Daughters honor Confederate vets

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During the High Cemetery Memorial Day June 13, members of the Jesse
Miller Foster Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy held a special
memorial and dedication for all Confederate veterans buried at High Cemetery. The members taking part were, from left, Betty Wilson, Carrie Woolverton, Sherrie Archer, Lou Ann Everett, Benja Mize, Donna Carter, Sylvia Sims, Cynthia Harman, Linda Dean, Sylvia Barbee, Sibyl Creasey and Sandra Jones, seated.

Members of the Jesse Miller Foster Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy conducted a special memorial service and marker dedication for all Confederate veterans buried at High Cemetery June 13.

The ceremony took place during the regular High Cemetery Association Memorial Day event.

Chapter members taking part in the dedication were Donna Carter, Chapter President, of Edgewood, Benja Mize, Lou Ann Everett, Sandra Jones, Sherrie Archer and Sylvia Barbee of Canton, Sibyl Creasey of Ben Wheeler, Betty Wilson of Grand Saline, Sylvia Sims of Edgewood, Linda Dean of Wills Point, Cynthia Harman of Colfax, and Carrie Woolverton of Kaufman. The association president, Pastor Jim Leach, also took part in the ceremony.

Those Confederate veterans honored were Oren Armstrong, William Jefferson Baker, James C. Callahan, Thomas J. Crabb, Henry H. High, James J. High, Marcus Lafayette High, Alexander G. Lane, Jonathan Montgomery, Matthew M. Norman, John Berry Parker, Rickerson C. Pierce, Bryan Theo Sanders, Thomas F. Scott, Elias Philip Seale, Humphrey McDaniel Teel, Daniel Cooper Tyler, and William George Wilson.

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