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By: Diane Shuman

3rd Vice-President, Registrar, and liaison for the Children of the Confederacy.

The organizing meeting of the Plant City Chapter #1931 of the United Daughters of the Confederacy© was on February 27, 1927.  Mrs. J.A. Pearce urged Mrs. Mary Noel Moody to organize a chapter in Plant City.  Twenty-three ladies signed on as organizing members.  The Chapter was received on May 20th, 1928 with forty-seven members.

Soon after receiving its chapter, the chapter held its first public meeting in the 1914 High School auditorium.  It was a joint meeting of the Sons of the Confederacy and the Daughters of the Confederacy, with a purpose of bringing to the public the songs and ways of their beloved Southland.

Their first Memorial Day Service was in 1928.  In those first years, they started compiling a Role of Honor, a list of Confederate soldiers, later awarding the Cross of Honor to many of those men.  Other activities were placing the pictures of Confederate Generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson in the elementary school and the library.  They wrote poems, stories, and songs about their ancestors, contributed money to Southern causes.  During WWII, they bought War Bonds, rolled bandages, send care packages, and donated to foreign relief.

Mary Noel Moody was the first president, and in 1948 was elected as the president of the 5th Florida Brigade, now know as the Florida Division.

The UDC collects and preserves rare books, documents, diaries, letters, personal records, and other papers of historical importance relating to the period between 1861-1865.

Through out 80 years, the Plant City Chapter has tried to up hold the purposes of the United Daughters of the Confederacy©.

Southern Cross of Honor      Crosses of Military Service and Medals

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