Lehi Sun | 1923-01-11 | Page 4 | Memorial for Pershing's Mother

Memorial For . Pershing's Mother 8tcUdiij youth t Marysvlllo, Tonn., Jan. Captain mcasur i EmorBon J. Lonas post of tho Amerl- duct of can Legion horo will mark tho birth- thospei ' placo of OonoraJ I'orshlng's mothor turt,t'8 "(,( In Ulotinf county with a moinorlal tab- lotpost. offlcluls. havo announced. Bn,t ltl 1 , SInco lt becomo known that tho Bocnti0 ' mqtlior of Ooneral Pershing was born tnco hr ln"nfount county, tho local Loglon n profe post undortook to provfdo' n sultablo co,u,ln ' , , memorial " to mark tho placo and j Hobort Barker, chairman ot tho lino JyJJ . arts committee took tho mattor up moillu8 ' with? tho TonnoBsco Historical BCt out , ' Society, which furnished tho bronzo would 1 I cast. It In approximately two feot by as It d( I throo fcqt tit ulzb and hoars tho fol- . lowltig Inscription: ' TJl0 , . ' ' "Ulrthplaco of Anno ElUaboth Wctcai ', , Thomppcm, mother of Ooneral John ,nosj p J. 1'orshlng, born Fobruary '15, 1835. tho fac Eroded by Captahi Einorson J. Lonas hundrei post No. 13 American Legion, and death i tho Tonossco historical commission, jaortnla 1922."