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A Message from the Georgia State President :
My Theme for this administration:
“Honoring the Past by
Building for the Future”
My Scripture:
"Commit Thy works unto the
Lord and Thy thoughts shall be established.” Proverbs 16:3
State
President’s Projects:
Washington Memorial Library (Genealogy Room)
Support
to Veterans
Membership
Georgia
Scholarship
Marking Historic Sites
Georgia State Society Officers 2009 - 2011
State
President: Virginia Grace
Lingelbach
First
Vice President: Susan D.
Lemesis
Second
Vice President: Dr. C. Martelia
Cunningham
Chaplain: Rebecca M. Rostron
Recording
Secretary: Dianne A. Passmore
Corresponding
Secretary: Julia (Judy) Ann
Farrigan
Organizing
Secretary: Phyllis J. Tanner
Treasurer: Dianne B. Canastra
Registrar:
Janet S. Sherling
Historian: Mary Elizabeth (Betty) Harrah
Librarian: Dr. Louise G. Henry
Parliamentarian: Sally M. Baldwin
Honorary State Presidents:
2007-2009 Sally M. Baldwin (Mrs. C.
Lewis)
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-seven State Presidents since Mrs. Collier. Virginia Grace Lingelbach
is the thirty-eigth
State President of
the George State Society. Georgia
currently has approximately 800 members and nineteen chapters.
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)
Society Calendar of
Events:
September
11 -12, 2009, Workshop and Board of Management Meeting
March 4
– 6, 2010, State Conference
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.
“Alexandria” – The Thomas
Carr House, built in 1803-1806, located in McDuffie County, Georgia. It is the oldest surviving
documented brick house in Georgia. Marked in 2008 by the Fort James Chapter.
Brunswick-Altamaha
Canal, a 12 mile canal constructed by Irish and slave laborers from 1836 to
1854 in Glynn County, Georgia.
Marked by the Saint Simons Island
Chapter in October 2008.
Holliday-Dorsey-Fife
House, established 1855, located in Fayetteville,
Georgia. Marked by the Thomas Wingfield
Chapter, May 2, 2009
The William
Daniell House, circa 1790, located in Watkinsville,
Georgia. Marked
by the Thomas Miller Chapter, May 13, 2009
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