Confiteri: Remembrances for May

Friday, April 30, 2021

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

Along with prayers and hymns for the departed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6je5axPodI

May 1^st

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.

http://gcah.org/history/harry-hosier

George Liele was a slave from Georgia who became a fruitful missionary in Jamaica upon gaining his freedom.

https://nlj.gov.jm/project/george-lisle-liele-1750-1826/

May 2^nd

William Dawson

The head of the School of Music at the Tuskegee Institute. A noted composer and conductor of choral/orchestral music.

https://www.tuskegee.edu/student-life/join-a-student-organization/choir/william-l-dawson-tribute

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPhDb3XnXHs

May 4^th

William Henry Trescot

‘Writer, diplomat, historian.’ A native of South Carolina who wrote an important short essay titled ‘The Position and Course of the South’.

https://www.scencyclopedia.org/sce/entries/trescot-william-henry/

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=moa;idno=ABT5714

May 6^th

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.

https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/blog/the-neo-confederate-scotus-justice/

He may have had a hand in planting States’ Rights ideas into the Canadian constitution from his time as a lawyer in England.

https://cbr.cba.org/index.php/cbr/article/download/2641/2641

May 10^th

Gen Thomas J. ‘Stonewall’ Jackson

One of the South’s finest men.

https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/blog/thomas-j-stonewall-jackson/

https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/review/stonewall-jackson/

May 10^th

John Gould Fletcher

A Pulitzer Prize winning writer. A craftsman of both poetry and prose.

https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/john-gould-fletcher-1646/

May 11^th

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.

https://attakapasgazette.org/attakapas-gazette-volume-1-2014/leonidas-polk-fighting-bishop-louisiana/

http://www.youngsanders.org/guerrilla.html

May 12^th

Gen J. E. B. Stuart

One of the South’s best cavalry commanders.

https://www.battlefields.org/learn/biographies/j-e-b-stuart

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/986/james-ewell_brown-stuart

May 25^th

Sarah Breedlove (Madam C. J. Walker). ‘This child of sharecroppers transformed herself from an uneducated farm laborer and laundress into one of the twentieth century’s most successful, self-made women entrepreneurs.’

https://madamcjwalker.com/about/

https://www.biography.com/inventor/madam-cj-walker

https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/madame-c-j-walker

May 25^th

Rev Benjamin Morgan Palmer

An influential pastor in New Orleans both behind and away from the pulpit.

https://banneroftruth.org/us/about/banner-authors/b-m-palmer/

http://www.scencyclopedia.org/sce/entries/palmer-benjamin-morgan/

May 25^th

George Garrett

Virginia’s Poet Laureate from 2004-6, amongst many other literary achievements.

https://evblog.virginiahumanities.org/2008/05/george-garrett-1929-2008/