East Carroll-West Carroll-Ouachita County Louisiana Archives News.....Memorial Day Exercises May 30, 1904
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The Sentry -Lake Providence, La. May 30, 1904
  The ceremonies held in the Lake Providence Cemetary Wednesday, May 22, in 
honor of the Confederate dead of East Carroll Parish were beautiful and 
appropriate.  The programme had been arranged by the Edward Sparrow Chapter of 
the Daughters of the Confederacy.  The parade started at the public school 
house at half past five o'clock in the afternoon.  It was arranged as follows: 
First, two carriages, one containing the Sponsor of the Confederate Veterans, 
Miss Eddie Bass and her Maids of Honor, Misses Mary Beard and Alma Angell, 
escorted by Mr. Eugene Guenard, continuing Judge J.M. Kennedy, the orator of 
the of the occasion, and the ministers of the Gospel, Rev. C. Mahe, Rev. J. 
Engle Denson, and Rev. F. Boberg.
  The carriages were followed by a number of others containing spectators.
The ranks on the side walk were arranged in this order;  First, the 
Confederate Veterans, Second, The Daughters of the Confederacy, Third, The 
young ladies and little girls of Lake Providence.
  On reaching the cemetary, the procession wended its way to the place m where 
stood the white memorial cross that had been erected for the occasion.
  The crowd formed itself into a semi-circle.  The speakers of the day, and 
the Confederate Veterans stood beneath the branches of an old oak tree.  The 
Daughters of the Confederacy, the people who had come to witness the ceremony, 
and the little girls dressed in white and fairer than the great wreaths they 
carried, stood around them.
  The services opened with a  prayer by Father Mahe.  This was followed by 
Judge J.M. Kennedy's oration.  Then after the graves had been blessed by Rev. 
J. Engle Denson, The Daughters of the Confederacy took the wreaths of flowers 
from the  memorial cross, and laid them, one, upone the grave of each 
Confederate hero.
  The services were closed by Rev. F. Bogerg.  The memorial services were 
conducted with the utmost simplicity and dignity.  There was no sky scraping 
oratory, no false demonstrations of grief or regre.  The ceremonies were held 
in honor of the Confederate soldiers that had offered to lay down their lives 
for their country and for principles which they deemed right, and the 
speeches, and the prayers and the gratitude of the people seemed to spring 
from the memory of the offering, naturally, spontaneusly, as the flowers and 
the vines and the trees of the forest, spring from the soil of the earth.

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