Saturday, June 5th – The Roane County Chapter is planning a day of many activities at Fort Southwest Point.
Call Arthur Rivers at 865-368-8729 for information.
Sons of the Revolution Fort Celebration
May 1st, 2010Spring Time at David Hall Cabin
May 1st, 2010Harry and Libby invite you to an open house at the historic David Hall Cabin on June 5th and 6th.
Flags to Honor Tennessee Soldiers buried in France
April 28th, 2010A group of students a Roane State Community College is planning to place Tennessee State flags on the graves of soldiers from Tennessee buried in the Normandy American Cemetery on May 17. Casey Cobb, associate professor of history, is leading the trip, and raising money for the flags. The John Rice Irwin-Anderson County Chapter has pledged $50 toward the project.
Upcoming April Events
April 21st, 2010Saturday April 24, 10 am to 5 pm – Living History Demonstration at Marble Springs
Monday April 26, 7:00 pm – Roane County Chapter meeting at Kingston Public Library.
Tuesday April 27, 5:30 and 6:30 pm – Anderson County Chapter meets at 1998-E Oak Ridge Turnpike at 6:30 pm. Rev. War movie starts at 5:30 pm. Pizza & Ice cream will be served.
April Board of Managers meeting
April 15th, 2010The Board of Managers met at the Fountain City Library. They discussed the possibility of admitting members based on DNA, especially for those who are adopted. A flintlock match has been suggested. It is being planned for a Monday in the fall at the range on Rifle Range road. The Board approved a resolution to restore to membership those who are delinquent in their dues by paying only the current years dues. This is a one-time offer, and is only because of the change to the constitution that removes from membership anyone who has not paid current years dues by December, instead of waiting until they are two years in arrears.
General Henry Knox Chapter
April 15th, 2010At the meeting on April 15 we discussed the continuing project of photographing all graves of Revolutionary War Veterans buried in Knox County.
Festival at Fort Southwest Point, Saturday June 5
April 12th, 2010Roane County Chapter is planning a day of many activities at Fort Southwest Point. Some of the things in process are story telling, tomahawk throwing, black power rifle shooting, firing the cannon every two hours, music and food. The primary purpose of the event is to raise money to complete building 15 or the fort and to draw attention to the Sons of the Revolution. Everyone please come and join this annual activity. First Saturday in June. This year Rick Revel has agreed to perform and we are building activities around that.
Tennessee Patriots Day – Saturday, April 17 10:00 am
April 8th, 2010The Tennessee Society, Sons of the Revolution will be participating in the Sons of the American Revolution Patriot’s Day Service in Greene County on Saturday, April 17, 2010 at 10AM EST. TNSSAR President Rick Hollis has announced the service will be part of the grave marking honoring Lt. Joseph Conway, one of five Conway brothers that served in the American Revolution. Three of the Conway brothers settled in Greene County. The Conway’s are a story of frontier America, they served in the war, settled on the frontier, then saw their sons and daughters move west to impact other areas of the expanding country. Three of the Conway children married members of the Sevier family. Major James Sevier married Nancy Conway and John Sevier Jr married Elizabeth Conway. James Sevier Conway was the first Governor of Arkansas. Other Conway’s have served as Governors, Senators and Congressmen, and in each of the nations wars. Conway Arkansas is named in their honor. The program will take place on Lt. Josephs Conway’s farm which he settled in the 1780’s and where he spent the rest of his life and is buried here on his family land.
TNSOR President David Whaley and General Society General President Terry Davenport will be part of the activities. Tim Massey, the Commander in Chief of the Society of the Descendants of Washington’s Army at Valley Forge, will be honoring the Conway’s as four of the brothers served under Washington at Valley Forge. Other participants will be the Daughters of the American Revolution, Children of the American Revolution, the Watauga Volunteer Fife and Drum, the TNSSAR Color guard, the Overmountain Victory Trail Association. Historian Donahue Bible will speak about the buying of the four North Carolina land grants by Lt. Joseph Conway, in what is now the Briar Thicket Community of Cocke County.
C.J. Popadops restaurant at Briar Thicket will open at noon to accommodate any of the Patriots Day participants who wish to dine following the program.
Directions for those interested in attending:
Take Interstate 81 to Fish Hatchery Road Exit, which will be Exit 15. When you take the exit ramp at Exit 15, turn right if headed north on I-81..Or left, if headed south on I 81. That road will be Tennessee State Route 340 SOUTH (also called Fish Hatchery Road). Stay on 340 SOUTH for 5.7 miles, until you see Knob Creek Road in a curve, which will turn off to your right at the foot of a long hill. Stay on Knob Creek Road for approximately one-quarter mile…where you will drive across the Nolichucky River on a narrow concrete bridge (Conway Bridge). The Conway Cemetery will be about another one-quarter mile on the left- hand side about 300 yards across a grassy field.
John Sevier Chapter Annual Banquet
March 25th, 2010The John Sevier Chapter will hold their Annual Meeting at El Mesquite Mexican Grill at 7 pm on April 8. Contact Jered Underwood at 865-933-8489 for more information.
SAR TO MEMORIALIZE NASHVILLE’S REVOLUTIONARIES APRIL 18TH
March 18th, 2010On April 18th a ceremony will be held to honor all Revolutionary participants buried in Nashville. Contact Dave Whaley for more info.
