Remembrances for June

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 4^th

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 6^th

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 6^th

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 8^th

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 11^th

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 13^th

Douglas Southall Freeman

An excellent historian and journalist.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Douglas-Southall-Freeman

 

June 21^st

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 23^rd

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 30^th

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!