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
5th – Carrie Tuggle. ‘Mrs. Tuggle was a person of unique strengths. She excelled in the areas of education, social work, and religion.’
http://www.awhf.org/tuggle.html
9th – Pierre Laffite, the gentlemanly, rascally pirate of Barataria Bay, Louisiana. He and his brother Jean are well-known for their role in the Battle of New Orleans and other acts of mischief. Quintessential lovable rogues. New Orleans’s Grace King gives details of their life:
10th – Lott Carey, Colin Teague: Both were slaves in Virginia who purchased their freedom and then became missionaries in West Africa.
https://www.christianity.com/church/church-history/timeline/1701-1800/lott-carey-11630295.html
https://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/taylor/taylor.html
https://www.bu.edu/missiology/missionary-biography/t-u-v/teague-colin-collin-teage-c-1780-1839/
14th – Booker T. Washington, a prominent leader in the postbellum South
https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/blog/booker-washingtons-bucket/
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/1073/booker-taliaferro-washington
15th – Ambrose D. Mann, a colorful character who worked in the Confederacy’s diplomatic corps
http://www.chab-belgium.com/pdf/english/Mann.pdf
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/74906039/ambrose-dudley-mann
15th – Roy Clark, a talented musician and comedian, perhaps best known for his work on the TV show Hee Haw
https://countrymusichalloffame.org/artist/roy-clark/
20th – John Lejeune, a Cajun fellow who had a big impact on the uS Marine Corps.
https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/review/the-greatest-of-all-leathernecks/
22nd – Mary Boykin Chesnut, a valuable author and historian of the South
https://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/chesnut/bio.html
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8574/mary-boykin-chesnut
23rd – Louisa McCord and Marion Montgomery, a couple of very versatile and talented writers
https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/blog/a-lady-champion-of-free-trade/
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9685397/louisa-susanna-mccord
https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/marion-montgomery-1925-2011
24th – John William Corrington, another notable recent Southern author, hailing from NW Louisiana, one who unapologetically loved his Southern identity.
https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/john-william-corrington-and-southern-conservatism/
https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/the-better-men/
https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/are-southerners-different/
Also, to celebrate some of the saints of November from the South’s Christian inheritance of various lands, follow this link on over:
https://confiterijournal.blogspot.com/2019/12/happy-feast-for-saints-of-november.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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