CONWAY — In 1920, Conway's Memorial Day parade began, as usual, at the Red Men's Hall, near the Four Corners. The Civil War veterans of Custer Post No. 47, Grand Army of the Republic, had been meeting in that building for four decades, and they always led the procession.
Under the nominal direction of their 76-year-old post commander, George Pitts, and accompanied by their wives and daughters in the Women's Relief Corps, the veterans marched to the corner and turned down Main Street. At the Methodist Church they listened to a speech or two, and local tenor William B. Hounsell sang a hymn. A chorus of Conway High School students provided a patriotic medley. After Pitts read the Gettysburg Address, they all started back to the cemetery to decorate the graves of their departed comrades.
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