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December 2016 The Missouri Compact Newsletter 1

Newsletter of the Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Missouri

The Missouri Compact VOLUME 30, ISSUE 3

FOCUS ON JUNIOR MEMBERSHIP

“I BELIEVE IT IS OUR RESPONSIBILITY AS ADULT MEMBERS OF OUR SOCIETY TO

EXPOSE OUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN TO THEIR PILGRIM HERITAGE.”

Ruth Major, Fall 2016 Mayflower Quarterly Magazine

As the new Junior’s Chairman, I implore each of you to consider the gift of Junior Membership for each of

your children and grandchildren under the age of 18. For a one-time registration fee of $25 your descend-

ant can receive periodical age-appropriate educational mailings from the Missouri Society. Applications

are available for print on the momayflower.org website or by contacting me at 816-524-1817 or at May-

[email protected]. Mail directly to me at 1012 SE 5th Street, Lee’s Summit, MO 64063. Please in-

clude your check payable to the Missouri Mayflower Society.

Marietta Boenker, Junior’s Chairman 2017-2018

For information on the above needle point cushion, turn to page 9 in this issue.


2016-2018 OFFICERS AND BOARD OF ASSISTANTS

At the Fall Luncheon in St. Louis, Missouri, on September 24, the following slate of officers was presented

to the membership . These nominees were voted into office. Those newly elected board members pre-

sent took the pledge of office at the November 16th Compact Luncheon held at Andre’s in St. Louis.

Officers: Governor—Keith Morris

Deputy Governor—Fred Evermon

Secretary—Earlene Lawrence

Treasurer—Joan Gooding (Also Compact Luncheon)

Historian—Damon Hayward

Captain—Keith Morris

Surgeon—Dr. James Shoemaker

Elder—Fred Evermon

Counselor—Diane Metzger

Assistants: Marietta Boenker (Web-site, Newsletter, Junior Membership)

Barbara Morris (Fall Luncheon, Education/Scholarship)

Sandra Walker (TBA)

Bernice Lindbergh (Education/Scholarship)

Mimi White (Education/Scholarship)

Susan Nitzsche (Spring Luncheon)

L to R: Mimi White, Earlene

Lawrence, Joan Gooding, San-

dra Walker, Keith Morris, Fred

Evermon, Marietta Boenker and

Barbara Morris.

Not shown: Damon Hayward,

Dr. James Shoemaker, Diane

Metzger, Bernice Lindbergh,

and Susan Nitzsche.


WELCOME OUR NEWEST MEMBERS

Aug 28, 2016 Mary Ellsworth Miller (Francisco) of Ballwin; Descendant of William Brewster

Nov 29, 2016 Kenneth Welcome Baily of Holden; Descendant of Edward Doty

NEW SUPPLEMENTS

Jun 21, 2016 Glenn Edward Erwin Descendant of William Mullins

Jun 30, 2016 Velma Louise Diamond Descendant of John Tilley

Jun 30, 2016 Velma Louise Diamond Descendant of Joan Tilley

Oct 17, 2016 Amy Owers Anderson Descendant of John Howland

IN MEMORIUM

Bernice Joan (Mantel) Henry, descendant of Stephen Hopkins, passed away July 8, 2016

List of donors Jan to Sep 2016

Marietta Boenker

James Borgman

Lovis Brodbeck

Fred Evermon

Carolyn Fermann

Susan Gilbert

Sylvia Grote

Geraldine Hubbs

Earlene Lawrence

Mary Luke

Dr. Maryellen McVicker

Sarah Sullivan

Jeffrey Thorton

Carol Williams

Madelene Woodbury

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GREATER OZARKS COLONY FALL LUNCHEON FEATURES

2016 MISSOURI SCHOLARSHIP WINNER

On Saturday, October 29, 2016, the Greater Ozarks Mayflower Colony held its fall luncheon and meeting at

the Golden Corral Buffet and Grill, Springfield, MO. Governor, Sandra Walker, welcomed members and

guests and introduced speaker, Rachel Veenstra. Rachel won the 2016 $1500 Missouri Mayflower Scholar-

ship. Miss Veenstra graduated from Ava Victory Academy of Hartville. She will be attending Missouri State

University in Springfield pursuing degrees in Agronomy and Environmental Plant Science.

The next meeting of the Greater Ozarks Colony will be in

April 2017. Location TBA.

Colony Governor, Sandra Walker, and guest speaker,

Rachel Veenstra.

Left to right: Margaret Maulin, Historian; Sandra Walker, Gover-

nor, Rachel Veenstra, speaker, and Cathy Pickett, Secretary.


Ohio Hymnist Composes Music for Mayflower Song

Reprinted from the September 2016

(Ohio) Buckeye Mayflower newsletter with permission by the Author E. Paul Morehouse, Western Reserve Colony, Ohio

An article in the Summer issue of the Wisconsin Society Mayflower Descendants

Newsletter, set my wheels spinning. The article was entitled “The Mayflower

Song.” Like many of you, I had no idea that the General Society had an “official”

song. The words were written by Richard H. Greene of the New York Society and

the music was composed by W. (William) Howard Doane of the Ohio Society.

Doane joined the Ohio Society on 28 March 1899 as General Society #647 and Ohio

Society #27, a descendant of Stephen Hopkins.

Doane had an interesting life. Born in Preston, Connecticut, his father was a part-

ner in a cotton manufacturing firm. As a youngster, Doane displayed an aptitude

for music, attended country singing schools with his siblings and by age ten he

played flute with the local church choir. Next came the violin and the double bass.

As a teenager, he served as choir director at Woodstock Academy, a Congregation-

alist school from which he graduated in 1848 when he composed his first piece of music, “The Grave be-

neath the Willow.” That same year, he became a clerk in his father’s firm. After three years, he left to head

the financial department of J. A. Fay and Company, a manufacturer of woodworking machinery. In 1847 he

was converted to the Baptist faith and remained an active adherent for the remainder of his life.

In 1856 he published his first cantata and the following year he married Frances Mary Treat, daughter of his

father’s partner. Two years later he moved to Chicago to run Fay Company’s western offices. That same year

he received the first of his more than seventy patents and two years later he and his part-

ners relocated the company to Cincinnati and he took control of the firm.

In 1862, he suffered a near-fatal heart attack and pledged to devote his talent to musical

evangelism if he recovered. Keeping his vow, he composed songs for the Sunday School

market.

Before his death on 24 December 1915, Doane and his partner of 48 years, Fanny Crosby

produced over 200 well known hymns including, “Jesus Keep Me Near the Cross,” “I Am

Thine, O Lord,” and “Pass Me Not, O Gentle Saviour.” Their popular hymn “Safe in the

Arms of Jesus,” was sung at the funerals of President Ulysses S. Grant and James A. Garfield. Doane com-

posed music for about twenty-three hundred hymns and gave all money earned by his music to charities,

namely the Cincinnati Art Museum, the YMCA, and Denison University.

Most of Doane’s papers are located at the American Baptist Historical Society in Mercer University, Atlanta,

Georgia. (Mayflower Song published on next page)


The Mayflower Song

Verses: When the little pilgrim band left their home and native land,

And the Mayflow’r sails were trustingly un-furled ….

Thro’ their toils on land and sea, God was leading them to be

His own cho-sen ones to lead and bless the world ..

On the sea as on the land, They could feel His guiding hand,

And they knew His eye would lead them ev-er-more; …

When the waves were rolling high, And the winds their ship would try,

They could trust His strength to bring them to the shore.

On this bar-ren coast at last, All the o-cean pe-rils past,

With a wil-der-ness a-round them to subdue; …

They still trusted in His might, In each turn to guide them right,

And the pil-grim band thus met each tr-ial new.

Now their labor’s at an end, In their place we stand today,

May we ever prize the triumphs here they wrought; …

May our Father’s God still send Strength to be as brave as they,

Ever faithful to the truth the Pilgrims taught.

Chorus; When they sailed ….. from England’s strand

When they sail’d from England’strand, England’s strand

Leav-ing home …. And na-tive land,

Leav-ing home and na-tive land, na-tive land,

Here they sought …. A for-eign shore,

Here they sought a for-eign shore, a for-eign shore,

Where in peace their hearts could wor-ship ev-er-more.*

*Composed for the Second General Congress of the Society of Mayflower Descendants held on 15 September 1900. Sources: Wis-

consin Society Mayflower Descendants Newsletter, Summer 2016; American National Biography Online, 2014; Christian Biog-

raphy Resources, undated; and Wikipedia, April 2016.


HEART OF AMERICA COLONY HOLDS ANNUAL FALL LUNCHEON

Saturday, November 12, 2016

About 35 Kansas City area members attended

the Fall Luncheon of the Heart of America

Colony with newly elected Governor, Susan

Nitzsche, at the helm. We were honored

with a review of the Compact, Constitution,

and Religious Freedom by her husband, Da-

vid, who is an avid student of the US Con-

stitution. Governor Susan Nitzsche had en-

couraged attendees to wear pilgrim costumes

at her first meeting. She is strongly proposing

that we all get outfitted for the coming 2020

Mayflower Landing 400th Anniversary Cele-

bration. Pam Henry, sporting an American

Flag shirt, listens intently.

Speaker, David Nitzsche, presents

Compact and the Constitution.

Dressed in their home-made pilgrim costumes are Marietta Boenker, Mr. and Mrs. Brandon

Reed, and Governor Susan Nitzsche. Use these examples to create your own costume.

The Mayflower Education Gazette has wonderful information on how to make a period outfit for your Colony, State, or

the next BOA meeting. Volume I, Issue I, has detailed instructions for the apron. Issue II has the skirt and men’s

breeches. You can get the coif and felt hat from Plimoth Plantation (on line). Issue III doesn’t seem to be available.

Issue IV has the women’s waistcoat. It also has a picture of members who have created their own outfits. Light weight

wool, linen or linen-weight cotton, and muslin are suggestions for fabric choices. Let’s have fun and do this! The Great-

er Ozarks Colony was the inspiration, and the Junior’s Mayflower Education Gazette is a wonderful help. You will need

to Google Mayflower Education Gazette to get the information. http://michmayflower.org/education.htm


MISSOURI MAYFLOWER DESCENDANTS COMPACT LUNCHEON

Andre’s Banquet Facility, St. Louis

Saturday, 19 November 2016

Missouri descendants gathered to enjoy a delicious meal at the spacious

Andre’s Banquet Facility. Following the meal, Governor Keith Morris in-

stalled the 2016-2018 board followed by “Family Stories”, personal an-

cestry based on a Civil War diary, from Speaker Earlene Lawrence.

The Missouri Society holds its Compact Luncheon annually on the Satur-

day preceding Thanksgiving Thursday. This year’s luncheon was chaired

by Joan Gooding who did an outstanding job and provided colorful cen-

terpieces at each table to the delight of participants.

Governor Keith Morris introduces

featured speaker, Earlene Law-

rence.


Front page Needlepoint:

In the 1980s Dorothy Doty, the wife of our late Past Governor John Hewitt Doty (1975-1977 &1990-1992), made up a beautiful throw pillow in Bargello* needlepoint. Dorothy was a master needle worker and the pillow came to my possession later after it was won in a fund-raising raffle by a friend, from whose estate I purchased it. I recently ran across the instructions for the nee-dlepoint and would happily copy and send them to an interested party. The canvas could also be made into a tote bag, seat cover, or other items in addition to being the face of a beautiful knife-edge pillow as this one, or a box pillow. Please contact me by email at [email protected] or call 636.220.2442. Questions of course answered as quickly as possible.

Leslie Richards.

*Bargello is a type of needlepoint embroidery consisting of upright flat stitches laid in a mathematical pattern to

create motifs. The name originates from a series of chairs found in the Bargello palace in Florence, which have a

"flame stitch" pattern. Traditionally, Bargello was stitched in wool on canvas. Embroidery done this way is remark-

ably durable. It is well suited for use on pillows, upholstery and even carpets, but not for clothing. In most tradition-

al pieces, all stitches are vertical with stitches going over two or more threads.

MISSOURI SOCIETY HOLDS FALL LUNCHEON AT C.J. MUGGS, ST. LOUIS

On a beautiful fall day

(September 21st to be exact),

members of the Missouri May-

flower Society gathered to-

gether for our annual business

meeting at C.J. Muggs in St.

Louis. The main focus of the

luncheon was to vote on the

slate of officers nominated for

the 2016-2018 term of office.

As usual, Governor Keith Mor-

ris entertained attendees with

his Pilgrim’s Tale quiz. Mem-

bers have a lot of fun with the

challenging questions, and to

see who knows (or remem-

bers) the most correct an-

swers.

mailto:[email protected]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Needlepoint

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embroidery

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bargello_palace

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence


Newsletter of the Society of

Mayflower Descendants in

the State of Missouri

Earlene Lawrence, Secretary

34 Evergreen Lane

Glen Carbon, IL 62034-1708

[email protected]

Missouri Compact Editor

Marietta Boenker (816) 524-1817

[email protected]

Website: momayflower.org

WREATHS ACROSS AMERICA

On Saturday, December 17, wreaths will be placed at the markers of those

who have fought in wars or otherwise served our country. This will take

place at every U.S. National Cemetery throughout America beginning at

11:00 a.m. You are invited to participate by volunteering to help place

wreathes or by donating. If you live in the greater St. Louis area, join our

Governor Keith Morris, key-note speaker, and other Missouri Mayflower

members at Jefferson Barracks. Bring your children and grandchildren to

enjoy this recognition of our U.S. Veterans.

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!

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