This Summer Join your Distant Cousins and Discover your Ancestral Roots in the beautiful Highlands of Western North Carolina!
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Above, an Ashe County Christmas tree farm, one of many typical of the renewed agriculture economy of this 18th Century pioneer land. Taken in March 2012, the valleys and mountains range from 2,500 to over 5,000 feet elevation. The Blue Ridge Parkway is only a few miles away from this farm. Grandfather Mountain, Boone, North Carolina and other tourist activities make this area a treat to visit any time of the year.
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Above, an Ashe County Christmas tree farm, one of many typical of the renewed agriculture economy of this 18th Century pioneer land. Taken in March 2012, the valleys and mountains range from 2,500 to over 5,000 feet elevation. The Blue Ridge Parkway is only a few miles away from this farm. Grandfather Mountain, Boone, North Carolina and other tourist activities make this area a treat to visit any time of the year.
If you have in your family tree the names of Greer, Wilson, Osborne, Brown, Baird, Boone, Wilcoxson, Forrester, Proffitt, Mast and many others, you will find lost cousins and new history on your ancestral roots.
Family historians Clinton Getzinger and Glenn Holliman, both descendants of Isaac and Caroline Greer Wilson, are hosting an educational reunion and tour of historic family sites in Watauga and Ashe Counties, North Carolina, June 25 – 27, 2012.
A fascinating agenda has been prepared to include among other items:
June 25, 2012 – Group dinner at 6 pm at Casa Rustica of Boone at 1348 Highway 105 South, Boone, NC. This Italian restaurant is casual dining in a rustic cabin setting. A private dining room has been reserved for us. Beverage hour begins at 6 pm and dinner by 7 pm after introductions. We welcome local relatives as well as those who will be travelling long distances. A short background seminar and review of the agenda will be given by Clinton and Glenn.
Through out the tour, we will be sharing information on our ancestors from Scotland and England, the immigration to the Cherokee and Revolutionary War frontier, our relationship to Daniel Boone, other frontier ancestors and their involvement in the events such as the Civil War that made American history.
Through out the tour, we will be sharing information on our ancestors from Scotland and England, the immigration to the Cherokee and Revolutionary War frontier, our relationship to Daniel Boone, other frontier ancestors and their involvement in the events such as the Civil War that made American history.
June 26, 2012 -
9 am – Leave for day’s activities
9:30 am - A visit to scenic Ashe County, the Todd General Store and the grave sites of Jesse Greer, Sr. and Mary Polly Morris Greer. Polly eloped with Jesse at age 13 in 1800 and lived happily ever after, 17 children later!
11:00 am - Time at the Ashe County History Museum with curator Don Long who will share the community’s version of the Wilson-Potter Feud and the Benjamin Greer-Benjamin Cleveland kidnapping during the Revolutionary War. A gift shop and rest rooms are available. Curators Don and Betty, below, will greet us at the museum.
2:00 pm – After a short lunch in Jefferson, Ashe County, we travel to Sutherland to meet Shirley Sorrell, who will show us the old Wilson farm, the Cemetery and the field where Isaac Wilson was bushwhacked. Other cemeteries will be visited and the Donnelly Store. Shirley is directly decended from Isaac and Caroline Greer Wilson, and many of her family photographs are in the book Neighbor to Neighbor, the story of our family during the Civil War.
If time permits, we shall stop in Cove Creek at the Henson Chapel Cemetery where Polly Jane Wilson Proffitt, 1852-1937, lies buried.
After this stop, we return to lodging.
Above, we will visit the Wilson Cemetery located off Oscar Wilson Road, the deep cove where Isaac and Caroline Greer Wilson farmed and where Isaac was brutally bushwhacked on June 17, 1984, another victim of the Civil War.
If time permits, we shall stop in Cove Creek at the Henson Chapel Cemetery where Polly Jane Wilson Proffitt, 1852-1937, lies buried.
After this stop, we return to lodging.
6:00 pm – Again a group dinner in Boone for fellowship and sharing.
June 27 –
10:00 – Meet in Banner Elk to visit Jesse Greer, Jr. and Frances Brown Greer homesite and graves, plus another family cemetery. Time with Annie Heaton, great granddaughter of the above and keeper of considerable family memoriabilia including historic notebooks of Isaac Wilson and Jesse Greer, Jr.
Below, Annie Greer Heaton, great grand daughter of Jesse Greer, Jr, and Frances Brown Greer, holds Jesse Greer, Sr's notebook containing family birth dates and his own words on his religious conversion in 1815.
Below, Annie Greer Heaton, great grand daughter of Jesse Greer, Jr, and Frances Brown Greer, holds Jesse Greer, Sr's notebook containing family birth dates and his own words on his religious conversion in 1815.
12:00 – Group lunch in Elk Park with Annie Heaton. Official tour and our time together is over. Folks can visit local tourist sites and enjoy the mountain vistas! Others may want to visit Osborne sites in East Tennessee, Forrester and/or other family ancestral homes in the area.
Please make your lodging reservations directly with the recommended places below, but let us know if you are coming. There will be handouts on family history, maps, etc and we need to make reservations for food.
HEADQUARTERS LODGING FOR THE WILSON-GREER REUNION
June 25 – 27, 2012, Boone, North Carolina
Both the Baird House and Lazy Bear Lodge in Mast, NC are where several of us are staying, but the Boone, North Carolina area has many fine motels to book.
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We look forward to greeting you in Boone, North Carolina! Please let us know when you make your reservations and when you will be arriving so we may have adequate materials and arrangements made. We want to send you the final agenda.
For information and confirmations, please contact:
Clinton Getzinger at steg1812@gmail.com or 757-235-3111 or Glenn Holliman at glennhistory@gmail.com.
Many Thanks…. Clinton and Glenn, descendants of Isaac and Carolina Greer Wilson
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