Harrison Arkansas Confederate Veteran's Reunion

(Picture found in scrapbook in Memphis, Tennessee 2007)

Harrison (Ark.) Daily Times - Thursday, April 12, 1973
Confederate Veterans Reunion

The Confederate Veterans Reunion was held in Harrison in 1914. The files of the Times of September 18, 1914 had this account:

On the morning of the second day of the exConfederate Reunion last Saturday, a parade was made, ending with an automobile ride about the city.

After this a photograph was made of the Camp in a body, standing on and around the north steps of the court house.

In the afternoon addresses were made by Judge E.G. Mitchell, Troy Pace, Mrs. Minnie Helm and others. Mrs. Harvey Lewis read an original poem — a tribute to those who wore the Gray, and the Daughters of the Confederacy, led by Mrs. J. E. Andrews and Misses Nona and lnez Williford, sang “Maryland, My Maryland.”

Most of the people are identified but several are not. If you can identify them, call Dr. Troy Coffman of Harrison, who furnished the photo.
Identified by numbers, the group includes:

1. Morris Vance
2. Abe Brooks
3. M. M. Hathcoat
4. Sid Allen
5. Joseph W. Bryant
6. Thomas J. Creel
7. George J. Crump
8. John H. Coffman
9. Mrs. John H. Coffman
10. Mrs. Ben M. Estes
11. Ben M. Estes
12. John J. Marrs
13. —
14. Joe Jackson
15. —
16. John McDonald (?)
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19. Bud Potts (?)
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21. Will A. Blalock
22. Holsford (Tuck) Ratcliff
23. W. H. Harrell
24. James Wasson
25. —
26. —.
27. Jason F. Whittaker
28. Charlie Burns
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33. J. W.Andrews
34. William (Bill) Clark
35. —
36. —
37. —
38. —
39. —
40. Wilshire Pruitt
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43. Joseph George Williford.