News!  Reunions!  Special Events!

If you'd like to post information on a Family Reunion or a Genealogy/History related event that
would be of interest to Madison County researchers, please contact Jeanne Arguelles.

2006

Annual Birthday Celebration and Family Reunion
Of Mrs. Minnie Faye Scarborough Moon

Sunday, August 27, 2006

Oak Grove Baptist Church Fellowship Hall
Highway 172 in Madison County.

Minnie Faye will be 89 on August 25! 
All relatives and friends are invited.
We will have barbeque and stew.
Everyone is asked to bring covered dishes and tea or other drinks. 
Ice and paper products will be provided.
Lunch will be served at approximately 1:00 p.m.

 We look forward to seeing you there!

2005

Collins Family Reunion
Saturday, October 15, 2005
Monroe, North Carolina

The descendants of Omar Jackson Collins & Alice Lou Rena Brown Collins will host a Family Reunion on Sat. Oct. 15th, 2005. We plan to have three special guests with us this year. We have invited Mr. Ron Jones to come and share with us about his book, "War Comes to Broad River." This novel of the Civil War is based on the diary of Isaac Vaughn "Ike" Moore (which is our Alice Lou Rena Brown Collins' maternal grandfather). Ron lives in Powell, Tennessee and is a direct descendant of William M. Moore (who was a brother to Ike).

We have also invited a couple of friends of our cousin Robert Scoggins this year. Their names are George & Janet Chance. They will be showing us some of what they do as members of a Civil War re-enactment group. Hopefully, this will help our younger ones to always remember this special day and what the book is really all about.

We have been meeting for the past few years at Paul Scoggins' horse farm at 7209 Concord Hwy (601), Monroe, N.C. Directions: From Hwy 29 and 601 at First Assembly Church, Concord. Hwy 601 is called Warren C. Coleman Road. Go past McDonald's & Walgreen's & Eckerd Drug store at Cabarrus Ave. south 22.1 miles. toward Monroe (35 min. drive). You will cross over Hwy 49 at 3.7 miles; at 13.1 miles you will come to Hwy 24/27 (in Midland, N.C.), go straight, when you cross county line the road changes to Concord Hwy. At 21.5 miles you will come to a stop light; go straight, the white fence on the right leads to Paul's drive-way. Look for 7209 on brick mailbox and turn right.  The barn is on the left and Paul's drive-way to his house is on the right. We plan to have signs at the road.

AGENDA
3:00p.m.- Guest Ron Jones, George & Janet Chance
4:00p.m.- Auction (a-lot of our kin will use this time to show off their
talents and raise funds for our reunion at the same time.)
5:00p.m. - Business & election of officers
5:30p.m. - Eat (This year we will have Bar-B-Q Chicken & Pork; everyone is asked to bring side dishes, deserts, tea and drinks.)
Later p.m.- Cake Walk

PLACE: Paul Scoggins Farm
DATE: 15 Oct. 2005
TIME: 3:00p.m. - until
Officers for 2005:
President: Tim Scoggins (704) 857-1496
Vice President: Ronnie Scoggins (704) 279-8693
Sec./Treas. : Tina B. Turner (704) 788-3097
Assist. Sec. /Treas. : Lynda S. Sloop (704) 788-1875 or Lynda e-mail at
tsloop@vnet.net

Omar and Alice Collins were from Madison Co, Ga. and moved to Kannapolis, N.C. in 1938. All of there children were born  in Madison County and are now deceased. Their grandchildren would love to meet anyone connected to our family from Madison County or through family connections. Looking forward to a great reunion. 
Thanks, Nathan Simmons (family historian)
 

BROWN - WHITWORTH REUNION
Saturday, October 2, 2005
Hull Civic Center, Madison County

Attention all family members of Georgia's Samuel Benjamin Brown and Parthamissa Stewart, William Southerland Whitworth and Parthenia Sanders, as well as George Thomas Whitworth and Frances E. Malcom. These lines are from the counties of Madison, Oglethorpe, Walton, Hart and Elbert Georgia

The Colbert Georgia Brown\Whitworth lineage team will be hosting our fourth annual reunion. We will be celebrating those who have gone before us and looking forward to establishing new relationships with our present family.

The reunion will be held October 2, 2005, at the Hull Civic Center. The Civic Center is located on Old Elberton Road just off Georgia Hwy.72, in Hull, Madison County, Georgia.

We will get started about 11 o'clock a.m. Please bring food and drink for your family. Ice and all other essentials will be provided. There will be compiled documented information on the above lines as well as some pictures of our ancestors for your viewing. If you have old pictures please bring with you we can share.

There will be a short business meeting about 12:00pm concerning our family cemetery, The Hampton-Whitworth Cemetery. Formally known as the George Thomas Whitworth Cemetery.

For more information contact:
Sara Casper at 706-549-1214 e-mail casper26@bellsouth.net,
Ruth Gordon at 706-353-1769 e-mail ruru4t@charter.net
 

Seagraves Family Reunion

Birdy and Lindy Perry Seagraves Reunion
Sunday, September 11, 2005
Erastus Church in Madison County, Georgia

For more information contact Myra Watkins
myrawatkins@sandersville.net  

Simmons Family Reunion
Saturday, June 11, 2005
Vinyards Creek Baptist Church
Comer, GA

The descendents of Lemuel Paige "Lem" Simmons will host a family gathering on Sat. 11 June 2005 at Vineyard's Creek Baptist Church, 121 Cherokee Rd. Comer, Ga.  Lunch will be served at 1:00pm. "Lem" is said to have had 4 wives and 28-32 children. This is the tenth anniversary of this reunion. And we all enjoy discovering new relatives and friends of our anscestors who (many) lived in Elbert, Madison, Clark, Franklin, Hart, & Oglethorpe counties of Ga. Please note that for the past 9 yrs. this reunion has been held at Rehoboth Baptist Church, but is moving to Madison County in 2005 due to conflict with church schedules at Rehoboth.

For more information please contact:  Nathan T. Simmons 7292 NC Hwy 8 Lexington, N.C. 27292 or call at: (336) 798-5436. Everyone welcome to bring covered dish lunch and old photos, family group sheets, etc. and join in on this wonderful day of the year for learning about our family.

 

Fleeman/Johnson/Kidd

Family Reunion

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Saturday  July 2^nd, 2005

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11:00am

Location: Cannon City Park, Cannon, Ga.

Bring a covered dish and yourself.

This is an opportunity for all of us to stay connected with family and to get to know

newly discovered family members. Please come and be a part of this unity as we

exchange stories of each side of our family.

Lynn Boivin will share with us information about our heritage. Learn who our ancestors were and their roots. She will have with her the compilation of information that she and other family genealogist have worked hard to discover and preserve, all will be welcome to observe and approve your immediate family information.

For more information:

Call Lynn Boivin: 706-453-9217

Or

Marlon Fleeman: 706-296-3158

Directions:

From Atlanta:

Go I-85 North to Lavonia Exit # 173

Then follow directions below

From Greenville:

Go I-85 South to Lavonia Exit # 173

Then follow directions below

From Lavonia Exit # 173:

Go South on Hwy 17 to Cannon, about 8 miles. Turn left on Depot Street.

From Athens:

Take Hwy 29 north to Royston, Turn left on Hwy 17 north, approx. 4 miles.

Turn right in Cannon on Depot Street.

Once you are on Depot St. in Cannon go till you see the park on the left, which will be a white house

and old silo with a carousel painted on the side. There is a fenced in

Playground for the children to play.

Marietta Holiday Inn
2265 Kingston Street
Marietta, GA 30067
Telephone (770) 952-7581 * Facsimile (770) 952-1301;
Web site: www.holiday-inn.com/atl-marietta

 Guest Rooms per night:

King Bed Non-Smoking                                   $69.00             for one or two persons

Two Double Beds Non-Smoking                      $79.00             for three or four persons

King Bed Junior Suite Non-Smoking                 $99.00             for one or two persons

Two Double Beds Suite Non-Smoking            $109.00           for three or four persons

Plus taxes, currently 13%. Rollaway bed $10 per night. Smoking rooms available upon request.
Continental Breakfast $2.50 per person; Hot Breakfast $5.00 per person

 Reservations are to be made on an individual call-in basis by calling (770) 952-7581. To confirm reservations, one night’s pre-paid room is required or guaranteed by a major credit card.

The Hotel is comprised of kings (one bedded rooms) and doubles (two bedded rooms). Guestrooms will be assigned based on availability by Hotel’s reservation department. If a room type requested is not available, the next comparable room type will be reserved for the guest at the contracted group rate.

 The Hotel would be pleased to extend the group rate 2 days prior to the event and 2 days following the event based on availability.

All reservations must be received no later than 3:00 PM, 19-Aug-2005. After this time Hotel reserves the right to release the unsold portion of reserved rooms for general sale. Hotel will continue to accept reservations after the cut-off date, subject to availability at prevailing rates.

 

 

Chappell Family Reunion

The Chappell Family Reunion will be held in Cincinnati Ohio this year, on the 4th Thursday,  November 24th, Thanksgiving Day at the Vernon Manor Hotel, 619 Oak St, Cincinnati, OH.  The host for this event is the northern branch of the Chappell family limbing from Joseph and Johnny Chappell.   The Chappell family have been longtime residents of Madison County, GA.  Most family members attend Waggoner Grove Baptist Church. 

For further information you may contact me Jo Ann Chappell Butts @ 513-352-0424 and leave a message and I will call you back.  Look Forward to seeing you there!!!!

 

Expo Participant/Exhibits:

Clarke Oconee Genealogical Society
Gwinnett Historical Society
Historic Oglethorpe, Inc.
Athens Historical Society
Oconee County Historical Society
DAR - National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, Elijah ClarkeChapter
CAR - National Society Children of the American Revolution, Count d'Estaing Chapter
SAR - National Society Sons of the American Revolution, Button Gwinnett Chapter
Other lineage Societies
Dr Robert Nix: Dating and Preserving Old Photographs
Software Review - The Master Genealogist, Family Tree Maker, Clooz, Legacy, DeedMapper
Heritage Papers
Karen Ledford - These Men Wore Grey
Fred W. McRee - genealogical author
Ted O. Brooke
British Research - Linda Aaron
Scrap Booking for Genealogy - sponsored by Creative Memories

 
Presentations:

11:00 AM - "What Tombstones Tell Us Beyond the Inscriptions" A slide
presentation by Charlotte Marshall

1:00 PM - Lineage Society Applications - Terry Manning in period costume to
discuss lineage societies and answer your questions.

3:00 PM - Introduction to Genealogy - presented by Laura W. Carter

 
Location: Oconee County Library - Watkinsville  1080 Experiment Station Road
Watkinsville, Georgia 30677. 706.769.3950   The event will be in the
Auditorium and the ESP Room located to the left as you enter the front door.

2004

Bond-Phillips Reunion
Related Families:
Porterfield, Bray, Beatenbough, Roach and others

Sunday, August 29, 2004
(last Sunday in August)

At the old Sandy Cross School Building
in the Sandy Cross Community of Franklin County
Lunch is served at 1:00
Bring a well-filled basket and drink.

Please bring photos, family group sheets, etc. to share with our kin.
A family genealogist will be present to put your family data into his
computer, and hopefully someone will have a scanner to scan family photos.

For more information contact
Charlotte Collins Bond

2002

Thornton Family Annual Fall Reunion

Saturday, October 26, 2002
Sanford Community Center
(Located on the No Where Road just north of Athens in Madison County, GA)

Registration begins at 10:00 am
Lunch around noon!
Sharing and visiting until we run out of time!

Theme:  "Keep it Simple" ~ Simple Sandwiches, Salad, Soup & Cookies
Bring a dish of your favorite sandwiches, salad or cookies.  Just keep it simple!
Soup, coffee and tea will be provided by the reunion.

Bring your Photo Albums.  If you would like to set up a table to honor your
family branch, please feel free to do so.

If you need information concerning family connections,
location, accommodations, etc, contact:
Nona Thorton

Surnames and Connections:
Thornton, Smith, Tiller, Vaughn, Hammond, Burt, Lord,
Stone, Thurmond, Alewine, Chastine, Glenn and others
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Some local counties of residence for this reunion:
Wilkes, Oglethorpe, Madison, Banks,
Jackson,Clarke, Oconee, Greene, Bibb

The Annual Seagraves Reunion to be Held

The annual Berdy and Lindy Perry Seagraves Reunion will be held  1 p.m.
Sunday, September 8, 2002 at Erastus Christian Church in Madison CO GA.
Please bring a covered dish, family pictures and family history.  A cemetery
walk will be available to all interested parties about 4 p.m.  Also, update
your family information for the reprint of the book "Segraves/Seagraves and
Related families of Northeast GA".  The Family Recipe book is almost
finished and it will be available hopefully by reunion time.

For more information: MyraWatkins@prodigy.net

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