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The Daily Dispatch: September 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], Runaway.--ten Dollars reward. (search)
Meeting in Chesterfield county. Chesterfield, Va. Sept. 8.
After due notice, a meeting was held at Trinity Church, on Monday, Sept. 2d, 1861,composed of the ladies in the vicinity of Clover Hill, for the purpose of organizing a Soldiers' Aid Society.
Mr. Wm. E. Blankinship was appointed Chairman pro tem., and Miss Kate Cox elected Secretary.
The objects of the meeting being duly explained, the election of officers was next entered into, and the following ladies chosen:
Mrs. James H. Cox, President.
Mrs. John R. Walke, Vice-President.
Mrs. R. P. Grymes, Treasurer.
Miss Kate V. Cox, Cor. and Rec. Sec'y.
It was, on motion, decided that the name of the society should be the "Winterport Soldiers' Relief Society."
The principal object of this association is to assist in procuring and making suitable and comfortable winter clothing for the needy soldiers who are at present deprived of the sweet comforts of home and the fonder care and aid of sympathiz