UPSON COUNTY  GA  OBITS  Elizabeth Glover

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LADY WHO STARTED VETERANS' REUNION IS DEAD

News has just been received of the death , April 14, of
Mrs. Elizabeth Glover at her home, Chickasha, Okla. This
will be learned with regret by thousands of friends in
Georgia and over the South.

Mrs. Glover had attained her 85th year. She spent the
most of her long life in Georgia, but for some twenty
years past had lived with her daughter, Mrs. A.C. Johnson
at Corsicana, Texas.

She was the widow of Col Thomas Glover, of the Twenty
first Georgia regiment. It was at her suggestion that her
husband's regiment gathered in an annual reunion [1867]and out
of this grew the Confederate Veteran's Reunion.  At the
Richmond reunion she was accredited as the originator of
the movement leading tho these happy historic gathering
of the "boys in gray".

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According to the September 1928 issue of "Confederate
Veteran": "It was in June 1867 that Mrs. Glover called
together in reunion at Campbellton, Ga., the survivors of
Company A, 21st Georgia Regiment, the company that went
into service with her husband as captain. At that meeting
only twelve of the old company got together,and the
orator was Col. Thomas Latham of Atlanta. They arranged
to hold an annual reunion as long as any two of them
lived, to meet together and talk over the days that tried
men's souls.

On Sept. 19, 1864, Lt. Col. Glover was shot and killed
instantly during a maneuver at Winchester, Va. He is
buried there.

Company A, 21st Ga. also included Lizzie Camp Glover's
brothers Joseph, Benjamin and Charles D. Camp. Another
brother, Thomas B. Camp,was killed at Chancellorsville.

Lizzie Camp Glover lived briefly in Douglas County, Ga.,
in the 1880s before moving to Indian Territory then to
Corsicana, Texas, where she was active in veterans'
organizations. She died on April 14, 1915, and is buried
in Corsicana's Oakwood Cemetery with daughter Augusta,
1861-1925,  her husband Alonzo C. Johnson, 1854-1914, and
their son Earle Clay Johnson, 1888-1961. Other children
were Mamie Glover, 1852-1878, buried at Campbellton, wife
of Eugene H. Beck; William, born 1855; and Clara, born
1859. Dr. Glover's brother Joseph S. Glover was a 1st.
lieutenant of Co. A (shown as absent, wounded, Aug. 31,
1864). Their brother John F. Glover, 1828-1877, left
descendants in Douglas County.