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Gladwell, Glidwell, Henson, & Williamson Family Reunion

Second Sunday in  July

This year: Sunday, July 11, 2010

Covered dish lunch - 1:00 PM

Otto Fire Department

Otto, NC

contact

Max Gladwell   828-524-5442

or Virginia Bryson  828-369-9969

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Gosnell Family Reunion

Descendants of Sib & Simeon Gosnell

no details on 2010 available yet

check back often for updates

For info, contact:

Ruth Ann Lewis

828-649-2675 or 828-380-9581

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Annual Green Reunion

Last Sunday in July

This year: Sunday, July 25, 2010

Louisa Chapel Methodist Church Fellowship Hall

Franklin, NC

Covered dish lunch - around 12:30 PM

contact

Jerry Green

606 Pressley Road

Franklin, NC 28734

828-524-7950

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The 111th 

Maj. William Hoffman Higdon Family Reunion

is held on the second Sunday in September

This year: Sunday Sept. 12, 2010

at Higdonville Baptist Church

near the old Higdon Homeplace 

in the Higdonville community, Macon County, NC

  All friends and family are invited to attend. 

A covered dish lunch will be served at 12:30 pm,

and a brief family meeting will follow.
for more information click here
e-mail Dee

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Moses Creek Kinfolk

Hooper/Stephens & Allied Families & Friends)

Check back often for 2010 update

Moses Creek Church

Jackson County, NC

Sunday Morning Sunrise Service  and putting new flowers on the graves

then to the church for dinner & singing all day

Kinfolks are: Stephens, Mills, Hoopers, Hodges

 Everyone is Welcome!

The church has a full kitchen so bring your own food, plates, cups & silverware.

Welcome One & All!

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Houston Family Reunion

Descendants of Jack Houston

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Macon County Recreational Park

Big Picnic Shelter

10 AM - 4 PM

Covered dish lunch at 12:30 PM

for info, details and directions contact

Wanda McWilliams

828 - 524 - 5941  

Hyatt, Luther, Joyce, Morgan, Mason,

Earwood, Hendricks and related families

Date for 2010 reunion to be announced

 Lake Julian Park in Skyland

 Shed Number 3 (beside the playground)

 beginning at 2 PM

 ending whenever

For info contact Terri Jo

 jomckay@msn.com

828-658-9834 or 828-301-7605

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Chatham/Jenkins Reunion

Third Sunday in September

This year: Sunday September 19, 2010

Spring Mountain Community Center

807 Old Fort Road

Fairview (Buncombe County), NC. 

Contact  Philip Jenkins

PO Box 1253
Fairview NC 28730

828-779-3315

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Jimison-Brooks Reunion

July 24, 2010

Oak Grove Baptist Church

39 Robinson Road

 Canton N.C. 28716

11:00 AM Covered dish lunch

Contact: 

Charles Jimison 828-648-2965

 or

Debbie Nobles millerg54@aim.com

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Hiram King Jones & Carolina Justus Jones Reunion
First Saturday in August

Check back often for 2010 update

All Jones and Justus related families are invited to attend.

For more information or directions, call (828) 329-9221 or e-mail jenniekz@bellsouth.net 

Hiram King Jones (1820-1910) was the son of Robert Jones and Elizabeth McGuffey.

Mary Caroline Justus (1824-1887) was the daughter of John Justis (Justus) Jr. and Elizabeth Thomas.

Hiram King Jones and Mary Caroline Justus had 13 children:

1. Mary Ann Jones (1840-1843)

2. Elizabeth Moselda Jones (1842-1909) married Jasper Albert Revis. The couple had eight children – John Frazier Revis who married Addie Lee Gertrude Staton, Nancy Caroline Revis who married William Douglas Bishop, Rosa Rebecca Revis who married John K. Hill, Anna Elizabeth Revis who married Amos G. Williams, Allie S. Revis (Alice) who never married, and Franklin B., Mary Delia and Milner J. who died as children.

2. Nancy Jones (1844-1886) married Jeremiah Taylor. The couple had seven children – Thomas Pinkney Taylor who married Amanda Clark and moved to Montana, Sarah Hester Taylor who married Albert Griffin Justice, Bruce A. Taylor who married Miriam Elizabeth Case, Alice Caroline Taylor who had two children by an unknown father, Nancy Jane Taylor who married Dexter Robert Stepp, John L. Taylor whose wife’s name was Mabel and who moved to Montana, and Mary Emma Taylor who died at a young age.

3. George Washington Jones (1845-1929) married Elizabeth Ann Cagle. The couple had 10 children – Fanning Richardson Jones who married Arminta Justus, Mary Louella Jones who married Wiley Jasper Bishop, James Wesley Jones who married Mary Ella Clark and moved to Montana and later Idaho, Julia Lee Jones who married John Franklin Justus, George Frazier Jones who married first Lulu Pace and second Mollie Belle McCall, Mitchell Weatherly Jones who married Alice Lenette Hill, Silas Lafayette Jones who married Cora Andrea Blackwell, Jacob Hix Jones who married Nettie Caroline Arledge, Arminta Fair Jones who married Harvey Hilton Jackson, and Hattie Belle Jones who married Nicholas Boose Stepp.

4. James King Jones (1847-1938) married first Julia Ann Pace and married second Margaret Ann Pace. James King Jones and Julia Ann Pace had eight children – Juno Deborah Jones who married Benjamin P. Pace, Eliza Jane Jones who married William Valentine Justus, Leander Jackson Jones who married Eugenia Belle Blackwell, Henry Clay Jones who married Sarah Belle Staton, Uel Garfield Jones who married Martha Ida Constant, Ransom Lafayette Jones who married Cora Esther Pace, Noda Adeline Jones who married Henry Meriwether Keisler, and Julia Ann Jones who died as a baby. James King Jones and Margaret Ann Pace had six children – Franklin Pierce Jones who married Sallie Kate Hood, Mary Ann Jones who married John Henry Guice, Martha Belle Jones who married Sidney Lee Guice, Jeter Pritchard Jones who married Blanche Marie Holbert, Columbus McKinley Jones who married Marjory Odessa Case, and Grace Marie Jones who married Fred Stepp.

5. John Franklin Jones (1849-1920) married Susan Jane Pace. The couple had 12 children – Leora Bell Jones who married Henry Clayton Guice, Columbus Hilliard Jones who married Frances “Fannie” Bishop, Oatis Eli Jones who never married, Essie Caroline Jones who married George Bynum Heatherly, George Logan Jones who married Clara Splawn, Louvina Cordelia Jones who married Thomas Conway Pruitt, Marietta Mary Jones who married John T. Gilbert, Lillie Mae Jones who married Edward V. Shook, William Jethro Jones who never married, Carl McKinley Jones who married Ivory Thompson, Cora Odella Jones who married Joseph Byers Stepp, and an unnamed twin of Essie Caroline who died at birth.

6. Catherine Matilda Jones (1851-1887) never married.

7. Emily Delilah Jones (1853-1954) married Daniel Lafayette Morrison. The couple had 13 children – Carolina Lucretia Morrison married Andrew Sherman Jackson, Ida Ella Morrison married Alfred Monroe Jackson, O’Della Harriett Morrison married Hamilton Ewart Jones, Java Loretta Morrison married Wiley Herman Gibbs, David Sankey Morrison married Louise Pace, Eugenia Maude Morrison married Frank A. Bradbury, Claudius A. Morrison married his brother’s widow Louise Pace, Tabitha Inez Morrison married Elzie Warren Hill, Burgain Holmes Morrison married Lillie Fair Hill, Hugh Daniel Morrison married Elma Newman, Murph John Morrison married Anita Elizabeth Parks, and Myron Ransom Morrison and Vasco William Morrison both died at a young age.

8. Robert Edward Jones (1855-1922) married Mary Evelyn Staton. The couple had three children – Harlie Gollette Jones who married Larret Matilda Pace, Loice Alonzo Jones who married Josephine Hill, and Lelon W. Jones who died as a child.

9. Thomas Jefferson Jones (1857-1955) married Frances Eliza Tabitha Gray. The couple had 11 children – Atlas Otho Jones who married Nettie Cochran, Viola Jones who married William Pinkney Cagle, Emma Deborah Jones who married William Oliver Waters Jr., Matilda Leona Jones who first married Zollie Stepp and second Albert Heath, Drayton Jones who married Lyda Davis, Dexter Edward Jones who married Nina Bell Pace, Daisy Ethel Jones who married Justice Smith Jones, Angie Jones who married John L. Orr, Obie King Jones whose wife’s first name was Catherine and who died in Massachusetts, Lillian Jones who never married, and Cecil Hillard Jones who married Thelma E. Jones.

10. William Henry Jones (1859-1948) married Rosa Jane Justus. The couple had two children – Irey Manning Jones who married Florence Hill and Pinkney Leroy Jones who married Essie Israel.

11. Harriet Caroline Jones (1860-1950) married Pinkney Webster Thompson. The couple had no children of the marriage.

12. Laura Evelyn Jones (1863-1949) married William Whitted Pace. The couple had 10 children – Oliver Dockery Pace who married Nettie Anders, Zettella Caroline Pace who married B. Franklin Capps, Bessie Zora Pace who married George S. Rhodes, Leander Jackson Pace who married Ethel Daves, Myrtle Elizabeth Pace who married James Glover Capps, Persis Marie Pace who married McKinley Drake, Ethel Synoria Pace who married Thomas M. Mason, Loren William Pace who married Elnora Beaver, Everett Roosevelt Pace who married Bertha Osborn, and Julia Inez Pace who married James Clyde Taylor.

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Lakey - Icenhower Family Reunion

The 3rd Saturday in August

Check for update on 2010 Reunion soon

Oak Grove Baptist Church

Oak Grove Church Rd.

Macon County, NC

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The 14^th Annual Lamb - Morris Joint Family Reunion

 Founded 1994

2010 information to follow

check back often

Asheville, NC, Recreation Park – Western North Carolina Nature Center

on the Swannanoa River Road.
The gathering will take place at Shed #2
(at the bottom of the hill near the swimming pool)

 

The reunion honors the descendants of Marmaduke Lamb and his wife Orpha Rollins, who relocated from Randolph County, NC, to Greene County, TN in the early 1800's. From there, many of their descendants migrated into Western North Carolina in the years immediately following the American Civil War.  The reunion also honors the descendants of Elias and Sarah Morris of Montgomery County, NC, and their sons who served the Confederacy (Zebedee, William, Larkin).  Zebedee and William relocated their families to Buncombe and Madison County, NC, just prior to the Civil War. This is not the Elias Morris who migrated to Kentucky. This Elias Morris died 30 August 1853 in Montgomery County, Pee Dee District.

The children of Marmaduke and Orpah Rollins Lamb were:

*Children of John Rollins Lamb (1811-1880)

and Sarah Elizabeth Ealy Lamb (1806-1876):

Children of Elias and Sarah Morris

Zebedee and William moved to Madison County, NC

For more info on this family, contact:

Marshall Styles -  Coordinator

864-213-9888 
20 Lake Valley Court,

Simpsonville, SC 29681

Lance / Lantz / Lentz / Lence  4L Reunion

CALLING ALL LANCE / LENTZ FAMILIES

The Annual 4L Reunion is now officially announced

Please come and join us!

We are hosting this year's reunion in

GATLINBURG, TENNESSEE

during the weekend of June 11- 13, 2010

Reunion information,

including a copy of the form that was mailed,

is available on the 4L web site at

 http://TheLances.org/4L

for more info, contact

Don Lance

or

Lois

14th Annual

Lanning Reunion

Ellijay, Georgia

Time and place to be announced.

Please bring a covered dish or two and drinks

For more info, contact

Glenda Gibson

706-635-2855

LEQUIRE/LUQUIRE 2010 REUNION

―NEW LOCATION―

For the first time the reunion will be held at the home of a LeQuire descendant.

Wayne LeQuire of Maryville, Tennessee is graciously opening his home to us.

July  10, 2010

PLACE:

Home of Wayne LeQuire
701 Southwind Road
Maryville, TN 37803

DIRECTIONS:

Wayne’s home is about four miles from the 2009 reunion site.

Please see below for directions.

TIME:

10:00 A.M.

COVERED DISH LUNCHEON: 12:00 Noon

Wayne will provide meat, bread, drinks.

Please bring your favorite covered dish.

If you are making plans to attend, please let Wayne know how many are coming.

Wayne has planned a fun-filled day:
Visit with family and friends,
Meet new relatives and friends,
Enjoy delicious food,
Fly with Wayne or another pilot on a short plane ride,
Try your skill at a game of horseshoes,
See if you can catch a fish from a well-stocked pond,
Stop and pose for a group picture or an individual or small group picture,
Take a walk or a hike,
And participate in a variety of other events.

CONTACT INFORMATION:
Wayne LeQuire
701 Southwind Road
Maryville, TN 27803

865-983-2126

or

865-363-2126

Flying@charter.net

For lodging information, contact:
Chamber of Commerce-Maryville, TN 865-983-2241
Townsend [TN] Visitors Center 865-448-6134
Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge are nearby

We are excited about the event and hope you can attend.

Learn the latest about the LeQuire/Luquire DNA and book projects.

 If you have family photo, history, or other items of interest, please bring and share.

HOSTS:

Wayne LeQuire, Maryville, TN;

Mark LeQuire, Montgomery, AL;
George LeQuire, Calhoun, GA;
Clarence LeQuire, Valdese, NC
 

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The WNC Lindsay Clan Annual Reunion

LINDSAY/LINDSEY REUNION

Next reunion 2010

Bryson City, (Swain County,) NC

Cold Springs Baptist Church

Cold Springs Road

Bryson City, NC

For further information, please contact:
 

Arbannah Lindsey Holland
10414 Lower Alarka Rd
Bryson City, NC 28713
828-488-3491

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LOCKABY FAMILY REUNION

The Lockaby Family Association

Meets in even-numbered years

Next reunion:

Sunday, August 29, 2010

Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church

Hwy 88 near Easley, SC.

Decedents of Thomas and Ambrose Lockaby and their children

will gather at the 10:30 am church service rain or shine.

Lunch will be in the church GYM after the service.
This church is about 200 years old.

The church cemetery has over 40 Lockaby kin buried there.

These grave sites will be identified by “family branch”

so that all branches of the family can identify their ancestral kin.

Genealogy information will also be available.

An entertaining and informative program is planned.

Over 150 kinfolks and their families are expected.
For further details contact

Jeanne Chellis
828-684-4950
 

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For further info, call Barbara Meilhammer at 828-668-4212.