Unmarked Grave
Mention was omitted last week of the death of Mrs. Bandy, a most estimable colored woman of this city, who had lived here many years. In her young days Mrs. Bandy was a slave, owned in Arkansas, but during the war her husband having enlisted in the Union army, she made her escape from bondage and came north. She was a member of the Relief Corps, of this city, under the ritual of which organization she was buried last Thursday. Mrs. Judge Fee, as President, Mrs. John Elliott, as Senior vice, and Mrs. Jos. Payton, as chaplain, as well as others of the order assisted in the ceremony.
The Centerville Citizen, Wednesday, August 12, 1896
Mention was omitted last week of the death of Mrs. Bandy, a most estimable colored woman of this city, who had lived here many years. In her young days Mrs. Bandy was a slave, owned in Arkansas, but during the war her husband having enlisted in the Union army, she made her escape from bondage and came north. She was a member of the Relief Corps, of this city, under the ritual of which organization she was buried last Thursday. Mrs. Judge Fee, as President, Mrs. John Elliott, as Senior vice, and Mrs. Jos. Payton, as chaplain, as well as others of the order assisted in the ceremony.
The Centerville Citizen, Wednesday, August 12, 1896
Unmarked Grave
Mention was omitted last week of the death of Mrs. Bandy, a most estimable colored woman of this city, who had lived here many years. In her young days Mrs. Bandy was a slave, owned in Arkansas, but during the war her husband having enlisted in the Union army, she made her escape from bondage and came north. She was a member of the Relief Corps, of this city, under the ritual of which organization she was buried last Thursday. Mrs. Judge Fee, as President, Mrs. John Elliott, as Senior vice, and Mrs. Jos. Payton, as chaplain, as well as others of the order assisted in the ceremony.
The Centerville Citizen, Wednesday, August 12, 1896
Mention was omitted last week of the death of Mrs. Bandy, a most estimable colored woman of this city, who had lived here many years. In her young days Mrs. Bandy was a slave, owned in Arkansas, but during the war her husband having enlisted in the Union army, she made her escape from bondage and came north. She was a member of the Relief Corps, of this city, under the ritual of which organization she was buried last Thursday. Mrs. Judge Fee, as President, Mrs. John Elliott, as Senior vice, and Mrs. Jos. Payton, as chaplain, as well as others of the order assisted in the ceremony.
The Centerville Citizen, Wednesday, August 12, 1896
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