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Silver Spoon Returned to Cedar Falls Chapter in 2005.

For centuries, a silver spoon commemorated a birth, special event, or even a death. The Cedar Falls Chapter owns a spoon from a charter member who felt that the Chapter and DAR was important enough to her to have a spoon made for her.

 

This beautiful spoon is marked with Cedar Falls Chapter DAR on the bowl of the spoon and the letter “P” on the front of the handle and “09” on the back. After some investigating, it was learned that the spoon belonged to former charter member Lura Hubbell Phillps, who joined the chapter in December, 1889.

 

Lura received her teaching degree from Iowa State College and was a teacher of Physical Culture at the High School.  She served as Vice Regent of the Cedar Falls Chapter 1901-1903 and Registrar from 1906-1908.  She then served as Historian from 1909-1912.

 

The following line appears in the Chapter minutes for September 9, 1909:  "A bill for $1.25 for spoon bought of H.L. Chase & Co. for Miss Phillips was allowed and was order paid."  About May 5, 1910, Lura married Henry H. Markley, widower of Mary Schenck Markley, the first Regent of the Cedar Falls DAR Chapter. 
 

It is believed that Henry and Lura lived in Lumija, Chiapas, Mexico from 1911 – 1917, and then moved to Florida.  In October, 1928, Lura Hubbell Phillips Markley transferred to the Ponce De Leon Chapter in Winter Haven, Florida.  Lura died 14 September 1947.  Her interment was held at Scott Morris Mausoleum, Lakeland, Florida.

 

The spoon traveled with Lura from Iowa, to Mexico then to Florida but it was lost from the time of her death until 2005 when it was recovered by an Iowa DAR member on Ebay.

 

 
 

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