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Women from the Time of Mary Washington
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  • Mary Jewett Telford, Denver, Colo.
  • Augusta B. Henderson, Denver, Colo.
  • Angenette Peavy, Denver, Colo.
  • Josephine L. Peavy, Denver, Colo.
  • Frances A. Collar, Denver, Colo.
  • Julia A. Lynd, Denver, Colo.
  • Nora Mclntyre, Denver, Colo.
  • Maria F. Gray Pitman, Denver, Colo.
  • Emily Gardner, Denver, Colo.
  • Mary A. Ingersoll, Denver, Colo.
  • Margaret Freeman, Denver, Colo.
  • Mary E. Lattin, Denver, Colo.
  • Henrietta F. Mills, Denver, Colo.
  • Harriet B. Jeffries, Denver, Colo.
  • Lizzie M. Tarbell, Denver, Colo.
  • Harriet L. Heard, Denver, Colo.
  • Mary Berwick, Denver, Colo.
  • Louise E. Sherman, Colo. Springs, Colo.
  • Mary L. Carr, Longmont, Colo.

Mesdames

  • S. O. Ver Plank, Denver, Colo.
  • F. A. Driscoll, Denver, Colo.
  • H. B. Ayers, Denver, Colo.
  • W. H. Savage, Denver, Colo.
  • J. F. Lather, Denver, Colo.
  • C. E. Hanly, Denver, Colo.
  • S. D. Hunt, Denver, Colo.
  • H. L. Wadsworth, Denver, Colo.
  • W. H. Leaverns, Denver, Colo.

The Woman's Relief Corps is now the largest beneficent and patriotic organization of women in the world, their membership at last report being about 166,000.

They have spent in relief for the veteran or his dependent ones since organizing, more than three and a half millions of dollars, and upon their twenty-fifth anniversary, presented the Grand Army of the Republic with $5,000, and every year a gift of $1,000 is made for their permanent fund.

At the last convention of the Woman's Relief Corps the treasurer reported $27,267.18 as the total assets, with no liabilities.

At that convention it was voted, to set aside $3,000 for the Grand Army of the Republic, subject to any call of the commander-in-chief for aid of needy veterans; $2,000 for the aid of army nurses who do not receive pensions, and by reason of advanced age cannot provide for themselves the comforts they need; $1,000 for a memorial tablet at Andersonville Park upon which is to be inscribed the source from which the government received its sacred trust of that hallowed ground.

The Woman's Relief Corps has owned very much valuable real estate, notably Andersonville Park, Andersonville,