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Tri-Counties Genealogy &
History by Joyce M. Tice
A Pictorial Catalog of
Commemorative Flagholders &
Plaques
of Organizations &
Military
Womens Relief Corps
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Commemorative Plaques & Flagholders
of Military and Organizations
as Photographed by Joyce M. Tice
Woman's Relief Corps
W.R.C
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The Following is excerpted from American Women's History, Doris Weatherford,
Prentice Hall, 1994, page 384
A Post Civil War phenomenon, the Woman's Relief Corps worked through
local chapters to relieve the sufferings of disabled veterans, war widows,
and orphans. In the North it functioned as an AUXILIARY of the Grand Army
of the Republic, but in the South, where the GAR had no equivalent, there
nonetheless were units of the Women's Relief Corps.: Tampa, Florida,
for example, was #5. Separate units run by black women on behalf of black
veterans existed in the North; the Boston unit founded by Susie King Taylor
and others in 1886 was # 67. In addition, some areas had similar organizations
with names like Ladies Relief Society or Ladies Memorial Society.
These groups concentrated on cemetery maintenance and the erection of
war memorials. The May 30 observance of Decoration Day in the South and
Memorial Day in the North owed much to the organization efforts of these
women. Their era of greatest activity was in the 1880s and 1890s, when
those who had been shaped by the war had begun to age, and they feared
that wartime sacrifices would be forgotten as the nation rushed on towards
the twentieth century.
I am including four examples of these markers found in New York
and Pennsylvania cemeteries in year 2000.
In a message dated 6/11/2009 10:37:36 AM Eastern Standard
Time, Orton50 writes:
I was looking at your web site regarding the WRC aux to the GAR.
You show some of the flag holders.
You state that it is the former wrc. The wrc is still in existence.
We have state and national conventions. We have a museum in Springfield
Ill. We still serve veterans and do historic preservation and Keep alive
the memory of the GAR. We meet in conjunction with the Sons and Daughters
of Union Veterans and the Aux to the sons and Ladies of the GAR. Together
we are the allied orders of the GAR.
Sincerely
Lorraine Orton
National Historian WRC
New York Dept vice president Aux. to Sons of union veterans
Published On Tri-Counties Site On 06/05/2003
By Joyce M. Tice
Email: JoyceTice@aol.com
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