U.C.V. Has Memorial: Services for Departed Comrades
21 October 1923 · San Antonio Light (San Antonio, Tex.)
Named here: Rufus Govan Adkins, D. J. Carter (camp commander), J. T. Clinkscales (camp chaplain), Godfrey Peterson (adjutant), Rev. J. Stuart Pearce, W. K. Baylor, the twenty other departed comrades and four departed daughters named in the roll
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U.C.V. HAS MEMORIAL
Services For Departed Comrades at First Baptist Church Sunday.
Memorial services honoring their departed comrades and daughters will be observed by the U. C. V., and the Daughters of the Confederacy at the First Baptist church at 3:30 Sunday afternooon [sic], October 21.
The following program will be carried out: Assembly call, Mis [sic] Ruth Herbst; overture, Walter Dunham, organist; invocation, camp chaplain, J. T. Clinkscales; vocal selection, First Baptist church quartet; introductory remarks, D. J. Carter, camp commander; memorial address, Rev. J. Stuart Pearce; vocal selection, "Holy City," Edward McKenzie; roll call of departed comrades, Godfrey Peterson, adjutant; vocal selection, First Bapist [sic] church quartet; the Confederate soldier, W. K. Baylor; cornet solo, Miss Ruth Herbst; song, "Shall We Gather at the River," by the congregation; benediction, and taps.
The roll call of the departed comrades follows: Rufus Adkins, J. E. Avant, John Brown, Joseph S. Cruze, John Henry Dobbs, W. H. Davenport, D. C. Fanning, J. W. Harlan, James Hicks, E. P. Horne, Albert Jankis, C. C. King, Benjamin Langford, W. B. Milford, Charles W. Monagle, Phil Prasch, O. Pulliam, Phillip Sanders, Wiley M. Smith, August Tyler and Charles E. Wynne.
The roll call of departed daughters follows: Mrs. J. M. Allardyce, Miss May Baugh, Mrs. S. G. Gohmert and Mrs. Sarah Vandervoorst.
Citation: "U.C.V. Has Memorial: Services for Departed Comrades at First Baptist Church Sunday," San Antonio Light (San Antonio, Texas), Sunday, 21 October 1923, p. 50; image, Chronicling America, Library of Congress (https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn85060004/1923-10-21/ed-1/?sp=50).
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| Person | Fact | Document says | Tree says | Assessment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rufus Govan Adkins | Military service | "Rufus Adkins" first in the roll call of "departed comrades" at the memorial service of the U.C.V. (United Confederate Veterans) and the Daughters of the Confederacy, First Baptist Church, 21 October 1923 | Company D, 17th Alabama Infantry, C.S.A., 1864 | context (a Confederate veteran, remembered by the veterans' camp in the year of his death) |
| Rufus Govan Adkins | Death | Among the "departed comrades" by 21 October 1923 | Death 5 March 1923, San Antonio | agrees |