Family Reunions

 

 

 

This page contains information about family reunions for families throughout western NC as well as GA and TN.  If you would like to have your family reunion posted on this site, please contact the webmaster.  We are interested in reunions of any surnames common to western NC. We are posting info concerning both 2008 & 2009 reunions. If your reunion has already been held in 2008, feel free to contact the person listed for info about the next reunion date.

 

 

Addington Alarka Allen Anders Anderson Arthur Balfour
             
Banks Bird/Byrd Bradley Brendle Brigman Bryson Burnette
             
Capps Carson Chatham Cheek Cloer Corbin Coward
             
Crowell Cunningham Davis DeBruhl Dillingham Edwards
             
Ensley Ford Fouts Freeman

 

Click on the surname or place above to go directly the the reunion info about that surname or place

 

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Swain County's

North Shore Cemetery Association

Fontana North Shore Historical Association

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ADDINGTON REUNION

Descendants of William Addington

Third week of July

Reunion to be held  July 17 & 18, 2010

Blairsville, Georgia

 

for more details

Check back often

or

Contact:

Juanita Phillips

300 Green Road

Brevard, NC 28712

828-883-9585
or

David Addington

or

All the details plus a registration form are available on our website:

http://addingtonassociation.org

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2008 ANNUAL ALARKA- FULLER REUNION in Swain County

 

No details available for 2010

check back often for updates

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ALLEN REUNION

Descendants of D. Hubbard and Emily Amanda (Welch) Allen

2nd Sunday in July

This year: July 11, 2010

Cowee Valley Community Center

Ruby Mine Road, Franklin, NC

A covered dish lunch will be served at 12 Noon

Bring pictures and family info to share.

For info contact:

Dee

828-369-8030

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Ammons Family Reunion

 July 30 and 31st

Holly Springs Baptist Church

Contact: Bill Crawford at 828-524-2280.

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ANDERS

Descendents of Charlie and Rosa Mathis Anders

 No date set for 2010

For family information contact: Cliff & Sue Cypher

828-293-9596

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ANDERSON REUNION

116th Annual Reunion of the

Descendants of Mansfield and Harriett Black Anderson

 Third Sunday in September

This year:

Sunday, September 19, 2010

 

Macon County Coon Hunters' Club

Wide Horizon Drive off Prentiss Bridge Road

Franklin, NC

 

Covered dish; eating utensils, paper goods furnished.

We had 80 family members answer the roll in 2007. This was the 113th reunion.
All descendants of Mansfield and Harriett Black Anderson are invited

for more info, contact:

Wanda Buchanan
706-490-3044

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Annual Arthur Reunion

Saturday June 26, 2010

4:00 PM

at the Pergola at Nathan Arthur's

Arcadia - Highway 191 -  Avery's Creek

Buncombe County

For more info, contact

Nathan Arthur

828 - 684 - 9970

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2010Balfour Family Reunion

  
First reunion was held in 1969

 

Most of our family goes back to Col. Andrew Balfour, III, killed in Revolutionary War in Asheboro, North Carolina and his brother John Balfour, both of whom came  from Scotland.

We have lots of history to share, and are happy to share info.

for more info, contact

Beverly Estlinbaum, Historian

 e-mail: JEstlinbaum@cox.net
web site: www.andrewbalfour.com

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Banks Family Reunion

Hernando, MS

Elberton, GA

 

This reunion is held in Hernando, MS, every other year in even-numbered years.

 

This reunion is held in Elberton, GA, every other year in odd-numbered years.


 
All Descendants of the

Thomas Banks and Elizabeth Chandler Family, 

Thomas Banks and Sarah Chandler,

Thomas Banks and Sarah Priddy Families,

 Ralph (Rafe) Banks and Rachel Alston Jones,

James Banks and Charity Alston, etc.,

 All Banks from Granville County, NC to Elbert County, GA
 

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Bird/Byrd Family Reunion

 

The Descendants of Clark and Mary (Curtis) Byrd

 

Fourth Sunday in September

this year: Sunday, September 26, 2010

 

Oak Grove Baptist Church

Oak Grove Church Rd.

Macon County, NC

 

Covered dish lunch at 1 PM

 

for info, details and directions contact

Gloria Owenby

828-524-5811  

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Bradley Family Reunion

 

The Descendants of William "Bill" and Deborah (Roberts) Bradley

 

October 11, 2009

 

Oak Grove Baptist Church

Oak Grove Church Rd.

Macon County, NC

 

Covered dish lunch at 12:45 PM

 

for info, details and directions contact

Wanda McWilliams

828-524-5941  

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George & Helen Brendle Maney Family Reunion

Saturday September 19th 2009.

We will start gathering at 11:00, lunch at 12:30
Bring your photos to share memories

Morgan Pavillion
Deep Creek Rd In Bryson City
Covered Dish Lunch will start about 12:30

Anyone with family ties from either the Brendle side or the Maney side is welcome to attend.

Helen was the daughter of George and Hattie Sheppard Brendle of Alarka.

George was the son of James (Jim) and Vernie Martin Maney

For more information, contact:
Connie Maney Cunningham
828-692-5913
Phyllis Mcdowell
828-586-4473

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Brigman Reunion

 

 The 12th annual reunion of the descendants of

Solomon Brigman and Lucretia Holcombe Brigman

 

Solomon and Lucretia Brigman's children were: 

Joel, Asa, Catherine Holcombe, Elizabeth Holcombe,

John Kelsey, Isaac, Owen and Solomon G. 

 

Fourth Sunday in September

This year: Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010 at 12:00 noon

Beech Community Center

Reems Creek Road in Weaverville, NC. 

This will be a covered dish style picnic. 

We will eat around 12:30 pm. 

Please bring photos, etc. for sharing. 

 

For more information please call Margaret Brigman at 828-645-3217

or e-mail mhbrigman@aol.com

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Bryson Annual Family Reunion

Third Saturday in July

This year: Saturday, July 18, 2009

Cullasaja School

For info contact Evelyn Bryson

828-524-3429

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The 79th Annual Burgin-Lytle Reunion

will be held south of Old Fort

the third week in July. 

Information sharing is on Saturday, July 17

at the Cherry Springs Baptist Church from 1:00 pm til closing. 

Traditional reunion is on Sunday, July 18th

10:45 at the Bethel United Methodist Church. 

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

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Burnette Family Reunion

2010 details available soon

The Waynesville Recreation Picnic Area

behind Bi-LO on West Marshall Street

Waynesville, NC

   Covered Dish Lunch at Noon

  Contact 

Everett Stamey

828-683-9639

restamey@hotmail.com

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Byrd - see Bird

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Capps Reunion

 
2009 Details available soon

 
All friends and kin welcome.

 
Cedar Springs Baptist Church Fellowship Hall in Henderson Co.
Exit 3 off new Hwy 25, Green River Rd. (4½ miles from exit)

Fellowship Hall is on the left

  

For more info, contact:

Ellen Pressley

 (828) 692-3321 or (828) 692-0461

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Carson Family Reunion

The family of James Robert "BOB" Carson and Rosa Elliott Carson

Held every other year in odd numbered years

Next reunion: 2011

 

We look forward with joy to meeting again and renewing friendships,

and being together again in the beautiful Smoky mountains of Swain County. 

 

For additional information, please contact

 Faye K. Gillespie

618 Hillcrest Ave.

Gastonia, NC, 28052

704-865-5712

 

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 Reunion of Descendants of

John Hazzard Carson (1752-1841)

 May 15, 2010

at the Historic Carson House

Buck Creek in McDowell County

2 PM

 

May 16, 2010

Green River Plantation (Rutherford County)

12 Noon

 

All John Carson descendants and their families are welcome to attend. We'll meet at the Carson House on Saturday afternoon, May 15, and then reconvene for a tour and luncheon at Green River Plantation (Rutherford County) on Sunday morning, May 16. The second day is optional. North Carolina Historian of the Year (2009) Robin Lattimore will speak to the group on the 15th and we'll attend to organizational and genealogical affairs.

 for more information contact: d.swaim@earthlink.net

 

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Chatham/Jenkins Annual 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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Cheek Family Annual Reunion

Saturday following July 4

This year: Saturday, July 10, 2010

Covered dish lunch - 1 PM

This year's Reunion will be at the

South Macon Elementary School Cafeteria

Addington Bridge Road

Franklin, NC

contact

Willa Jean Crane

828-369-5176

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Cloer Family Reunion

The Descendants of John Ceburn Cloer

Details of a 2010 Reunion not yet available

check back often for update

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Corbin Family Reunion

Sunday before Labor Day

September 6, 2009

Covered Dish Lunch - 1:00 PM

Holly Springs Baptist Church

Franklin, NC

contact

Kelly & Dayna Corbin

828-369-7591

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Coward Family Annual Reunion

119th Coward Family Reunion

Second Sunday in June

This year: June 23, 2010

Picnic Pavilion and Park near the new track on the campus of WCU

Cullowhee, NC

Gather around 11:00 AM

Covered dish lunch

contact

Lynn Riggsbee

or

John Tayloe

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Crowell Family Reunion

Reunion of the Descendants of  Watson and Mary Emma Crowell

 

July 17, 2010

At the Home of Howard and Jean Fender home

Brookveiw Rd.

Candler, N.C.

For more infomation please contact:

Betty Lou Crowder

@ blcrowder1939@hughes.net

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Cunningham Reunion

Aug. 22, 2010

11:00AM - 3:00 PM
Macon County Facilities Building
441 South (Ga. Rd.)

Franklin, NC

Covered dish lunch 1 PM


A Cunningham book is in the works

For more info on the Cunningham Reunion, the book, or the family,

please contact

Margie Keener
 

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Davis

The Family Reunion for the

Descendants of William "Joe Billy" Davis

No date has been set for 2010 reunion

Check back for any change

For more info contact Lora (Mrs. Carl) Cody in Mars Hill,

 or Jack Davis at wdavis3@bellsouth.net

Members of this family are invited to attend the Sams Reunion

held in October at Grapevine Baptist Church

in Madison County.

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DeBruhl Family Reunion

Sunday July 18, 2010

12 Noon til ...

New Location:

Dillingham Community Center

Barnardsville, N.C.
 

Covered dish lunch at 1 PM

 

For more information, contact:

Norman DeBruhl

301- 371- 9665   home

301- 639- 9507   cell
 

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First Worldwide Dillingham  Reunion

 

Marking the 375th Anniversary of

The First Dillingham to Settle in the New World

was held in 2005

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 Dillingham Reunion

Now held Annually on the Sunday before Labor Day

Sunday, September 5, 2010

12 Noon - 4 PM

Covered dish lunch

(Plates and utensils provided)

 

 Big Ivy Community Center

540 Dillingham Road

Barnardsville, NC.

Dillingham, NC

Near Weaverville and Asheville, NC

Map

Website

 

For more details contact:

Denny Dillingham

157 Sugar Creek Rd

Weaverville, N.C. 28787

(828) 626-2522

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The Annual Reunion of the Descendants of

Joshua Potts Edwards & Elizabeth Murray Edwards

We are attempting to schedule this reunion during 2010.

Check back often for an update.

For family history info on this family,

contact Dee

828-369-8030

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Ensley Family Reunion

Descendants of William Grant and Judith Lokey( Lackey) Ensley

(who buried in unmarked graves at Old Field Cemetery, Scotts Creek, Sylva, NC)

and of

Dennis H and Nora McCracken Ensley

No details available for a 2010 reunion

Check back for any changes

for more family info contact

George Ensley

828-488-4526 or  828-736- 2885

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Fisher Family Reunion

86th Annual Reunion for

The Descendants of James Washington Fisher, Sr.

(Revolutionary War Soldier-Maryland Militia)

MD to SC to NC

Annually - Saturday after Labor Day

This year: Saturday, September 11, 2010

Lake Toxaway Baptist Church

Lake Toxaway Church Rd.

Lake Toxaway, NC

(Transylvania County)

Business Meeting at 10:30 a.m. 

Covered dish lunch at Noon

Please bring a covered dish, lawn chairs, and family displays (tri-boards, etc.)

Gravestone dedication for Polly Fisher Cantrell at 3 p.m. at

Old Toxaway Upper Cemetery

Old Toxaway Rd.

Rosman, NC

(not the church cemetery)

Get together from 5:00-10:00 p.m. at

Lake Toxaway Community Center

Slick Fisher Rd.

Lake Toxaway, NC

 

Please bring photos, family mementoes, newspaper articles, announcements (birth, marriage, graduation, educational/professional accomplishments, military information/photos, etc.) for sharing and scanning for the family scrapbook. If you cannot attend the reunion, but have photos, articles, etc. that you wish to submit for the scrapbook, please send scanned images (300 dpi) via email or actual items (items will be scanned and returned to you) to:

Patricia Cantrell

1509 Emerson Ave.

Columbus, GA  31907

pacant1104@yahoo.com

For reunion/family information, details and directions contact:

Linda Maxwell-Fisher, Reunion President

(828) 883-9059 or

lindamaxwell44@hotmail.com

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Reunion of the Descendants of the

Family of John T. Ford  and children:

Tipton A. Ford, William C. Ford, Benjamin Jackson
Ford James Wilson Ford, George Washington Ford, William C. Ford, Joseph
Posey Ford, Doctor Burton Ford, John T. Ford, Jr. Sarah MacMillion Ford,
Telitha Ford Roberson North and Jane Ford

of Buncombe, Haywood, Clay Counties (NC) and Cocke County, TN

2010 Details available soon

Senior Citizens Center,

Ritter Rd.
Hayesville, NC.

for info, please contact

Gene C. Ford

Ramey Mtn. Road

Hiawassee, Ga.
1-706-896-4492

or

Jim Penland

31 Teague Road

Leicester, NC 828- 683-2372.

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Fouts

will be

2011

Burningtown Baptist Church Fellowship Hall

Burningtown Community

Macon County, NC

If your are the least bit of kin to the Fouts Family,

 (Everyone is since we all come from Adam and Eve)

or are just a friend of the Fouts family

(everyone they know is a friend, they don't have enemies!)

contact

Merritt Fouts

or

Linda Brogden

for info on the this family reunion

or info about other Fouts family researchers

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Annual Freeman Family Reunion

Two-day reunion for descendants of
Nathaniel Robinson Freeman and wife Catherine Ann Seward Freeman
(1776-1831)                          (1769-1850)

Both born in Brunswick Co., VA
married in Rutherford Co., NC in 1801
moved to upper Hickory Nut Gorge (Gerton, NC) about 1831.

Saturday, Oct. 23, 2010 10:00 am

Chimney Rock Baptist Church
Chimney Rock, NC
Covered dish dinner
Utensils and drinks provided

Sunday, Oct 24 2009 10:00 am
at the home of Richard & Pat Fluck
Just south of Lake Lure
Barbeque lunch provided

Contact Richard or Pat Fluck
for details and directions
828-625-2946, 828-817-1133 (cell),
flandnc2@gmail.com
 

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