Your web page is great and it looks like you all are a very busy chapter!! I enjoyed reading about your activities. Jan Greene, Pres. 2008-2010, Judah P. Benjamin Chapter #1545
I am very interested and want to become a REAL member with you. My mother's family were decendants of the Waldens who settled south of Plant City in the early 1800s. Both my mother and father had ancestors in the War between the States
I learned about the UDC from several of you who have befriended me. Thanks
Just working on my family history. My great great grandfather has a Southern Cross of Honor on his grave and I was researching the item. My family settled in Plant City in the early 1900''s from Lake City. My great great grandmother was a Sparkman - who was also from Lake City. My grandparents lived on Turkey Creek Road and were truck farmers.
From United Daughters of Confederacy web site
Tribute to a Confederate Pastor 1 Lt. Daniel Sloan was my 3rd great-grandfather. He was a remarkable man. He was a pioneer, farmer, Seminole Indian War veteran, and Baptist preacher. In 1864 -and at the age of 53 years- Sloan served as an officer in the legendary "Florida Cow Cavalry." After he resigned from the Cow Cavalry, it appears he continued to serve the Southern cause in the State Militia in Florida. There is an SCV camp named for him in Geneva, FL. I think the greatest thing about Daniel Sloan is that he was a man of God. According to one source, Sloan was one of the first Baptist preachers to settle in Central Florida. He was a beloved pastor and helped plant a church in what is now Polk County, FL. UNK CARLOS SLOAN
Great site. Keep up the good work.
Sally, A special thank you and appreciation for your ability to get our publicity out for all to see in such a timely way through this web site. We are all proud of our chapter! In UDC love, Martha Sue
Very well done and I'm glad to be a member!! Kay Moody Buffington
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Excellent presentation...did not know about your Cow Cavalry dedication until I found it on the internet...am g-grand-daughter of 2nd Lt. Joel Knight of Co. C, Cow Cavalry...formerly of Knight's Station...
found on internet
I have been a member of this chapter for just over three years, my first meeting was just when Sally had the cookbook almost ready for the printers, she asked for a few more recipes and I had some to add, it was an honor and a privilege to be part of this undertaking, even in such a small way, and I was so proud to sell as many as I could. I just want to say how wonderful it is to see the memorial completed and look back and be thankful for that cookbook, because it really helped us to see the dream come true, the whole chapter pulled together and worked so hard to accomplish this, I just want to say what an honor it is for me to be part of this group of special women and how proud I am of our little chapter, Sally and Jane put the book together and worked hard on getting the advertising, the late Rosa Nell Hayward for just going out of her way to get the book out there to be sold, Claudette for taking over supplying Fred's market with books, taking them and picking up the money and delivering it, after Rosa passed. I could go on and on, but I want to thank each one for all the work and effort it took to make this happen. We are truly blessed.
Beautifully done. I am always proud of our gracious and lovely Southern Ladies.
What a beautiful web page!! Very attractive and just full of excellent information. This page is a real knock-out!! Jane Congdon Eliza Barnes McLendon UDC Chapter
In an e-mail link!
looking for pics of confederate poinsettias will be back to further check out this most interesting site
What a wonderful monument. I loved looking at all the pictures. It brought back memories of my days as a student at the then Tomlin Jr. High.
UDC member Beverly Chisolm, Caycee, South Carolina, my sister in law
I am very involved in researching, recording and preserving history and the most important thing anyone can do is to preserve it with all the documentation you can find. To try and sweep anything under the rug or hide what is the real history of the past is very narrow minded. As a citizen of today, we should try to live a life that is fair to all. We cannot correct what happened in the past but it is utterly important to preserve all history because it is history. Too often, we eliminate even the littlest facts when writing today but not one drop of information should ever be lost because it was not of interest to someone who is compiling today for their own interest. When you can locate a very early publication or record and read what was really happening back then, it is like looking through a window into yesterday. Our lives do not even come close to what effort it was to live 100 or 200 years ago. I am not sure many of us today could have survived as they did and we owe it to the earlier generations to preserve their stories. Anyone who is a member of any society who has anything at all to do with history needs to be sure that they can say that they did everything they could to be sure all history has been preserved. Many people belong to organizations for the sake of saying "I'm a member" but if you haven't cared enough about history to have gotten involved, dropped everything and waded into the work at hand, I have to ask what was your reason for joining? If nothing else, be sure today's history is recorded as it really is and not by people who are biased and leaving out all the facts for the sake of making it sound good. There is too much fake information in the world today. GET INVOLVED!!
A friend in FL asked if I heard about this and I looked it up on the Internet
from SCV friend