Thursday, April 30, 2020

Remembrances for May


Dear friends, if you have time, please pray for these members of the Southern family on the day they reposed.  Many thanks.

But one may ask:  ‘What good does it do to pray for the departed?’  An answer is offered here:  https://orthochristian.com/130608.html

May 1st
Harry Hosier and George Liele. (The exact dates of their deaths are not recorded, so the approximation of 1 May is used instead.  Thanks to Mr William Federer for mentioning them in one of his history posts.)
Harry Hosier was a slave, born in North Carolina, folks reckon, and after gaining his freedom he became a very talented preacher who rode with Bishop Francis Asbury on his circuits.
George Liele was a slave from Georgia who became a fruitful missionary in Jamaica upon gaining his freedom.

May 6th
Judah P. Benjamin
A Louisiana lawyer and senator, and later Secretary of State for the Confederacy.  He went through hard times with the grace characteristic of the South. 
He may have had a hand in planting States’ Rights ideas into the Canadian constitution from his time as a lawyer in England.

May 10th
Gen Thomas J. ‘Stonewall’ Jackson
One of the South’s finest men.

May 10th
John Gould Fletcher
A Pulitzer Prize winning writer.  A craftsman of both poetry and prose.

May 11th
Roger Busbice (2019)
A man from our own time, but a man nevertheless dedicated to Dixie’s well-being.  He was a kind mentor to those who asked him for help in learning about Southern ways.

May 12th
Gen J. E. B. Stuart
One of the South’s best cavalry commanders.

May 25th
Rev Benjamin Morgan Palmer
An influential pastor in New Orleans both behind and away from the pulpit.

May 25th
George Garrett
Virginia’s Poet Laureate from 2004-6, amongst many other literary achievements.

May 26th
Eliza Lucas Pinckney
An enterprising matron in the worlds of business and art.

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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!

Anathema to the Union!

3 comments:

  1. Thank you for this post. For more on Harry Hosier, please visit the website for the book series, The Asbury Triptych, at www.francisasburytriptych.com.

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  2. I recently published an article on early black leaders in America. You may enjoy this; https://www.francisasburytriptych.com/strong-roots-can-buckle-the-pavement-the-earth-moving-efforts-and-effects-of-americas-first-black-leaders/

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