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:
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
--
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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