battlefield, resting upon a crude litter with his head pillow-draped in the battle flag of the Confederacy. We behold his image so life like that this vision mirrors the scene beside the
waters of Tennessee, back to the field of Shiloh. People of all nations will look upon his face, one of God’s noblemen, and read the inscription on the tomb, which tells of a life courageous in peril, unostentatious in victory, cut down in the effulgence and glory of his military achievement.”

In 1899 our chapter hosted the 4th annual Texas Division Convention in Austin, Texas. That same year the chapter was also engaged in gathering hospital supplies for two Austin companies of soldiers marching off to the Cuban war. By 1900 the chapter was urging the Texas Division “to take immediate steps to secure a fireproof room in the State capitol for safekeeping of all relics donated to this organization and that a committee be appointed to take care of the matter.” Mrs. Z. T. Fulmore of our chapter was appointed chairman. The chapter donated to Hood’s Brigade Memorial Window for the Texas Room at the Confederate Museum in Richmond, Virginia. The window was placed on June 27, 1902. We also started collecting funds for a monument in Oakwood Cemetery for General Thomas Greene. Efforts to secure a museum room were realized when the 21 st Texas Legislature Concurrent Resolution No. 4 (1903) provided the Room (Sec. 1) – “That the northwest room on the first floor of capitol … be set aside for the Daughters of the Confederacy of the State of Texas to house their collected relics … to protect an exhibit and care for same”. Col. N. L. Norton, the benefactor
responsible for securing this room, died in 1903. A fund drive for establishing a Confederate Women’s Home in Austin began in 1903. By 1906 land was bought in Hyde Park north of town. A cornerstone was laid on March 15, 1907. The home was dedicated on Jefferson Davis’ birthday June 3, 1908. This Home was later deeded to the State of Texas in 1911. The State
financed the operation until it ceased operation in 1963. Gov. James E. Ferguson added the hospital wing. The last three residents were removed to a nursing home. Our chapter faithfully provided loving care for the ladies throughout the years. The chapter also hosted the 12th annual Texas State Convention in 1907.

The fund drive for the monument to General Tom Greene was completed and the 24 foot gray granite shaft was dedicated in Oakwood Cemetery on February 22, 1909. In 1912 the chapter collected funds for scholarships. This scholarship became the Sallie Carruth Farley Scholarship Fund for Travis County students. The fund was placed at the University of Texas and was first awarded in 1924. The World War I years were busy ones for the chapter. Bond drives, patriotic
parades and benefit assemblies were arranged.

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