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
1st
Harry
Hosier and George Liele. (The exact dates of their deaths are not recorded, so
the approximation of 1 May is used instead.)
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
2nd
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
4th
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
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.
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
9th
Augusta
Jane Evans Wilson
‘Augusta
Jane Evans Wilson (1835-1909) was one of the most popular American novelists of
the nineteenth century and certainly the most successful Alabama writer
of her time. Her literary fame made her a prominent citizen of Mobile,
where she spent most of her life. . . .
She published nine novels, of which Beulah and St.
Elmo are the best-known.’
http://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-1072
May
10th
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
10th
John
Gould Fletcher
A
Pulitzer Prize winning writer. A
craftsman of both poetry and prose.
https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/john-gould-fletcher-1646/
May
10th
Confederate
Memorial Day for North and South Carolina
https://www.southernagrarian.com/holidays/
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.
http://www.youngsanders.org/guerrilla.html
May
12th
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
17th
Gen
John C. Breckinridge
A
talented orator who became the youngest VP in uS history. He served well in the War as a general and as
Sec. of War for the Confederate States.
He died young, only 54, nine years after the War.
https://www.history.com/topics/us-government-and-politics/john-c-breckinridge
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/132/john-cabell-breckinridge
May
25th
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
25th
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
25th
George
Garrett
Virginia’s
Poet Laureate from 2004-6, amongst many other literary achievements.
https://evblog.virginiahumanities.org/2008/05/george-garrett-1929-2008/
https://www.poetrysocietyofvirginia.org/content/poets-laureate-virginia
May
26th
Eliza
Lucas Pinckney
An
enterprising matron in the worlds of business and art.
https://www.nps.gov/chpi/learn/historyculture/eliza-lucas-pinckney.htm
https://www.sc.edu/uscpress/books/1997/3186.html
http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/becomingamer/peoples/text5/elizapinckney.pdf
May
30th
Confederate
Memorial Day for Virginia
https://www.southernagrarian.com/holidays/
Also,
to celebrate some of the saints of May from the South’s Christian inheritance
of various lands, visit these pages:
https://southernorthodox.org/orthodox-saints-for-dixie-may/
https://confiterijournal.blogspot.com/2020/06/happy-feast-for-saints-of-may.html
--
Holy
Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!
Anathema
to the Union!
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