Georgia State
President
Mrs. C. Lewis Baldwin (Sally)
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Mrs. Baldwin
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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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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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