Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Remembrances for November – 2024

 

October Addendum

29 Oct. – General Nathan Bedford Forrest

On to November’s remembrances:

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

4th – Gabriel Manigault, an influential architect in South Carolina.

https://www.scencyclopedia.org/sce/entries/manigault-gabriel/

Examples of his designs may be viewed at these sites:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Manigault

http://www.nationalregister.sc.gov/charleston/S10817710069/

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:

https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/America/United_States/Louisiana/New_Orleans/_Texts/KINPAP/10*.html

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/

12th – Synaxis of the 12 Southerners of I’ll Take My Stand.  In celebration of the original publication of this noteworthy book on Nov. 12th, 1930, we remember and pray for the contributors to it:  Donald Davidson, John Gould Fletcher, Henry Blue Kline, Lyle H. Lanier, Stark Young, Allen Tate, Andrew Nelson Lytle, Herman Clarence Nixon, Frank Lawrence Owsley, John Crowe Ransom, John Donald Wade, and Robert Penn Warren.  The opening Statement of Principles from the book may be read here:

https://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA01/White/anthology/agrarian.html

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 roots.

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, visit these web pages:

https://southernorthodox.org/orthodox-saints-for-dixie-november/

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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