1999
Family Reunions
| Date/Time: |
September 19, 1999 12:00 noon |
| Location: |
White Hall, IL Lyons Park |
| 1997 Contact: | Mary |
| Note: | Pot luck dinner! Barnard family migrated to Illinois from Sumner County, TN. |
| Date/Time: | July 30, 31 and Aug 1, 1999 |
| Location: | Sumner County, TN |
| 1997 Contact: |
BLHA-INC@excite.com or Jamie Clifton |
| Note: | The "Gathering of the Bledsoes" will include activities on Friday evening, Saturday, and Sunday. All descendants of the immigrant George Bledsoe are invited! |
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Hickory Grove Cemetery Nashville, Brown County, Indiana |
| 1997 Contact: |
Florence Barnes FMBarnes@aol.com |
| Note: |
Always held in Brown County, IN at the Hickory Grove Cemetery every 3rd Saturday in July. David Morgan Hamilton & Ella Florence Bond descendants are from Sumner County. |
| Date: | June 19-20, 1999. |
| Location: | Waldron, AR |
| Notes: | This group includes descendants of the Brigance Clan that settled in the Cumberland Settlement prior to 1785. |
| Contact: |
Albert Brigance, 278 Royal Oaks Road, Maryville, TN 37801.
Phone (423) 982-0223 Home Page: www.brigance.net brigance@usa.net |
| Date/Time: |
Saturday, October 2, 1999. 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. |
| Location: | Gallatin Municipal Park Building in Gallatin, Sumner County, TN. |
| Notes: | This reunion is held for the descendants of Dance Brown. |
| Contact: |
Freddy Brown, 516 Rediger Drive, Scottsville, KY, 42164 freddyb@tnpride.com |
| Date: |
August 1, 1999 11:00 a.m. till 6:00 p.m. |
| Location: | Cedars of Lebanon State Park, Wilson County, TN |
| Notes: | This reunion is held annually on the first Sunday in August for descendants of Leonard and Sarah Kimbrough Brown. |
| Contact: |
Danene Vincent keylime@ionet.net |
| Date/Time: | Saturday, June 19, 1999 |
| Location: | Donoho Hotel in Red Boiling Springs, TN |
| 1997 Contact: | Winston Dillihay |
| Note: | Descendants of All Branches of the Family are Welcome. There are many spellings, Dillaha, Dillahay, Dilleha, Dillehay, Dilliha, Dillihay, De La Hay and Delahaye. The same is true of the Veatch, Veach family. |
| Date/Time: |
August 7, 1999 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. |
| Location: |
American Legion Hall
White House, TN |
| Contact: |
Kenny Durrett
kdurrett@bellsouth.net |
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Avondale Park
Hendersonville, TN |
| Contact: |
Amy Graves Woodham
4108 Lake D'ville Drive Hendersonville, TN 37075 615-822-4271 AWoodham@aol.com |
| Notes: | The Graves reunion is held annually at Avondale Park In Hendersonville, TN on the fourth Saturday in June. Families come from Florida, Indiana, Tennessee and Kentucky. |
| Date/Time: | July 3, 1999, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. |
| Location: | Gallatin Civic Center, Gallatin, TN |
| Contact: | Grady Griggs |
| Note: | The Walter and Ann Griggs reunion will be hosted by Jim and Tom Griggs and Jean Thurman. Family and Friends are invited to come to an old-fashioned eatin' meetin' . |
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| 1997 Contact: |
Denise Wilson
818 Hwy 52 E. Portland, TN 37148 615-325-2784 DwilsonMus@aol.com |
| Note: | Reunion held each year the third Sunday in July. |
| Date/Time: | April 24 1999 |
| Location: | Grayson Co [Whitewright] Tx. |
| 1997 Contact: |
Any one wishing to send pictures or info please send to: Mrs. Lee Head 630 Wilson Rd Whitewright Tx 15491 |
| Note: | The descendants of Pascal Head Born Orange Co VA 1796. He was the oldest child born to Henry and Elizabeth Sanford Head. |
| Date/Time: | October 2, 1999 |
| Location: | Luton's United Methodist Church on Old Springfield Hwy. in Goodlettsville, Tn. |
| 1997 Contact: |
Bib Fay fay_1045@yahoo.com |
| Note: | This is the family of Frederick and Rachel Rhodes Lassiter and though we have had the reunion for several years we have never had anyone connected back past them to attend.....but we sure would like to change that this year....EVERYONE is invited to bring your picnic lunch which we'll spread together...and you've never tasted better food....all your pictures, your family histories, and every tale that your Daddy told you and come and be with us.....We have a ball. |
| Date/Time: | June 25 & 26, 1999 |
| Location: | Sumner Suites Hotel in Hendersonville, TN |
| 1997 Contact: |
Dennis Mansker dmansker@Earthlink.net |
| Note: | Mr. Mansker has a special page on The Mansker Chronicles for the reunion. Just go to http://home.earthlink.net/~dmansker and follow the link to the reunion page. |
| Date: | June 21, 1999, 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.. |
| Location: |
Cedars of
Lebanon State Park, Lebanon, TN Assembly Hall |
| Notes: | Held annually in June. |
| Contact: |
Robert Minchey R54celtic@aol.com |
| Date: | Fourth Sunday in June, after church |
| Location: |
Covington Woods Park Bowling Green, KY |
| Notes: |
We are descendants of Wm. Lamb NC>Roane Co TN>Allen
Co., KY; Levi Wheat, Roane Co TN; Joseph Logan, the minister, who died
in Allen Co KY 1812; Andrew J. Pearson NC>Sumner Co TN>Simpson Co KY>
James J. Hollis of Sumner Co TN. Come after church and bring food for you and your family. We will have a pitch-in dinner. Come meet the family and visit. You can even visit with 101 year old Atlas Pearson, his 97 year old sister, Daisy, and younger brother, Joe, aged 91. Most of those attending are descendants of Fannie Mahalia Logan and W. N. Pearson |
| Contact: |
Sue Pearson Carpenter spcarpenter@ka.net |
| Date/Time: | Sept. 25, 1999, 4PM - 7PM |
| Location: | 2229 New Hope Road (John McMurtry's original cabin!) |
| Contact: | Annelle Ralph (Hawkins) Huggins, Co-Chair of the 1999 Reunion. Phone: 901-680-0873 Email: ahuggins@memphis.edu |
| Note: | This reunion is for the descendants of Lewis and Sarah (Polly) Ralph. It is held the last Saturday of each September. |
| Date: | August 21, 1999. |
| Location: | Illinois |
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| Contact: |
Patti Rippy Hair John-A-Hair@worldnet.att.net |
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| Location: | Arlington, VA |
| Contact: | For information, write to membership chairman Donna L. Strother, 455 Elbow Creek Road, Mount Vernon, Ind., 52314-9730 |
| Note: | The William Strother Society, Inc. was formed at Fredericksburg, VA, in 1986 and has met every two years since. The society has a newsletter and a genealogist. It has published three books and a new one will be out this fall. It has been said that the Strother family of Sumner County were among the early settlers to this area which there many Strother descendants in Middle Tennessee and Kentucky. The Strother tie into the Cotton family of Cottontown, TN in Sumner County. |
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| Contact: |
Velma Brinkley 615-452-6515 |
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