West Liberty History 1838-1938

Source: One Hundred Years of History
* Commemorating a Century of Progress in the West Liberty Community * WEST LIBERTY, IOWA
WOMEN'S RELIEF CORPS

Silas Jackson Corps No. 152 Auxiliary to Silas Jackson Post No. 255 was organized in 1888 with a membership of 33. Mrs. Mary Baxter was the last charter member to pass away.

The corps of today is a busy group of women, interested in child welfare. They have donated to the Perkins hospital in Iowa City to the library for books, toward paving the street to the cemetery. They send boxes of fruits, jellies and cushions to the Soldiers Home at Marshalltown. At Christmas time they remember the shut-in members, veterans, and Spanish-American soldiers with boxes of fruit and candy. They served the first Rotary luncheons. They have presented a flag to each of the churches and a large one to the assembly room of the high school, the Corps was instrumental in placing the Soldier's monument at the cemetery.

The membership at present is forty three. The oldest living member is Mrs. Sarah Tharp, aged ninety-eight years, the mother of two active members.

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