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Adam R. Johnson Chapter 2498



Source: photos and text from Adam R. Johnson Chapter 2498, Fall 2005
updated 2006, 2008

HISTORY OF THE UDC:

The United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) is the outgrowth of memorial, monument, home associations and auxiliaries to Camps of Confederate Veterans, which were organized following the War Between the States. The UDC is the oldest patriotic organization in America. Existing as early as 1890, the National Association was formally organized in 1894.


OBJECTIVES:

UDC objectives include

 HISTORICAL, EDUCATIONAL, BENEVOLENT, MEMORIAL and PATRIOTIC.

The UDC was organized by patriotic, southern women who gave their time, talents and means to serve with no thought of compensation beyond the feeling of duty well done. The UDC continues to serve its historic past as the changing times required. In war, as in peace, the UDC yields to none in its devotion, patriotic service and loyalty to our beloved United States of America.

WHO CAN JOIN?

Those eligible for active membership are women no less than 16 years of age who are blood descendants, lineal or collateral, of men or women who served honorably in the Army, Navy, or Civil Service of the Confederate States of America (CSA) or gave material aid to the Cause.

 


General Adam R. Johnson


THE BURNET CHAPTER:

The Adam R. Johnson Chapter 2498 of Burnet was organized in May of 1985. The chapter is named for Kentucky native, Adam Rankin Johnson, CSA Brigadier General and commander of the Partisan Rangers. The General lost his eyesight at the Battle of Grubbs Crossings, Kentucky. After the War, Johnson returned to Central Texas and became a very important citizen. He was instrumental in getting the railroad to Burnet County, and settled a new community called "Marble Falls," which was often called "The Blindman's Town."

General Johnson died in 1922 and is buried in the State Cemetery in Austin.

The original Adam R. Johnson Chapter was organized in 1906 under the leadership of the wife of General Johnson, but ceased to be active in 1928.  The Chapter was re-chartered on 23 May 1985 with Mrs. Geneva Tetley as President.  Included in the membership was a granddaughter of General Johnson, along with one real daughter, six granddaughters, 19 great-granddaughters, two great-great granddaughters, and one great niece.


In 1992 the Adam R. Johnson Chapter No. 2498 merged with Llano Chapter No. 2500.  The merged chapters care for the Confederate Monument on the Llano County Courthouse Square.






MEETINGS AND CURRENT OFFICERS:

The Adam R. Johnson Chapter meets the fourth Thursday of each month (excluding July, August, November & December), 1:30 p.m.

Officers for 2008-2010

Vashti Tucker, President

Jane Knapik, Vice President

Pat Jones, 2nd Vice President

Victoria Pace, Recording Secretary

Doris Gates, Treasurer

Patricia Schultz, Registrar

Edna Cheatham, Historian

Kay Clarke, Recorder of Military Service Awards

Esther Pogue, Chaplain






For more information about Adam R. Johnson, see the following links:

Historical Markers
(Airy Mount, Johnson's former home in Burnet)

Photo Album

"Our Illustrious Ancestors: Johnson, Rankin, Eastland, Brazeale, and Speed", by Mary Johnson Posey

Burnet County History Vol II, page 173-174


Burnet County Confederate Pension Files

Burnet County Confederate Soldier Biographies

More Info about Burnet County, the war, and our people.






CHAPTER MEETINGS
(no meetings in July, August, November, December)

2009

24 January
Chapter Meeting, 1:30 pm, Marble Falls Library
My Confederate Ancestor
Pat Jones and Tootsie Beyer

26 February
Chapter Meeting, 1:30 pm, Marble Falls Library
My Confederate Ancestor
Colleen Kenyon

26 March
Field Trip to Confederate Museum
Columbus, Texas

25 April
Confederate Memorial Day Services
10:30 am, Grave Marking Services
Old Burnet Cemetery, Burnet, Texas

28 May
Annual Birthday Party
Marble Falls Library

25 June
Chapter Meeting, 1:30 pm, Herman Brown Free Library, Burnet
My Confederate Ancestor
JoAnn Myers and Maxine Cullison

24 September
Chapter Meeting, 1:30 pm, Marble Falls Library
My Confederate Ancestor by Jan Harris


 


SPECIAL DAYS OF OBSERVANCE:

2009

Jan 14 - Birthday of Mathew Fontaine Maury, C S N


Jan 19 - Birthday of Robert E. Lee,
Commander-in-Chief


Jan 21 - Birthday of Gen. Thomas Jonathan Jackson


Feb 3 - Birthday of Sidney Lanier,
b. 3 Feb 1842
d. 7 Sep 1881


April 26 - Confederate Memorial Day


May 23 - Organization of Chapter


June 3 - Birthday of Jefferson Davis


September 10 - Organization of the UDC - 1894


September 16 - Birthday of Admiral Franklin Buchanan


September 27 - Birthday of Raphael Semmes


October 8 - Birthday of John H. Reagan


December 12 - Birthday of Stand Watie






Past Special Observances

21 April 2007
Confederate Grave Markers, Crownover Chapel

Pogue Marker
Tucker Marker - G. W. Tucker Biography



24 April 2008
Confederate Grave Marking
Driftwood Cemetery, Driftwood Texas
John M. Morris



26 April 2008
Confederate Memorial Day
Vietnam Service Cross to Harold Smith






UPCOMING EVENTS:


2008


November 6-10
115th Annual General Convention
Richmond, Virginia

Tuesday, 11 November

Veterans' Day - 10:30 am. Tow Cemetery, Tow, Texas. 
Ceremony to place the flags, along with a small dedication service.

2009

January
Texas Confederate Heroes Day
Date and Location to be Determined


31 January
9:00 am - 3:00 pm
Annual Officers Forum, Waco

21 February
District VI Workshop
Kerrville, Texas

27 March
Field Trip to Confederate Museum
Columbus, Texas

23 April
Confederate Memorial Day Services
10:30 am, Grave Marking Services
Old Burnet Cemetery, Burnet, Texas

28 May
Annual Birthday Party
Marble Falls Library








Our Confederate Ancestors


John Beck    Abney
John  Alexander
James    Barker
Garland Walker    Barton
J. H.    Blackwell
Elijah Wilson    Bond
David C.    Booth
Nathan Gardner    Brinkley
John R.    Brown
James M.    Bullock
Andrew P.    Castleberry
Logan C.    Clardy
George Patrick    Crump
 James Waddie    Crump
William H.    Crump
Mark L.    Dean
George Washington    Draper
Newton Jordan    Edney
James L.    Egger
Miles    Eppler
James Gray    Felton
Hugh    Fitzsimons
Jeptha    Fletcher
Aaron Trice    Fuller
  Stepen H.    Fuller
William L.    Fuller
Joseph A.    Garner
Ernst Adolph Gustav    Gotthardt
John Milledge    Greathouse
Henley J.    Hamner
Miles    Hardy
Joseph Nathaniel Benjamin    Hawkins
Anton    Hoelscher
  Bernard    Hoelscher
Joseph    Hoelscher
William    Hoelscher
Thomas Samuel    Hood
Charles Martin    Hornburg
James Anderson    Jinkins
Jesse Christopher    Johnson
Richard J.    Johnson
Benjamin F.    Lane
 Crawford Jackson    Lane
Stephen C.    Lane
Morgan C.    Lee
Thomas B.   Leonard, Jr.
Charles B.    Lloyd
Christoph    Moeller
William   Moeller
Frank M.    Moore
Columbus C.    Morehead
 David Crockett    Morehead
John M.    Morris
Henry    Ockler
William    Ockler
Henry C.    Owens
Joseph Frank    Owens
William P.    Owens
Asa Alonzo    Partin
Robert M.    Powers
Alexander Merit    Prewitt
Cyrus Sherwood    Reeves
Joel Simmons    Robbins
H. M.  Ross
Green Berry    Sawyer
Bernard    Schneider
 Frederick    Schneider
William Richard    Smith
Samuel    Smith
William Johnson    Standifer
Andrew Jackson    Stewart
Richard Henry    Sugg
George Washington    Toombs
Joseph Samuel    Turner
John H.    Vickery
J. Vance    Vickery
Isam Butcher    Welch
Noah    Whiddon
Henry Swepson    Whitehead
L. S.  Williams
Jesse Franklin    Williamson
Morgan D.  Williamson
Joseph L.    Wilson
Thomas Spring    Wolf

Contact

for information on our Confederate Ancestors




Chapter Photos




Group on Memorial Walk at Camp Ben McCullough, April 2008






Touring historic Pound home in Dripping Springs, April 2008
http://www.drippingspringstx.com/history.html







Commemorating Confederate Memorial Day
Burnet Library, April 2008






Real Daughters Honored, May 1990

In Memorium

Iona Pearl (Toni) Hart Becker - 10 Feb 2002
Lou Helen McFarland Box - 3 June 2002
Aline W.  Bradley  - 31 Dec 2007
*Dixie Buckner - 29 Nov 1997
Eula Belle Maley Cook - 6 Feb 2003
Charlotte Doran - 2 May 2007
Clara Belle Martin Dorbandt - 26 Jun 2007
Anna (Santana) Aleman Felan - 6 Feb 2002
*Winnie Mae Williams Fluitt - 29 Apr 1994
Velvia Prewitt Wright Fuller - 14 July 2008
*Sophia Olney Haynes - 24 Mar 1989
Bernice Muriel Jackson - 15 May 2000
*Stella Stone Jacobs - 4 Mar 1990
Sara Louisa Brewer Lasley - 22 May 1989
*Lenora Simpson Low - 26 Feb 1999
Ruth Turner McShane - 2 Jun 1992
Helen Marshall Middleton - 14 Feb 1991
Lucille Guthrie O’Donnell - 30 Aug 1992
Ora Dell  Overstreet - 14 Feb 1998
Ruth Neal Corder  Patteson - 5 Apr 2002
Jeane Roberts - 1 Apr 2008
*Ora Josephine Lane Robinson 20 Jun 1991
*Lena Rodgerson - 25 June 1997
Bobbie Morgan Smykal - 19 Jun 2004
*Lillie Mae Stewart - 19 Mar 1995
Blanche McCann Tombs - 3 Dec 2001
Myrtle Owen White - 27 Apr 1987
Faydean Lee Wilson - 2 Sep 2001
Imogene Wilson - 26 May 1994
*Virgie Blackstock Wolfe - 21 May 2007


*Denotes Real Daughter

 



Useful Links:


HQ UDC:
<http://www.hqudc.org>
Texas Division of UDC:
<http://txudc.org>



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