The General Andrew Lewis Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution met for their monthly meeting on May 16 at the Activity Room of Old Stone Presbyterian Church. Regent Suzanne Cronquist presided and opened the meeting with the DAR Ritual and recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance.
The meeting was suspended for the introduction of the Speaker, Joe Geiger who is a Curator in the Special Collections of Marshall University’s Morrow Library. Geiger spoke about the Rosanna A. Blake Confederate Collection which was left to the library upon her death. Ms. Blake was born in 1912 in Proctorville, Ohio, and her family moved to Huntington when she was 10 years of age. She graduated from Marshall and received her law degree from University of Kentucky. She became fascinated with the Confederacy when she was a young girl and began buying memorabilia. At the time of her death in 1987, she had assembled one of the finest collections of Confederate history in the United States. Marshall has had possession of the collection since her death. The collection is accessible on Marshall’s website, www.marshall.edu/specoll/blake.asp.
The collection is invaluable for scholarly research and study of the Confederacy.
Following Geiger’s presentation, members ate their brown bag lunch and the meeting resumed.
The National Society Daughters of the American Revolution is a nonprofit, non-political women’s service organization whose main objectives are historic preservation, education and patriotism. Members are all lineal descendants of those who supported the cause of independence in the Revolutionary War in 1776. If you are interested in the Daughters of the American Revolution, call Registrar Sandra Cowan at 681-215-5303 during the afternoon hours.
