Our Chapter History

In 2017, Our Chapter Celebrated
85 Years of Service ~ 1932 to 2019

It was the patriotic spirit of Mrs. Russell Hart, Mrs. Count R. Boyd, Sr. (Mary Boyd), Mrs. Oscar F. Noel, Sr. (Jeannette Acklen), and Mrs. E. C. Tompkins (Agnes Gray Dexter), and possibly one or two others, who selected the name of the new chapter of DAR and promoted the first membership. Mrs. Hart was the chairman of the group. They contacted Mrs. Edythe R. Whitley, who was then a member of the Fort Nashbourgh Chapter DAR, asking her to aid them in promoting membership into their new chapter, which required an established number of new members to charter a new chapter.

At the time it so happened that Mrs. Arch E. Rucker and some friends decided to join the new chapter, which gave the necessary number of members for them to obtain a charter from the National Society in Washington. It was almost immediately accomplished. They were organized April 18, 1932. By 1990, the chapter maintained a membership of 70 members, 95 percent of whom were active members. Mrs. Whitley was very instrumental in the success of the chapter and she wrote the history of this chapter in 1988. Mrs. Whitley was the last of the founding members of the chapter. She died in September of 1989.

In honor of those who have served the chapter as regent:

Mrs. Russell E. Hart*, 1932-1933 Mrs. E. C. Tompkins*, 1933-1935 Mrs. Count R. Boyd, Sr.*, 1935-1937 Mrs. Berry D. Shriver*, 1937-1939 Mrs. Albert Boyd Whitley*, 1939-1941 Mrs. Henry B. Brackin*, 1941-1943 Mrs. Arch E. Rucker*, 1943-1945 Mrs. Count R. Boyd, Sr.*, 1945-1947 Miss Marianne Wade*, 1947-1949 Mrs. E. C. Tompkins*, 1949-1951 Mrs. R. H. Whitmer*, 1951-1953 Mrs. Henry B. Brackin*, 1953-1955 Mrs. Albert B. Whitley*, 1955-1957 Mrs. Count R. Boyd, III*, 1957-1959 Mrs. William E. Manning*, 1959-1961 Mrs. Walter B. Smith*, 1961-1963 Mrs. Currey L. Turner*, 1963-1965 Mrs. Oscar F. Noel, Jr.*, 1965-1967 Mrs. Scobey Rogers, Jr*. 1967-1969 Mrs. L. A. Newman*, 1969-1971

Mrs. Marion S. Cooter*, 1971-1973 Mrs. L. A. Newman*, 1973-1975 Mrs. Mary H. Procter*, 1976-1976 Mrs. Roderick D. Murray*, 1976-1977 Mrs. L. Bush Cole*, 1977-1979 Mrs. Roscoe D. Jackson*, 1979-1981 Mrs. H. E. Wolf*, 1981-1983 Mrs. James Kilgore, Jr.*, 1983-1987 Mrs. L. Bush Cole*, 1987-1989 Mrs. Gray D. Sands, Jr.*, 1989-1995 Mrs. John J. James, Jr.*, 1995-1997 Mrs. Helen Winsett*, 1997-1999 Mrs. Kenneth L. Ross, Sr.*, 1999-2001 Mrs. Robert Lehmann, 2001-2003 Dr. Gibson Elizabeth McKay, 2003-2005 Mrs. Andrea D. Lawrence, 2005-2008 Mrs. Lattie Brown, 2009-2011 Mrs. Kathleen H. Pohlid, 2011-2013 Ms. Stephanie S. Sturdivant, 2013-2017 Mrs. Susanne P. Thacker, 2017-2019

* Deceased Members

He who careth not from whence he came,
careth little whither he goeth. ~ Daniel Webster