President General’s Message May 2013 Issue of UDC Magazine

Our membership database is being upgraded to accommodate our expanding membership and supplementals. We have added Amy Howard to our office staff to be our Documentation Coordinator as she will be creating an index to our 5 file cabinets containing the diaries, cemetery lists, ancestors’ biographies, etc. that are donated to our Library during Spring Board and General Convention. What a treasure trove of information is contained in these files! When the index is completed, it will be a valuable searchable database for our members. Amy will also be adding all the supplemental information not in our database from the 20 file cabinets from the active, inactive and defunct chapter files. We are looking into changing from microfilming to digitizing our records and to having our second set of microfilm records stored off-site. On 27 April, Kate Alexander, Chapter President of the Company A, 1st Maryland Cavalry 1858, Maryland Division President Kathy Arth and I welcomed 92 year-old Mrs. Eva Kornegay Boatwright Oliver and her twin sister, Mrs. Elizabeth H. Boatwright Harnden Harry as members of our UDC. We traveled to Mars Hill, North Carolina, to make the official presentation of their Membership Certificates and Official Insignia. They desired to be members for 75 years, but thought their records were lost. Thanks to Mrs. Oliver’s son, John, the records were found in an attic and we are happy to welcome them as members. Sunday, 28 April, my chapter, General Joseph Eggleston Johnston 2317, held a Grave Marker ceremony at Espanola Cemetery in Flagler County in honor and memory of our beautiful Beth Higginbotham who was an asset to our chapter and at the time of her passing was our Chapter Registrar. My flight back that morning allowed me to arrive 5 minutes before the ceremony began. Remember that no one is allowed to use our Official Badge without written permission from the President General. In printed form, it may be used only on items that are for the use of or to be sold for the benefit of the UDC and placement of the Official Badge should be at the top center or top left with nothing printed above it. The ® symbol must be used on both the Official Badge and our name, “United Daughters of the Confederacy®”. Our General Website now has the forms for the Pioneers in Space Awards and the counter showing the number of people visiting our site was over 20,000 in the middle of April. We hope the website is enabling you, as members, to have all the information you need at your fingertips. Remember, if you are not computer savvy, there will always be someone in your chapter that can download the information or forms for you.                                                 “United We Stand”   Historian General Articles In UDC Magazine March  April  May SPRING BOARD NEWS At the General Spring Board held in Richmond, Virginia on March 9, 2013, President General, Mrs. Jamesene E. Likins (Jamie) (Roy Weldon) presented the Jefferson Davis Law Award to Mrs. Megan M. Coker. Mrs. Coker was presented a beautiful gold watch and certificate. Seated: Jamie Likins, President General Left to right: Pam Trammell, Vice President General, Megan M. Coker, Award Recipient, Jan Pieroni, Registrar General, Dolores Smith, Treasurer General and Betty Arnold, Recording Secretary General. Mark Your Calendar!    The Massing of the Flags date has been changed to 8 June 2013.  The date was changed to accommodate a three day event, culminating on 3 June (President Jefferson Davis’ birthday) with the Grand Opening of the Jefferson Davis Library at Beauvoir in Mississippi. Mr. Bertram Hayes-Davis, the great-great grandson of President Davis, will be our guest speaker at our Massing Ceremony and we hope to see many Daughters at this special event. (Posted February 2013)

The United Daughters of the Confederacy is the outgrowth of many local memorial, monument, and Confederate home associations and auxiliaries to camps of United Confederate Veterans that were organized after the War Between the States. It is the oldest patriotic organization in our country because of its connection with two statewide organizations that came into existence as early as 1890 -- the Daughters of the Confederacy (DOC) in Missouri and the Ladies' Auxiliary of the Confederate Soldiers Home in Tennessee.

The National Association of the Daughters of the Confederacy was organized in Nashville, Tenn., on September 10, 1894, by founders Mrs. Caroline Meriwether Goodlett of Nashville and Mrs. Anna Davenport Raines of Georgia. At its second meeting in Atlanta, Ga., in 1895, the Organization changed its name to the United Daughters of the Confederacy. The United Daughters of the Confederacy was incorporated under the laws of the District of Columbia on July 18, 1919. The objects of the organization are Historical, Educational, Benevolent, Memorial and Patriotic: To collect and preserve the material necessary for a truthful history of the War Between the States and to protect, preserve, and mark the places made historic by Confederate valor To assist descendants of worthy Confederates in securing a proper education To fulfill the sacred duty of benevolence toward the survivor of the War and those dependent upon them To honor the memory of those who served and those who fell in the service of the Confederate States of America To record the part played during the War by Southern women, including their patient endurance of hardship, their patriotic devotion during the struggle, and their untiring efforts during the post-War reconstruction of the South To cherish the ties of friendship among the members of the Organization Membership is open to women no less than 16 years of age who are blood descendants, lineal or collateral, of men and women who served honorably in the Army, Navy or Civil Service of the Confederate States of America, or gave Material Aid to the Cause. If you are interested in joining, please fill out our contact form below.