Robert E. Lee Chapter #885 The national United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) was organized on *September
10, 1894, by the uniting of many small groups
of ladies organizations which existed to provide
care to the Confederate Veterans and their families.
The objectives were, and still are, concentrated
on “Memorial, Benevolent, Historical, Educational
and Patriotic” in purpose.
The Robert E. Lee Chapter of Seattle was organized at a meeting called by Confederate
Veteran Judge John A. Allen, a member of the
John B. Gordon Confederate Veterans Camp of Seattle,
at the Lincoln Hotel on February 28, 1905. Sixty-eight
Southern women signed the application for a new
charter. At the time, many of its members had
been actual Daughters of Veterans; with two members
having been Confederate nurses, Mrs. Rosalie
Claire Simpson, and Mrs. Marie Burrows Sayre.
The first elected officers of the new charter were:
Mrs. Arthur Priest, President.
Mrs. Samuel Carlisle, 1st Vice President.
Mrs. G.A.C. Rochester, 2nd Vice President.
Mrs. Walter Beals, Recording Secretary.
Mrs. Arthur Jordan, Corresponding Secretary.
Mrs. James Howe, Registrar.
*To celebrate the Chapter’s Centennial, a ball was held at the Wilsonian Ball
Room on University Avenue in Seattle on March 12, 2005.
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