SOLDIERS' MEMORIAL HALL.

Upon the completion of the new court house in the spring of 1895 the supervisors set apart a room for the old soldiers of the county to be used as a Memorial Hall. The Grand Army posts of the county appointed a committee of one from each post, which met March 15, 1895, and organized the Memorial Hall Association. Rev. Andrew Renwick was chosen president; R. L. McReynolds, vice president; C. E. Black­ burn, secretary, and W. H. Hartwell, treasurer. The association has charge of the hall as trus­tees, and many war records and relics have been placed in their charge.

The present officers of the association are: R. R. Davison, president; H. T. Lape, vice president; John Holliday, sec retary; J. P. Higgins, treasurer and custodian. A movement toward the establishment of a Memorial Hall had been started by McCianahan Post No. 330, G. A. R., in 1886. A committee was appointed at that time composed of J. H. Herdman, J. P. Higgins, Dr. J. C. Kilgore, D. D. Dunkle, S. Boswortu, L. M. Lusk, John Lindstrum and C. D. Shoemaker, from the G. A. R., and E. J. Clarke, from the Sons of Veterans.

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