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Confederate Veteran Magazine, October 1931Entry/Object ID
AM9999.581.13565Scope and Content
Confederate Veteran October 1931, This is Vol.XXXIX. On the front cover is large stone with a plaque as a memorial to Dan Emmett. It was placed by the Ohio division, United Daughters of the Confederacy, to honor the composer of "Dixie".
This memorial tablet to Dan Emmet is set in a massive native stone, which was dedicated on June 18 to the memory of Daniel Decatur Emmett as the composer of "Dixie". This is the tribute of the Ohio Division, United Daughters of the Confederacy, and is placed on the lawn of the Knox County Memorial at Mount Vernon, Ohio, where Emmett was born, lived his last years of a roving life, died, and is buried in the city cemetery. The dedication of this tablet was on June 18, 1931, under the auspices of the Daughters of the Confederacy, and with a program of interesting exercises. The tablet was presented to the City of Mount Vernon by Mrs. Marcus Wade Crocker, President of the Division, and accepted for the city by the President of the Chamber of Commerce, Mr. R. L. Kempton.
Credit is given to Mrs. Charles LaRue, Chairman of the Emmett Committee,U.D. C., as designer of the tablet, which carries a bar of the music.
Daniel Decatur Emmett was born at Mount Vernon, Ohio October 29, 1815. and died there at the age of 89 years, active almost to the last. In the forties he organized a troupe of black-faced comedians and called it the "Virginia Minstrels, " and with which he appeared himself, being a good singer, but excelling with the flute and violin. When he was more than eighty years old, he appeared one season with Al G. Field's Minstrels," and then retired permanently.Lexicon
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