The Seventeenth Year - 2014:
Officers:
Elected:
President: Paul Trew
Vice-President: Vacant - no takers
Secretary: Marcia Atkins
Treasurer: Gwen Thigpen
Appointed:
Required:
Librarian: Vacant
Parliamentarian: Vacant
Historian: Vacant
Optional: (and may not always exist)
Newsletter Editor: Paul Trew
Web Master: Chuck Jackson
January:
Newsletter: On File.
Program: The History of the Pony Club by Ray Henderson, local author of The History of the Pony Club (a history of crime in frontier America with two case studies: The East Florida Rangers and The Pony Club of Carroll County, Georgia) and The 100 Day War.
Sylvia Vick publishes Fifty Years of Georgia Alpha Sigma in Douglas County, in the Society newsletter.
February:
Newsletter: On File.
Program: Start With Yourself, by Sylvia Vick.
Marcia Atkins publishes The Mystery of Jack Smith Church Cemetery, in the Society newsletter.
March:
Newsletter: On File.
Program: Campbellton As It Might Have Been, by Sidney Brown.
Marcia Atkins publishes How Research of the Dodson Family in Douglas County Solved a Mystery in Nashville, Tennessee, in the Society newsletter.
April:
Newsletter: On File.
Program: Do No Harm: Avoiding Damage to Gravestones, by Sandra Whittington.
Marcia Atkins publishes story of a Douglasville Soldier (Dennis E. Barfield) a World War II Casualty at Normandy, in the Society newsletter.
May:
Newsletter: On File.
Program: The Real Thing: The story of the Candler Family and Asa Candler's contribution to Coca Cola, by Elain Steere.
Robin Thackston publishes Meeting New Members, a brief introduction of our new members, in the Society newsletter.
June:
Newsletter: On File.
Program: The Historic Oakland Foundation, by David Moore.
Paul Trew publishes the story of The Milo Twins (Pauls second cousins, once removed), in the Society newsletter.
6th - Chuck Jackson (me, the Web Master) turns 74 years of age!
July:
Newsletter: On File.
Program: Field Trip: A tour of the Old Courthouse Museum, on Broad Street (Bankhead Highway), in Douglasville.
Mary Walker publishes the story of Frances (Fannie) Tallulah's Famous Quilt, in the Society newsletter.
24th - Lurlie Willis Furr is presented a Centurion Club Certificate for her 101st Birthday, at the Garden Terrace Nursing Home.
August:
Newsletter: On File.
Program: Where to find Death Certificates OnLine, and everything you need to know to help your genealogical research, by Marcia Atkins.
Paul Trew publishes the Ancestors of President John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. (and How Paul Trew is Related to Them), in the Society newsletter.
1st - Lurlie Willis Furr, Centurion Club Certificate holder passes away at age 101.
September:
Newsletter: On File.
Program: All About Dark Corner, by John Bailey, author of The History of Dark Corner, Campbellton County, Georgia.
Marcia Atkins publishes the Diggs Family Migration, in the Society newsletter.
20th - The Society mans a booth at the September Saturdays Festival at the Douglas County Courthouse.
October:
Newsletter: On File.
Program: Finding Your Family in the United Kingdom by Mary Walker.
Elaine Steere publishes The Douglasville Saloon Era 1877-1886, in the Society newsletter.
November:
Newsletter: On File.
Program: Ezekial Polk, Pioneer Family of Douglas and Campbell Counties, by Elaine Steere. This family includes the 11th President of the United States, James K. Polk, the youngest man elected as President (at the time). An ardent believer in "Manifest Destiny," he increased the territorial limits of the United States by a third during his term, primarily due to the annexation of Texas and large territories in the Southwest and along the Pacific coast, which in turn led to the establishment of the Department of the Interior. The northern border of the United States was also established under Polk, as were the Naval Academy and the Smithsonian Institution.
The Society newsletter re-publishes the article Sheriffs of Douglas County, originally published in the Douglas Neighbor on July 6th, 1994 and authored by Joe Baggett.
December:
Newsletter: On File.
Program: Annual Christmas Dinner, held at Golden Corral, in Douglasville.
Sylvia Vick and Billy West publish The Wounded CSA Soldier Moses Daniell, in the Society newsletter.
14th - Lucille Hilton Redding of Winston, Georgia, the first elected female Sheriff in the state, passes away at the age of 97. NOTE: Thirty-two years prior, Lula Duggan Camp had been appointed to complete her husbands term, but was never elected in her own right.