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Did You Know.....
The President General of the NSDAR is the highest and most honored office in the DAR?
NC is proud to have had a Daughter to hold this office. Miss Gertrude Sprague Carraway, a native of New Bern, NC, past NC State Regent held office of President General from 1953-1956.
As President General, NSDAR, Miss Carraway lived in Washington, DC, where she became a friend of Mamie Eisenhower. During her term, she convinced her friend’s husband, President Eisenhower, to declare one week in September (17th-23rd) as National Constitution Week. New Bern was the home of NCSDAR’s first regent and also of Miss Carraway. Miss Carraway was instrumental in the restoration of Tryon Palace in the mid 1950’s as President General of NSDAR. Tryan Palace was the colonial capital of North Carolina. The capital was moved to Raleigh in 1794.
The President General of the NSDAR is the highest and most honored office in the DAR?
NC is proud to have had a Daughter to hold this office. Miss Gertrude Sprague Carraway, a native of New Bern, NC, past NC State Regent held office of President General from 1953-1956.
As President General, NSDAR, Miss Carraway lived in Washington, DC, where she became a friend of Mamie Eisenhower. During her term, she convinced her friend’s husband, President Eisenhower, to declare one week in September (17th-23rd) as National Constitution Week. New Bern was the home of NCSDAR’s first regent and also of Miss Carraway. Miss Carraway was instrumental in the restoration of Tryon Palace in the mid 1950’s as President General of NSDAR. Tryan Palace was the colonial capital of North Carolina. The capital was moved to Raleigh in 1794.
Flag Notes (from Internet)
Mary Young Pickersgill sewed the very large (30’x42’) Star-Spangled Banner in the summer of 1813. It flew over Fort McHenry during the War of 1812 (1812-1814) and was the inspiration for Francis Scott Key what would become our National Anthem. Pickersgill’s flag today hangs at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC. Her house still stands as a museum you can visit in Baltimore, Maryland.
Francis Scott Key wrote the words to “The Star-Spangled Banner” on the back of an envelope. The music is from an old English drinking song called “To Anacreon in Heaven.”
Ancestral Tidbits.... (from Revolutionary War Records Duplin and Sampson Counties, NC by Bizzell)
ABRAHAM NEWKIRK, NC Militia, 1st Continental Line...Soldier was born 15 June 1754 to Tobias and Penelope Brossard Newkirk. He is said to have been in Col. James Moore’s 1st Continentals but we found no record that he was. He is listed as having participated in the Battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge, fought with Militiamen against the Tories. He is credited with having were not present. He also is said to have brought home from the battleground a cannon ball weighing 24 pounds.
“His sword measures nearly four of old steel, with a bone handle and was left to his son, Joseph, who in turn left it to his son, Bryan. It is still in the family, held as a sacred relic.” [The sword, more accurately a saber since its long blade is curved, is more likely to have been carried by an officer on horseback.] It has been proven that this sword belonged originally to Maj. Joseph T. Rhodes, Newkirk’s brother-in-law.
Chapter members who are DAR Patriot/Supplemental descendants of Abraham are Ashley Diane Hall, Kathryn Kornegay Hall Cavenaugh and Lucy Ellen Wells Farrior.
Taken from our newsletter provided by Winifred Jenkins. Thank you Winifred.
Mary Young Pickersgill sewed the very large (30’x42’) Star-Spangled Banner in the summer of 1813. It flew over Fort McHenry during the War of 1812 (1812-1814) and was the inspiration for Francis Scott Key what would become our National Anthem. Pickersgill’s flag today hangs at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC. Her house still stands as a museum you can visit in Baltimore, Maryland.
Francis Scott Key wrote the words to “The Star-Spangled Banner” on the back of an envelope. The music is from an old English drinking song called “To Anacreon in Heaven.”
Ancestral Tidbits.... (from Revolutionary War Records Duplin and Sampson Counties, NC by Bizzell)
ABRAHAM NEWKIRK, NC Militia, 1st Continental Line...Soldier was born 15 June 1754 to Tobias and Penelope Brossard Newkirk. He is said to have been in Col. James Moore’s 1st Continentals but we found no record that he was. He is listed as having participated in the Battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge, fought with Militiamen against the Tories. He is credited with having were not present. He also is said to have brought home from the battleground a cannon ball weighing 24 pounds.
“His sword measures nearly four of old steel, with a bone handle and was left to his son, Joseph, who in turn left it to his son, Bryan. It is still in the family, held as a sacred relic.” [The sword, more accurately a saber since its long blade is curved, is more likely to have been carried by an officer on horseback.] It has been proven that this sword belonged originally to Maj. Joseph T. Rhodes, Newkirk’s brother-in-law.
Chapter members who are DAR Patriot/Supplemental descendants of Abraham are Ashley Diane Hall, Kathryn Kornegay Hall Cavenaugh and Lucy Ellen Wells Farrior.
Taken from our newsletter provided by Winifred Jenkins. Thank you Winifred.
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