Lucius Fairchild Woman's Relief Corps Post 37 Records
1886-1971
- Lucius Fairchild Woman's Relief Corps Post 37
WVM Mss 1754
Papers, 3.6 linear ft. (7 archives boxes and 4 flat boxes)
Wisconsin Veterans Museum
(Map)
Records pertaining to the Lucius Fairchild Woman's Relief Corps Post 37 of Madison, Wisconsin, auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic Post 11. Records include journals containing meeting minutes, letters sent to the post, cash books, ledgers, rolls of members and other post materials. Journals contain meeting minutes that cover the activity of the post at regular and special meetings. Cash books contain information about the balance of money held by the corps, payment of dues and payments to others. Ledgers contain membership and dues payment information. Member rolls and include information on each member. Each entry has the name of the member, the date joined and the date they left the corps. Also included in the back of each ledger is a “necrology” of members who had died in the span of each journal. Letterbooks contain correspondence sent to the corps from members, other posts, GAR posts, people asking for aid, and notices sent to the corps. Materials pertaining to the Corps include bylaws, membership applications, honorable discharge cards, quarterly reports of the secretary and treasurer, order forms for Corps materials and newsclippings about the Corps and Civil War matters.
English
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