Dyer-Souther Heritage Association Reunion
July 19, 2008
Choestoe
Baptist Church
In case you don't yet
have the reunion date on your calendar, here are the pertinent
details:
Saturday,
July 19, 2008
Always the Third Saturday of July
Dyer-Souther Heritage Association Reunion
At Choestoe Baptist Church, Family Life Center
Blairsville, GA (Hwy 180 - Micajah Clark Dyer Parkway)
11:00
a. m. - Registration begins
12:00 noon - Shared covered-dish meal
1:00 p. m. - Reunion Program
The annual
Dyer-Souther Heritage Association Reunion which honors the memory
as early Union County, Georgia settlers, Bluford Elisha and
Elizabeth Clark Dyer and John Jesse and Mary "Polly" Combs Souther
will be held Saturday, July 19, 2008 at the Family Life Center,
Choestoe Baptist Church. Descendants of these pioneers and related
families are cordially invited to attend.
The church is located on Georgia 80 (The Micajah Clark Dyer
Parkway) eight miles south of Blairsville.
Registration begins at 11:00 a. m. The noon meal, a covered dish
feast, will follow at twelve noon. Eating utensils and ice will be
provided. Families are asked to bring food and soft drinks or tea
and spread with others to share at the midday meal.
A program and Heritage Association business session will follow at
1:00 p. m. Time will be allowed for visitation, sharing of family
information and fellowship.
One of the features of this year's meeting will be "Meet the
Authors." A very recent publication by one of the members of the
Dyer-Souther Heritage Association, is by Charles H. Souther of
Huntsville, Alabama. He will be present with his recently-published
book, From the Mules and Wagon to the Space Shuttle. Another author
expected is Dr. Joe Turner of Gainesville, GA, whose book by him
and his late father, Dr. James Harry Turner, entitled High Humor of
the Hills , is now in its second and expanded edition. Others are
invited to bring books they have written, whether they have been
recently published or awhile back. It will be interesting to see
how many in the extended family have been blessed with the gift of
words and writing.
If you have old family pictures to display, an old-timey tool or
artifact you would like to present through the Dyer-Souther
Heritage Association to the Union County Historical Society, or
other items or information of historical interest, you are invited
to bring them for display.
The youngest, oldest and the ones who traveled farthest to the
reunion will receive certificates of recognition.
Every year people new to the reunion have heard about the gathering
and attend for the first time. A pleasant atmosphere of good will
and fellowship permeate the gathering. The Dyer- Souther Heritage
Association Historian Ethelene Jones and President Bill Collins
join in saying, "Y'all come! You will like it. This is a good way
to spend a delightful day in the mountains of North Georgia."
I hope to see you and
yours on July 19
Ethelene Dyer Jones
Historian - Dyer-Souther Heritage Association
edj0513@alltel.net