SC OCR Annual Meeting
April 1, 2000
Florence, SC
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| This is the very first Annual Meeting of the SCOCR!
Our first Society President, Dorothy Perry.
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The activities started on Friday, March 31, with
a Caravan Tour of Florence. We visited the Florence War
Between the States Museum, Florence
National Cemetery, Mt. Hope Cemetery (100 Cherokee Road
Florence) & Florence Stockade Site.
We also had a wonderful home-style lunch at a local restaurant. |
| This interesting pose shows OCR members with one foot into
the gateway to the Florence Stockade. |
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| There is only one Confederate grave at the Florence National
Cemetery. |
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| Mt. Hope is a lovely cemetery, with a large
Confederate Monument in the center of a divided road. The grassy area
around the monument was square and suggested the battle flag. So we took
over 100 miniature battle flags and stood them in the ground from corner
to corner to symbolize the X of the flag. We had some children with us for
the tour and they helped us meander among the headstones, where we left
flags for each Confederate Soldier that we found. A partial list of names
was furnished by the cemetery. |
| The SCV hosted a reception on Friday evening at the Ramada.
Some of us met in our rooms later to finish making the party favors for
our meeting. Everyone is tying red, white and blue ribbons on straw
broomsticks. |
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| At the OCR Business Meeting, Dorothy presented
the charter to our newest chapter, Ada Bacot Chapter of Florence. Bacot
President, Karen
Williamson, accepts the charter. Dorothy passes the gavel to the new
Society President, Anne Gelwicks.
The Program is a Slide presentation given by Jeanne Weil. The subject
is the exhumation of Confederate soldiers/sailors from under the Citadel stadium and the reinterment services. |
| We were invited to attend the SCV Awards Lunch and
speaker. |
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Following the luncheon, the OCR went on a
tour of the Roseville Plantation in Florence.
It is the ancestral home of Ada W. Bacot, Confederate Nurse, from whom the Florence Chapter of OCR has chosen its
name.
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| It was a very full weekend. It included Vendors,
and the SCV Memorial Program. |
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