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Georgia State
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Mrs. C. Lewis Baldwin (Sally)
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A Message from the Georgia State
President :
My Theme for this administration:
Pathways to Progress Through
Service
My Scripture:
"Trust in the Lord with all
your heart and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways
acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths." Proverbs 3: 55-6
Georgia State Society Officers 2007 - 2009:
State President: Mrs. Sally M. Baldwin
First Vice President: Mrs. Virginia G. Lingelbach
Second Vice President : Mrs. Nancy
P. Townsend
Chaplain: Mrs. Ruth O. Reddick
Recording Secretary : Dr. C. Martelia Cunningham
Corresponding Secretary: Mrs. Rebecca M. Rostron
Organizing Secretary : Mrs. Susan D. Lemesis
Treasurer: Mrs. Dianne B. Cannestra
Registrar: Dr. Dana M. Anderson
Historian: Mrs. Rosemary L. Henderson
Librarian: Mrs. Martha C. Hill
Parliamentarian: Mrs. Phyllis J. Tanner
Auditor: Dr. Margaret G. Ehrlich
Honorary State Presidents:
2005-2007 Robin R. Towns (Mrs. Robert F.)
2003-2005 Camille R. Baxter (Mrs. Redfern)
2001-2003 Judith L. Hughes (Mrs. Charles T.)
1999-2001 Rena M. Setters (Mrs. John R.)
1997-1999 Jessie W. Parker (Mrs. Pascoe F.)
1995-1997 Mildred S. McCranie (Mrs. Edward L.)
1993-1995 Marguerite F. Fogleman (Mrs.)
1991-1993 Patricia Ross Glisson (Mrs.)
Organization of the Georgia State
Society:
The Georgia Society of the National Society Colonial Dames of the
Seventeenth Century was organized November 17, 1931, by Mrs. Patrick Brey
with eighty-seven organizing members present. The organizing meeting was
held at "Wingfield", the Atlanta
home of Mrs. John Marshall Slaton. The first State President was Mrs. Bryan
Wells Collier who served in 1931. Mrs. Collier was followed by Mrs. John
Marshall Slaton who served at State President 1931-1937. There have been
thirty~five State Presidents since Mrs. Collier. Mrs. Robert F. Towns is
the thirty-sixth State President of the Georgia Society Colonial Dames of
the Seventeenth Century.
The Georgia Society consists of nineteen chapters, as follows:
Adam Brinson I (organized February 10, 1968)
Ann Pope Washington
(organized November 1, 1973)
Chatanuga (organized December 2, 2000)
Fort James (organized May 29, 1967)
Governor Francis Lovelace (organized October 23, 1967)
John Alden (organized July 24, 1967)
John Howell, Sr. (organized October, 1967)
John Lee of Nansemond (organized January 7, 2007)
John Sumner (organized February 11, 1985)
Lieutenant William Spencer (chartered March 4, 2005)
Major Peter Field (organized September 18, 1980)
Mary Brown Tinkham (organized November 30, 2006)
Nicholas Wallingford (organized October 8, 1979)
Reverend Pierre Robert (organized February 15, 1983)
St. Simon's Island (chartered January
22, 2005)
Thomas Johnson (organized November 4, 1967)
Thomas Miller (organized November 14,1968)
Thomas Wingfield (chartered January 21, 2005)
William Sherrill ( organized December 16, 2006)
Recent Happenings
of the Georgia
State Society:
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information about our totebag project. The customized totebags and
insignia cases are beautiful and make a great fundraiser!
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Society Calendar of Events:
2008 State Conference: February 29-March 1, 2008
Historic Sites Marked by or Affiliated
with the Georgia
State Society:
• Georgia Society placed a shaft in Circle of Memories, Piedmont Park,
Atlanta, Georgia, honoring the memory of
the founder of the National Society, Miss Mary Florence Taney, June 16,
1937.
• Georgia Society placed a marker at the Rock Eagle Mound in
Eatonton, Putnam County,
Georgia,
June, 1940. “Mound of prehistoric origin believed to be ceremonial
mound in the shape of an Eagle. Head turned to East, length 102 feet,
spread of wings 20 feet, depth of breast 8 feet. Only two such
configurations discovered east of the Mississippi River, both are in Putnam County. Tread softly here white man
for long before you came, strange races lived, fought and loved.”
• Historical marker placed at Stewart-Merry House, the oldest
house in Micanopy, Florida, recognizing the town’s
Spanish Colonial history, 1980 by John Alden Chapter.
• Historical marker placed at Georgia Agrirama, Tifton, Georgia,
“... commemorating Georgia Agrirama’s contribution to the
preservation of the state’s proud agricultural heritage, a legacy
which spans 250 years,” 1983, by John Howell, Sr. Chapter.
• Historical marker placed at Old College, the oldest building
(1806), on the campus of the University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia,
commemorating the 200th anniversary of the founding of the University
(1785), October 15, 1985 by Thomas Miller Chapter.
• Historical marker placed on Ebenezer Baptist Church, Lincoln
County, Georgia, on the 200th anniversary of its founding, commemorating
its auspicious role in preparing and ordaining ministers, October 6, 1987
by Fort James Chapter.
• Historical marker placed at the Ira
Howell Family
Cemetery [Ira Howell was a Georgia
pioneer], 1992 by John Howell, Sr. Chapter.
• Historical marker placed at Clyo, Effingham
County, Georgia
on the Savannah River at the site where early settlers crossed from South Carolina to Georgia for travel and trade,
1992 by Adam Brinson I Chapter.
• Historical marker placed at the site of Fort
James, Elbert County, Georgia,
dating from 1773 [Origin of chapter name], 1993 by Fort James Chapter.
• Historical marker placed at Browning Courthouse, Tucker,
Georgia, 1994, by Ann Pope Washington Chapter.
• Historical marker placed at Old
Athens Cemetery
to mark its significance in the early development of Athens,
Georgia, to memorialize
Revolutionary soldiers, and to celebrate Athens’ participation in the1996
Olympic Games, 1996 by Thomas Miller Chapter.
• Historical marker at ancestral home of John Howell, Sr. in Americus, Georgia, 1995 by John Howell,
Sr. Chapter.
• Historical marker placed at the grave of Mrs. Alex Story of Ashburn, Georgia, Organizing President
of John Howell, Sr. Chapter and the 19th State President of the Georgia
Society, 1996 by John Howell, Sr. Chapter.
• Historical marker placed at “Haunted Pillar of the Lower
Market,” an old slave market located at Broad and 5th Streets, Augusta, GA, 1996, by
Revered Pierre Robert Chapter.
• Historical marker placed at the Millstone Creek Meriwether Lewis
historic site, Broad River Valley, Oglethorpe
County, Georgia,
1998 by Fort James Chapter.
• Historical marker placed at Oconee
Hill Cemetery,
Athens, Georgia
to commemorate the historical significance of the cemetery to Athens and the University of Georgia,
2001, by Thomas Miller Chapter.
• Historical marker placed at the “Site of Old
Tannery” in Lincoln County,
Georgia,
2002 by Fort James Chapter.
• Historical marker placed at the homesite of Dr. William Wyatt
Bibb and Polly Freeman Bibb, 1807-1816, Tignall, Georgia,
2004 by Ft. James Chapter.
• Historical marker placed at Banks
Lake, Lanier County, Georgia,
commemorating the contributions of Joshua Lee, pioneer dam builder, 2004 by
John Howell, Jr. Chapter.
• Historical marker placed at Magnolia
Cemetery, Augusta, Georgia,
historic city cemetery, 2004 by Reverend Pierre Robert Chapter.
• Historical marker placed at The Historic Porter-Sams House, ca
1848, Fayetteville, Georgia, Home of Dr. and Mrs.
James C. Sams, continuously owned by the descendants of the original owner,
2006 by the Thomas Wingfield Chapter.
• Historical marker placed on the
historic Harper Folds House and Farm, McDonough, Georgia, ca 1844, owned
and restored by Mr. & Mrs. Hiram C. Folds. Mrs. Folds is a descendant
of original owner. 2006 Placed by Thomas Wingfield Chapter.
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