The Elizabeth Wilcox Wallis Chapter No. 1794 of Rockdale received its charter March 7, 1923. The charter was signed by 26 charter members and the organizer, Mrs. Annie Grace Drake. Members numbered 66 persons. In 1923 they celebrated the joint birthdays of Lee and Jackson on January 19 with an opening meeting at the home of Mrs. Elizabeth Wilcox Wallis. Also in the report it stated that the club gave a national flag and a state flag on April 30, 1924, to the Rockdale High School. Stuart Austin Wier of Dallas made the address. On May 30th they observed Memorial Day, placing flags on the graves of soldiers. Growing out of this Memorial Day Rally was the compiling of a list of the soldier dead of Milam County. When the flu epidemic was raging the winter before, they sent flowers to sick and shut-ins.
SOURCE: Marshall, Mrs. E. V. (Ida Jo) (ed.), Rockdale Centennial: A History of Rockdale, Texas 1874 - 1974, Rockdale, TX: Rockdale Reporter, ca. 1974.
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