Recognizing that the perpetuity
of their own organization depended upon enlisiting the active interest
of boys and girls of Confederate descent, the founders of the United Daughters
of the Confederacy began early on the consider the necessity for organizing
the children and the advisability of forming among them chapters similar
to the parent organization. The first meeting held in Nashville,
Tennessee in 1894, at the conveintion held in Baltimore in 1897,
the UDC adopted a committee to form the Children of the Confederacy.
The first chapter was the Mary Custis Lee Children of the Confederacy in
Alexandria, Virginia, formed April 6, 1896, and named for Mrs. Robert E.
Lee. The Children of the Confederacy was formed to aid and
honor ex confederate soldiers in a work of love and charity.
The Norfolk County Grays UDC Chapter sponsors a Children of The Confederacy Chapter #830. The Chapter was founded by Mrs. Marguerite U. Hicks. The Norfolk County Grays Juniors #830 was chartered December 31, 1987 with twenty five (25) children.
Mrs. Anne H. Godwin is the current Director of the Norfolk County Grays Juniors.
