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
June 4th
Governor Esteban Miro
Spanish Governor of Louisiana
(1785-1791). He gave the colony good
Christian laws and oversaw the rebuilding of New Orleans after the 1788 Good
Friday fire. He left Louisiana to become
a general in the Spanish Army ‘to the great regret of its whole community’.
http://www.storyvilledistrictnola.com/governors.html#namespanish
June 6th
Patrick Henry
The famed Virginia orator (‘Give me
liberty, or give me death!’), he served as Virginia’s first post-British
governor, but later in life turned down many offers of powerful political
office in favor of private life.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/472/patrick-henry
June 6th
General Turner Ashby
One of Dixie’s best cavalry leaders during
the War, though not without his weaknesses (he was a bit undisciplined).
https://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/dvb/bio.php?b=Ashby_Turner
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8336/turner-ashby
June 8th
President Andrew Jackson
A bit of a mixed bag as President, although
he did fight manfully against the national banking cartel.
https://thehermitage.com/andrew-jackson-and-the-bank-war/
June 11th
Louis de St Denis
An early French explorer of Louisiana who
helped found the city of Natchitoches, the oldest settlement in Louisiana. He also had some adventures and romance in
the Spanish territories to the west and south, where he married Manuela, the
granddaughter of the Spanish Commandant.
http://www.offms.org/ancestors/louis_st_denis.html
June 13th
Douglas Southall Freeman
An excellent historian and journalist.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Douglas-Southall-Freeman
June 21st
Captain John Smith
A military adventurer early in life, he was
also a key figure in the settlement of Virginia.
https://historicjamestowne.org/history/pocahontas/john-smith/
June 23rd
Reverend John Girardeau
A fine pastor who labored much in the
vineyard of the South’s slave population.
http://www.pcahistory.org/HCLibrary/periodicals/spr/bios/girardeau.html
June 30th
James Oglethorpe
The founder of Georgia. His original altruistic vision for the colony
didn’t quite work out, but he is nonetheless a man of talent, vision, and good
character.
http://www.ourgeorgiahistory.com/people/oglethorpe.html
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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!
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