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THE GARLAND FAMILY MEETING

The Garland Family Research Association will hold annual meeting July 15,
16, and 17, 1999 at the Holiday Inn Express in Erwin, TN, off 1-181. The
GFRA is in its 22nd Year and has members in 41 states, Washington, D.C, and
5 countries. The meeting will have a full schedule of social activities,
speakers, genealogical sessions, and just plain fun and fellowship.

The main event of the meeting will be the D.A.R. unveiling ceremony of a
marker to honor the six Garland Men who served in the Revolutionary War and
settled in this area, (Carter County, TN) by the mid 1780's. They were
Humphrey, John, Samuel, Joseph, Gutridge and Elisha Garland. It will take
place in the Bell Cemetery in the Limestone Section of Unicoi County, on
Saturday, July 17, 1999, at 11 o'clock, A.M. The Colors and the Mourning of
Arms Ceremony, will be presented by the Elizabethton, TN., Company of
Over-Mountain Men, honoring them, as they would have been honored during the
Revolutionary War.

Other planned events: Genealogical Work Sessions, talks on Mountain Herbs
used for Medicine, Frontier Medicine, Garland Tales, and famous Garland's
and the Civil War Battle of Red Bank which took place in Erwin on the site
where the motel now sits. Tours of historical sites: Rocky

Mount, Capital of the Territory South of the Ohio River (1790-1792), Carter
Mansion, Fort Watauga to see the historical outdoor drama "The Wataugans",
(1772-1780), time frame. Other places also.

VISIT FROM JOHN SEVIER, SAT.

John Sevier, leader of the Mourning of Arms Ceremony, veteran Indian
Fighter, and the Battle of Kings Mountain, (Turning point of the
Revolutionary War), only governor of the Lost "State of Franklin", and the
first Governor of the State of Tennessee will visit us at July 17, at 2:00,
and tell us about his life.

If you can not attend and would like information about membership please
write to me.

Margaret Garland Timbs, Corresponding

Secretary, 3154 Antioch Road, Johnson

City, TN, 37604, 1-423-926-5010


, 37604, 1-423-926-5010

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