David Farragut Chapter, USD 1812
Walnut Creek, California
Organized April 2, 1985
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David Farragut Chapter, USD 1812 meets three times a year
(January, Spring and October)with a group of
heritage
Organizations called “We The People” at various
locations
around the San Francisco Bay Area.
HISTORY
The National Society United States
Daughters of 1812 was organized
on January 8, 1892 on the anniversary of
the Battle of New Orleans.
The society requires lineal descent
from an ancestor who rendered military,
naval or civil service between the close of
the American Revolutionary War in 1783
and the close of the War of 1812 in 1815,
Military service
may be in any one of sixteen recognized
engagements between those dates.
ELIGIBILITY FOR MEMBERSHIP
Admission to membership in the
National Society is by invitation after
an affirmative vote by the chapter or
state society.
Applicants shall have the endorsement
of two members in good standing
to whom the applicant is personally
known.
Membership is available to women age
eighteen and over who can
offer satisfactory proof that they are
lineal descendants of an ancestor who,
during the period of 1784-1815 inclusive,
rendered civil, military,
or naval service to our country,
rendered material aid to the U.S. Army or Navy,
or who participated in the Lewis and
Clark Expedition.
Junior membership is available to girls
and boys from birth through age 21.
Young women between the ages of
eighteen and thirty-five are known
as Flora Adams Darling Daughters in
honor of the Society's first president.
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