The Honorable Richard Bender Abell (ne Richard Lon Welch) was born at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Lon Edward Welch, Jr. and Charlotte Amelia Bender Welch Abell. He was married to Lucia del Carmen Lombana-Cadavid de Abell, daughter of Dr. Ezekiel Lombana-Duque and Maria de los Dolores Cadavid-Diaz of Medellin, Colombia. The Abells had three children: David Joseph Abell, Christian Aven Lombana Abell, and Rachel Mercedes Cadavid Abell. Judge Abell was a Peace Corps volunteer in Colombia, South America, 1967-1969. He served with the United States Army Infantry, Company A, 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry, First Air Calvary Division in Vietnam, 1969-1971. Judge Abell was awarded the Purple Heart, Army Commendation Medal for Heroism, Air Medal, and Combat Infantryman Badge. Judge Abell retired from military service for wounds received in combat.

Judge Abell attended The George Washington University where he graduated with a B.A. in International Affairs, 1966. He completed his Juris Doctor at The George Washington University School of Law, 1974. Judge Abell was appointed by President Ronald Reagan and confirmed by the United States Senate as the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Justice Programs, United States Department of Justice, 1986-1990. He was also appointed by President Reagan to serve as a Member of the Board of Directors of the Federal Prison Industries, Inc. 1985-1991; as a Commissioner, President's Commission on Agricultural Workers 1988-1993; and as a member of the President's Task Force on Adoption 1987-1988. His wife, Lucia, served in two presidential appointments. Judge Abell served in the Federal Judiciary, United States Court of Federal Claims, Washington, D.C., until his retirement in November, 2010. He resided in Alexandria, Virginia. 

Memberships

• Society of the Cincinnati (Maryland former Treasurer)

• General Society of Colonial Wars (former Governor of the District of Columbia Society)

• General Society Sons of the Revolution (former President of the District of Columbia Society)

• Aztec Club of 1847 (former President)

• Order of Indian Wars of the United States (Senior Vice Commander)

• Sons of Confederate Veterans (former Camp Commander, Alexandria, Virginia)

• Military Order of the Stars and Bars (former member of the National Executive Council)

• Colonial Order of the Acorn

• Colonial Society of Pennsylvania

• Ancient Heraldic and Chivalric Order of Albion

• Saint Andrew's Society of Washington, D.C.

• Society of the Sons of Saint George of Philadelphia

• Military Order of the Purple Heart

• General Society of the War of 1812 (former Color Guard of the Pennsylvania Society)

• Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States (former Judge Advocate In Chief)

• Huguenot Society of America

• National Huguenot Society

• Welsh Society of Philadelphia

• Military Order of Foreign Wars of the United States

• Hereditary Order Descendants Loyalists & Patriots American Revolution (former Chancellor General)

• Order of First Families of North Carolina

• Society of the Order of the Southern Cross

• Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy

• National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution

• National Society of Sons of the American Colonists

• National Society Sons and Daughters of Antebellum Planters 1607-1861 (former Vice President General)

• Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench and Bar 1565-1861

• National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims

• Flagon and Trencher

• Order of the Second World War

• Order of the First World War

• Military Order of the World Wars

• Society of the Order of the Southern Cross

• Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (former Camp Commander)

• Royal Society of Saint George

• Descendants of Sheriffs and Constables of Colonial and Antebellum America

• Order of Indian Wars of the United States

• First Families of Georgia 1733-1797

• Point Lookout Prisoner of War Organization

• National Gavel Society

Other

• Order of Scions of Colonial Cavaliers 1640-1660 (former Marshall)

• Society of Boonesborough Descendants

• First Families of Henry County, Georgia

Chivalric Orders

• The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem (Rank of Knight)

Authorship

• Abell, Richard Bender and Wilmer Lane Smith, Peter Smith of Westmoreland County, Virginia (Died 1741) and Some Descendants Michigan: Bookcrafters, 1996, 394 pp.

• Abell, Richard Bender and Fay Adamson Gecik, Sojourns of a Patriot, The Field and Prison Papers of an Unreconstructed Confederate Tennessee: Southern Heritage Press, Murfreesboro, Tennessee (1998), 255 pages.

• Abell, Richard Bender, The Antecedents and Descendants of Gottlieb Heinrich Shmidheiser and Anna Rebman , privately published (2008). - most recent rendition.

• Abell, Richard Bender, The Antecedents and Descendants of Johannes Martin Schwehm, privately published (2008). - most recent rendition.

Listed In

• The Social List of Washington, D.C.

• The Blue Book of Washington, D.C.

• The Hereditary Society Blue Book

• Marquis Who's Who in The World

• Marquis Who's Who In America

• Marquis Who's Who in American Law

• Marquis Who's Who in the East

• Marquis Who's Who in American Politics

• Marquis Who's Who in Finance and Industry

Notes

Judge Abell was a member of numerous veteran’s groups, masonic associations, and historical and genealogical societies, including The Society of Independent Southern Historians. He was Anglican-Catholic by faith.

Barbara Carol Roberts Baylis, a native of Longview, Texas is the daughter of Horace Nelson Roberts, Jr. and Edna Mae Willard. Mrs. Baylis attended Kilgore College where she majored in Business. Additionally, Mrs. Baylis studied Writing at Southern Methodist University.

Primarily a wife and mother, Mrs. Baylis has held professional positions as Director of a YWCA, a professional portrait photographer and professional genealogist

Mrs. Baylis is married to Robert Vernon Baylis. They have two children, Robert Bradley Baylis and Belinda Carol Baylis Bradley, (Mrs. Kerry A. Bradley), as well as four grandchildren. The Baylis’ reside in Dallas, Texas.

Memberships

• National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (Former National Vice Chairman; National Volunteer Genealogist & Museum Volunteer Docent; Texas State Former Vice Chairman for Genealogical Records; Former Chapter Regent)

• Daughters of the Republic of Texas

• Colonial Dames of America (Former President of Chapter XXI)

• Colonial Dames 17th Century (First Vice President of Dallas Chapter)

• Hereditary Order of the Descendants of Colonial Governors

• Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War 1861-1865

• Daughters of World War II (Life and Charter Member)

• Early Descendants of First Settlers of Fort Boonesborough Kentucky

• Flagon & Trencher

• Guild of Colonial Artisans & Tradesmen 1607-1783 (Founding First Vice President)

• Hereditary Society Daughters of Founding Fathers of America (Founding Historian)

• National Society of the Dames of the Court of Honor (President of the Texas Society)

• National Society Daughters of Founders & Patriots (First Vice President of the Texas Society)

• National Society Daughters of American Colonists (First Vice President of the Texas Society)

• National Society Descendants of Early Quakers

• National Society New England Women (President of the Northeast Texas Society)

• National Society Sons and Daughters of Antebellum Planters 1607-1861

• National Huguenot Society (former National Corresponding Secretary)

• Society of the Descendants of Colonial Clergy

• United Daughters of the Confederacy

• Hereditary Order of the First Families of Massachusetts

• First Families of Georgia 1733-1797

• Order of the First Families of New Hampshire

• Indiana Pioneers

Authorship (Article In):

• The New Hampshire Society of Genealogist Quarterly

• The Texas State Genealogical Quarterly

• The Dallas Genealogical Society Newsletter

Winner of a first place in manuscript in writing given by the Texas State Genealogical Society and received The Schulze Bowl in the History Essay Contest of the National Society, New England Women. American History Award for Manuscript placed at a National Conference of the DAR.

Listed In

• Who’s Who, Professional Photographers of America

• Hereditary Society Blue Book

Other Notes

Former President of the 1,000 member Dallas Genealogical Society, Barbara was presented with the Award of Merit from the Society for outstanding contributions of service over a number of years. The National Society of New England Women awarded her the Certificate of Merit for Outstanding Patriotic & Educational Service. Barbara was an Instructor in Family History for a number of years in Continuing Education at Southern Methodist University.

She is one of three founders of The Genealogical Institute of Texas, an intensive genealogical studies Institute of five different sessions of courses led by national known instructors from across the United States. She lectures frequently both on the local, regional and national level. From the Arkansas Genealogical Society, received the Arkansas Traveler Certificate signed by the Governor of Arkansas. served the 500 member National Towne Family Association as President.

As a member of Daughters of the American Revolution she proved nineteen Revolutionary Ancestors with seven of those opening up new lines. The DAR list her as a member of The Heritage Club. In her community, she has served for forty-one years as a member of the Lake Highlands Women’s League. She and her husband have been active members of Scofield Bible Church for many years.

Mary Alma Baxter Birch, a native of Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada is the daughter of William Alexander and Helen Alexandra (Pineo) Baxter. Mrs. Birch received her undergraduate degree from Indiana University, and is a retired secretary. She and her husband, Richard Denis Birch have one son, MAJ David Llewellyn Birch.

Memberships

• Order of the Crown of Charlemagne

• Military Order of the Crusades

• Baronial Order of the Magna Charta

• General Society of Mayflower Descendants

• National Huguenot Society

• National Society of Saints and Sinners

• Jamestowne Society

Other Notes

Mrs. Birch is a member of the North Queens House and Heritage Society, of Queens County, Nova Scotia, Canada. Her grandmother Baxter’s birthplace and home was Caledonia, Queens County, Nova Scotia, Canada, and her father’s mother was Mary Helen Douglas of Caledonia, Nova Scotia. The Heritage Society maintains the house with artifacts and donations fitting to the 1800’s.

Dr. Thomas Edward Bird

Joyce May McGehee Bockemuehl was a native of Memphis, Tennessee. She was the only child of Edith May Willis, R.N. of Louisiana and Herbert Hillery McGehee, of Mississippi.

Mrs. Bockemuehl attended public schools in Lansing and Detroit until leaving for Ann Arbor and the University of Michigan where she was a political science major and planned to continue to law school. Her marriage to Robert Russell Bockemuehl changed those plans. Mr. and Mrs. Bockemuehl had one son, Kenneth Forrest Bockemuehl and two grandchildren Brooke Nicole Bockemuehl, Esq. an attorney in Fort Myers, FL and Russell Forrest Bockemuehl of Gainesville, FL. Robert is a retired electrical engineer and department head of the General Motors Research Laboratories who volunteers his talent at Recordings for the Blind and Dyslexic reading text books in scientific fields.

Memberships

• National Huguenot Society (Honorary President General)

• American Descendants of the House of Burgesses 1619-1699 (Organizing Governor General)

• National Society of the Dames of the Court of Honor (Honorary First Vice President General; Chaplain General)

• Jamestowne Society (former Auditor General, National Council, Sales Chairman)

• National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (former National Chairman of Volunteer Genealogists)

• National Society Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century (former Organizing Secretary General; Honorary State President)

• Order of Descendants of Colonial Physicians and Chirurgiens (former Treasurer General; former Genealogist General; former Registrar General)

• National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims (former Second Deputy Governor General)

• Guild of Colonial Artisans and Tradesmen 1607-1783 (former Corresponding Secretary General)

• National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century (former National Chairman Chorus Director)

• National Society Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America (former State President, Investment Chairman)

• Colonial Dames of America (former State President Chapter XXII)

• National Society of the Colonial Dames of America (Michigan Registrar)

• National Society Daughters of Colonial Wars (former member of the National Auditing Committee, former State President)

• Continental Society Daughters of Indian Wars (former State President)

• National Society Magna Charta Dames (former Regent Michigan Division)

• Order of Descendants of Colonial Cavaliers

• Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry

• Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America

• Baronial Order of Magna Charta

• Dutch Colonial Society of Delaware

• Order of Descendants of Pirates and Privateers

• First Families of Kentucky

• National Society Sons and Daughters of Antebellum Planters 1607-1861 (Councilor General)

• Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench and Bar 1565-1861

• Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy

• Huguenot Society of the Founders of Manakin in the Colony of Virginia

• Flagon and Trencher

• National Society Daughters of the American Colonists (former Chapter Regent)

• Louisiana Colonials

• Daughters of the Republic of Texas

• Order of the First Families of Mississippi 1699-1817

• First Families of Georgia 1733-1797

• Colonial Order of the Crown

• United Daughters of the Confederacy

• National Society Southern Dames of America

• National Gavel Society 

Notes

Mrs. Bockemuehl was a fifty-year member of the Order of Eastern Star, a twenty-seven-year member of The Village Woman’s Club, a private club with a philanthropic arm of community outreach, and a thirty-year member of the P.E.O. sisterhood providing educational opportunities for women, offering scholarships and grants to assist women attain their goals.

Joyce authored one 700-page book Ezekiel Ross Jaques and Mary Evelyn Sering, Some of Their Ancestors and Descendants. She also worked on a book outlining and documenting her French lineages taking her from Louisiana to Quebec and Acadia.

She was a Kentucky Colonel; she was a 27-year member of New England Historical and Genealogical Society and a longtime member of the Society of Genealogists in London.

Her avocational interests included philately, miniatures, needlework and music. She served on the state board of the Federation of Music Clubs where she administered a music therapy scholarship for 15 years. However, her devotion to genealogy took over. Consideration was given to becoming a certified genealogist but she found helping others find their lineages and membership in hereditary societies more rewarding.

Mrs. Bockemuehl was the Patron for the Hereditary Society Blue Book in 2000.

Caroline Bowen was born in Philadelphia, PA. Caroline graduated from Temple University with a degree in music therapy. She passed away September 23, 2012, in Rising Sun, Maryland.

Caroline had a passion for honoring and preserving tradition. She loved theatre and the arts. She was a member and officer of The Order of St. John and numerous other civic and cultural organizations.

Memberships

• National Society of Americans of Royal Descent

LTC Lawrence King Casey, Jr., AUS (Ret.), a native of Brookline, Massachusetts is the son of the late Lawrence King Casey and Alice Annette Boultbee from Maine. He grew up in Codman Square Dorchester, and Lexington, MA, graduating from Lexington High School. LTC Casey completed his undergraduate work at Bucknell University, where he received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering. He later graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business with a Master’s in Business Administration (MBA).

At Bucknell University ROTC he was a Distinguished Military Graduate, the Commanding Officer Pershing Rifles Company M 5th Regiment, and a member of the sky diving team. He graduated from the Ordnance School, Aberdeen Proving Grounds, MD, and the Air Defense Guided Missile School, Redstone Arsenal, AL. He graduated from the US Army Command and General Staff College (USAR School Beaumont, TX).

Additionally, LTC Casey served on active duty as Commanding Officer 226th Ordnance Detachment (Guided Missile General Support-NIKE) Korea, and the Facility Commander Combined Field Maintenance Shop (NIKE) Lincoln, RI. His reserve duty included tours with CONARC, and TRADOC, at Fort Monroe, VA; and with DARCOM at Fort Eustis, VA.

LTC Casey is now retired after 42 years in process control, and project management with ExxonMobil Chemical Company (a heritage Mobil employee). He is a Registered Professional Engineer in Texas. He has resided in Beaumont Texas the past 49 years, and owns the Lucky Shamrock Ranch, Fredericksburg, Texas, where he raises Angus Cattle.

Society Memberships

• Society of the Cincinnati in the State of Connecticut

• General Society of the War of 1812 (Past President General)

• National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (Vice President of Texas Society, District 7) (Vice President)

• Dutch Colonial Society (Patroon)

• Hereditary Order Descendants Loyalists & Patriots American Revolution (Librarian General)

• Plymouth Hereditary Society 1620-1691 (Governor General)

• National Society Sons and Daughters of Antebellum Planters 1607-1861 (Advisory Council)

• Order of the First Families of Maine 1604-1652 (President General)

• Order of the First Families of New Hampshire 1622-1680 (Treasurer General)

• Order of Indian Wars of the United States (Treasurer)

• Order of Descendants of the Ancient & Honorable Artillery Company (Deputy Governor General)

• Descendants of Sheriffs and Constables of Colonial and Antebellum America (Deputy General)

• Aztec Club of 1847 (Councilor)

• Order of the Founders of North America 1492-1692 (Deputy Viscount General England)

• General Society Sons of the Revolution (former President Texas Society)

• General Society of Colonial Wars (former Governor Texas Society)

• Royal Society of Saint George (former President Texas Branch)

• Order of the Founders and Patriots of America (former Governor Texas Society)

• General Society of Mayflower Descendants (former Governor and Deputy Governor General of the Texas Society)

• Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts

• Society of the Order of the Southern Cross

• Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States

• Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War

• Military Order of Foreign Wars of the United States

• Sons of Confederate Veterans

• Piscataqua Pioneers

• National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims

• National Society of Old Plymouth Colony Descendants

• Military Order of the World Wars

• Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy

• Military Order of the Stars and Bars

• National Society of Sons of the American Colonists

• Flagon and Trencher, Descendants of Colonial Tavern Keepers

• Hereditary Order Descendants Loyalists & Patriots American Revolution

• Order of Descendants of Colonial Physicians and Chirurgiens

• Son of a Witch

• Hereditary Order of the First Families of Massachusetts

• National Society Sons of Colonial New England

• National Order of the Blue and Gray

• Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench and Bar 1565-1861

• Order of the Second World War

• Presidential Families of America

• Winthrop Society, Descendants of the Great Migration

• Hereditary Order of the Families of Presidents and First Ladies of America

• Guild of Colonial Artisans and Tradesmen 1607-1783

• Registry of Infamous and Famous Relatives in American Families

• National Society of the Descendants of Textile Workers of America, Inc.

• Order of First Families of Vermont 1609-1791

• Hereditary Society of Teachers

• Descendants of Cape Cod and the Islands

• Thomas Rogers Society

• Hull Family Association

• International Military Order of the Southern Cross

Notes

Mr. Casey is a member of St Paul’s –Algonquin Lodge in Braintree, MA. He is a Past Worshipful Master of Beaumont Lodge #286, Texas. In the York Rite he presided over Beaumont Chapter #188 Royal Arch Masons, Beaumont Council #126 Royal and Select Masters, Beaumont Commandery #38 Knight Templars, Southeast Texas York Rite College #90, and San Felipe Conclave Red Cross of Constantine. He served as District Deputy in the Grand Lodge, Grand Chapter, and Grand Council of Texas. He was honored with the Order of the Purple Cross, and the Knight York Cross of Honor. He is currently serving as Recorder of San Felipe Conclave, and Representative of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts near the Grand Lodge of Texas.

In the Scottish Rite he presided over San Felipe Lodge of Perfection, Galveston Chapter of Rose Croix, Galveston Council Knights Kadosh, and Galveston Consistory. He is a member of the Royal Order of Scotland. He received the 33rd Degree Inspector General Honorary, 19 Nov 1975.

He is an Amateur Member in the United Country Western Dance Council, winning two Pro-Am World Championships in Nashville with Shawna Dysart of Houston, and one in Sweden with Lisa McIntyre of Calgary. He won an Irish Championship with Susan Kirklin of Austin.

He is an Amateur Member of the National Dance Council of America and currently competing in International Latin Pro-Am with Milana Pliner of Houston. He has competed in New York, California, Nevada, Florida, and Texas, winning several Championships.

He also holds membership in the Ferrari Club of America (F-458 Spider and 612 Scaglietti), the Beaumont Country Club, the Country Music Association Nashville (Drummer), Ima Hogg Ceramic Circle Houston (past Treasurer)(expertise in English Wedgwood and Irish Belleek), the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels by Governor Paul E Patton, Honorary Admiral in the Texas Navy by Governor Rick Perry, Honorary Tennessean by Governor Bill Haslam, the Military Officer’s Association of America, and life membership in the New England Historic Genealogical Society.

Mr. Casey has been granted Irish arms by the Chief Herald of Ireland. The Arms are registered with the NEHGS Heraldry Committee and the Armorial Register #330.

• Registered: The International Register of Arms, 1st June 2015. Registration No. 0330 (Vol.2)

• Arms: Per fess embattled Or and Vert a crane in his vigilance counterchanged.

• Crest: A distillatory Or the fire proper.

• Motto:

• above the shield: Tairgeann Dua Sean Agus Fad Saoil.

• below the shield: Tairgeann Dua Rath

• Badge 1: Enfiling a sprig of laurel Proper an ancient crown Or.

• Badge 2: A polled bull rampant Or ringed Gules.

• Badge 3: An eagle with two heads facing to the dexter wings overture Or.

• Grant: The Chief Herald of Ireland, Volume Aa, Folio 64, Dublin Ireland, 30th March 2015.

During the petition process, the heraldic design was done by Micheal Comain, and the art by Philip Mackey, both of the Office of the Chief Herald of Ireland, Colette O' Flaherty.

The field of the shield is parted per fess embattled to reflect Lieutenant Commander Casey's military career. The single charge is a very exact reference to his name. Casey/O'Casey/Cathasaigh which derives from cathasach meaning "watchful".

The crane, in legend, stands holding a rock in one foot so that should he sleep the rock will fall and wake him. He is, then, the symbol of watchfulness and is known heraldically as a crane in his vigilance.

The armiger's eligibility to bear Irish arms is based on his dual Irish citizenship and lineal descent from his father Lawrence King Casey of Portland in the State of Maine (USA), the grandson of William Henry Casey of Cahirciveen in the county of Kerry, and his great-grandfather Daniel Casey (1833-1936) of Cahirciveen in the county of Kerry.

The crest is a distillatory - in everyday language, a still and alludes to the chemical engineering familiar in Ireland.

Above the shield is the motto Tairgeann Dua Sean Agus Fad Saoil (Hard work produces prosperity/blessing and a long life), and beneath the shield Tairgeann dua rath (Hard work produces good fortune). These mottoes are based on a statement by great grandfather Daniel Casey of Cahirciveen, who became at the time Irelands oldest farmer, and when asked what he contributed his longevity he replied "hard work in the open air".

The armiger possesses three badges, the first: Enfiling a sprig of laurel Proper an ancient crown Or represents the families of Lawrence/Laurence and King.

The surname Lawrence or Laurence derives from laurel, so the armiger chose sprig of laurel enfiled by (passing through) an ancient crown representing the name of King. A reminder of the armiger’s paternal great grandmother Anastasia Lawrence of county Kilkenny, and great grandfather Patrick King of county Clare.

Robert Murel Clark Jr., Esq., the eldest son of Robert Murel Clark and Dorrace Helen Schaerdel, is a fifth generation resident of Dallas and a sixth generation Texan who was born in Dallas, Texas. Mr. Clark was married on 25 October 1986 to the former Kimberly Ann Kerss, NSDAR National Chair Appointments and National Teller, TXDAR State Corresponding Secretary, Col. Dames of America, Daughters of the Cincinnati. They have a child, Ashley Pendleton Clark Hunter, graduate of The Hockaday School (2014); Southern Methodist University, BA (2018); Oklahoma City University, Juris Doctor (2022) [Mem. Ven. Order St. John, NSDAR, Col. Dames of America, Daughters of the Cincinnati, Order of Crown in America, The Baronial Order of Magna Charta, Americans Armorial Ancestry, Nat. Soc. Americans Royal Descent, Nat. Soc. Dau. Barons of Runnemede, Military Order of Crusades, Jamestowne Society, Order Three Crusades, Order of Crown of Charlemagne, Order of Albion, Dec. Templar Knights, American Farmers, see H.S.C. Perpetual Sponsor Listing.] He is armigerous.

Bob received a BBA (1972) from the University of Texas at Austin, an M.B.A. (1978) from Southern Methodist University, and a Juris Doctor Degree (1982) from Oklahoma City University (law review). Professionally, he has been Certified in Civil Trial Law since 1989 by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, in Civil Trial Advocacy since 1990 and in Civil Pretrial since 2012 by the National Board of Trial Advocacy, elected member American Board of Trial Advocates since 1991, and became a member of the Bar of the United States Supreme Court in 1988. He has practiced commercial litigation in Dallas, Texas since 1982. 

Hereditary Memberships

• Virginia Society of the Cincinnati (past Regional Chair French American Scholars Committee 1995; published articles in Cincinnati Fourteen, October 1991, May 1992)

• Veteran Corps of Artillery, State of New York

• General Society of the War of 1812 (Texas Society; past Assistant Marshall General, 2011-2014)

• Military Society of the War of 1812

• Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York

• Aztec Club of 1847 (National President, 2020-2022)

• Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States

• General Society, Sons of the Revolution (Texas Society, Past President, 2000-2002)

• Huguenot Society of America

• Huguenot Society of South Carolina

• National Society, Sons of the American Revolution (Texas Society, 98th President 2012-2013, past National Trustee, 2013-2014)

• General Society of Colonial Wars (Texas Society, Governor 2001-2002; past Deputy Governor General, 2009-2011; Fellow, Samuel Victor Constant Society 2002)

• Sons of the Republic of Texas (past President Dallas Chapter, 1996)

• Colonial Order of the Acorn

• Colonial Society of Pennsylvania

• Order of Indian Wars of the United States

• Order of the Founders and Patriots of America (Texas Society Governor, 2002-2004; Attorney General, 2005- 2008)

• Sons of Confederate Veterans (Texas Division)

• Order of the Crown in America

• Baronial Order of Magna Charta

• Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry

• Oklahoma 1889er Society

• National Society, Americans of Royal Descent- Membership Chair, Councillor General 1986-89, Custodian General 2001-2004, Founder Member of the Most Venerable Order of Saint Louis

• National Society, Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims (Texas Society)

• Huguenot Society of the Founders of Manakin in the Colony of Virginia (Texas Society)

• Society of the Friends of St. George's and Descendants of the Knights of the Garter

• Military Order of the Crusades

• Jamestowne Society

• Order of Three Crusades 1096-1192

• Military Order of the Stars and Bars (Texas Division)

• Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America- Treasurer General 1986-1989, Chancellor General 1994-1997

• Descendants of the Illegitimate Sons and Daughters of the Kings of Britain

• National Huguenot Society (Texas Society)- Third Vice President General 1997-1999, Chancellor General 1995-1997

• National Society, Sons of American Colonists

• Flagon and Trencher

• Order of the First Families of Mississippi 1699-1817

• Hereditary Order of Descendants of the Loyalists and Patriots of the American Revolution

• Society of the Descendants of Washington's Army at Valley Forge (Texas Brigade)

• Society of First Families of South Carolina, 1670-1700

• Society of Kentucky Pioneers

• Society of Loyalist Descendants

• First Families of Georgia, 1733-1797

• Hereditary Order of the Descendants of the Kings of Scotland (Charter life member)

• Order of the Descendants of Ancient Planters

• Order of First Families of North Carolina

• Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench and Bar 1565- 1861

• Ancient Heraldic and Chivalric Order of Albion

• National Gavel Society

• Texas Genealogical College (President 2020-2021, Recipient of the 2019 Hall of Fame Award, and 2022 Legion of Merit)

 Chivalric Orders

• Order of St. John (Johanniter-Brandenburg, 1099/1332/1852), Knight of Justice

• Order of Sts. Maurice and Lazarus (Italian Royal House of Savoy, 1100/1254/1572), Knight Commander

• Order of Vila Vicosa (highest Portuguese Royal Order, 1818), Knight Commander

• Order Of Christ (Brazil, House of Orleans-Braganza) – 1119\1318\1822, Grand Cross

• Order of the Rose (Brazil, House of Orleans Braganza, 1829) Grand Dignitary

• Order of Francis I (Royal House of Bourbon of the Two Sicilies, 1829), Knight Commander

• Montenegrian Order of Danilo I (1853), Grand Cross

• Knightly Order of Vitez (Hungary-1920), Knight

• Royal Order St. Michael of the Wing (Portuguese 1147/1171/1986), Grand Cross

• Ethiopian Imperial Order of the Lion (1924/1996), Grand Cordon

 Authorship

• The Johanniter in Russia (Dallas, Texas 2005)

• Evangelical Knights of St. John (Dallas, Texas 2003)

• Featherstone Family of Southside, Virginia (Dallas, Texas 1985)

• Hardie Vincent Gaines and Related Families from Virginia to Texas (Dallas, Texas 1989)

• Sons of the Revolution in the State of Texas Handbook (Dallas, Texas 2000)

Arms

Recorded in the Public Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland (vol.73, folio 29) 1 May 1990 in Robert M. Clark’s name and in the name of his gr-gr-gr-gr-grandfather Mathew Clark, whose house and family is Noble in the Noblesse of Scotland, which is recorded in the Public Register of Genealogies and Birthbriefs in Scotland (vol.4, folio 73), 12 March 1997 by the Lord Lyon of Scotland. The Arms are registered with the NEHGS Heraldry Committee and the Armorial Register. Further certification by the Cronista of Arms of Castille and Leon 30 May 2018.

Honors

• Eagle Scout (1963), Boy Scouts of America

• Fellow- Dallas Committee on Foreign Relations (affiliated with Council on Foreign Relations)

• Certified Genealogist, Board for Certification of Genealogists (1980-1995)

• College of the State Bar of Texas

• Fellow, Society of Antiquaries of Scotland

• Life Fellow, Texas Bar Foundation

 Social Memberships

• Army and Navy Club, Washington D.C.

• DACOR, Washington D.C.

• Dallas Safari Club

• Phi Delta Theta Fraternity

 Charitable Activities

• Past President, JHG Texas (2004-2016) – mission of serving the sick and the poor

• Past President, Dallas Goethe Center (2012-2014) – bringing classical and German culture to North Texas

• Volunteer, Meals on Wheels

Other Notes and Memberships

• Episcopal Church of the Incarnation, Dallas, Texas (past Board member, Texas Conference of Churches)

• Research Committee, Almanach De Gotha, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2004

• Baron of Bingen (Brazil, Titular, House of Orleans-Braganza)

• Inaugural Associate Member, Committee on Heraldry of the New England Historic Genealogical Society

• Argentine Tango, level 3

• Assistant Sergeant at Arms, Texas State Senate

• Admiral of the Texas Navy

• Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels

• Gold’s Dragoons

Maurene Gayle Mast Coan is a native of Flossmoor, Illinois, and the daughter of Maurene June Frey and Casper Leo Mast, Jr. Gayle’s maternal grandfather was a 32nd degree Mason and also a Commander of the Englewood Commandery in Chicago. He became a dedicated genealogist in his fifties and gave the family the groundwork for not only joining genealogical organizations, but also the names for further research. Gayle is married to Thomas Donald Coan, Jr. They reside in Flossmoor, Illinois, in the home built by her parents.

Mrs. Coan attended the University of Colorado and graduated with a B. A. degree in Education. Returning to her childhood school, Gayle taught at the Flossmoor Junior High School. In addition to being the head of the math department, she completed many hours of advanced education. Since retiring from teaching, she continues to do data entry work for the district periodically throughout the year.

Gayle and Don enjoy many shared interests including travel, reading, gardening, and genealogical research.

Memberships

• Colonial Dames of America (Chapter XIV)

• Descendants of Sheriffs and Constables of Colonial and Antebellum America (Founder; Honorary President General)

• Plymouth Hereditary Society (Former Governor General)

• Hereditary Order Descendants Loyalists & Patriots American Revolution (Governor General)

• Hereditary Order of the Families of Presidents and First Ladies of America (Vice President General)

• Order of Descendants of the Ancient & Honorable Artillery Company (Recording Secretary General)

• National Society of the Dames of the Court of Honor (First Vice President General; Organizing Secretary General; Illinois State Past President)

• Hereditary Order of the First Families of Massachusetts (Marshal General)

• Order of the First Families of New Hampshire 1622-1680 (Former Founding Marshal General)

• Order of First Families of Connecticut 1633-1662 (Deputy Governor General, Charter Member)

• National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims (National Co-Chair Credentials; Illinois Branch Honorary Governor; Former Illinois Branch Recording Secretary; Former Organizing Corresponding Secretary)

• National Society Daughters of the Union 1861-1865 (Chapter Historian)

• National Society Daughters of the American Revolution

• National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century

• National Society of New England Women (National Chairman of Veteran Activities)

• Flagon and Trencher, Descendants of Colonial Tavern Keepers

• Order of Descendants of Colonial Physicians and Chirurgiens (Corresponding Secretary General)

• Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench and Bar 1565-1861 (Charter Member)

• Continental Society Daughters of Indian Wars (Illinois State Governor; Former Organizing Chaplain)

• National Society Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century

• First Families of the Twin Territories

• Guild of Colonial Artisans and Tradesmen 1607-1783 (Charter Member, Master Guilder)

• National Society United States Daughters of 1812 (Chapter Recording Secretary)

• Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry

• National Society Sons and Daughters of Antebellum Planters 1607-1861

• Winthrop Society

• National Society of Old Plymouth Colony Descendants

• Presidential Families of America (Illinois Representative)

• National Order of the Blue and Gray

• National Society Descendants of Early Quakers

• National Society Daughters of the American Colonists

• Jamestowne Society

• Hereditary Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors

• Dutch Colonial Society

• American Descendants of the House of Burgesses 1619-1699 (Charter Member)

• Registry of Infamous and Famous Relatives in American Families

• United Daughters of the Confederacy (Chapter Charter Member)

• Hereditary Society of Teachers

• Sons and Daughters of Virginia Founding Fathers (Charter Member)

• Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic

• Descendants of Fossors 1607-1860 (Charter Member)

• Descendants of Cape Cod and the Islands (Charter Member)

• National Gavel Society

• Order of the First Families of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations

• Illinois Cameo Society

• Sons and Daughters of the Province and Republic of West Florida

• Descendants of American Prisoners of War

Other Notes

Gayle is a member of Saint John the Evangelist Episcopal Church in Flossmoor. She organized and heads a retirement group of teachers from her school district. She is a member of the Annual Illinois Heritage Weekend Planning Committee; a Chi Omega Sorority Alumni donor; Director’s Club member of the University of Colorado Alumni Group; a member of the Smithsonian Museum; a Founder Member and donor of the Williamsburg Foundation; a Historic Gettysburg-Adams’s County donor; a Civil War Preservation Trust donor; a National Trust donor for the preservation of historic sites, a USO donor; and a member of the Underhill Society.

Thomas Donald Coan, Jr. was a native of Chicago, Illinois.  He was the son of Irene Coomer and Thomas Donald Coan. During his senior year in high school, Don joined a work study group where he went to school and worked at Northern Illinois Gas Company in the evenings.  After graduation, he began his forty-year association with the company.  Don married Maurene Gayle Mast and together they enjoyed traveling, learning about American history and doing genealogical research.

When Gayle and her sister, Marilyn Alice Mast Long, founded the Descendants of Sheriffs and Constables of Colonial and Antebellum America, they wanted their husbands to be founding members.  The search for an ancestor who would qualify for Don's membership started his love for genealogical research.  He joined Ancestry.com and found several "cousins" in the first month.  From then on, any vacation included a visit to the local historical society, or any historical society along the way.  His research found ancestors that qualified him to join quite a few societies, and also put him in touch with Coomer cousins he didn't even know existed.  He found genealogy to be a very interesting, informative and rewarding part of his life.

Memberships

• Descendants of Sheriffs & Constables of Colonial & Antebellum America (Founding Member)

• National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution

• National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims (Illinois Flag Chairman)

• American Descendants of the House of Burgesses 1619-1699

• General Society of the War of 1812

Other Notes

Don was a long-time member of the American Legion. He joined Saint John's Episcopal Church in Flossmoor, Illinois.  Don was honored by being given an Honorary Associate membership with the National Society Dames of the Court of Honor.  In addition to national societies, he had membership in the Hazelcrest Historical Society, the Smithsonian Museum, Founder Membership and donor of the Williamsburg Foundation, Gettysburg Foundation donor, Civil War Trust donor, a National Trust donor for preservation of historic sites, a USO donor, and a donor the Wounded Warrior organization.

Tracy Ashley Crocker Sr., is a native of the Finger Lakes region of New York State. A proud father of a son Tracy Jr, a daughter Carolynn, grand-daughter Nicole, and is lucky to have a loving wife Joyce. He is the son of Glyndon H. Crocker, Jr. and Florence Lucille Ashley.

After graduation from college, he pursued a fruitful career in the retail Department Store arena throughout the United States. Retired after 30 years as retail executive and past Vice President of Liberty House, a major specialty department store in Hawaii, he is pursuing many interests. Throughout his career, he traveled extensively to Europe, Asia and the American markets where he was responsible for the fashion merchandise for several major department stores.

Society Memberships

• Baronial Order of Magna Charta (Genealogist; Keeper of the Rolls)

• Military Order of the Crusades (Genealogist; Keeper of the Rolls)

• Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America (Registrar General; past interim Genealogist General)

• Society of Descendants of Lady Godiva (Genealogist General)

• Military Society of the War of 1812 (NY Past Genealogist)

• Order of the Merovingian Dynasty (Founder; past Registrar General)

• Order of Descendants of Colonial Cavaliers

• Jamestowne Society

• General Society of Colonial Wars

• National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (NY Past Genealogist; MN Board of Managers)

• General Society Sons of the Revolution

• Veteran Corps of Artillery State of New York

• General Society of Mayflower Descendants (MN Board; HI Historian)

• Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in America

• Hereditary Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors

• Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York

• National Society Americans of Royal Descent

• Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench and Bar 1565-1861

• Order of First Families of Connecticut 1633-1662

• Order of First Families of Vermont 1609-1791

• Order of the First Families of New Hampshire 1622-1680

• Colonial Order of the Crown

• Sovereign Colonial Society Americans of Royal Descent

• National Society of the Descendants of Textile Workers of America, Inc.

• Flagon and Trencher

• National Gavel Society

• Thomas Rogers Society (Past President; Current Genealogist)

• Venerable Order of Saint Louis

• Pilgrim John Howland Society

• Pilgrim William White Society

Authorships

• "Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the USA-Verified Lineages to Gateway Ancestors that have Proven Pedigrees to Charlemagne" 2009

• Thomas Rogers Descendants, Sixth and Seventh Generation Project

• "Lineage(s) of: Merovee (Merovech) Founder of the Merovingian Dynasty"

• Duane E. Love Genealogy

• Quinn Bradlee Genealogy

• "A Tribute to the Death and Legacy of Charlemagne 814-2014"

• Crocker~Ashley Genealogy

• Dianne Irving Nutwell Genealogy

• Ford-Gunderson Genealogy

• Bruce Genealogy

Listed In (Publications)

• "A Crocker Genealogy" Andrea Leonard

• "Wordens Past" Worden Family

• "Babe & the Kid" Charlie Poekel

• "Coberly Connections, Pilgrims, Patriots, Presidents" Daniel L. Coberly

Notes

Prior and since retirement, Mr. Crocker has been eminently involved in several of the major genealogical Societies and Orders in the United States. He has done extensive documented research for many individuals throughout the US. He has been instrumental in developing genealogical computer application forms for over 35 different organizations. He developed and maintained numerous genealogical websites. He was awarded the "Timothy Field Beard Recognition for Outstanding Contribution to Medieval Royal and Noble Genealogy".

In his spare time, Mr. Crocker is an active member of Rotary International and has been recognized four times as a Paul Harris Fellow. He serves on the Board of Business and Estates Advisers, Inc., Wayzata, MN. Mr. Crocker is a serious sports fan and attempts to play golf six times a week until the snow flies in Minnesota.

Jon Paul Raymond Daddysman, Sr., a native of Westernport, Maryland, son of Paul Raymond Daddysman of Westernport and the former Violet Dolores Pettet of Piedmont, West Virginia. Mr. Daddysman was a graduate of Bruce High School in Westernport. Upon his graduation, he received seven academic scholarships, including a Maryland Senatorial scholarship. He graduated with an A.A. degree from Allegany Community College (now Allegany College of Maryland), and a B.A. degree from Frostburg State University with a major in History and minor in Political Science. During his working career he added a Masters Certificate in Government Contracting from The George Washington University, and numerous technical courses through Virginia Tech and the American University.

Mr. Daddysman retired from United Defense (now BAE Systems) in 2004. In his over 23-year employment with United Defense, he held the positions of Manager of Industrial Engineering, Chief Project Engineer, and Manager of Operations Research and Cost Analysis. While employed by United Defense, his areas of responsibility included cost estimating and analysis, proposal development, contract negotiation with the US and foreign governments, international co-production planning and implementation, and project management. He additionally served as the Operations Representative for future-business planning and as the Company’s Industrial-Preparedness-Planning officer. In his earlier career, he held positions as Department Executive with the Kate Greenaway Company of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Chief Industrial Engineer with the Pfaltzgraff Company of York, Pennsylvania, and Corporate Manager of Industrial Engineering with Reading Industries, Reading, Pennsylvania. Throughout his career, he developed and instructed numerous seminars for industry and government employees, most notably on the subjects of “Cost Estimating and Analysis” and “Financial Applications of Simulation Models”.

Mr. Daddysman has two sons from his marriage to Ramona Dawn VanPelt, as well as three granddaughters. In retirement, he wrote family stories and political articles, traveled, collected stamps, enjoyed genealogical research, and played NTN trivia nationwide with friends.

Memberships

• Society of the War of 1812 in Maryland

• General Society Sons of the Revolution (MAL)

• Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (Gettysburg, PA. Chapter)

• National Society Sons of the American Revolution (Maryland Society)

• General Society of the War of 1812 (Pennsylvania Society)

• Sons of Confederate Veterans (Pvt. John Wesley Culp Camp #1961, Gettysburg, PA.)

• Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry

• Society of Sons of the American Colonists

• Dutch Colonial Society

• Descendants of Point Lookout POW Organization

• Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench and Bar

• National Society Sons and Daughters of Antebellum Planters

• Guild of Colonial Artisans and Tradesmen

• Descendants of Sheriffs and Constables of Colonial and Antebellum America

Other Notes

Mr. Daddysman was a member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity in music. He played drums in a variety of bands during his high school and college years, as well as arranging music. He served on the West Manchester Planning Commission in York, PA, and as a Junior Achievement instructor in Spring Grove, PA. He was a lifetime member of the Westernport Heritage Society and the Allegany County Genealogical Society, a member of Victory Post 155 American Legion in Westernport, MD, and he served as Vice President of the Continental Congress Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution in York, Pennsylvania.

Mrs. Helen P. Poindexter DeVoe, the daughter of Archie Poindexter and Inez Houdeshell, was born in Indiana. She married Paul Volney DeVoe, and had two children; James Frederick DeVoe and Judith Ann DeVoe-Stafford. Mrs. DeVoe graduated from Ball State University with a Bachelor of Arts degree and completed some graduate work. She resided in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Memberships

• National Society of the Dames of the Court of Honor (Honorary President General)

• Colonial Dames of America (former President of Chapter XXV)

• Welcome Society of Pennsylvania

• Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry (Three-term Councillor)

• National Huguenot Society

• National Society Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America (National Organizing Secretary)

• National Society Descendants of Early Quakers

• Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench and Bar 1565-1861

• Hereditary Order Descendants Loyalists & Patriots American Revolution (Associate Member)

• National Gavel Society

Mrs. DeVoe was the Patron for the Hereditary Society Blue Book in 1995.

• The Southwest Blue Book

Other Notes

Mrs. DeVoe was a member of the National Museum of Women in the Arts; the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (House of Burgesses); and the Descendants of Valentine Hollingsworth, Sr. Society. She was a member of the Presbyterian Church.

Charles Edward Francis Drake, M.D., a native of Atlanta, Georgia, is the son of Dr. Charles Hinton Drake and Estelle Carolyn Nail. Dr. Drake is married to Rita Jayne Elizabeth Chabot, with whom he has two daughters, Vivienne and Julia.

Dr. Drake was graduated summa cum laude from Georgia Southern University with a B.S. in Physics. He received his M.D. from the Medical College of Georgia , and completed advanced graduate work in Internal Medicine and Cardiology at the University of Louisville.

Dr. Drake is a practicing interventional cardiologist. His career includes extensive medical staff leadership, serving variously as chairman of Internal Medicine, Cardiology, President of the Medical Staff, and Medical Director of cardiac rehabilitation, non-invasive cardiology, and the cardiac catheterization laboratory. Dr. Drake is board certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Nuclear Cardiology, and Interventional Cardiology. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, the American College of Cardiology, and the Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions.

Memberships

• Society of the Cincinnati in the State of Connecticut

• General Society of Colonial Wars

• One Hundred Living Descendants of Blood Royal

• Order of Indian Wars of the United States

• Ancient Heraldic and Chivalric Order of Albion

• Order of Descendants of Colonial Cavaliers

• Order of Lafayette

• Jamestowne Society

• Descendant member of The Society of the Friends of St. George's and Descendants of the Knights of the Garter

• Military Order of the Stars and Bars

• Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America

• Order of the Crown in America

• General Society of Mayflower Descendants

• Baronial Order of the Magna Charta

• Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry

• Order of the Conqueror, The Augustan Society

• Order of the Conqueror's Companions, The Augustan Society

• General Society Sons of the Revolution (member of the Georgia Society)

• National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution

• Order of the Merovingian Dynasty

• Order of Descendants of the Justiciars

• Hereditary Order Descendants of Loyalists and Patriots of the American Revolution

• National Guild of Saint Margaret of Scotland

• Saint David's Society of Savannah

• National Huguenot Society

• National Society Americans of Royal Descent

• National Society of Sons of the American Colonists

• General Society of the War of 1812

• First Families of Georgia 1733-1797 (Surgeon General)

• Order of First Families of North Carolina

• Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench and Bar 1585-1861

• National Society of First Families of Delmarva

• National Society Sons and Daughters of Antebellum Planters 1607-1861

• Guild of Colonial Artisans and Tradesmen 1607-1783

• National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims

• Colonial Order of the Crown

• Plantagenet Society

• Society of Descendants of Knights of the Most Noble Order of the Garter

• Sovereign Colonial Society Americans of Royal Descent

• L'Alliance Francaise of Savannah

• Pilgrim Edward Doty Society

• Huguenot Society of the Founders of Manakin in the Colony of Virginia

• North American Manx Association

Chivalric Orders

• The Most Venerable Order of Saint John of Jerusalem (Officer Brother)

• Royal Order of Francis I of the Royal House of Bourbon–Two Sicilies (Knight)

• Order of Sts. Maurice and Lazarus, Royal House of Savoy (Ufficiale)

• Order of the Eagle of Georgia (Knight Commander)

• Royal Order of Saint Michael of the Wing (Knight)

Authorship

The Drake Family of Washington County, Georgia (Gateway Press, 2005), as well as articles, including those published in the National Genealogical Society Quarterly, The Genealogists’ Magazine, The Virginia Genealogical Society Quarterly, and The Genealogist.

Armorial

Arms: Azure, on a bend Argent, a Wyvern Gules, a bordure counter-compony Argent and Purpure charged with three oak leaves Or.

Crest: A Wyvern Gules, charged on the wings, one visible, with a wheel Argent.

Motto: NUNQUAM CAPTAT MUSCAS

Grant: Court of the Lord Lyon, 26 April 2006; Vol. 87, folio 73, Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland

The arms were granted with an extended remainder to the descendants of Dr. Drake’s thrice great-grandfather. The bordure counter-compony argent and purpure represents his grandfather as the eighth son, the seventh having issue, of his great-grandfather, who was himself a sixth son and is represented by the oak leaves charging the bordure.

Other Notes

Dr. Drake is a member of the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels. He is Baron Baillie of Tranent, Haddington, Scotland, and Lord of the Manor of Noseley, Leicestershire.

He is an avid genealogist and heraldist, and his memberships include the Heraldry Society of Scotland, the American Heraldry Society, the Virginia Genealogical Society, the Society of Genealogists, and the Manorial Society of Great Britain. He is President of the Augustan Society and is a recipient of the Order of the Augustan Eagle.

Dr. Drake is a member of the Chatham Club. He is Communicant of St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Savannah.

Anna Boykin Ferguson Duff, a native Georgian, is the daughter of Lonnie Dunlap Ferguson and Georgia Angeline Boykin Ferguson. She is married to Steven Wayne Duff, and they reside in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida.

Mrs. Duff received her early education in Thomasville, Georgia, and earned her degree in Furnishing and Interiors from the University of Georgia in Athens. With forty years of membership in the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America (NSCDA), Mrs. Duff has been affiliated with the Georgia, North Carolina, and New York Societies, including three years as President of the New York Society. From 2016 to 2020, she served as National President of NSCDA, an organization that owns and operates Dumbarton House (1799) as its National Headquarters and Museum. Prior to her presidency, Mrs. Duff held roles as Vice President for the NSCDA National Headquarters at Dumbarton House and Chair of the National Museum Properties Committee.

Society Memberships

• National Society of The Colonial Dames of America (Honorary National President)

• National Order of the Knights of the Golden Horseshoe

• Ancient Heraldic and Chivalric Order of Albion

• National Society Americans of Royal Descent

• Order of the Merovingian Dynasty (Honorary President General)

• Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America (President General)

• Order of the Crown in America

• National Gavel Society

• Order of Three Crusades 1096-1192

Chivalric Orders

• Sovereign Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem (Priory of St. Michael and St. George)

Notes

Mrs. Duff has served on the Board of Regents of Gunston Hall Plantation. She is currently an ex-officio member of the Dumbarton House Board and a Trustee with the Friends of Sulgrave Manor. In addition to her leadership roles with these esteemed organizations, Mrs. Duff is a skilled pianist who occasionally performs for private gatherings. The Duffs are members of the Episcopal Church and, together, enjoy travel, hosting events, and participating in golf when their schedules permit.

Matthew David Dupee, Esq., was born in Philadelphia, PA to Bernard H. Dupee and Leonora Reese. He is married to the former Susan Nancy Rhodes.

Mr. Dupee is an attorney at law. He graduated with honors from Penn State University in 1981 with a BA in Political Science. In 1983, he entered the MPhil Soviet East European Studies program, he attended the University of Glasgow in Scotland, in 1985 he received Diploma in Comparative Law from the University of Florence in Italy and in 1987 Juris Doctor from the Dickinson School of Law.

Memberships

• Society of the Cincinnati (Connecticut)

• Military Society of the War of 1812 (Past President)

• Order of the Founders and Patriots of America (Secretary General)

• Colonial Order of the Acorn (Solicitor General)

• Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States (Past Commander PA; Judge Advocate General in Chief)

• General Society of Colonial Wars NC, FL, IL (Past Chancellor NC)

• Colonial Society of Pennsylvania (Councilor)

• Aztec Club of 1847 (Councilor)

• Order of Indian Wars of the United States (Council of 7)

• Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York (Board of Managers)

• National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims (Former Vice President SC)

• General Society of the War of 1812 (PA Former Councilor; Counselor General)

• General Society Sons of the Revolution (PA Former Board Member)

• Military Order of Foreign Wars of the United States (Former Judge Advocate PA)

• Saint Andrew's Society of Philadelphia (Former Regalia Chairman)

• Ancient Heraldic and Chivalric Order of Albion

• National Society Sons and Daughters of Antebellum Planters 1607-1861 (Chancellor)

• Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy

• Order of Descendants of Colonial Physicians and Chirurgiens

• Order of Lafayette

• National Society of Sons of the American Colonists

• New England Society in the City of New York

• Society of the Friendly Sons of Saint Patrick of Philadelphia

• Winthrop Society

• The National Gavel Society

• Society of the Sons of St. George (Counselor; Former Foundation Treasurer)

• Société de Bienfaisance- Charleston

• Scots Irish Society

Authorships

The Liturgy of the Knight Templar Priests 2008

Looking Glass, A Chapbook 2020

Chew on Sniff (Republished with a Foreword by MDD) 2021

Chivalric Orders

Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem - British Realm, HM Queen Elizabeth, II; KNIGHT

Order of the Immaculate Conception of Vila Vicosa (Portugal, House of Braganca); COMMANDER with STAR

Royal Order of Francis I- Knight (Bourbon of the Two Sicilies); COMMANDER

Order of the Holy Trinity (Ethiopia); GRAND CROSS

Imperial order of St Stanislas (Russia- House of Romanov); KNIGHT 3rd CLASS

Listed In (Publications)

Outstanding Young Men of America, 1987

Who’s Who In Freemasonry, 1998

Who’s Who in America, 2022

Other

A. State Commissions and Awards from State Governors

1. Lieutenant Colonel of the Veterans Corps of Artillery of the NY- 9th Field Artillery Regiment
2. State of Indiana- Sagamore of the Wabash
3. State of Texas- Admiral in Texas Navy
4. State of Arkansas- Arkansas Traveler
5. Commonwealth of Kentucky Colonel and Aide de Camp

B. Guilds and Ancient Companies

1. Freeman of the City of London
2. Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards (London) - Liveryman
3. Guildable Manor of Southwark- Juror of the Court Leet
4. Burgess of the City of Glasgow
5. Merchants House of Glasgow
6. Incorporation of Wrights of the City of Glasgow (Company member)
7. Incorporation of Gardeners of the City of Glasgow (Company member)
8. Incorporation of Coopers of the City of Glasgow (Company member)
9. Incorporation of Tailors of the Royal Burgh of Rutherglen (Company member)
10. Deacons and Free Preseses Society of Glasgow (Member)

C. Private Organizations and Charities (Partial)

1. Lincoln University (Board Member 2012-2016, appt by PA State Senate)
2. Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia (President 2005- 2008; Vice President 2003-2005; Secretary 1989-2003, 2009-2015)
3. Penllyn Club (President 2005-2008; Secretary 2002-present)
4. English Speaking Union (President 2002-2004; National Board 1991-1993; Executive Committee; Phila Branch Vice President 1992-1994; Secretary 1995)
5. Penn Club (President 2005- 2007; Vice President 2004; Secretary 2000-2004)
6. Pan American Association of Philadelphia (Vice President; Board member 2000-2005)
7. Philadelphia Club (Elective Committee Secretary; Library committee)
8. Historic Rittenhousetown (Board Member 2001-2005)
9. Society of the Sons of St. George (Foundation Treasurer; Counselor 1989-Present)
10. Franklin Inn Club (President 1998-2000; Secretary 1993-1995, 1997)
11. Rittenhouse Club (Board of Governors; Executive Committee 1990-1999)

The Brook (NY), Rolling Rock Club, Metropolitan Club (Washington D.C.), Pohoqualine Fish Association, Racquet Club of Phila, Farmington Country Club, Hillsboro Club, Little Club (Gulfstream, FL), Palmetto Golf Club, Fourth Street Club, The Beefsteak Club (London), Flyfisher’s Club (London), Savage Club (London), New Club (Edinburgh), Royal Cinque Ports GC and Royal Blackheath GC (UK), Royal Tennis Court (Hampton Court), Leamington Spa Rel Tennis Club, Athenaeum of Philadelphia, Pilgrims of the US, Shakespeare Society of Philadelphia, Squadron A Association of NY, Burns Society of NY, Ends of the Earth, Pickwick Club of Philadelphia, Orpheus Club, Honor Guard of the Pantheon (Italy)

Freemasonry

Brother Dupee was raised in Shiloh Lodge by his father, Bernard H. Dupee, PM in April 1982, and later served as WM in 1989. He was a member of the Spring 1987 Class of the Valley of Allentown and served as Most Wise Master of Kilwinning Chapter of Rose Croix in the Valley of Philadelphia. He received his 33rd° in Cleveland in 2012.

Knight Grand Cross (highest National honor) of the

1. Masonic Rosicrucian Society
2. The Grand College of Holy Royal Arch Knight Templar Priests of the United States of America
3. The Grand Council of Allied Masonic Degrees of United States Of America
4. The Grand Council of Knight Masons of United States Of America
5. Grand College of Rites of the USA
6. The Grand College of Rites and the Convent General of Knights of the York Cross of Honor
7. Masonic Order of Alfred the Great 

Recently, upon retiring from a successful term as Sovereign Grand Master of the Grand Council of Allied Masonic Degrees, Brother Dupee received the singularly rare honor when, for the first time in history, the Grand Council of Allied Masonic Degrees of England and Wales conferred upon him the title of Honorary Past Grand Master.

He was the first American to hold the VII° in Operative masonry and holds seniority as the first American member of the Commemorative Order of St. Thomas of Acon, Masonic Order of Athelstan, the Hermetic Chapter of Spiritual Knights, the Pilgrim Preceptors and the August Order of Light. He served a decade as the Right Worshipful Provincial Grand Senior Warden of the Royal Order of Scotland for the USA.

Among his other responsibilities, he presently serves as Regent of the York Rite Sovereign College of North America.

The Rev. Dr. Jack Jones Early remains one of the most impressive individuals involved in the lineage society community today. Born in Corbin, Kentucky, on April 12, 1925, he would eventually become the college and University President of the University of Kentucky.

Dr. Early began his educational career as a teacher of English and speech at Hindman High School (1948-51), serving simultaneously as Dean of Men at Hindman Settlement School. He was then elected to the Kentucky General Assembly, serving a term (1952-54) in which he was assistant minority leader and co-sponsor of legislation for the Minimum Foundation Program in Education for Kentucky.

After earning his M.A. in 1953, he went to Athens College, Athens, Alabama as professor of education and psychology, and was assistant to the President and Dean of Faculty until 1955. The following year he was the recipient of a Southern Fellowship Fund Grant for completion of his doctoral studies, which culminated in the Ed.D. degree from the University in 1956. In the meantime, he also earned a B.D. degree in religious education from the Lexington Theological Seminary. His B.A. is from Union College (1948).

For the following two years (1956-58), he was professor of education and psychology, and Vice President and Dean of the college, at Iowa Wesleyan College. In 1958, he became President of Dakota Wesleyan University, Mitchell, S.D., and served until 1969, when for two years he was President of Pfeiffer College, Misenheimer, North Carolina. He left the academic area for two years (1971-73) to serve as Executive Director-Education for the American Bankers Association, Washington, D.C. In 1973 he was named President of Limestone College, Gaffney, South Carolina.

He was religious and news commentator for Radio Station WLAP, Lexington; Chairman of the Educational Committee of 22, 1950 General Assembly; President of the Upper Kentucky River Education Association; Vice President of Classroom Teachers, Kentucky Education Association; Chaplain, Kentucky Mountain Club; Chairman, South Dakota Education Association Legislative Commission, and its Committee on Public Relations, and member of the board, Mitchell Chamber of Commerce.

He also served on the board for the YMCA (South Dakota); Grand Orator of the Grand Lodge (Masonic) of South Dakota; Vice President of the Mitchell Rotary Club; Vice President of the junior Chamber of Commerce; President, South Dakota Association of Colleges and Universities; the English-Speaking Union; the University Club, Washington, D.C.; the board of directors, Gaffney Boys' Club; advisory council for the American Red Cross for the Carolinas; board of trustees, The Religious Heritage of America, Washington, D.C., and secretary-treasurer, Southern Association of Church-Related Colleges. He served on the Board of Directors of the W. Clement and Jessie V. Stone Foundation and conducts Motivation Workshops on an international basis.

Roberta Christine Anderson Fortenberry Eaton, a native of Port Gibson, Mississippi, is the daughter of Robert Buckner Anderson and Christina Haile Anderson. Mrs. Fortenberry married William Lowery Fortenberry and has three children: Jane Aylett Fortenberry Gonzalez; Sarah Buckner Fortenberry North; and Emily Anderson Fortenberry Corso. After his death she married the Rev. Roy Eaton who is also a native of Port Gibson. They spent summers at his home in Indiana and winters in Mississippi.

She was educated at All Saints Episcopal School, and received her Bachelor of Arts in Education at the University of Mississippi. Mrs. Fortenberry enjoyed a career in education before retiring.

Memberships

• Order of First Families of Virginia 1607-1624/25

• Order of the Crown in America

• National Society Americans of Royal Descent

• National Gavel Society

• Order of the First Families of Mississippi (former Governor General)

• Order of the First Families of Mississippi (former Governor General)

• Hereditary Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors (former Councillor General)

• Order of Descendants of Colonial Cavaliers

• Colonial Dames of America (former Chapter XV President)

• National Society Dames of the Court of Honor (former State President; former National Chaplain; former National Trustee)

• Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in United States of America

• Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry (former Chaplain General)

• Jamestowne Society

• Order of Three Crusades 1096-1192 (Recording Secretary)

• Daughters of the Cincinnati

• Daughters of the Barons of Runneymede (Mississippi Trustee)

• Society of First Families of South Carolina

• National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (former Regent of Catherine Ard Chapter)

• Daughters of the Confederacy (Real Grand Daughter; member of the Nathan Bedford Forrest Chapter)

• Order of Descendants of Colonial Physicians and Chirurgiens (former Historian General

• National Society Descendants of Early Quakers

• Hereditary Order of the Families of the Presidents and First Ladies of America

• American Clan Gregor Society

Timothy Christopher Finton is a true native of Washington, D.C.  He is the son of Colonel James Robert Finton (USAF) and Iris Hammer Finton, and is married to Tonya Thomas Finton.  The Fintons have two sons, Christopher James Grenfell Finton and Thomas William Goodwin Finton.

Tim was graduated summa cum laude from Ohio University with an A.B. in History.  He received his M.A. with honours, in Jurisprudence, from the Queen’s College, University of Oxford; and his Juris Doctor at American University’s Washington College of Law.

Tim has enjoyed a 40-year career with the U.S. Department of State specializing in Internet policy and trade, and is a member of the Bar of the District of Columbia.  

Society Memberships

• Society of the Cincinnati in the State of Connecticut (Standing Committee, Assistant Treasurer)

• Order of the Founders and Patriots of America (former Governor, District of Columbia Society)

• General Society of Colonial Wars (District of Columbia, Florida, Virginia, North Carolina societies current Vice-Chairman, Awards Committee for the General Society)

• General Society of Mayflower Descendants (former Governor, District of Columbia Society)

• Jamestowne Society

• American Descendants of the House of Burgesses 1619-1699

• Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York

• Saint Andrew's Society of Washington, D.C.

• General Society Sons of the Revolution District of Columbia (former 1st Vice President, Virginia)

• National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution

• General Society of the War of 1812 (former President, District of Columbia Society)

• Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War

• Order of Descendants of Colonial Cavaliers (Treasurer General)

• Dutch Colonial Society (Honorary President General)

• Huguenot Society of America

• National Huguenot Society (District of Columbia societies - former 1st Vice President, Virginia)

• National Society Americans of Royal Descent

• Order of the Crown in America (Secretary General, Chaplain General)

• One Hundred Living Descendants of Blood Royal

• Ancient Heraldic and Chivalric Order of Albion

• Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America

• Order of Alba

• Order of Indian Wars of the United States

• Hereditary Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors

• Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry

• Sons of Spanish-American War Veterans

• Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy

• Order of the First Families of Maine (Honorary President General)

• Order of First Families of Connecticut 1633-1662

• Order of the First Families of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations

• Order of the First Families of New Hampshire 1622-1680

• Piscataqua Pioneers

• Descendants of Cape Cod and the Islands (Founding 1st Vice President General)

• Order of First Families of North Carolina

• Order of the First Families of Maryland

• Descendants of Founders of New Jersey

• Military Order of the Stars and Bars

• National Society Descendants of Early Quakers

• Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench and Bar 1565-1861

• Presidential Families of America

• Society of Descendants of the Founders of the New Haven Colony

• Winthrop Society

• Guild of Colonial Artisans and Tradesmen 1607-1783 (Honorary President General)

• National Society of Saints and Sinners

• Order of Descendants of Colonial Physicians and Chirurgiens

• Hereditary Order Descendants Loyalists & Patriots American Revolution

• National Gavel Society

• Descendants of the 154th New York Volunteer Infantry, "Hardtack Regiment"

• Pilgrim John Howland Society

• Warren Cousins

• The Denison Society

• The Thomas Minor Society

• The Wequetequock Burying Ground Association, Stonington, CTÂ

• The Walter Palmer Society

• The Avery Memorial Association

• First Families of Augusta County, Virginia

• Descendants of Point Lookout Organization

• Fort Delaware Society

• Deep River Friends Memorial Association, High Point, NC

Authorships

• A Competitive Assessment of the U.S. Fiber Optics Industry

Chivalric Orders

• The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem

Virginia Wood Frost, a native of Ouachita County, Arkansas, was the daughter of Fred and Bessie Neal Wood. Mrs. Frost married Paul Rex Frost and had two children: Charlotte Ann Oliver Young, and Michael Wayne Oliver. She completed her undergraduate degree at Southern Arkansas University and enjoyed a career in land and timber management, as well as a Bed and Bath Gift Shop.

Memberships

• National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (former State Registrar)

• National Society Colonial Dames of the XVII Century (former Registrar General; State President)

• National Society Children of the American Revolution (former Senior State President)

• Heredity Order of the First Families of Massachusetts, Inc.

• Fuller Family Association

• National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims

• Order of the Honorable Artillery Company

• Arkansas State Pioneers (former State President)

• Continental Society Daughters of Indian Wars (former State Governor)

• Order of Descendants of Colonial Physicians and Chirurgiens

• National Society of New England Women (former National Secretary)

• Plantagenet Society

• Sovereign Colonial Society Americans of Royal Descent

• Most Noble Order of the Garter

• Hereditary Order of Descendants of Loyalists and Patriots of the American Revolution

• National Society United States Daughters of 1812 (former National Chairman; former State President)

• National Society of Dames of the Court of Honor (Organizing State President)

• Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry

• National Society Magna Charta Dames and Barons (former State Vice President)

• National Society Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America (Registrar National)

• National Huguenot Society (former State Vice President)

• General Society of Mayflower Descendants (State Treasurer)

• Family of Bruce Society in America

• Society of the Descendants of Colonial Clergy (Registrar General)

A native Georgian, Patricia Ann Scott Williams Garner was born to J. B. Scott and Frances Jones Scott at Rome Georgia. She is the widow of Colonel Willie D. Garner, Sr. She is of Native American heritage and serves as a healer of the Cherokee Tribe. Mrs. Garner also has many verified colonial and royal lines in America and Northern Europe. This candidate has two daughters, both graduates of Georgia Colleges, and three grandchildren, two college graduates, one of whom is a graduate of the United States Air Force Academy and on active duty as a First Lieutenant in the United States Air Force. Ann Garner taught him to fly. Her youngest grandson is a college sophomore and participating in the ROTC program.

Mrs. Garner retired from military duty in the rank of Major in the National Guard having served last as a Family Services officer. She has been employed for the past 18 years as General Manager of Dawson Municipal Airport. She was formerly a registered nurse and a dental hygienist, Ann Garner served in the medical field for 33 years prior to moving to Parrott. She owns a small farm where she grows cotton, peanuts and blue berries. She is also a Huguenot descendant and remains engaged as an artisan and silver smith. Additionally, she is proficient in Native American beading and garment designs, the creator of a number of the society portfolios and tote bags seen in DC during the heritage season, and various fine needlework. She supports a local Christian ministry in Parrott, Georgia by donating the space in two commercial buildings for worship and family activities. Recently she served as Mistress of Ceremonies and a primary benefactor for the Purple Heart Memorial Highway dedicated from Columbus to Albany, GA.

Ann Scott Williams Garner is considered by her peers as a leading example of a Renaissance Woman, as a Marine, Native American healer, nurse, hygienist, airport manager, pilot, silver smith, needle crafter, heritage leader, and officer, deceased military officer's wife, mother and grandmother She is a member of 30 plus hereditary societies.

Memberships

• Continental Society Daughters of Indian Wars (Governor General, former First and Second Deputy Governors General, and Registrar General. She served as Co-Chairman to digitize all applications for CSDIW and coordinated their storage at Stone Mountain)

• Order of Descendants of the Justiciars (Co-Founder, Chief Justiciar, former First and Second Vice-Justiciar)

• Society of Descendants of Lady Godiva (Co-Founder, First Lady in Waiting)

• Descendants of Colonial Mothers 1607 - July 4, 1776 (Co-Founder, 2nd Vice President)

• Order of the House of Wessex (Founding Secretary General)

• Order of Alba (Secretary General)

• National Society Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century (Organizing Secretary General, former Councillor)

• National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century (Assistant Registrar)

• Order of Monarchs of Rheims (Inaugural Chaplain)

• National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims (Elder General, former Organizing Secretary General)

• National Society Daughters of the American Colonists (Marshal)

• National Society United States Daughters of 1812 (Sergeant at Arms)

• Colonial Dames of America (South Carolina Chapter, Member)

• Founders Fellowship (Founding Council of Fellows, Chaplain)

• National Gavel Society

Other memberships will be provided upon request

Leadership of State Societies

• Continental Society Daughters of Indian Wars (Honorary GA Governor)

• National Society Daughters of Colonial Wars (Honorary GA President)

• National Society United States Daughters of 1812 (Honorary GA President)

Other Leaderships

• Continental Society Daughters of Indians Wars, INC (Organized and led the First Chapter)

• National Society United States Daughters of 1812 (Re-Organized and led the Benjamin Hardin Chapter)

• National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century (Organized and led Oglethorpe Chapter)

• Southern Dames of America (Organized and led Chattahoochee Valley Chapter)

Other Activities

Mrs. Garner is a member of The Army and Navy Club of Washington, DC and serves to sponsor CSDIW that holds Annual Board meetings on that site.

James William Griffith, Jr., was born in Dallas, Texas, to James William Griffith and Dorothy Louise Cannon. He attended Highland Park High School in Dallas and the University of Texas, in Austin, with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (BSEE). He also graduated from Texas A&M University in College Station with a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) with a concentration in Information Technology and Marketing.

Bill started his career with Rockwell International and transferred to several cities, finally landing in The Woodlands, Texas, outside of Houston where he worked for several Oil and Gas companies and retired as an Oil and Gas Executive.

Memberships 

• Jamestowne Society (National Auditor, Member of the Council)

• Order of the Monarchs of Reims (Corresponding Secretary, First Vice Regent, Auditor)

• Order of St. Denis

• Baronial Order of Magna Charta –(Surety)

• Order of the Kings and Queens in the Holy Lands (Founder, Corresponding Secretary, Third Vice Regent)

• Order of the Descendants of El Cid (Founder)

• Founders Fellowship – (Advisory Coordinator)

• Nations Society of Descendants of Farmers (Founder, Councilor National, Advisor)

• The IX (Corresponding Secretary)

• Hereditary Order of the Red Dragon (Councilor)

• Descendants of Miners 1607-1900 (Treasurer)

• Order of Indian Wars of the United States

• Hereditary Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors

• Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America

• Military Order of the Crusades

• Descendants of Knights Templar

• Order of the Three Crusades 1096-1192

• Order of the Merovingian Dynasty 

• Order of the Norman Conquest

• Order of the Descendants of Justiciars

• National Guild of St. Margaret of Scotland

• Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry 

• Order of Medieval Women: Women of Consequence

• General Society of Mayflower Descendants

• National Society Sons and Daughters of Pilgrims

• Sons of the American Revolution

• General Society of the War of 1812 

• Sons of the Texas Republic

• Sons of Confederate Veterans

• Society of Descendants of Lady Godiva

• Order of Alba

• Order of the House of Wessex

• Plantagenet Society

• The Winthrop Society

• Descendants of Brian Boru

• Hereditary Order of the Families of the Presidents and First Ladies

• Hereditary Society of Teachers

• Descendants of Early Postmasters, 1607-1900

• Flagon and Trencher

• Order of First Families of Connecticut

• Order of the First Families of Maine

• Hereditary Order of the First Families of Massachusetts

• Order of First Families of Vermont

Other 

Bill has been a member of the Instrument Society of America and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers through his career. He was inducted into the Beta Gamma Sigma Honorary Fraternity after graduating with honors with his MBA. Bill serves as an Alumni Advisor to his Social Fraternity, Phi Kappa Psi, at Texas A&M University.

A former golfer, Bill is a member of The Woodlands Country Club where he has served three years on its Board of Governors. He remains active in the club having chaired their Membership Experience Committee and Fitness Committee. He enjoys history, genealogy and to honor his grandfather, who was a Texas nurseryman and farmer, he plants a vegetable and herb garden at his house every year.

John Robert Harman, Jr., the eldest son of John Robert Harman, Sr. and Gloria Jan Cason Harman, is a native and lifelong resident of Raleigh, North Carolina.  He received his B.S. degrees in Biological Sciences and Botany from North Carolina State University, where he graduated magna cum laude with minors in Genetics and History. He is a research and development scientist and project manager for a global agricultural biotechnology company. He is married to the former Amanda Thorne and they have one son.

Memberships

• Society of the Cincinnati in the State of Georgia

• Military Society of the War of 1812

• Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York

• Aztec Club of 1847 (Registrar)

• Order of Indian Wars of the United States (Registrar)

• Order of Three Crusades 1096-1192 (Registrar General)

• Order of the Merovingian Dynasty (Genealogist General; past Registrar General)

• National Guild of Saint Margaret of Scotland (Registrar General; Genealogist General)

• Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America (Corresponding Secretary General; past Assistant Registrar General)

• Order of the Crown in America (Councilor, North Carolina)

• Order of Descendants of Colonial Cavaliers (Genealogist)

• Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry (Council; past Secretary General)

• Order of First Families of North Carolina (past Council Member)

• Order of the Founders and Patriots of America (North Carolina Society)

• General Society Sons of the Revolution (Registrar, North Carolina Society)

• General Society of Colonial Wars (Secretary/Registrar, North Carolina Society)

• General Society of the War of 1812 (President/Registrar, North Carolina Society)

• General Society of Mayflower Descendants (past Captain, North Carolina Society) 

• Jamestowne Society (past Council, First North Carolina Company)

• Order of Descendants of Ancient Planters (past Historian)

• Order of First Families of Virginia 1607-1624/25

• American Descendants of the House of Burgesses 1619-1699

• Ancient Heraldic and Chivalric Order of Albion

• One Hundred Living Descendants of Blood Royal

• National Order of the Knights of the Golden Horseshoe

• National Society Americans of Royal Descent (Council)

• Baronial Order of Magna Charta (Surety)

• Military Order of Foreign Wars of the United States

• Order of Lafayette

• National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution

• Military Order of the Stars and Bars

• Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States

• Sons of Confederate Veterans

• Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War

• Society of the Army of the Tennessee

• Dutch Colonial Society

• Colonial Society of Pennsylvania

• National Huguenot Society (North Carolina Society)

• Huguenot Society of the Founders of Manakin in the Colony of Virginia

• Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy

• Flagon and Trencher

• Hereditary Order Descendants Loyalists & Patriots American Revolution

• Order of the First Families of Maine

• Order of the First Families of Maryland

• Order of the First Families of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations

• National Society Sons and Daughters of Antebellum Planters 1607-1861

• Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench and Bar 1565-1861

• Descendants of Sheriffs and Constables of Colonial and Antebellum America

• Guild of Colonial Artisans and Tradesmen 1607-1783

• National Society of Saints and Sinners

• Order of Descendants of the Justiciars (past Genealogist General)

• Order of the Norman Conquest (past 3rd Vice President General)

• Order of Monarchs of Rheims

• Descendants of Cape Cod and the Islands

• Naval Order of the United States

• Swedish Colonial Society

• International Military Order of the Southern Cross

• Saint Andrew’s Society of North Carolina (Board of Directors)

Chivalric Orders

• The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (Member, bestowed by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II)

Other Notes

Mr. Harman is a past director of the State Club in Raleigh and past Secretary of the English-Speaking Union-Research Triangle Branch. He is a member of the City Club in Raleigh, Army and Navy Club, Golden Key International Honour Society, Gamma Beta Phi, Sigma Xi, Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels, Texas Navy Association, Squadron A Association, North Carolina Literary and Historical Association, Rotary Club of the Capital City, and Clan MacLean Association of the US. He is an Anglican and a member of the Society of King Charles the Martyr. 

William Roy Hearter Jr. M.D., a native of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania is the son of William Roy Hearter, Sr. and Shirley Jean Russ. He completed his undergraduate work at Gettysburg College, simultaneously earning B.S. degrees in Chemistry and Vertebrate Biology. Dr. Hearter earned his M.D. at the Medical College of Pennsylvania and received specialty training in Diagnostic Radiology at the University of Rochester, New York. Additionally, Dr. Hearter received his Master of Theology from Laud Hall Seminary. He is a Diagnostic Radiologist by profession, and is LCDR on inactive reserve with the USPHS.

He is married to Kathleen Marie Mills Hearter, and they have four children: Elizabeth Ann Hearter; Lauren Adele Hearter; William Roy Hearter III; and Heidi Francis Hearter.

Memberships

• New York State Society of the Cincinnati (Chaplain of the Four Corners Association)

• General Society of Colonial Wars

• General Society Sons of the Revolution (Registrar General; President of the Arizona Society)

• Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America

• Baronial Order of the Magna Charta

• Military Order of the Crusades

• Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States

• Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry

• General Society of the War of 1812

• Order of the Merovingian Dynasty

• Presidential Families of America

• Royal Society of Saint George

• Saint Andrews Society of Philadelphia

• Society of the Descendants of Colonial Clergy

• Order of Descendants of Colonial Physicians and Chirurgiens

• Flagon and Trencher

• Guild of Colonial Artisans and Tradesmen 1607-1783

• Hereditary Order of Descendants of Loyalists & Patriots of the American Revolution

• Hereditary Order of the Families of Presidents and First Ladies of America

• Hereditary Order of the First Families of Massachusetts (Chaplain)

• Magna Charta Dames and Barons (former President of the Arizona Society)

• Military Order of Foreign Wars of the United States

• Military Order of the World Wars

• National Huguenot Society (National Surgeon General; former President of the Arizona Society)

• National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (Arizona Society Registrar and Member of the Color Guard)

• National Society of the Sons and Daughters of Antebellum Planters 1607-1781

• National Society of the Sons and Daughters of Early Quakers

• National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims (former Governor of the Arizona Branch)

• National Society Sons of American Colonists

• Dutch Colonial Society

• Naval Order of the United States

• Noble Society of Celts

• Descendants of the Knights of the Bath

• Order of Descendants of the Justiciars

• Descendants of Founders of New Jersey

• Order of First Families of Vermont

• Order of the First Families of Maryland (Surgeon General)

• Order of the First Families of Rhode Island and Providence Plantation

• National Society Old Plymouth Colony Descendants

• Order of Washington

• Plantagenet Society

• Scotch Irish Society of the U.S.A.

• Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench and Bar 1585-1861

• Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War

• Sovereign Colonial Society of Americans of Royal Descent

• Colonial Order of the Crown

• Welsh Society of Philadelphia

• National Society of Saints and Sinners

• First Settlers of the Shenandoah Valley

• Descendants of Mexican War Veterans

Authorship

• "Valley Fever; a Regional Consideration for Divers", Southwestern Diving Festival, Tucson, AZ., 1993.

• "Why George Washington Almost Wasn't Our First President" , Arizona Masonic Magazine,
  Phoenix, 2003.

• "Those Nine Lonely Knights Templar",Templar History Magazine,
  2004.

• "Skull Symbology in Christianity",, MSRICF Winter Conference,
  January, 2005.

• “Captain Henry Wolf Smyser of Pennsylvania”, Arizona Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War,
  September, 2005.

• "Col. Henry Slagle, York County Patriot", Arizona S.A.R. Magazine,
  January, 2006.

• "William Marshall, Earl of Pembroke", Magazine of the Grand Priory of England & Wales,
  2006.

• “Revolutionary War Quakers- Tories, Traitors or Scapegoats", Huguenot Society of Arizona,
  March, 2007

• “Fulk of Jerusalem, Templar and Patron of the Order”, Magna Charta Dames & Barons,
  2007.

• "Who were the First Americans?”, Sons of the Revolution, AZ.
  State Society, February, 2008.

• “John Roberts; Quaker or Traitor?”, Crown and Eagle Magazine,
  Summer, 2009.

• “Pennsylvania Covered Bridges”, Sons & Daughters of the Pilgrims,
  January, 2009.

• "Deutsch and Pennsylvania German Christmas Customs", Paradise Valley Community College German Society,
  Phoenix, Arizona, December, 2009.

• “Shelter Island: N.Y. Quaker Sanctuary or Slave Plantation?”, Arizona Sons & Daughters of the Pilgrims,
  January, 2010.

• "Col. Johan Michael Smyser, Patriot and POW", Arizona Sons of the Revolution,
  February, 2010.

• "Pennsylvania Deutsch Fastenzeit Zollbehörde", Phoenix German Society,
  February, 2010.

Chivalric Orders

• Most Venerable Order of Saint John of Jerusalem

• Royal Order of Francis I

• Military Hospitaller Order of St. Lazarus of Jerusalem

• Order of the Star of Ethiopia

• Royal Confraternity of San Teotonio

• Order of the Eagle and Tunic of Georgia

• Confraternity of Knights of the Most Holy Trinity

Other Notes

Dr. Hearter is a member of the Paradise Valley Silver Trowel Lodge #29; he is Past Master and Mason of the Year. Additionally, he is member of the Arizona Masonic Rosicrucian College, and served as State Secretary and a member of the National High Counsel.

Dr. Hearter attends Saint Nicholas Anglican Church in Scottsdale, Arizona, and serves on the Vestry as Secretary and was ordained as a Permanent Anglican Deacon in 2014. He was an introductory speaker at the National Workshop on Christian Unity in Phoenix, Arizona in 2009.

Additionally, Dr. Hearter is a SCUBA Diving- PADI Instructor and Dive master.

Deborah Whitmore Hicks, Esq.

Memberships

• Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench and Bar 1565-1861 (President General 2024-2026)

• National Society Sons and Daughters of Antebellum Planters 1607-1861 (President General 2023-2025)

• National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims (Corresponding Secretary General 2023-2025; Organizing Secretary General 2021-2023; Counselor General 2019-2021; Alabama Southeast Branch Organizing Branch Governor 2020-2023; Alabama Branch Governor 2017-2019 Honorary Life Governor)

• Presidential Families of America (Recording Secretary General 2022-2025)

• Continental Society Daughters of Indian Wars (First Deputy Governor General 2024-2026; Librarian General 2021-2023; Alabama Governor 2020-2022)

• Hereditary Order Descendants Loyalists & Patriots American Revolution (Recording Secretary General 2023-2025; Chancellor General 2021-2023; Hugh Quinn Chapter Governor 2024-2026; 2018-2020)

• Guild of Colonial Artisans and Tradesmen 1607-1783 (Second Vice President General 2023-2025; Treasurer General 2019-2021)

• National Society Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century (Organizing Secretary General 2024-2027; Treasurer General 2019-2021; Alabama Chapter President 2018-2021)

• Descendants of Colonial Mothers 1607 - July 4, 1776 (Chancellor General 2023-2025; Parliamentarian 2019-2023)

• National Order of the Blue and Gray (Historian General 2023-2025)

• Order of the Steel Magnolias (Counselor General 2018-2026; Incorporator; Co-Founder)

• National Society Descendants of Colonial Indentured Servants (Counsellor General 2019-2025)

• Descendants of Early Postmasters 1607-1900 (Counselor General 2021-2025)

• Sons and Daughters of Virginia Founding Fathers (Governor General 2021-2023; Incorporator; Founding Board)

• Order of the Kings and Queens in the Holy Lands (Chancellor General 2018-2026; Incorporator; Founder)

• Hereditary Order of the Red Dragon (Chancellor 2018-2026; Incorporator; Founder)

• Order of the Sovereigns of Ancient Scandinavia (Chancellor 2019-2026; Incorporator; Founder)

• Descendants of Brian Boru (Chancellor General 2018-2025; Incorporator; Co-Founder)

• Order of the Descendants of EL CID (Chancellor General 2018-2024; Incorporator; Founder)

• Order of the House of Wessex (Legal Advisor pro tempore’ 2021-2026)

• Order of Alba (Parliamentarian 2019-2025)

• Colonial Dames of America (Chapter XXXVI New Orleans President 2024-2027)

• National Society Daughters of the American Colonists (Alabama Society State Regent 2024-2027)

• National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century (Alabama Society State President 2023-2025)

• National Society Daughters of Colonial Wars (South East Alabama Society Organizing State President 2019-2025)

• Jamestowne Society (The Alabama Company, Deputy Governor 2022-2026; Treasurer 2016-2022)

• National Society United States Daughters of 1812 (Treasurer National 2021-2024)

• National Society Southern Dames of America (National Corresponding Secretary 2020-2022; The Magnolias Chapter Organizing President 2018-2020; Alabama Society President 2016-2018)

• Descendants of Sheriffs and Constables of Colonial and Antebellum America (Counselor General 2018-2024)

• The National Order of the Korean War (Incorporator; Founder 2021)

• National Society Descendants of American Farmers (Advisory Council Life; Incorporator; Founder)

• National Society of the Colonial Dames of America

• National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (Registrar; Treasurer; Past Chapter Regent)

• National Society of the Dames of the Court of Honor

• Military Order of the Southern Cross in the Pacific Theatre

• Hereditary Order of the Families of Presidents and First Ladies of America

• Flagon and Trencher: Descendants of Colonial Tavern Keepers

• Hereditary Society of Teachers

• Society of Indiana Pioneers

• American Rosie The Riveter Association

• Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War 1861-1865

• Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic

• National Gavel Society 

• Descendants of Continental Colonial Officers (Commander General 2023-2026; Incorporator; Founder)

• Order of Bacon’s Rebellion (Governor General 2024-2026; Incorporator; Founder)

• Society of First Families of Quebec (Chancellor General 2022-2025; Incorporator, Founder)

• Order of Founders of the Granville District (Chief Justice 2022-2026; Incorporator; Founder)

• Society of the 1704 Virginia Quit Rents (Deputy Governor General 2024-2026; Founding Chief Justice General 2020-2026; Incorporator; Founder)

• National Society Founders of Places of Worship in America (Founding Chancellor General 2022-2025; Incorporator)

• The Descendants of Colonial Regulators (1st Vice President 2019-2025; Incorporator; Co-Founder)

• The Order of William The Marshal (Attornatio 2021-2025; Incorporator; Founder)

• Founders Fellowship 

• The Order of Cloak and Dagger 

• The IX

• The Ladies' Memorial Association of Montgomery (AL)

• Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Auxiliary (Life Member)

• Alabama Society Sons of the American Revolution Ladies Auxiliary

Awards

Recipient of the National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims Thomas W. Bicknell National Service Award

Recipient of the Royal Order of the Kings and Queens Award 

Recipient of the Sons of the American Revolution Martha Washington Medal

Recipient of the Sons of the American Revolution Medal of Appreciation

Recipient of the Military Order of Stars & Bars Judah P. Benjamin Merit Award

Recipient of the Department of Defense Vietnam War Commemoration Certificate of Appreciation, which she accepted on behalf of the entire Lewis Chapter, NSDAR, Eufaula, AL

Recipient of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Meritorious and Distinguished Service Award

Appointed and Commissioned as an Honorary Tennessean by Governor Bill Lee

Awarded the American Jurisprudence Labor Law Book Award

Other

Multiple genealogical and historical societies

Friends of the Library

Docent, Eufaula Pilgrimage Tour of Homes

United States Coast Guard Auxiliary Retired Status, 27 years of service, including Flotilla Commander.

Sarah “Sally” Wood Hlavay is a native of Corvallis, Oregon. She is the daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Sidney Wood, Sr. and Mary Eleanor Grantham Wood. Sally was married to the late Joseph Francis Hlavay. Sally completed her undergraduate work at the University of Georgia, earning a B.S. She completed her M.B.A. at Pepperdine University, and an M.A. in Teaching at Emory University. Sally’s career has been as a Professional Fundraiser, serving as Associate Director of Alumni Relations for Emory University; as the Atlantic Regional Manager for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital; as an educator at Holy Innocents Parish Day School, as a number of other roles. Sally’s service to the community has been significant and extensive. She is, for instance, a fifty plus year member of the National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century, serving as Organizing President of First Emigrant Chapter in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. 

Memberships

• Baronial Order of Magna Charta

• National Society Americans of Royal Descent

• Military Order of the Crusades

• Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America

• Order of the Merovingian Dynasty

• Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry

• Hereditary Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors

• National Guild of Saint Margaret of Scotland

• National Society Children of the American Revolution (admitted 1951, South Carolina State Society Vice President)

• National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (Chapter Regent-Heritage Chapter, Calgary. Alberta, Canada; First Vice Regent, Beverly Hills Chapter, CA)

• Colonial Dames of America (1979, Chapter XX, Los Angeles, California)

• National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century (Organizing President, First Emigrant Chapter, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Member)

• National Society Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century

• National Society Daughters of Colonial Wars (National President, Honorary National President)

• Continental Society Daughters of Indian Wars (Governor General, Honorary Governor General)

• National Society Women Descendants Ancient & Honorable Artillery Co. (National First Vice President Court President, Arizona)

• Order of Descendants of the Justiciars (2nd Vice Justiciar, Founding Member)

• National Society of the Dames of the Court of Honor (State President, Arizona)

• National Society of New England Women (State President, Arizona)

• National Society Daughters of the American Colonists (State Regent, Arizona)

• National Society Children of the American Colonists (Adult Adviser Chairman, Life Members)

• National Society United States Daughters of 1812 (State President, Arizona)

• National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims (Governor, Arizona)

• Hereditary Order Descendants Loyalists & Patriots American Revolution

• Hereditary Order of the First Families of Massachusetts

• Piscataqua Pioneers

• Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War 1861-1865

• United Daughters of the Confederacy

• Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy

• Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench and Bar 1565-1861

• Descendants of Cape Cod and the Islands (Founding Recording Secretary General)

• Descendants of Early Postmasters 1607-1900 (Founding Member)

• National Gavel Society

• National Society First Families of New Hampshire (Founding Member)

• Sons and Daughters First Families of Newbury

Listed In (Publications)

• Foremost Women of the Twentieth Century

• International Who's Who of Professional and Business Women (ABI)

• Who's Who of American Women (Marquis Who's Who)

Other

• Association of FundRaising Professionals

• National Charity League- Founder Chapter (Los Angeles, California)

• Washington Athletic Club

• Willow Park Golf and Country Club

• President's Society, University of Alberta

• Episcopal Church of the Advent

• Interests: Literacy, Travel, Golf, and Music

• Volunteer - CanLearn Society

• Chairman, Peter Gzowski Invitational Golf Tournament for Literacy

• (Raised over $1,000,000 for Adult and Children's Literacy for Calgary, Alberta) Willow Park Charity Classic

• Peter Gzowski Literacy Award NSDAR, National Literacy Award Winner Calgary Community Service Award

Sumner Gary Hunnewell, Jr. was born in Portland, Maine, to Sumner Gary Hunnewell and Shirley Ann Mayo. He is married to the former Sylvia Beatrice Richardson and together they have two children Sumner Tristan Hunnewell and Rachel Elanor Hunnewell. 

Sumner and his wife are members of St. John’s Lutheran Church (LCMS) in Arnold, Missouri.

He has a B.S. Mathematics/Computer Science from Central Missouri State University and a Master’s degree in Telecommunication Management from Washington University in St. Louis. He is retired from software support, development, and project management for Southwestern Bell/SBC/AT&T.

Memberships

• Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts

• Ancient Heraldic and Chivalric Order of Albion

• Welsh Society of Philadelphia

• St. Andrew's Society of Washington, D. C.

• St. George's Society of New York

• Society of the Friendly Sons of Saint Patrick of Philadelphia

• Society of the Sons of Saint George of Philadelphia

• Society of the Cincinnati [New Hampshire]

• Veteran Corps of Artillery State of New York

• Society of the War of 1812 in Maryland

• Military Society of the War of 1812

• Aztec Club of 1847

• General Society of the War of 1812 (Deputy President General)

• Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States (Registrar-in-Chief)

• General Society Sons of the Revolution (past State President)

• Centennial Legion of Historic Military Commands

• Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (Past Department Commander)

• Huguenot Society of America

• South Carolina Huguenot Society

• National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (past Chapter Vice President)

• General Society of Colonial Wars (Deputy Governor General)

• Military Order of Foreign Wars of the United States

• Colonial Society of Pennsylvania

• Order of Indian Wars of the United States (Chaplain General)

• Order of the Founders and Patriots of America (Asst. Secretary General)

• Society of the Second War with Great Britain in the State of New York (Chaplain)

• General Society of Mayflower Descendants (Deputy Governor General)

• Baronial Order of Magna Charta (Surety, Class of 2028)

• Wing Family of America, Inc.

• Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry (Auditor General)

• Sons of Veterans Reserve

• John Libby Family Association

• Piscataqua Pioneers

• Stetson Kindred of America, Inc. (Vice President; National Registrar)

• Order of Descendants of Colonial Cavaliers (past Treasurer General)

• National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims (Organizing Secretary General)

• Willard Family Association of America, Inc. (Director)

• Shapleigh Family Association

• National Society of Old Plymouth Colony Descendants

• United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada

• Sons of Spanish-American War Veterans

• Society of the Descendants of the Founders of Hartford

• Friends & Descendants of St. George's (Descendants of Knights of the Garter) 

• Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy

• Military Order of the Crusades

• Jamestowne Society

• Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America

• Central Region Association Allied Orders of the Grand Army of the Republic (Past Commander)

• National Huguenot Society (Past Historian General)

• National Society of Sons of the American Colonists

• The National Gavel Society (Secretary)

• Dutch Colonial Society (Vice President General)

• Flagon and Trencher

• Order of Descendants of Colonial Physicians and Chirurgiens

• Thomas Rogers Society

• Son of a Witch (Treasurer General)

• Society of the Descendants of Washington's Army at Valley Forge (Brigade Liaison Officer; Missouri Brigade Commander)

• Elder William Brewster Society

• National Society Descendants of Early Quakers

• Clan Galbraith Society

• Descendants of Founders of New Jersey

• Reverend Robert and Sarah (Winter) Jordan Foundation, Inc.

• Hereditary Order of the First Families of Massachusetts (Deputy Governor)

• National Society Sons of Colonial New England

• Order of Descendants of the Ancient & Honorable Artillery Company (Honorary President General)

• Descendants of Mexican War Veterans (Graves Registration Officer)

• Plymouth Hereditary Society (Genealogist General)

• Descendants of the Knights of the Bath

• Order of the First Families of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (Honorary Governor General)

• La Société des Filles du roi et soldats du Carignan

• Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench and Bar

• Presidential Families of America (Chaplain General)

• Delmarva First Families (Chaplain)

• Clan Campbell Society (North America)

• Winthrop Society

• National Society Sons and Daughters of Antebellum Planters 1607-1861

• Order of the First Families of Maryland

• Order of the First Families of Maine 1604 – 1652 (Honorary President General)

• Pilgrim Francis Cooke Society (Director-at-Large)

• Order of the Merovingian Dynasty

• Guild of Colonial Artisans and Tradesmen 1607-1783 (Corresponding Secretary)

• The Order of First Families of Connecticut 1633-1662 (past Historian General)

• Pilgrim Hopkins Heritage Society

• National Society of the Descendants of Textile Workers of America, Inc.

• Order of the First Families of New Hampshire 1622-1680 (Deputy President General)

• Order of First Families of Vermont 1609-1791

• National Society of Saints and Sinners

• Descendants of Sheriffs & Constables of Colonial & Antebellum America (Secretary General)

• Order of Descendants of the Justiciars (Chancellor of the Exchequer)

• Order of New England

• Society of Descendants of Lady Godiva (Godiva Gazette Editor; Count General)

• Descendants of Fossors (Chaplain/Editor)

• Clan Colquhoun International Society

• Military Order of Agincourt (Lieutenant)

• Descendants of Cape Cod and the Islands (past 2nd Vice President 2020-22)

• Descendants of Early Postmasters 1607-1900 (Honorary Postmaster General)

• Founders Fellowship

• Order of the Monarchs of Rheims (Registrar General)

• Descendants of Colonial Mothers 1607 - July 4, 1776 (2nd Vice President General)

• Order of the House of Wessex

• Order of Kings and Queens in the Holy Lands (Keeper of the Purse)

• Order of El Cid

• National Society Descendants of Colonial Indentured Servants (Honorary President General)

• Order of Descendants of Native Americans and Friends (Historian General)

• Order of the Sovereigns of Ancient Scandinavia (Chaplain General)

• Society of the 1704 Virginia Quit Rents (Councilor)

• Order of Miners 1607-1907 (Vice President General)

• Logan’s Brigade (Chaplain)

• First Families of Quebec (President General)

• National Society Founders of Places of Worship in America (1st Vice President)

• American Patrons of St. George’s and the Descendants of the Knights of the Garter

• Order of the Star and Sail (Beacon Master)

Authorships 

"A Doleful Slaughter Near Black Point: The Battle at Moore’s Brook, Scarborough, Maine, June 29, 1677," The Maine Genealogist (May and August 2003).

"From the Ball Field to Flanders Field: Sgt. Norris Neil Wing," Military Collector & Historian (Summer 2015)

Editor

• The Herald (2024-), Baronial Order of Magna Charta
• The Passage (2020-), National Society Descendants of Colonial Indentured Servants
• Kindred Spirit (2024-), Stetson Kindred of America, Inc.
• Godiva Gazette (2023-), Society of the Descendants of Lady Godiva
• Bravely for Country (2016-), Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Missouri
• The Bulletin (2018-), Lewis & Clark Chapter, Jamestowne Society
• Newsletter of the Missouri Branch—National Society of Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims (2020-)
• The Bulletin (2023-), Order of Founders and Patriots of America
• Rest in Peace (2016-), Descendants of Fossors

Past Editor

• The 1812 War Cry (2020-2023), General Society of the War of 1812
• The Post Rider (2018-20), Descendants of Early Postmasters 1607-1900
• The Lighthouse (2021-22), Descendants of Cape Cod and the Islands
• Missouri Compact (2018-24), Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Missouri
• The Circular (2020-22), Missouri Society, Sons of the Revolution
• Fletcher Camp Newsletter (2019-2023), Gen Thomas C. Fletcher Camp #47, Department of Missouri, Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War
• The Pilgrims Newsletter (2021-25), National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims
• PFA Gazette (2025), Presidential Families of America

Websites

• Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry 

• Order of the Indian Wars of the United States

• National Huguenot Society

• New England Societies: Hereditary Order of the First Families of Massachusetts, Order of the Descendants of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, Plymouth Hereditary Society, Order of the First Families of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Order of the First Families of Maine 1604-1652, The Order of First Families of Connecticut 1633-1662, Order of First Families of Vermont 1609-1791

• National Society Descendants of Colonial Indentured Servants 

• Order of the Star and Sail

• Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Missouri 

• Missouri Branch, Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims

Other

• St. Louis Mercantile Library (board member)

• Chatillon-DeMenil Mansion (board member)

• Royal Society of Saint George

• Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels (Missouri Chapter Secretary)

• Company of Military Historians (chapter secretary)

• Scottish St. Andrew Society of Greater St. Louis (board member)

• Formerly played vintage baseball for the St. Louis Perfectos and Lafayette Square Cyclones.

• J. R. R. Tolkien fan historian, working with Marquette University to collect secondary Tolkien material.

Ashley Pendleton Clark Hunter is a Texas attorney who is a sixth generation resident of Dallas and a seventh generation Texan; and who was born in Dallas, Texas. She is the only child of Robert Murel Clark, Esq. (HSC perpetual sponsor) and Kimberly Ann Kerss. She is a heraldic heiress. Ashley is a graduate of the Hockaday School (2014), Southern Methodist University, BA (2018), and Oklahoma City University – Juris Doctor (2022). She married in Dallas, Texas, 20 August 2022, Mr. Spencer Samuel Hunter.

Hereditary Memberships

• Colonial Dames of America

• National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution

• Daughters of the Cincinnati

• Order of the Crown in America

• The Baronial Order of Magna Charta

• Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry

• National Society, Americans of Royal Descent

• National Society, Daughters Barons of Runnemede

• Military Order of the Crusades

• Jamestowne Society

• Order of Three Crusades

• Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America

• Ancient Heraldic and Chivalric Order of Albion

• Descendants of Templar Knights

• National Society of American Farmers

Chivalric Orders

• The Most Venerable Order of St. John of Jerusalem (Bestowed by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II), Member – USA Priory

• Order of Sts. Maurice and Lazarus (Italian Royal House of Savoy, 1100/1254/1572), Devotee of Merit

Honors and Memberships

• Episcopal Church of the Incarnation, Dallas, Texas

• Freedom of the City of London, 2021

• Girl Scout Bronze Award, 2009

• Camp Waldemar, Tejas Tribe, 2003-2009

• America MENSA (Life Member)

• Dallas Safari Club (Life Member)

Arms

Heraldic Heiress from father Robert Murel Clark, Esq.

Recorded in the Public Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland (vol.73, folio 29) 1 May 1990 in Robert M. Clark’s name and in the name of his gr-gr-gr-gr-grandfather Mathew Clark, whose house and family is Noble in the Noblesse of Scotland, which is recorded in the Public Register of Genealogies and Birthbriefs in Scotland (vol.4, folio 73), 12 March 1997 by the Lord Lyon of Scotland. The Arms are registered with the NEHGS Heraldry Committee and the Armorial Register. Further certification by the Cronista of Arms of Castlle and Leon 30 May 2018.

Virginia Ruth Nelson Jacobs, a native of Harriman, Tennessee is the daughter of Robert G. Nelson & Mary Jane Bledsoe Nelson. She and her husband, Dr. Thomas Owen Jacobs, have two sons, Bruce Eric Jacobs & Daryl Nelson Jacobs. Mrs. Jacobs was graduated from George Mason University with a B.A. in History.

Memberships

• National Society Colonial Dames 17th Century (Registrar General)

• National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims

• National Society U.S. Daughters of 1812

Jeannine Alice Sheldon Kallal was born in Chicago, IL to George Andrew Sheldon and Aureola Vida Stevens. She married George Victor Kallal.

She graduated from Miami University cum laude with a B.A., M.A. plus doctoral hours from Indiana University with Spanish and French majors and English and history minors. She is an Instructor for college level Spanish.

Society Memberships

• National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (State Officer, National Chair, Spanish Task Force)

• National Society Women Descendants Ancient & Honorable Artillery Co. (President National)

• Guild of Colonial Artisans and Tradesmen 1607-1783 (President General)

• National Huguenot Society (President General)

• National Society Descendants of Early Quakers (Presiding Clerk)

• National Society Daughters of Colonial Wars (National Registrar)

• National Society Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century (Registrar General)

• Colonial Dames of America (National Claims Committee)

• Plymouth Hereditary Society (Genealogist General)

• Order of First Families of Connecticut 1633-1662 (Genealogist General)

• National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century (State President; National Conference Arrangement Chair)

• National Society of New England Women (State Officer)

• Order of the First Families of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations

• Hereditary Order of the First Families of Massachusetts (Historian General)

• Hereditary Order of the Families of Presidents and First Ladies of America

• National Society Sons and Daughters of Antebellum Planters 1607-1861 (Historian General)

• Descendants of Cape Cod and the Islands

• National Society United States Daughters of 1812 (Chapter officer)

• Presidential Families of America

• Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry

• National Society Southern Dames of America (State Registrar)

• National Society of the Dames of the Court of Honor (State Officer)

• Continental Society Daughters of Indian Wars (State Registrar)

• Descendants of Sheriffs and Constables of Colonial and Antebellum America

• National Society Daughters of the American Colonists (State Officer)

• Flagon and Trencher

• National Society of Old Plymouth Colony Descendants

• Winthrop Society

• Order of American Cousins of the Present and Future Sovereigns of GB

• National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims

• National Society of Old Plymouth Colony Descendants

• Society of the Descendants of the Founders of Hartford

• Descendants of the Founders of Ancient Windsor

Other Memberships

• American Association of University Professors

• Sigma Delta Pi (Spanish Honorary)

• Phi Sigma Iota (Romance Lang. Hon.)

Authorships

2012 Register of Qualified Huguenot Ancestors; Updates to the 1999 Register; 2016 Consolidated Update to the 2012 Register; revision of Maude Roberts Cowan's Genealogical Data of the Ancient & Honorable Artillery Company of MAAm, Lineage Book XVI for A&H, and articles for various other publications.

Notes

Kallal was an international officer for many years for sorority Gamma Phi Beta, supervising both collegiate and alumni members. She is the recipient of several national awards and her hobbies include reading, bridge, needlepoint and crewel.

Dyane Monroe Dye Wood Kellogg, a native of Detroit, Michigan, is the daughter of Fred Dye, Esq. and Esther Monroe. Mrs. Kellogg attended University of Michigan and was graduated from Indiana University where she earned her A.B. in Fine Arts and French, and was a member of Delta Gamma sorority. She then earned her M.A. in Spanish from Universidad Inter-americana, Saltillo, Mexico, and completed further graduate studies at Columbia University of New York City and Sorbonne (Université de Paris), Paris, France.

Mrs. Kellogg enjoyed a career in education as the Head of the Foreign Language Department within the Tulsa, Oklahoma secondary education system, as well as a Spanish and French teacher in the Rutherford, New Jersey school system. She and her husband, Frederick Fuller Kellogg, Jr. kept residences in New York, New York and Little River, South Carolina.

Memberships

• National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (former Chapter President/Regent, Tulsa, Oklahoma; member of the Mary Washington Chapter of New York City)

• National Society Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America (past New York State Chapter President)

• Colonial Dames of XVII Century (former President of a chapter in the South Carolina Society)

• Colonial Dames of America (Founding President of South Carolina Chapter XXXI (life member of New York City Parent Chapter)

• National Society of Colonial Dames of America (life member of New York Society)

• Daughters of the Cincinnati (life member)

• Holland Dames (life member)

• Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America

• Order of the Merovingian Dynasty

• National Society United States Daughters of 1812 (former Vice President)

• Society of the Descendants of the Signers of the Constitution (Honorary Life Member)

• United Daughters of the Confederacy (Honorary Member)

• Daughters of Colonial Wars (member of the South Carolina Society)

Chivalric Orders

• Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem (Carolina Commandery)

Notes

Mr. Kellogg was a member of the Princeton-Columbia Club of New York City and the Westchester Country Club of Rye New York. She was President of the Tulsa Opera Guild; President of the Tulsa Panhellenic (both with five hundred members); and President of the Tulsa Delta Gamma Collegiate Sorority Alumnae. Mrs. Kellogg was a member of the Phi Delta Kappa honorary education fraternity, (Columbia University TC), and the Delta Tau Mu college honorary fine arts fraternity.

Additionally, Mrs. Kellogg attained membership in both the Circumnavigators Club (having circumnavigated the globe), and Traveler's Century Club (having traveled to at least one-hundred countries). She held membership in both Mensa and Intertel.

Mrs. Kellogg was a C.G. (Certified Genealogist), named in October 1995 by Board of Certification for Genealogists of Washington D.C. Her book The Wilcox-Luke Genealogy, published December 30, 1996, won First Prize in the Dallas, Texas Genealogical Society’s annual book contest, and a second-place trophy awarded by Iowa’s Washington County Genealogical Society’s Annual Book Contest. Additionally, the book won the Kansas City, Missouri Library’s Anna Ford Book Contest Award. Mrs. Kellogg researched and nominated the winner of the Oklahoma Historical Society’s Pioneer Woman Museum’s 2008 Woman of the Year Award. Dyane’s CDA chapter won the President General’s Award for Excellence, also in 2008. Furthermore, she held life membership in the Oklahoma Historical Society; the New York Genealogical & Biographical Society; and the Somerset County, Pennsylvania Historical Society.

Frederick Fuller Kellogg, Jr., a native of Bronxville, New York is the son of Frederick Fuller Kellogg and Beatrice Elizabeth Vail of New Rochelle, New York. Mr. Kellogg was a scholar in the National Honor Society in secondary School. He was graduated with an M.E. from Stevens Institute of Technology , and completed additional graduate studies at Columbia University in the City of New York. Additionally he was a member of the Rho Chapter of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity.

Mr. Kellogg enjoyed a long and successful career as a Professional Engineer. He was licensed in New York, South Carolina, North Carolina and Florida. His areas of specialty included municipal engineering and management, union negotiations; consultant to attorneys as an expert witness in Engineering matters; consultant on forensic engineering; and governmental matters such as zoning variance and planning board procedures.

Mr. Kellogg was married to the former Dyane Monroe Dye Wood, daughter of Fred Dye, Esq. The Kelloggs kept residences in New York, New York and Little River, South Carolina.

Memberships

• Hereditary Order Descendants of Colonial Governors (Governor General)

• General Society of Colonial Wars (member of the New York Society)

• General Society Sons of the Revolution (life member of the New York Society)

• National Society Sons of the American Revolution (former Regional Vice President of the South Carolina State Society; former President of the Colonel Lemuel Benton Chapter, South Carolina Society)

• Order of the Founders and Patriots of America (member of New York and South Carolina Societies; former Council Member and Deputy Governor of the New York State Society)

• National Society Sons of American Colonists (life member)

• Society of Mayflower Descendants (life member of the New York Society)

• Huguenot Society of America

• Colonial Order of the Acorn (life member)

• Founders Society (South Carolina Chapter)

Chivalric Orders

• Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem (Carolina Commandery)

• Sovereign Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem (Priory of Saint Michael and Saint George, New York City)

Other Notes

Mr. Kellogg was a member of the Princeton-Columbia Club of New York City. He earned his place in both the Circumnavigators Club (having circumnavigated the globe), and Traveler's Century Club (having traveled to at least one-hundred countries). Additionally, Mr. Kellogg held membership in both Mensa and Intertel. He was a member of the New York State Society of Professional Engineers, and served on council Westchester Chapter, New York, as well as the Westchester Country Club of Rye New York where he previously served on the Golf and Engineering Committee.

Leslie Ann Kirk was born in Montgomery, Alabama, to the late Rufus Charles Kirk and Glenda Jane Newman. She has one son, Jarett Kirk Nobles (Gina), a graduate of Auburn University, who lives in Dallas, Texas, and one sister Denise Kirk Dennis of Lowndesboro, Alabama. 

Leslie had a long career as the general manager of Baptist HomeCare, a specialty service hospital department of Baptist Medical Center in Montgomery. Her department provided home ventilators, IV pain management, neonatal, oncology and palliative care. In addition to being the department director, Leslie was the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) surveyor, HR manager, medical sales representative, and QA-QI coordinator. She was appointed to the Joint Ventures and Acquisitions team and the Hospital Association Patient Advocate Board. Leslie received numerous awards within the Baptist Medical Center system for having received commendations in every JCAHO inspection. Leslie is retired and has an outdoor photography business.

Memberships 

• Colonial Dames of America

• Descendants of American Prisoners of War (Founder, Webmistress)

• Descendants of Brian Boru (Honorary Member; Webmistress)

• Descendants of Cape Cod and the Islands (Honorary Member; Webmistress)

• Descendants of Colonial Regulators (Founder; Inaugural Officer; Webmistress)

• Descendants of Continental Colonial Officers (Quartermaster)

• Descendants of Early Postmasters 1607-1900 (Webmistress)

• Descendants of Sheriffs and Constables of Colonial and Antebellum America (Webmistress)

• First Families of Georgia 1733-1797

• First Families of Pennsylvania

• First Families of Quebec (Honorary Member; Inaugural Webmistress)

• Founders Fellowship (Charter Member; Newsletter Editor; Inaugural Webmistress)

• Guild of Colonial Artisans and Tradesmen 1607-1783 (Webmistress)

• Hereditary Order of the Red Dragon (Honorary Member; Corresponding Secretary)

• National Guild of Saint Margaret of Scotland (Webmistress)

• National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century (National Technology Committee; AL Society Webmistress)

• National Society Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century (AL Society Webmistress)

• National Society Daughters of Colonial Wars (AL Society Webmistress)

• National Society Daughters of the American Colonists (AL Society Webmistress)

• National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (Chapter Regent, Webmistress)

• National Society Descendants of Early Quakers

• National Society of the Colonial Dames of America

• National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims (AL Branch Webmistress)

• National Society Southern Dames of America (Charter Member Magnolia Branch; Webmistress)

• National Society United States Daughters of 1812 (AL & LA Society Webmistress)

• Order of Bacon's Rebellion (Founder; Inaugural Burgess)

• Order of Descendants of Colonial Physicians and Chirurgiens (Webmistress)

• Order of Founders of the Granville District 1663-1763 (Founding Herald; Corresponding Secretary; Webmistress)

• Order of Descendants of Ancient Planters (Webmistress)

• Order of Descendants of the Justiciars (Webmistress)

• Order of the First Families of Maryland 

• Order of the First Families of the Alabama Territory (President General; Founding Board; Webmistress)

• Order of the Kings and Queens in the Holy Lands (Honorary Member; Corresponding Scribe; Webmistress)

• Order of the Sovereigns of Ancient Scandinavia (Honorary Member; Recording Secretary)

• Order of the Steel Magnolias (Founder; Honorary President General; Webmistress)

• Order of William the Marshal (Founder, Honorary Member, Inaugural Historiographer)

• Society of Daughters of Holland Dames

• Society of First Families of Quebec (Inaugural Webmistress)

• Society of the 1704 Virginia Quit Rents (Governour General, Founder; Inaugural Webmistress)

• Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench and Bar 1565-1861

• Sons and Daughters of Virginia Founding Fathers (Founder; Honorary Governor General; Webmistress)
• The Ladies' Memorial Association of Montgomery (President; Webmistress)
• United Daughters of the Confederacy (former AL Division Webmistress)
• National Gavel Society

Published

• Order of the Kings and Queens in the Holy Lands editor-compiler directory publication, The Royal Register

• Order of the Steel Magnolias editor-compiler newsletter publication, Magnolia Messenger

• Founders Fellowship editor-compiler newsletter publication, The Star Dispatch

• Sons and Daughters of Virginia Founding Fathers editor-compiler, History of the Organization 2013-2021

• The Ladies’ Memorial Association editor-compiler, 150 Years of Remembrance 1866-2016

• “Recognizing Domestic Violence in the Home Care Setting” instructor 

• Montgomery Parents Magazine and The Montgomery Advertiser newspaper, various medical articles

• Photography contest winner: Outdoor Alabama magazine, Fine Art America, My Instant Expo Portfolio

• Weather Underground weather and outdoor photography contributor  

Other Notes

• First Families of Alabama Genealogical Society 

• The Southeastern Mvskoke Nation (Tribal Citizen) 

• National Society Daughters of the American Colonists (1st place website award)

• UDC AL Division Winnie Davis Award recipient (preserved 1490 Southern Cross of Honor applications and built a searchable database, Alabama Department of Archives and History) 

• Alabama Veterans Administration (Volunteer Services Board)

• Alabama Department of Archives and History (Historical Records Advisory Board & Grant Review Board) 

• Dale Carnegie Leadership Training Montgomery, AL Graduate Assistant (Bill Nave; 10-year Service Award) 

• Dusty Trails Horse Rescue (10 + year volunteer; former board member)

• Baptist Hospice of Montgomery (former chaplain ‘Transitions Team’ volunteer)

• Occasions Catering, Montgomery, AL (former caterer; wedding and event planner) 

• Cloverdale Church, Montgomery, AL (secretary; Agape Rape Crisis Hotline volunteer; Family Sunshine Center fundraising coordinator; Abused Women ‘Dress for Success’ program coordinator)

Leslie, an eighth generation Alabamian, lives within a few miles of her Alabama Territory pioneer ancestors. Her maternal line has been buried in the Pisgah Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery (Historical Marker HM1F4C) for almost 200 years. Her maternal line also descends from both Muscogee Creek and Shawnee Native American tribes.

Leslie’s hobbies include horse rescue, genealogy research, bunco, macro photography and event photography for local hereditary society conferences. Prior to a neck injury she was an avid traveler, skydiver and hang-glider. Leslie especially enjoys website design and has built over 60 hereditary society websites. She currently serves on the Hereditary Society Community (HSC) Technology Committee. 

Rev. Dr. Lynne Godard Alcott Kogel, a native of St. Charles, Illinois, is the daughter of William DeMilt Acott, Jr. and Lois Mellander. She is married to Ross Timothy Kogel, and has three children, Kristin Kogel Gedeon, Gretchen Alcott-Kogel Costello, Ross William Kogel.

Dr. Kogel is an academician of the highest order. She initiated her studies in 1962 at Le Torrent, Château d’Œx, in Switzerland, studying French Language and Literature. She then received her B.A. in Sociology from the University of California, Los Angeles ; an M.A. in Humanities from Wayne State University ; a M.Div. from McCormick Theological Seminary; an M.A. in Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan; and a Doctor of Ministry from McCormick Theological Seminary.

Dr. Kogel is an ordained Presbyterian minister. During her career, Dr. Kogel served as a Seminary Associate, Campus Minister and Interim Minister in the Presbytery of Detroit; an Associate Professor of Biblical Studies and the Director of Seminary Life at the Ecumenical Theological Seminary in Detroit; and as Adjunct Faculty for Humanities Studies at both Macomb Community College and Wayne State University.

Memberships

• National Society Daughters of the American Revolution

• National Society of the Colonial Dames in America

• General Society of Mayflower Descendants

• Order of the Crown in America

• Baronial Order of Magna Charta

• Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry

• National Society Americans of Royal Descent

• Society of the Descendants of the Founders of Hartford

• Society of Descendants of Knights of the Garter

• Society of the Descendants of Colonial Clergy

• Military Order of the Crusades

• Order of Three Crusades 1096-1192

• Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America

• Descendants of the Illegitimate Sons and Daughters of the Kings of Britain

• Order of the Merovingian Dynasty

• National Huguenot Society

• Flagon and Trencher

• National Guild of Saint Margaret of Scotland

• Order of the Merovingian Dynasty

• Order of the Descendants of Justiciars

• Order of the Norman Conquest

• Order of the Monarchs of Rheims

• Order of Medieval Women: Women of Consequence

• Order of the Kings and Queens in the Holy Lands

• Descendants of the Templar Knights

• Order of the Descendants of El Cid

Authorship

• Gabriele Boccaccini, Beyond the Essene Hypothesis: The Parting of the Ways Between Qumran and Essene Traditions. (Editor and publication assistant. See acknowledgements in Preface.) Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, Publisher, 1999

• “Hierapolis,” “Hyrcanus,” “Lydia (place),” “Masada,” “Menelaus.” Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible. ed. David Noel Freedman, Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, Publisher, 2000

• Reviewer for the 2006 sixth edition of Culture and Values: A Survey of the Humanities, Alternate Volume, for Thomson Wadsworth Corporation. Acknowledgement appears in the Preface to the seventh and following editions

• “Contagious Spirituality: Four Stories and a Sonnet,” The Healing Power of Spirituality.
  vol.1, ed. J. Harold Ellens, Santa Barbara, California: Praeger, 2010

Other Notes

Dr. Kogel is a member of the Society of Biblical Literature; the American Academy of Religion; American Schools of Oriental Research; the Presbytery of Detroit; and is listed in Who’s Who in American Women (1999-2003).

She enjoys telemark skiing and ski mountaineering, as well as sailing (Jeanneau 49DS). She is an avid yachter, and currently holds membership in the Grosse Pointe Yacht Club; Great Lakes Yacht Club; Little Current Yacht Club; Great Lakes Cruising Club; and the Detroit Athletic Club.

Dr. Kogel is member of the International Shipmasters Association, Detroit Lodge #7; and association of the Great Lakes ship captains and people who have a great interest in the navigation and safety on the Saint Lawrence Seaway. She is, additionally, an avid photographer and travels extensively.

Marilynn “Lynn” Alice Mast Long, a native of Flossmoor, Illinois, is the daughter of Maurene June Frey and Casper Leo Mast, Jr.   Maurene’s father was a 32nd degree Mason and also a Commander of the Englewood Commandery in Chicago.  He became a dedicated genealogist in his fifties, placed Lynn into C.A.R. when she was nine months old and transferred her into DAR when she was 22.  Lynn is married to Melvin Dwight Long, has three children, Jonathan, Laura, Richard, with grandchildren Alyssa, Melanie and Ryan living near them.   

Mrs. Long attended Denison University for two years and graduated from the University of Kentucky with an A. B. degree in Education.  While teaching in the elementary grades in the Homewood School District, she started graduate work at the University of Illinois where she met Mel. When Mel started a new job and they relocated, she retired from teaching.  After two more moves they settled in McHenry County, IL where they have been for forty-five years. Both enjoy many shared interests including travel, birding, gardening, reading and participated in activities with their grandchildren ranging from conservation, library programs, baseball and softball to C.A.R.

Memberships

• Descendants of Sheriffs and Constables of Colonial and Antebellum America (Honorary President General; Founder; Nominating Committee Chair)

• Order of Descendants of the Ancient & Honorable Artillery Company (Past Governor General)

• Continental Society Daughters of Indian Wars (former Nominating Chairman, former Reorganizing Historian)

• National Society of the Dames of the Court of Honor (Honorary National Trustee for life, former Curator General, former National Chairman Historical and Grave Marker, former Illinois State President, former Illinois State 1st Vice President, former State Trustee)

• Plymouth Hereditary Society (former Historian General, former Recording Secretary General)

• Order of the First Families of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (former Historian General)

• Hereditary Order of the First Families of Massachusetts (Recording Secretary General)

• Order of the First Families of New Hampshire 1622-1680 (former Founding Secretary General)

• Order of First Families of Connecticut 1633-1662 (former Councilor at Large; Charter Member)

• National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims (former Illinois Branch Organizing Registrar)

• National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (former State Vice-Chairman, Honorary Chapter Regent; former 1st Vice Chapter Regent; former 2nd Vice-Chapter Regent; former Chapter Chairman)

• National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century (former National Meals and Reservations Committee Member, former State Chairman, former Chapter 1st Vice President, former Chapter Chairman)

• National Society of New England Women (former Colony Historian)

• National Society Daughters of the Union 1861-1865 (former Chapter Director)

• National Society Children of the American Revolution (former Senior State Chairman, Senior Society Vice President, former Senior Society President)

• Flagon and Trencher

• Order of Descendants of Colonial Physicians and Chirurgiens

• Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench and Bar 1565-1861 (Charter Member)

• National Society Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century

• First Families of the Twin Territories

• Guild of Colonial Artisans and Tradesmen 1607-1783 (Charter Member, Master Guilder)

• Hereditary Order Descendants Loyalists & Patriots American Revolution (Librarian General)

• National Society United States Daughters of 1812

• Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry

• National Society Sons and Daughters of Antebellum Planters 1607-1861

• Winthrop Society

• National Society of Old Plymouth Colony Descendants

• Presidential Families of America

• National Order of the Blue and Gray

• Hereditary Order of the Families of Presidents and First Ladies of America (former Chaplain General)

• National Society Descendants of Early Quakers

• National Society Daughters of the American Colonists

• Jamestowne Society

• National Society Southern Dames of America

• Hereditary Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors

• Colonial Dames of America

• Dutch Colonial Society (former Patroon)

• American Descendants of the House of Burgesses 1619-1699 (Charter Member)

• Registry of Infamous and Famous Relatives in American Families

• United Daughters of the Confederacy (Charter Chapter Member)

• Hereditary Society of Teachers (Charter Member)

• Sons and Daughters of Virginia Founding Fathers (Charter Member)

• Descendants of Fossors (Charter Member)

• Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic (Illinois Circle, Charter Member)

• Descendants of Cape Cod and the Islands (Charter Member)

• Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War 1861-1865

• Descendants of Colonial Mothers 1607 - July 4, 1776 (Founding Member)

• Descendants of Early Postmasters 1607-1900 (Charter Member)

• Order of the Steel Magnolias (Charter Member)

• Order of Descendants of Pirates and Privateers

• National Society Descendants of Colonial Indentured Servants (Founding Member)

• Order of the Descendants of Native Americans and Friends (Founding Member)

• National Society Descendants of American Farmers

• Descendants of Miners 1607-1907 (Founding Member, Miner General)

• National Gavel Society

• Illinois Cameo Society (Charter Member)

• Sons and Daughters of the Province and Republic of West Florida

• Swedish Colonial Society

• Founders Fellowship (Co-Founder)

• The IX

• Bacon’s Rebellion (Charter Member)

• Descendants of Continental Colonial Officers (Charter Member)

• Descendants of American Prisoners of War (Charter Member)

Other Notes

Lynn belongs to St. Ann’s Episcopal Church, is secretary of her road association, has been an Election Judge in national elections, been a room mother for the fourth and fifth grades, a volunteer in the office of the Johnsburg High School and a member of the Citizens Advisory Council of Johnsburg High School.  She is also a life member of the Friends of the Johnsburg Library.

Due to her interest in genealogy she was a Charter Member of the McHenry County Illinois Genealogical Society, belongs to the McHenry County Historical Society, the New England Historic Genealogical Society and the Underhill Society.

Karen Elizabeth McCandless McClendon, native of Dallas, Texas, is the daughter of the late H. R. McCandless, Jr. and Ruth King McCandless. She has three children - Lisa Lynn Lair, Leslie Ann Murray and John Kevin McClendon, Esq. as well as five grandchildren.

Mrs. McClendon completed her BA as well as her M Ed at West Texas A & M University and enjoyed a career in secondary education, teaching English, art, speech and drama.

Memberships

• American Descendants of the House of Burgesses 1619-1699 (Founding Member)

• Ancient Heraldic and Chivalric Order of Albion (Dame)

• Baronial Order of Magna Charta (Surety, Class of 2017; webmistress)

• Colonial Dames of America (Chapter XXI President)

• Continental Society Daughters of Indian Wars

• Descendants of the Illegitimate Sons & Daughters of the Kings of Britain

• Descendants of Sheriffs and Constables of Colonial and Antebellum America

• Dutch Colonial Society

• First Families of Georgia 1733-1797

• First Families of Kentucky

• Guild of Colonial Artisans and Tradesmen 1607-1783 (Honorary President General; Founding Recording Secretary General)

• Hereditary Order of the Families of Presidents and First Ladies of America

• Jamestowne Society

• Military Order of the Crusades

• National Guild of Saint Margaret of Scotland (Honorary President General; webmistress)

• National Huguenot Society

• National Order of the Blue and Gray

• National Society Americans of Royal Descent

• National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century

• National Society of the Colonial Dames of America

• National Society Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century (Lone Star Chapter Corresponding Secretary)

• National Society Daughters of Colonial Wars

• National Society Daughters of the American Colonists

• National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (Honorary Chapter Regent; Recipient of the SAR Medal of Appreciation)

• National Society Daughters of the Barons of Runnemede

• National Society Descendants of Early Quakers

• National Society Magna Charta Dames (D-FW Colony 3rd Vice President)

• National Society of the Dames of the Court of Honor

• National Society of Saints and Sinners

• National Society Sons and Daughters of Antebellum Planters 1607-1861 (Texas Agent)

• National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims (Honorary Texas Branch Governor)

• National Society Southern Dames of America

• National Society United States Daughters of 1812

• One Hundred Living Descendants of Blood Royal (Amanuensis)

• Order of Alba (Founding Genealogist General)

• Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry (President General)

• Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in America

• Order of the Crown in America (Texas Councillor)

• Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America

• Order of Descendants of Ancient Planters (Texas State Registrar; Treasurer)

• Order of Descendants of Colonial Cavaliers (Corresponding Secretary General)

• Order of Descendants of the Justiciars (Founding Genealogist General)

• Order of Descendants of Colonial Physicians and Chirurgiens

• Order of Descendants of Pirates and Privateers

• National Order of the Knights of the Golden Horseshoe (Secretary General)

• Order of Medieval Women: Women of Consequence (Founding Genealogist General)

• Order of the First Families of Maryland

• Order of the First Families of Mississippi 1699-1817

• Order of the Founders of North America 1492-1692 (Founding Emissary General)

• Order of the Merovingian Dynasty (Registrar General)

• Order of the Norman Conquest (Founding Genealogist General)

• Order of Three Crusades 1096-1192 (Councillor)

• Presidential Families of America (Texas Regent)

• Royal Society of Saint George (Texas Branch)

• Society of Daughters of Holland Dames

• Society of Descendants of Lady Godiva (Lady of the Council)

• Society of the Descendants of Washington's Army at Valley Forge

• Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench and Bar 1565-1861 (Honorary President General)

• Sons and Daughters of Virginia Founding Fathers (Founding Genealogist General)

• United Daughters of the Confederacy

• National Gavel Society

• Society of Descendants of the Knights of the Garter; Windsor Castle (Genealogist General)

Other

Mrs. McClendon has compiled and edited numerous directories and newsletters as well as the OAAA Lineage Book II. She has written articles for and spoken to various societies on both genealogy-related topics and antiques.

In fact, she has recently gone back into the antiques business, opening a booth in a local mall. Other than genealogy and antiques, her interests include bridge, reading, theatre and travel.

A member of various county historical societies, Mrs. McClendon has also been affiliated with Dallas Heritage Village for over 25 years as a docent and fundraiser.

She is particularly proud to be a member of the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels.

Karen Lavone Avery Miller, a native of Missouri, is the daughter of Frances Lavone Silver and the late Harry Hollis Avery, Jr. She is married to Henry Clay Miller; and has one daughter, Carie Michelle (Mrs. Timothy James Wright) and grandchildren.

Mrs. Miller attended Central Missouri University in Warrensburg, MO. Her career is diverse and included employment at George K. Baum & Co. in the investment banking sector; as a retail sales representative in Dallas, Texas; and as a Realtor at Henry S. Miller Real Estate. Mrs. Miller is also a professional genealogist.

Memberships

• National Gavel Society (President)

• Guild of Colonial Artisans and Tradesmen 1607-1783 (Founder; Honorary President General)

• National Society Sons and Daughters of Antebellum Planters 1607-1861 (Honorary President General)

• Order of the First Families of Maine (Honorary President General)

• Plymouth Hereditary Society (former Governor General)

• Order of the First Families of New Hampshire 1622-1680 (Honorary Governor General)

• Order of First Families of Connecticut 1633-1662 (Honorary Governor General)

• Hereditary Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors (former Registrar General)

• Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry (Honorary President General)

• Order of Three Crusades 1096-1192 (Honorary Member)

• Continental Society Daughters of Indian Wars (Recording Secretary General)

• National Society of the Dames of the Court of Honor (former Corresponding Secretary General; former Historian General; former National Trustee)

• Hereditary Order of the First Families of Massachusetts (former Marshall General)

• Colonial Dames of America (Chapter Board of Management)

• General Society of Mayflower Descendants (former Texas State Recording Secretary)

• National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (former Chapter Regent)

• National Society United States Daughters of 1812 (former Chapter First Vice President)

• National Society of New England Women (former Chapter President; National Committee)

• National Society Daughters of the American Colonists (former Chapter Regent)

• National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims (Recording Secretary General; Texas Branch Governor)

• National Society Descendants of Early Quakers (National Corresponding Clerk; National Trustee)

• Order of First Families of Vermont 1609-1791 (Secretary General)

• Descendants of Cape Cod and the Islands (Founding Historian General)

• National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century

• Flagon and Trencher

• National Society Women Descendants Ancient & Honorable Artillery Co.

• Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy

• National Society Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America

• Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War 1861-1865

• National Society Daughters of the Union 1861-1865

• First Families of Ohio

• Order of Descendants of Colonial Physicians and Chirurgiens

• Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench and Bar 1565-1861 (former Chaplain General)

• Hereditary Order Descendants Loyalists & Patriots American Revolution

• Winthrop Society

• Presidential Families of America (former Historian General)

• National Society Southern Dames of America

• National Society Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century

• Hereditary Order of the Families of Presidents and First Ladies of America

• Piscataqua Pioneers

• National Society Daughters of Colonial Wars

• National Order of the Blue and Gray

• National Huguenot Society

• Descendants of Sheriffs and Constables of Colonial and Antebellum America

• Order of Descendants of the Justiciars (Honorary Member)

• Society of Daughters of Holland Dames

• Dutch Colonial Society

• Sons and Daughters of the First Settlers of Newbury Massachusetts

• Society of the Descendants of the Founders of Hartford

• Descendants of the Founders of Ancient Windsor

• Illinois Prairie Pioneers

• Old Plymouth Hereditary Society

Chivalric Orders

• The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John in Jerusalem (Officer, bestowed by Elizabeth II, Queen of England)

Authorship

Compiler:

Daughters of the American Colonists National Lineage Book XXXVIII (Topeka, KS: Jostens Publishing Company, 2009), 680+ pages including index

Editor:

TEXAS STATE MAYFLOWER, Newsletter (1997-2001); ARMORIAL HERALD, Order of Americans Armorial Ancestry Newsletter (2007-2011); THE PLANTER, National Society Sons and Daughters of Antebellum Planters 1607-1861 Newsletter (2009-2011); ANCHOR AND PINE, Order of the First Families of Maine 1604-1652 Newsletter (2009-2011); PLAIN LANGUAGE, Descendants of Early Quakers Newsletter (2007-2009); Co-Editor, GUILD GAZETTE, Guild of Colonial Artisans and Tradesmen 1607-1783 Newsletter (2004-2011).

CALUMET, Continental Society Daughters of Indian Wars (national publication)

Articles published in:

National Genealogical Society Quarterly, Vol. 90, No.4, December 2002, p.311-316; As well as numerous articles written for, and published in, each newsletter listed above.

Lineage Book I, National Society Sons and Daughters of Antebellum Planters 1607-1861

Other Activities

Mrs. Miller's proudest accomplishment is that of being a Wife, Mother and now Grandmother (i.e. Mimi) to two grandsons, two step-granddaughters and four step-grandsons ranging in age from four (4) to twenty-five (25) years.

She has been a member of the Washington Club since 2000. Mrs. Miller currently attends Grace and Holy Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, a Member of the Diocese of West Missouri, Kansas City, MO.

Her current memberships include The Association of Professional Genealogists (APG); the National Genealogical Society (NGS); The Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS 1997 Conference Regional Publicity Chairman); The New England Historic and Genealogical Society (NEHGS); The Association for Gravestone Studies (AGS); The New Hampshire Genealogical Society; Charter Member of the Carroll County [MO] Genealogical Association; The Dallas [TX] Genealogical Society (Past President, 2000 DGS Award of Merit recipient, Capital Expansion Project Chairman); The Dedham [MA] Historical Society; and the Cape Cod Genealogical Society.

Additionally, Mrs. Miller has participated in genealogical educational workshops and conferences for NGS, FGS, GenTech, NEHGS Sesquicentennial, Boston, MA; Virginia Institute of Genealogical Records (VIGR), Richmond, VA; alumni of the National Institute on Genealogical Research (NIGR), National Archives, Washington DC; Dallas Institute, Dallas Texas.

She is a national, regional and local speaker on genealogical and historical topics. Has conducted beginner and advanced genealogy research seminars. Worked as a Volunteer Genealogist at the DAR National Headquarters, Washington DC, 2000-2002, verifying over 100 supplemental papers. She has prepared and submitted over 200 of her own ancestor supplements for various societies. She is the owner of The Little Studio and Galler - Karen Avery Miller Fine Art, in Arrow Rock, MO.

Kimberly Kay Ormsby Nagy, M.D., is a native of Toledo, Ohio. She is the daughter of Donald E Ormsby and Ruth A. Steinbrecher, and has two children, Donna Maria Nagy and Amanda Leigh Nagy. Kim completed her undergraduate work at the University of Toledo with a B.A. She completed her M.D. at Ohio State University, and subsequently earned her PLCGS (Professional Learning Certificate in Genealogical Studies) at the National Institute for Genealogical Studies. Dr. Nagy is now retired after 30 years as a Trauma Surgeon at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, IL.

Memberships

• National Society Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America (National Vice President)

• Order of the First Families of New Hampshire 1622-1680 (Deputy Governor General and Founding Member)

• Guild of Colonial Artisans and Tradesmen 1607-1783 (Corresponding Secretary General)

• Descendants of Cape Cod and the Islands (Registrar General and Society Co-Founder)

• National Society Women Descendants Ancient & Honorable Artillery Co. (Registrar National)

• Descendants of Early Postmasters 1607-1900 (Surgeon General and Founding Member)

• Associated Daughters of Early American Witches (Honorary President General)

• National Society Children of the American Colonists (Honorary President General)

• Order of the First Families of Maine (2nd Honorary President General and Charter Member)

• National Society Sons and Daughters of Antebellum Planters 1607-1861 (Honorary President General)

• National Society Descendants of Early Quakers (former National Trustee)

• Descendants of Sheriffs and Constables of Colonial and Antebellum America (former Recording Secretary General and Founding Member)

• National Society Children of the American Revolution (former Senior National Assistant Registrar)

• Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy (former National Councilor)

• National Society United States Daughters of 1812 (State President)

• National Society Southern Dames of America (Organizing State President)

• National Society Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century (State Second Vice President)

• National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century (State Recording Secretary)

• National Huguenot Society (State Recording Secretary)

• National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (State Corresponding Secretary)

• Continental Society Daughters of Indian Wars (State Treasurer)

• National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims (Honorary Branch Governor)

• National Society Daughters of the American Colonists (former State Corresponding Secretary)

• National Society of the Dames of the Court of Honor (former State First Vice President)

• National Society Daughters of Colonial Wars (former State Chaplain)

• Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic (Circle Chaplain)

• Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War 1861-1865 (Tent Secretary)

• National Society of New England Women (former Colony President)

• First Settlers of the Shenandoah Valley (Charter Member)

• Order of the Founders of North America 1492-1692 (Charter Member)

• National Society Daughters of the Union 1861-1865

• Winthrop Society

• Hereditary Order of the Families of Presidents and First Ladies of America

• Flagon and Trencher

• Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench and Bar 1565-1861

• National Society of Old Plymouth Colony Descendants

• Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry

• Order of Descendants of the Ancient & Honorable Artillery Company

• Colonial Dames of America

• Hereditary Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors

• Piscataqua Pioneers

• Hereditary Order of the First Families of Massachusetts

• Order of First Families of Connecticut 1633-1662

• First Families of Ohio

• Descendants of Whaling Masters

• National Society of the Colonial Dames of America

• Society of Indiana Pioneers

• Descendants of Founders of New Jersey

• National Gavel Society (Secretary)

• Illinois Heritage Alliance (Treasurer and Founding Member)

• Century Families of Ohio (Charter Member)

• Founder's Fellowship (Charter Member)

• Descendants of the Founders of Ancient Windsor

• Settlers and Builders of Ohio

Authorships

• Kimberly Ormsby. My Ancestry: Selected Descendants of Reuben H. Hill, Sr. with Related Families Dodds, Beckets, Taylors, Foresters, Stovers, Dietericks, Wileys and Mumfords. Toledo, OH. Privately published. 1980.

• Kimberly Ormsby Nagy, MD. My Ancestry: Selected Descendants of Reuben H. Hill, Sr. with Related Families Dodds, Beckets, Taylors, Foresters, Stovers, Dietericks, Wileys and Mumfords. Second Edition. Downers Grove, IL. Privately published. 2001.

• Kimberly Ormsby Nagy, MD, compiler. Associated Daughters of Early American Witches Roll of Ancestors. Salt Lake City, UT: Family Heritage Publishing, 2012.

• Kimberly Nagy and Delories Robinson-Vaughn. "The Woman in the Well" in National Society United States Daughters of 1812 NewsLetter. 2014: 91 (2) 19.

• Boyd DR and Nagy KO: "Chapter 8: Trauma Unit". In Guinan PD, Printen KJ, Stone JL and Yao JST, eds. A History of Surgery at Cook County Hospital. Amika Press, Chicago, IL 2015.

• Nagy, Kimberly Ormsby: "Who Was the Father of William D. Hill?: Using Several Record Types and Locales to Prove a Theory". in Ohio Genealogical Society Quarterly. 2016: 56 (3) 295-9.

Listed In 

• Who's Who Among American High School Students 1977-78

• Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare 4th Ed. 2002-03

• Who's Who in Science and Engineering 7thEd. 2003-04

• Who's Who in American Education 7th Ed. 2006-07

• Who's Who in Science and Engineering 9th Ed. 2006-07

• Who's Who of American Women 25th Ed. 2006-07

• Who's Who in American Education 8th Ed. 2007-08

• Who's Who in Science and Engineering 10th Ed. 2008-09

Other Honors

• Illinois State Children of the American Revolution "Legacy of Leadership" Award 2007

• National Society Daughters of Early Quakers Appreciation Award 2010

• National Society Daughters of Founders and Patriots National Special Award 2011

Other

Dr. Nagy has been researching her family for over 40 years. Since retiring, she has more time to help others with their research as well as her own. In addition to the lineage societies listed above, she belongs to several Genealogical societies, including the Association of Professional Genealogists, the National Genealogical Society, as well as several local and state societies. She enjoys speaking about genealogy to these societies. She is also a prolific author, and her publications will be available for review on her personal listing. Kim is active in her community through First Congregational Church of Downers Grove, P.E.O., and other local community service groups.

William Benjamin Neal, M.A.T., the son of William Benjamin Neal, Sr. and Marion Laird McGinnes, was born in Wilmington, Delaware. His family resided in Delaware for more than 250 years. Mr. Neal graduated magna cum laude from Grove City College with a Bachelor of Arts degree, received a Master of Arts in Teaching Degree from Harvard University, and was a Taft Fellow at the University of Delaware.

During the Korean War, he served in the U.S. Air Force as a senior personnel specialist. He was Chairman of the History Department at Pierre S. du Pont High School for many years.

Memberships

• National Gavel Society

• Swedish Colonial Society (Honorary Governor)

• National Society Sons of the American Revolution (Three terms Genealogist General and recipient of the Minuteman Award; former President of the Delaware Society; Delaware Society Registrar for the past decade; Founder and former President of the Major Peter Jaquett Chapter)

• General Society Sons of the Revolution (member of the Pennsylvania Society)

• Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (Camp, Maryland Department Commander and National Historian)

• Saint Andrews Society of Philadelphia

• Order of the Merovingian Dynasty

• Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry

• Colonial Order of the Acorn

• Baronial Order of the Magna Charta

• National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims

• General Society of the War of 1812 (Member of the Pennsylvania and Maryland Societies; Organizing State President of the Delaware Society)

• Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America

• Order of Washington

• Society of Sons of Saint George of Philadelphia

• Society of the Friendly Sons of Saint Patrick of Philadelphia

• National Society of the First Families of DELMARVA (Founder and Honorary Governor General)

• National Society of Sons of the American Colonists

• Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench & Bar

• Descendants of the Founders of New Jersey (former Board Member)

• National Society Children of the American Revolution (former Delaware Senior State President and current Senior State Registrar)

• Military Order of the Crusades

• Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States of America

• National Order of the Blue and Gray

• Descendants of Washington's Army at Valley Forge

• Delaware Genealogical Society (First President)

• George Washington Society (former Board Member)

• Harvard Club of Delaware

Other Notes

Mr. Neal was listed in the Hereditary Society Blue Books of the 1990's and descends from King Henry II Plantagenet. He authored an unpublished history and genealogy of 6,000 descendants of John Neal and Margaret White of Sussex County, Delaware.

As a NSSAR member, he earned thirty-one (31) Liberty Medals, five prestigious Florence Kendall Awards and was a George Washington Fellow.

He was a Knight of the Sovereign Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem and a life member of the Patriotic Order of the Sons of America.

Mr. Neal was a 32nd Degree Mason, a Knight Templar, a member of the York Rite College, and was elected Grand High Priest of Royal Arch Masons of Delaware. He served as a Deacon of the Presbyterian Church.

He was a life member of the American Legion and served as Post and District Commander and as a member of the State Executive Committee. He was selected to be a member of Voiture Nationale.

DeEtte DuPré Nesbitt, a fourth generation Houstonian, and fourteenth generation American, is the daughter of Raymond Benjamin DuPré and Alice L. Cade DuPré Foster. She was married to the late Ernest V. Nesbitt. Mrs. Nesbitt has a son, Charles Scott Massey Nesbitt, and a granddaughter, Miss Luna J. Nesbitt. Her beloved daughter, Alice L. Massey Nesbitt, passed away from complications of a stroke on March 24, 2013.

In the Jamestowne Society Fall 2014 publication, it was announced that their Scholarship/Fellowship Fund would be named, in perpetuity, the "Alice Massey-Nesbitt Fellowship Fund" which will provide fellowships for graduate students doing research for master's and doctoral theses on approved topics relating to the Jamestown Colony.

In February 2015, the Executive Committee of the Jamestowne Society was unanimous in its recommendation that former Governor DeEtte DuPré Nesbitt of Houston, Texas become the only Governor Emeritus/Emeriti of the Jamestowne Society. On May 16, 2015, the Governing Council of the Jamestowne Society accepted the Executive Committee's recommendation and unanimously elected Mrs. Nesbitt the only Emeritus/Emeriti in the Jamestowne Society's history, of nearly a century. This will be a stand-alone title on the Governing Board of the Jamestowne Society, in perpetuity.

Mrs. Nesbitt attended Sam Houston State University and the University of Houston, where she majored in Business Administration, and also was approved as a Certified Professional Secretary (CPS). In 1976, she was one of the founders of an oil field service company in the State of Texas. After thirty-five years of ownership, Mrs. Nesbitt and her son sold their company to a publicly traded corporation. She is currently a partner in a South Texas Oil Exploration Company. Her primary residence was in Houston, Texas.

On May 5, 2017 Mrs. Nesbitt organized the Order of the Monarchs of Rheims. All Monarchs coroneted at Rheims Cathedral represent the most elegant and greatest kings in the history of Europe, as well as the nation that helped to bring about our American Revolution. It was one of the greatest dynasties in Europe. 

Honorary Memberships

• Jamestowne Society (unanimously elected Governor Emeriti, February 20, 2015, inaugural recipient)

• Ancient Heraldic and Chivalric Order of Albion (The very special rank of "Dame" was bestowed upon Mrs. DeEtte DuPré Nesbitt on December 25, 2013.)

• Hereditary Society Community of the United States of America (Mrs. Nesbitt was awarded Honorary Membership in the inaugural HSC Class of 2003; served as an HSC Consultant 2007-2009; and has served as a member of the Advisory Council from 2009-present.)

• Order of Three Crusades 1096-1192 (Honorary Life Member, 2012 - life)

• Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America (Honorary Member, 2009 - life)

• Dames of Colonial Cavaliers 1640-1660 (Governor Emeriti, 2005)

• Order of Descendants of Colonial Cavaliers (Governor Emeriti, 2008)

• Order of Dames of Colonial Cavaliers (Founding Board Member)

• Order of Descendants of Justiciars (Honorary Life Member, 2015 - life)

• Order of Kings and Queens of the Holy Lands (Honorary Life Member, 2018 - life)

• Founders Fellowship (Founding Chief of Protocol, 2018)

Memberships

• Jamestowne Society (past Governor General, 1998-2000; recipient of Resolution of Appreciation, 2000; Lt. Governor General 1997-1998; Auditor General 1995-1997; Councilor 1993-1995; First Texas Company Jamestowne Society (Honorary Governor Emeriti; Honorary Member)

• Order of Descendants of Colonial Cavaliers (Founding Governor General, 2007-2008; Honorary Governor General Emeriti)

• Dames of Colonial Cavaliers 1640-1660 (Honorary Past Governor General; served as Governor General 2003-2005; Founding Deputy Governor General, 2000-2003)

• The Society of First Families of South Carolina 1670-1700 (Honorary President for Life; National President, 2007-2009; Third Vice President, 2005-2007; Recording Secretary, 2003-2005)

• Order of First Families of Virginia 1607-1624/25 (Recording Secretary 2005-2015; Councilor 2001-2005)

• National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the Commonwealth of Virginia

• National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Texas (Courtesy Member; Houston Town Committee)

• Colonial Dames of America (past President of Houston Chapter VIII, 1995-1997; Advisor to Houston Chapter VIII, 1997-1999)

• Huguenot Society of America

• Huguenot Society of South Carolina (life member)

• Daughters of the Cincinnati (life member)

• National Society Daughters of the American Revolution

• Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry (life member)

• National Gavel Society

• Order of the First Families of Mississippi 1699-1817 (life member)

• National Society Sons and Daughters of Antebellum Planters 1607-1861 (life member)

• Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy (life member)

• Daughters of the Republic of Texas (recipient of Appreciation Award; life member of the San Jacinto Chapter)

• National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims (life member)

• National Society Magna Charta Dames (former Historian, Houston Colony) Recipient of Jefferson Davis Historical Award, Winnie Davis Medal and Special Recognition Award

The Texas Genealogical College named Mrs. Nesbitt a recipient of the Hall of Fame Award on October 21st, 2016. 

Mrs. Nesbitt was a recipient of the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. She is listed in all Marquis Who's Who editions.

The Bexar County Court of Commissioners at San Antonio, Texas conferred the title of Hidalgo (a member of the lower nobility of Spain), upon Mrs. Nesbitt. She was also the National Recipient of the Silver Good Citizenship Medal from the National Society Sons of the American Revolution, the Varina Howell Davis Medal, and the Honor Award for Historic Preservation.

Authorships

• A Dedication of Confederate Markers: Evergreen Cemetery, February 8, 1992; 

 Privately Published, 1994

• Memorial to DeAnna DuPre Walker; 

 Huguenot Society of South Carolina; Transaction #98, 1993

• Hall and Fuller Families; 

 Nacogdoches County Families, 1985

Television Appearances

Mrs. Nesbitt appeared on NBC television during the 1990's. She was interviewed several times about the restoration of the historic Evergreen Cemetery. 

For over 35 years, Mrs. Nesbitt was a member of Harris County Historical Commission, (appointments made by the county judge). Mrs. Nesbitt, along with the Commission, researched Mrs. Nesbitt's great grandfather, James Robert Cade. On February 2, 2016, Mrs. Nesbitt was notified by the State of Texas that Mr. Cade was selected to be honored with an Official Texas State Historical Marker. He was the only individual selected to receive this prestigious honor during 2015-2016. The marker was placed in Glenwood Cemetery - the Victorian Section, in Houston, Texas along with other notables such as Howard Hughes, Jr., awarding film star Gene Tierney, Wild-Cater and celebrity, Glenn McCarthy, Sr. and others. Mr. Cade is considered to be the Howard Hughes of innovation in the design and manufacture of steel-fabricated private and public rail cars in the United States, circa 1885-1912. The dedication ceremony was held on May 6, 2017. 

A number of Commendations were presented during the ceremony. They include one from the U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives, the Governor of Texas, the Texas State Senate, the Texas State House, and the Mayor of Houston. As part of the dedication ceremony, Mrs. Nesbitt was presented a Certificate of Commendation for her work in historic preservation, in recognition of James Robert Cade, by the United States Senate.

Other Notes

Mrs. Nesbitt was elected to life membership in The Pilgrims of the United States (in alliance with The Pilgrims of Great Britain.)

For decades Mrs. Nesbitt was a supporter of Houston's Theatre Under the Stars and she was recognized for her efforts in the VIP category.

Mrs. Nesbitt served on the Southern Heritage and Debutante Ball for 35 years, as Chairman, and later as the Advisor for three Chairmen.

She was elected the National Recipient of the George Washington Honor Medal in the category of Individual Achievement which was awarded by the Freedom Foundation of Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. She was appointed a Kentucky Colonel for life for her historic preservation in that State. Additionally, she served as Director for the Dad's Club for over a decade. Also, she served as a member of Larry Casey's Highwater Rescue Team during Hurricane Harvey.

Mrs. Nesbitt was a 30+ year member of the Petroleum Club of Houston. She was a member of the Junior League of Houston, and a family member of the West Side Tennis Club of Houston. Following in the footsteps of her Anglican forebears, she was a devout and lifelong Episcopalian.

Charles William Neuhauser, son of Charles William Neuhauser and Joan Schuyler Lawrence was born in Washington, D.C. He attended the Berkshire School in Massachusetts. Mr. Neuhauser completed his undergraduate work at Columbia College . He also attended Princeton University .

Mr. Neuhauser currently resides in Tuxedo Park New York with his wife, Liane Lunny Neuhauser and their son. His career is in investment management.

Memberships

• General Society of Colonial Wars (Treasurer General; Past Governor of the New York Society)

• Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York (President)

• Order of the Crown of Charlemagne (President General)

• Hereditary Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors (Honorary Governor General)

• One Hundred Living Descendants of Blood Royal

• Order of the Merovingian Dynasty (First Vice President General)

• National Society Americans of Royal Descent

• Colonial Order of the Acorn (Treasurer)

• General Society of Mayflower Descendants

• Dutch Settlers Society of Albany

• Order of the Founders and Patriots of America