christmas. Mine and Glenn’s father, Randy has been
very sick and has been battling his sickness more than ever this year.
So things were not the best. I pray for twenty twelve to be a better
year. Please keep the sick in your prayers and pray each day for good
health and happiness always remember for without good health there is
no happiness. I hope to see you all at out meeting. God Bless!
Adjutant Bill Hinson
Chaplain Atkin’s Corner
It is finished!
Jesus Christ is the Lord of our lives and souls. Jesus Christ is the
Judge of the quick and the dead. Jesus Christ is the Savior of all
mankind and there is no other. Brethren, God has not appointed us to
rule, to judge or to save. There is but one Ruler, one Judge and one
Savior. Brethren, it is our task to serve, to forgive and to declare
the good news of the work of salvation wrought on the cross of Calvary
by Jesus Christ. Let Jesus Christ rule in your life and the lives of
all others. Let Jesus Christ do the acts of judgment and judge not but
forgive everybody everything. Accept the work of Salvation by Jesus
Christ as a completely finished work sealed by His blood on the cross.
It is finished! By: Jim Welch.
We all fall on hard times and need a
friend at times. So again please call on me when you need me. Your
Chaplain, Roy Atkins 601- 939-6248
Spotted
Dec. 23rd: Jerry Flynn at Kroger in
Richland
Dec 24th: Alexander Allen at Walmart in
Richland
Dec 25th: Charlie Ross at United Artist
Theater in Flowood
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*****Mississippi Division News*****
Letter From Mississippi Division
Commander
Gentlemen, As most of you know Bertram Hayes Davis
was elected by the Combined Boards of Beauvoir to become the new
permanent Director of Beauvoir beginning at the end of Rick Fortes
term as acting Director. Rick will see us through the completion of
the Library project and I cannot begin to tell you what obstacles he
has overcome or the amount of hours he has invested in getting
Beauvoir rebuilt since Katrina. We really do owe him our thanks for
his dedication to the restoration of one of our most sacred symbols.
Bertram H. Davis due to his upcoming position as Director of Beauvoir
has tendered his resignation from the Board of Directors. As per the
bylaws of the Mississippi Division SCV the Executive Council has
appointed Dr. Christopher J M Cummins from Ripley Mississippi to
replace Bertram H. Davis on the Board until such time as the division
meets in convention to elect a permanent replacement.
God bless our beloved south-land Alan Palmer Cmndr
Ms Div SCV
MDAH Award - Community
Heritage Grant
At a special meeting on December 2, the Board of
Trustees of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History elected
five new members to the Mississippi Hall of Fame and awarded over two
million dollars in preservation grants to nineteen projects across the
state through the Community Heritage Grant Program, authorized and
funded by the Mississippi Legislature."
Stephen D. Lee House, Columbus, Lowndes County
—$30,400
For the restoration of wood windows, replacement
of missing or rotted wood elements, replacement of failing or missing
glazing, repainting and installation of wheel chair lift to comply
with ADA standards.
Word of the Month: Twelve
The 46th
Mississippi Flag is Back on Mississippi Soil!
Compatriots: I just wanted you all to know that
the flag of the 46th MS Infantry -- conserved by the MS Division -- is
now back on MS soil and is safely secured in the conservatory at the
Camp Shelby NG Museum, where it will remain until unveiled to the
Confederate public on Confederate Memorial Day at Beauvoir! My (black
tricorn) hat is off to the STBF Committee, the MS Division EC,
Beauvoir Director Rick Forte, and, of course, MS NG Museum Director
Chad Daniels, without whom this incredible accomplishment would not
have been possible! Make your plans NOW to be at Beauvoir on
Confederate Memorial Day in April! Heck, wear a uniform and bring your
shooting iron or cannon and let's welcome this grand old flag back to
MS with the largest rifle and cannon salute we possibly can! I would
also ask that we all refrain from trying to get a "sneak peek" at the
flag until it officially unveiled on Confederate Memorial Day at
Beauvoir. This will save Director Chad Daniels a lot of extra work in
making allowances for individual viewing of the flag, including
unpacking and re-packing this precious banner! See YOU at Beauvoir on
Confederate Memorial Day! --
Jim Huffman, Chair, MS Division/SCV, "Save the
Battle flags" Comm.
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***SCV National News***
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Information for Combined Federal
Campaign
SCV General Headquarters is preparing the 2012 CFC
application, and a major requirement of this effort is to document
that human health/welfare services have been provided in 15 or more
states during calendar year 2011. GHQ would like to request that camps
and divisions send information to Ben Sewell at
exedir@scv.org
to assist him in preparing the narrative of the SCV's good deeds
during 2011.
The documentation should include the following
elements:
WHO received the service, benefit, or assistance
WHAT the service, benefit, or assistance is
WHEN it was delivered
WHERE it was delivered
A couple of examples of qualifying service would
be the following:
Illinois - Calendar Year 2011 Scholarship
The Illinois Division Sons of Confederate Veterans
in May 2011 presented a $1000 college scholarship to high school
senior Pierce W. Mackie of Glenview IL.
Alabama - Calendar Year 2011 Donation
Thomas Goode Jones Camp 259 in Montgomery Alabama
made a $750 donation in August 2011 to the Alabama State Archives flag
restoration fund in Montgomery AL. Camp 259 also made a $250 donation
in June 2011 to Anne Tidmore, Regent, to benefit the First White House
of the Confederacy which was established in the spring of 1861 and is
currently is on the National Historic Registry.
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*********Calendar
of Events*********
Board Meeting of the Combined
Boards of Beauvoir: The
next quarterly Board meeting of the Combined Boards of Beauvoir will
be Saturday, February 11, 2012 @ 10am at Beauvoir
Tenth Annual Abbeville
Institute Scholars’
Conference
“The War Between the
States: Other Voices, Other Views”
Stone Mountain, Georgia - February, 23-26, 2012
TOPIC: Nationalist historians for 150 years have
protected Americans from confronting the stark immorality of
prosecuting what French philosopher Bertrand de Jouvenel called, "a
war such as Europe had never yet seen" to force eleven States into a
federation from which their people had voted to secede. Should eleven
American States secede today and form a federation of their own, such
a war would be judged criminal. Northern opposition to the war was
more extensive, complex and had more respectable adherents than the
mainline account allows, e.g., Governor Seymour of New York, 1861:
"Indeed, Can we so entirely forget the past history of our country,
that we can stand upon the point of pride against states whose
citizens battled with our fathers and poured out their blood upon the
soil of our state. Upon whom are we to wage war? Our own
countrymen...." Lincoln and his party often acted as an embattled
minority in the North. The Sesquicentennial offers an opportunity to
explore the view point of the most neglected and misrepresented
segment of American opinion on the great conflict at the center of our
history. Learn about the resistance of President Franklin Pierce and
New York Governor Horatio Seymour. Midwestern "Copperheads." Christian
reaction to the bloodthirsty rhetoric of pro-war Republican preachers.
Pro-Union opposition to the Republican Party. Resistance in the border
States. Gradations and conflicts in Northern opinion, especially among
ethnic groups. Treatment of black soldiers by the Union army during
and after the war. And much more. SPEAKERS. Douglas Bostick, Kent
Masterson Brown , Richard Gamble, Marshall Derosa, Donald Livingston,
Brion McClanahan, Allen Mendenhall, Joseph Stromberg, Richard
Valentine, Jonathan White, Clyde Wilson, PLACE. Beautiful Stone
Mountain Park, built to commemorate the Confederacy. Visit the
memorial to Lee, Jackson, and Davis which is the largest stone carving
in the world. Much to see and do, so bring the family. COST. Rooms:
very special rate of $106 a day, single or double (rate ends February
1). Conference fee is $225 for Abbeville members and $275 for others.
Make checks payable to Abbeville Institute, P.O.Box 10, McClellanville,
S.C. 2945 (fee includes tuition, park entrance fee, reception,
breakfast, continuous snacks and refreshments). Make room reservations
at Evergreen Marriott Conference Resort 770-879-9900. SCHOLARSHIPS. A
few scholarships are available for college and graduate students who
are encouraged to apply. INQUIRIES:
contactus@abbevilleinstitute.org
or 843-323-0690. For lecture titles and schedule see
abbevilleinstitute.org.
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Buried Secrets
By: Ernest Herndon,
Enterprise-Journal Posted: Thursday, December 15, 2011
A “grave dowser” from Natchez said he verified the
presence of an old cemetery in the path of the Highway 24 four-landing
project Monday. Don Estes used pieces of bent coat-hanger wire held in
copper tubing to locate what he said are 18 graves in a field at the
southeast corner of Highway 24 and Middle Glading Road. Now the owner
of the property hopes the Mississippi Department of Transportation
will adjust the four-lane route to avoid the unmarked graveyard. “It
looks like that they would need to shift the road to the north, or
another possible solution would be to reduce the width of the median,”
said David Ogwyn of Baton Rouge, attorney for landowner Buddy Dupuy.
The cemetery came up when Greg Barron reported it
to the MDOT at a public hearing in 2005, Barron said. Barron is
president of the Amite County Historical and Genealogical Society. His
father Billy Barron, in his 80s, remembers the cemetery from his
childhood before a landowner reportedly bulldozed the markers decades
ago. Greg Barron talked to an MDOT official again about the cemetery
several months ago, as well as what’s left of two old possible Indian
mounds farther south from the roadway. Last week Dupuy and Ogwyn met
with the official as well. Ogwyn said the official, whom he did not
name, told him he was unaware of the cemetery. “The indication that
we’re getting from the highway department with respect to the Indian
mounds and the cemetery is they really don’t want to find anything,”
Ogwyn said. “That really reduced our confidence in the highway
department” Ogwyn said. He noted laws protecting sites of cultural and
historical significance, Native American remains and cemeteries. Ogwyn
said MDOT plans to use ground-penetrating radar to determine if there
are graves, but he said Dupuy wanted Estes to dowse for graves first.
MDOT district engineer Albert White said employees plan to check the
site with radar soon. “They’re fixing to go out there and do some
tests to see if there’s anything down there,” he said. If there’s just
one or two graves, the highway department may be able to work around
them. “If it’s several, we’ll have to look at other options to see
what the law requires us to do, whether move over a little bit or
relocate the alignment of the road,” White said. As to Ogwyn’s
suggestion that MDOT is trying to avoid finding graves, White — who
became district engineer this past February —said, “I can’t speak to
anything past this year. This year is the first I heard of it.” Dan
Smith, MDOT’s right-of-way director, said, “We’ve got a study that
we’re going to do, and as we gather all the information we’ll be able
to make a determination as to whether or not we’re going make a change
in the roadway.” On Monday morning, Estes brought his dowsing rods to
the field. With Ogwyn, Dupuy and the Barrons watching, he walked back
and forth until the rods swiveled inward suddenly. They swung back as
soon as he passed what he said was a grave. Surprisingly, the graves
were positioned north to south instead of the traditional east to
west, he said. He found 12 together and six farther away. “They’re all
buried uniformly in this line, with a few scattered out that were
(likely) slaves or animals,” Estes said. Using a probe, he struck what
he believed to be a casket under one of the spots. “I’m challenging
them (MDOT) to dig that one up right there, because there’s a casket
there,” Estes declared. Estes, retired director of Natchez City
Cemetery and author of “Legends of the Natchez City Cemetery,” said he
first heard about grave dowsing 15 years ago from a visitor to the
cemetery. He tried it and became a believer. Dowsing works on the
principle of magnetic polarity, Estes said. The rods move when the
polarity of the remains line up with that of the dowser. A dowser can
use any kind of metal rod that is able to swing freely. The trick is
holding them motionless at the right height so they swing when they
come over a grave. “You’ve got to find your sweet spot,” Estes said.
By walking lengthwise down the grave, he can tell the height of the
deceased, he said. The rod in the right hand swings to the right if
the remains belonged to a male and left if female, he said. A person
born in the Southern Hemisphere has reversed polarity, Estes added.
Dowsing works on animals as well as people. Estes said he found the
graves in what is now called the French Fort Cemetery at Rosalie
Plantation in Natchez, among many others. When he found a grave at
Longwood Plantation in Natchez, University of Southern Mississippi
researchers confirmed it with radar, Estes said. Having worked as
director at a cemetery also helps him be able to look at the lay of
the land and detect the faint outline of a grave. “You can see it,” he
said at the property Monday. “See how that grass doesn’t line up just
right?”
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