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The Knights and Ladies of Honor originated as a splinter group of the Knights of Honor, a fraternal secret society founded in 1873.In 1875, the Knights of Honor created an auxiliary, the Degree of Protection, open to wives, mothers, widows and unmarried daughters and sisters of members of the Knights of Honor, as well as male members of the parent order.
Myles Walter Keogh (25 March 1840 – 25 June 1876) was an Irish soldier. He served in the armies of the Papal States during the war for Italian unification in 1860, and was recruited into the Union Army during the American Civil War, serving as a cavalry officer, particularly under Brig. Gen. John Buford during the Gettysburg Campaign and the three-day Battle of Gettysburg.
Thereafter, representatives of the degree met in Louisville and organized a new society, the Order of Mutual Protection of the Knights and Ladies of Honor, subsequently known as the Knights and Ladies of Honor. [12] The Knights were founded by an original group of 17 men in 1873 and increased to 99 by the end of the year.
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The community of Buford, Wyoming, was renamed in the general's honor. The town, nearly uninhabited, was sold at auction for $900,000 on April 5, 2012, to an unnamed Vietnamese buyer by its owner, who had served in the U.S. military in 1968–1969.
When National Honor Flight kicked off its trips shortly after the construction of the World War II Memorial in 2004 and as WDAY (now Veterans Honor Flight) got on board in late 2006, I think those ...
Aney Paul, left, Joann Robinson, Diane Shahin, Maria Pellicone and Helen Dean-Marino practice the Nightingale Tribute ceremony with the Rockland chapter of Nurse Honor Guard at the Blauvelt Fire ...
Male members are known as Knights Companion, whilst female members are known as Ladies Companion. The Order can also include supernumerary members (members of the British royal family and foreign monarchs), known as "Royal" and "Stranger" Knights and Ladies (Companion), respectively. The Sovereign alone grants membership to the Order, meaning ...