Od Sumter District Family Reunions

Old Sumter District Family Reunions

Clarendon, Lee, and Sumter

Expired reunion information will be left on this page in case the contact information is useful to someone.


Mathis - Lowder - Holladay Family Reunion


Mathis/Lowder/Holladay Family Reunion will be held Saturday, August 13th at 1PM at Clarendon Baptist Church Life Center in Manning, SC.  Please bring your favorite covered dish and a donation for the use of the Life Center.  If you are a Mathis, Lowder or Holladay or kin to one, please join us for an afternoon of good food and conversation.  Any questions, please call or email Debbie Hodge (d/o Archie Edward Hodge) 706-782-0986/706-490-2892 or [email protected].
(Posted May 21, 2005)

Calvin-McFadden Family Reunion

We are having The Calvin-McFadden Family Reunion in Manning, SC June 25-27, 2004.
This reunion is for the descenders of William and Mary Calvin
For more Information please contact Renee Covington at 203-852-0526.
(Posted February 22, 2004)


Brogdon Family Reunion

The Brogden Family Reunion is held each year on the first Sunday in May at Graham Baptist Church on Highway 521 South in Sumter County, South Carolina. Everyone is asked to bring a covered dish.

Contact : Charles Dibble for more information.


Stuckey Family Reunion





The Edmund Stuckey Family Reunion will be held on Saturday, June 8, 2002 at the Wesley United Methodist Church, Hartsville, SC.  Bring a covered dish to share and plan to arrive between 11:00 and 12:00 A. M.

Contact: Tom Jordan


Dingle Family Reunion

The Dingle Family Reunion is held during the first weekend in August. Each year the reunion is held in a different location. It is held in South Carolina every 2 years.  Those interested in attending should call for a reunion packet at (305)685-0074 or e-mail Marthenia Dupree aka "The Chicken Lady".


Ridgeway Family Reunion

The descendants of Peter Edward Ridgeway hold the Ridgeway Family Reunion each year during the spring. The reunion is always held somewhere in Clarendon County, South Carolina. Everyone brings a covered dish and drinks to share with their extended family. Plates, cups, napkins, and eating utensils are provided. You are invited to the Ridgeway reunion if you are a Ridgeway, are kin to a Ridgeway, love a Ridgeway, like a Ridgeway, or just know a Ridgeway. Just come and share in our family fun. Come and bring your family stories, pictures, old records to share in an effort to make our family history more complete.

E-mail:Cindy Parker for more information about the Ridgeway reunion
or you may call (803)481-4109. 


Richburg Family Reunion - Texas

The Texas style Richburg Family reunion is held each year in June.
The contact for the reunion is:
Lonnie C. Richburg
3908 Tall Oaks Lane
Crowley, TX  76036-5300
(817) 297-4873


Baldwin, Curtis, Hunter
Family Reunion

A family reunion for the Baldwin, Curtis, and Hunter families will be held each July in Columbia, South Carolina

The contact person in Sumter is Dorothy B. Chatman - 803-775-7985


Lesesne Family Reunion

The descendants of Isaac Lesesne, Huguenot immigrant to South Carolina, holds a family reunion in October at New Market just south of Greeleyville in Williamsburg County. For more information contact Lou Lesesne .


Funderburk Family Reunion

The National Vonderburg Family (Funderburk/Funderburg, etc) holds a family reunion in Pageland, SC. For more information e-mail: MarySloane Funderburk ([email protected])


RHODES FAMILY REUNION

61st ANNUAL RHODES REUNION

The 62nd Annual Joseph E. & Mary Beck Rhodes Reunion will be held on Sunday, July 13, 2008 at the Swift Creek Baptist Church located at 413 North Center Road, Hartsville, SC in Darlington County.  You are cordially invited to attend.  

WORSHIP SERVICE  -  11:00 a.m.
REGISTRATION   - 12:15 p.m

COVERED DISH LUNCHEON  - 1:00 p.m
BUSINESS MEETING -2:00 p.m.

Plates, cups and ice tea will be furnished.

Please make plans to attend and represent your Ancestor, they are as follows: Curtis Rhodes, Elizabeth �Betsy� Rhodes Fields, Calvin Rhodes, Sarah Ann Rhodes King, Nancy Rhodes Beasley, Caleb Beck Rhodes, Everett Edward Rhodes,  & Joseph Edward Rhodes, Jr.

Please share this information with as many family members as possible.

For more information contact:
Mrs. Doris M. Bateman
PO Box 2748
Hartsville, SC 29551-2748
843-332-2588
[email protected]

We are still in the process of updating family records; if we don�t have yours, please send them to me.
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ARRANTS FAMILY REUNION

The 3rd Annual

Arrants/Watson/Huggins/Belvin/Blyther/McCaskill
(and all related families) Extended Family Reunion will be held at the (air conditioned!) Cedar Creek Baptist Church Fellowship Hall Bishopville, SC on Saturday, July 22, 2000

Dinner at 12 noon

Bring a covered dish and join us -- and bring any pictures and family history you'd like to share or have questions about.

For more information contact: [email protected] (Julia Cochran) or Carolina [email protected] (Dawn Smith) or call 912-826-7233 (Julia's office, with voice mail)


SINGLETON
FAMILY REUNION

The Singleton family reunion will be held on each September in Sumter, South Carolina. Bring a covered dish, and any family history that you would be willing to share.

For more information, please contact Jackie Hughes at (803)775-4555 or e-mail her at [email protected] .


Wilder Family

of Rimini, South Carolina

Reunion

Descendants, family, and friends of James A. Wilder (1820-1891) and his wife Malsey Clarke Wilder (1822-1896) gather every odd year on the first weekend in August at various locations around the country. The 2001 reunion (our 10th) will be held in the Atlanta, GA area August 5-7. For more information, please contact Damita Drayton Green at [email protected] or check out our Wilder Family of Rimini, SC website (http://www.fcmn.com/wilder ).


GIBSON/GIPSON
FAMILY REUNION
OF SUMMERTON, S.C.

For years the Gibson/Gipson family has been know to reside in Summerton,  South Carolina.  Over the years our family has spread out to various states which include Florida, Georgia, New York and, New Jersey.  This is why each year, during the second weekend of August we travel to the various states in which our familiy members reside to celebrate our kinship.   We are proud to announce that the 27th reunion was  held in Atlantic City, New Jersey, hosted by the New Jersey chapter. Our 28th reunion will be held the second weekend in August 2004 in the Summerton/Manning area of South Carolina . For more information you may contact: Susan Dixon at [email protected] or  [email protected]


The Kolb Family Reunion

The descendants of Ephraim Pool Kolb meet  annually on the 2nd Sunday in September at 1:00 p.m.,  at Santee Baptist Church on Highway 260 near Manning, South Carolina(near Randolph's Landing) .....bring a tasty dish......ice and paper goods provided. For more information, contact Horace Curtis at [email protected] .


The Geddis/Gathers
Family Reunion

The Geddis/Gathers families of Sumter County, SC will hold a family reunion at the Double Tree Hotel in San Diego, Calif. July 17-20, 2003. All branches of the family are invited to attend and share our family ties. For more information contact: Edward D. Gaddis ([email protected])


Thames/Timms/Timms Organization

Dear Thames, Tims, Timms Researcher,
A combination reunion and organizational meeting is being planned for April 4 & 5 2003 in Gastonia, NC.
The purpose of the meeting on 4 April is to form an organization of descendants and researchers of the surnames Tims, Timms, Thames, Timbs, Thanes and any other variant spelling of these names.  The purpose of the organization is to share family information, produce a newsletter, provide query service and establish a pernament depository of research on these families so that future generations will have the benefit of research which has already been done.

The purpose of the meeting on 5 April is to vote on options developed at the April 4 meeting and to visit and get to know our cousins even though some of us spell our ancestral name slightly different.

The location in Gastonia is a meeting hall in a Church equiped with a kitchen and there is a copy machine available.  Several well known motels and restaurants and a shopping center are located within 5 miles of the church.  Gastonia is located on Interstate 85 near Charlotte, N.C. where there is a major airport.

The organizing committee is in the process of negotiating special motel rates for these meetings and we need everyone who is interested in attending one or both meetings to send to the address below the following information: Please pass the word to any others who may be interested.

     Name(s)
     Mail Address
     email address
     kind of room needed (single, double, twin, queen, king bed.
     do you prefer a one day meeting instead of 2 days?
     do you need transportation from & to airport and between motel and meeting place
     If you cannot attend the meetings are you interested in membership in the organization?

Please respond right away in order to assist in getting the best possible room rates.

Lee Ponder, email [email protected]
or
snail mail 428 Lee Road, Clyde, NC. 28721.

If you have questions please send them to the same address.


TOBIAS FAMILY REUNION

A reunion for the descendants of Thomas and Mary Bagnel Tobias will be held on Saturday, March 27th, 2004, at the Union United Methodist Church, Wilson, SC. It is located 6 miles east of Manning on Highway 521.

Please bring a covered dish and a drink (plates, cups, etc., will be provided). It will start at 12:00 with dinner at 1:00.

If you think you are kin -- please come and bring any old records, pictures, to share for our family history.

There will be a visit to the Junky Yard Cemetery after the meal.

Contact- Ann Black @ 803-894-6472 or email [email protected]
OR Judy Rogers @ 803-473-3292 or email  [email protected]



Stenny Family

THE STENNY FAMILY REUNION WILL BE IN COLUMBIA, S.C. ON JULY 25-27 2003 AT THEADAMS MARK HOTEL.

THE CHAIRPERSON IS TERRANCE MCPHATTER
POST OFFICE BOX 4808
COLUMBIA,S.C 29204
TEL (803) 419-7609
CELL (803) 479-1816

THE HOTEL ADAMS MARK (800) 444-2326

THE DEADLINE FOR HOTEL RESERVATIONS & BANQUET IS MAY 25,2003


For corrections or additions to the family reunion page,

Cindy Pakrer

Webmaster of the Sumter, Clarendon, and Lee County, South Carolina USGenWeb home pages.

(I will leave the expired reunion information up until a family member sends me an update for the next year's event.
This way the contact person's information is still available.)


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