Original Blackwater Chapter Members & Projects

There were twenty chapter members, sixteen were present at the organization meeting. Charter Members were:

Regent:

Mrs. L. H. (Pearl) Mott

Vice Regent:

Mrs. Albert (Susan Colborn) Minear

Secretary:

Mrs. J. D. D. (Gladys) Duncan

Treasurer:

Mrs. Harold (Flora) Phelps

Registrar:

Mrs. Ray (Marie Hahn) Lipscomb

Members:

Mrs. Lena Heironimus

Mrs. C. H. (Lulu Minear) Loeber

Mrs. J. D. (Willard Auvil) Jordan

Mrs. T. B. (Ethyl Digman) Waters

Mrs. Fred (Elizabeth Harman) Painter

Mrs. C. H. (Ruth) Harman

Mrs. Eva Harman Corrick

Mrs. H. H. (Virginia Bane) Harrison

Mrs. Ella Nash Ward

Mrs. C. G. (Hattie Parsons Hahn) Lucas

Mrs. C. R. (Lucille Hagerty Roberts ) Parsons

Mrs. William (Ruth Collett) Hamby

Mrs. Lloyd (Lalah Scott) Fankhouser

Mrs. John (Nelle Harper) McNeely

Mrs. Hob (Emma) Parsons

Mrs. Emma Parsons was a real granddaughter of a Revolutionary Soldier. She was quite elderly when she joined, but she lived to enjoy five years as a member of the Blackwater Chapter. Ruth Collett Hamby lived only three years. Seven of the charter members resigned and one transferred. Mrs. Lena Heironimus, one of the first members, died in September 1980.

One of the first projects sponsored by the chapter was marking the graves of Revolutionary soldiers buried in Tucker County: William Parsons, Samuel Bonnifield, Salathial Goff, Henry Fansler and David Minear.

The chapter also gathered records of World War I deaths and copied records from tombstones, bible marriages, birth, death, will and court records to furnish authentic dates of the early history of Tucker County.