Rains County, Texas Postcard to B F Morrow, Emory TX
July 11, 1905
Headquarters 8th Missouri Vol. Cavalry
Springfield, Mo., July 7th, 1905Comrade,
Our 18th annual Regimental Reunion will be held in Odd Fellows Hall on the public square in this city August 2nd and 3rd, 1905. This departure from our old custom has been in contemplation for three or four years and has now been adopted after consulting with many of our comrades in and near Springfield. The Park and the Fair Grounds are pleasant places to meet, but the labor and expense of preparing for our occupancy and then for their return to the owner has become quite burdensome to the President and Secretary. Note this Comrade:
From 9 o'clock a.m. til 12 - only our own members, and their families will be expected. At 3 o'clock and 9 p.m., however, the doors will be open to the public, and then all old soldiers, their families and friends and the public generally are most cordially invited to meet with us.
We shall have attractive programmes and interesting speakers, musicians, etc., etc. Don't fail to come because of this change in our meeting place. You will be delighted with it.
We shall have some good old soldier speeches, and some fine music - as we shall draw on the city for assistance and shall expect to get the best.
Comrade, we want to remind you that this will be the 40th anniversary of the muster out of our regiment.
Jno. W. Lisenby, President
M.O. Bedell, Secretary and Treasurer.
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The postcard was addressed to B.F. Morrow, Emory - Posted from Springfield, Mo. July 11th, 1905.
This item of historical note comes from Mrs. Dora Glissen, daughter, 50009 Del Ra Dr., Greenville, and only child living.
Benjamin Franklin Morrow was born Nov. 21, 1845 in Leesville, Missouri. He lived with his family until the age of seventeen, when he joined the Union Army. He served as a Calvaryman until the war ended in 1865. On the 6th day of December, 1866, he was married to Temperance M. Myers. To this union 11 children were born, six girls and five boys. He and his family moved to Bosque County, Texas in 1890. He moved to Rains County, Texas, where he lived until his death Sept. 8, 1922.