Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

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Lucy C. Williams. She died not very long ago.
Then Alice Draper who wrote this was a teller in a bank.
f
e bank was
where Coe ' s Book Store is now, but I don't know what bank t was, don't
relllember. "When trekkzng o1re the Russian slops, or ski g fl-om the
hei@ts/donlt let the Cossacks bluff you, or Bolsheviks ght/But when -
you need a passport, there ' s only one thing to do/Just sa , ' I'm an -
Avonian, ' and they '11 promptly let you th-. "
Q. (laughter)
A. "Peoples motley, peoples badly need our ca;r/People si and needy else
over there, over thereflo help them rightly we're sadly a $ a loss/But
here steps in ri&t boldly our Amrican Red Cross/French, klgium, AmEnian.
Slav, Pole, EbhemLadHottentot and what-may-notmear for qur aid will help
you too/We1 11 help to Assyria; we '11 help you to Siberia/Qur God hath all
of them made,'' this is all one poem. %a& one and all oQ service must be
so that we and they live mre happilyhhile many must find their best service
at homdsonu3 can help better when afar they roan& dear &Tend, we know you
peat good can dome ' re proud to be well acquainted with wlsh you
also a good time to see/and in happy circumstances may yoy always be/And
when across you have had a flin@;/may memories of fr-iends back home you'll
brin@;/Thou& best of dl, ray you find the right msu?/and warm by your fireside,
our dear friend, Ann." ?hat was Kate Newlin Barnes, She was a teacher
when she was Kate Newlin. She married Mr. Barnes, a prinqer, had a print
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shop. They had twins.
And I ~ ~ m bher e r telling entertaining us with a story out the tw$ns. Her
husband took care of one baby at niat, and she took of the other.
Q. Was that all one poem? 1
A. Yes, that was all one poem. One poem. And then the last, when phe watch
was presented, ItToni&t our he-s beat high with pride, in you who4 We hold
very dear/Welre sending to the other side, a messenger of hope and cheerme
little thowt we ' d have a part, in unraveling the tanglea skeins that war
has lef't/But you will bear the Avonian flag to Russian plUns/ We cannot
see you triumph then, but this our gift with you may roafle hope 'twill
watch you everywhere, and speed at last your coming horn. '' That was the
watch, you see. That was Rlss Welsh,
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Then May 3rd, I have an additional note in l957 on that.
and h erd services at Smith Brothers.It That poem I was
to Niss Graham, her mend who she lived with.
Q. Was Uss Graham [curator of the Vacheel Lindsay horn1 an A~niipi?
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A. Yes, she was. We don't have it anymore. They're all mst of t em
dead. 'The past week,'' then I go on, "the past week has been an ex eedingly
bwy ax? in preparation for the long journey ahead. Shopping, dent stry
luncheons, dinners, business matters in general, have keprl; rm going constantly.
Wednesday ni&t there was a beautiful mmorial service held at the
Presbyterian Church in honor of Miss Jane Delano, our geptly beloved
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"fiss Welsh died
requested to @ve