Dodge County GaArchives Military Records.....Confederate Mother ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000031 December 27, 2004, 7:24 pm Confederate Mother A CONFEDERATE MOTHER. MRS. NANCY HENDLEY HARGROVE. THE FOLLOWING is copied from the Times Journal of July, 1920: One of the most interesting events in the history of Dodge County was the presentation of the Confederate Bar of Honor to Mrs. Nancy Hendley Hargrove, a Confederate mother, on Sunday afternoon. The exercises were held at the home of Mrs. Hargrove and a crowd of about two or three hundred was present. This bar of honor is presented to each living mother of a living Confederate soldier in recognition of the most sacred gift that could be made by a patriotic woman. This gift was made by the Southern Confederate Memorial Association through Mrs. A. McD. Wilson, president general of the association, and who originated the idea of the bar of honor. The exercises were held under the auspices of the Fanny Gordon Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, and the presentation of the bar was made by Mrs. W. P. Cobb, president of the chapter. The occasion was in celebration of the ninety-sixth birthday of Mrs. Hargrove. Grandma Hargrove is the sixth living Confederate mother in Georgia, and the twenty-sixth in the United States to receive this bar of honor. Her son, Mr. Lark Hargrove, entered the Confederate army when only sixteen years of age. Mrs. Hargrove was born July 24, 1824. She was married at the age of nineteen to Andrew Jackson Hargrove, a minister of the gospel, and to them were born eleven, children, nine of whom are still living: eight boys and one girl. The oldest of these children is seventy-six, and the youngest is fifty-two years of age. Her immediate family consists of 161 members, viz.: nine children, fifty-five grandchildren, eighty-five great-grandchildren, and twelve great-great-grandchildren. Two of her sons are great grandfathers, and the daughter is a great grandmother. Mrs. Hargrove resides at the same home to which she moved sixty-five years ago and which is within five or six miles of where she was born and reared. She is a remarkable woman, in that despite her ninety-six years she can still get about and perform little household tasks that seem almost impossible for one of her years. She has a bright, clear mind, and can readily recall many incidents of the sixties. She also keeps abreast of the times and can discuss current events as intelligently as anyone. One of the sweetest and most touching things is the devotion and affectionate care of her two bachelor sons, Messrs. Levi and Hendley, who live with her. One is forced to know that God is in his Heaven yet when seeing these two white haired men, her "boys," treating their mother as tenderly as if she were a baby. In the great World War Grandma Hargrove was called upon to make a greater sacrifice in sending her grandsons forth to battle for world freedom. One of her precious grandsons, Albert McRae Hargrove, one of the finest young men of our town, and one with a brilliant future, volunteered his services to his country when the tocsin of war sounded in 1917 and joined the 5th Marines on June 5th, 1917. With a German bullet through his heart he fell at Chateau Thierry on the 8th of June, 1918, when the 5th and 6th Marines turned the tide of battle there. Her other grandsons were with those who returned. "0, great Confederate mothers, we would paint your names on monuments, that men may read them as the years go by and tribute pay to you who bore and nurtured hero sons and gave them solace on that darkest day when they came home with broken swords and guns." Additional Comments: From: HISTORY OF DODGE COUNTY COPYRIGHT 1932 By MRS. WILTON PHILIP COBB Printed by FOOTE & DAVIES CO., ATLANTA. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/dodge/military//other/gmt145confeder.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 4.3 Kb