Tennessee Society Children of the American Revolution · PDF fileVOLUME LXI, ISSUE ii The liberty bell Tennessee Society Children of the American Revolution Summer Packet Meeting 1-3

VOLUME LXI, ISSUE ii

The liberty bell

Tennessee Society Children of the American Revolution

Summer Packet Meeting

1-3

Letters from the State and Senior-State Presidents

4

SAR Patriot An-cestor Essay Win-ner

5-6

State and National Themes

7-8

Society Presidents 9-10

New Members 11

Society News 13-17

Letter from the Editor

19

Inside this issue:

Annual State Packet Meeting

September 2014

State Packet Meeting 2014

Constitution Week Bell Ringing Ceremony

Sunday, September 21st

2:00 p.m. CST

For more information, see page 18

T.S.C.A.R. held its annual packet meeting on Saturday, August 2, 2014 at the recreation facility at MTSU in Murfreesboro. The meeting was hosted by Mrs. Zietz, Senior State Chaplain and Michael Zietz, State President. The state board meeting was held before the packet meeting began. Michael reported on the National Theme and Project of National President Betsy Ehmcke, which is “O, Say Can You See”. Her project supports the Star-Spangled Flag House in Baltimore, Maryland, in hon-or of the Star-Spangled Banner’s bicentennial. The Star-Spangled Ban-ner Flag House began as the home of Mary Pickersgill, the woman who sewed the Star-Spangled Banner, and has become a museum that re-tells the impact Mary and her flag had on our independence. Michael then reported on his State Theme “The Greatest Generation” and Pro-ject, to raise funds for Screaming Eagles Honor Flight. See page 5. He had lapel pins made which are for sale for $5 each to raise money for the state project.

www.tscar.org www.nscar.org

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Summer Packet Meeting Continued

Officers and Chairmen gave wonderful presentations on the National Programs and committees using trifold boards, handouts, and objects for display. There were forty seven members, seniors and guests in attendance. After the packet meeting, the members and seniors en-joyed a picnic lunch, fellowship, swim-ming and rock climbing.

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Alex Phillips, Veterans Committee Chairman had a display with items from his great grandfather’s WWI service.

Olivia and Ava Scotchie give directives of their committee’s objectives for this year.

Michael Zietz presides over the first board meeting of the 2014-2015 State Board.

Lucy and Gracie White enjoy swimming and sliding at the pool.

Senior State Board Attendees

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Lori Cook Sr. State 1st Vice President 6407 Nicklaus Ct Hixson, TN 37343 423-290-4912 [email protected]

Dear Members and Seniors:

Thanks to all those who attend-

ed the State Packet meeting in Murfreesboro! Emily

and Michael Zietz did a wonderful job planning and

executing the meeting! The picnic lunch and activities

at MTSU were fun and interesting for our members

and seniors. I want to thank all those state officers

and committee chairmen who prepared informational

tri-fold boards and brought handouts and visual aids

to promote their committee.

Michael has planned an outstanding program and

project which you can find on page 7 of this edition of

the Liberty Bell. I hope that each society will strive to

meet Michael’s challenge of each society raising

$100 for the state project.

It is with much sadness that I report to you that Sen-

ior State President Jennifer Rowan is stepping down

from her position with T.S.C.A.R. due to serious

health issues. She will remain involved with C.A.R.

and will continue as Pinson Mounds Society Sr. Pres-

ident. Please keep her family in your thoughts and

prayers as she faces chemotherapy and radiation

through 2015.

The annual Bell Ringing on the State Capitol grounds

will be held on Sunday, September 21st. We will

have a CAR meeting for all societies to participate in.

Your Sr. Society President will receive details about

this meeting soon.

Hope to see everyone at the Bell Ringing,

Lori Cook

Acting Senior State President

Letters from State President and Senior State President

Michael Zietz State President 2219 Shannon Drive Murfreesboro, TN 37129 615-895-6027 [email protected]

Dear T.S.C.A.R. mem-

bers and Seniors,

Another great quarter has passed for TSCAR,

and I am happy to announce that my State

President’s Project has been going very well.

We have raised nearly enough for half a flight,

so we are just on track, if we continue, to be

able to fund an entire Honor Flight for around

30 veterans. An example fundraiser we had

here in Murfreesboro was at the local farmers’

market on the Saturday before Labor Day. We

invited local veterans to come and speak to an-

yone who stopped or walked by a popular local

coffee shop, set up by a veteran himself. Over

the course of the morning, we were able to

raise nearly $500, enough to fund one veteran’s

trip to D.C.

I look forward to visiting some CAR chapters

around the state in the upcoming months, and

especially look forward to being a guardian on

the first Honor Flight in September, coming up

on the 27th. As always, feel free to contact me

anytime at [email protected].

Until next time,

Michael Zietz

Samuel Hood, member of the Col RJ Meigs Society, receives State SAR Award for his Patriot Ancestor Essay entry.

S.A.R. State Conference 2014

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Pictured above: Samuel Hood, member of the Col RJ Meigs CAR Society, with State SAR winners.

Samuel Hood reads his award winning es-say to the SAR conference attendees.

Ms. Rowan: We love you and hope to see you soon!


Captain Cornelius Carhart

by Samuel Hood (age 11)

There is a man in history lots of people don’t know about, his name is Cornelius Carhart. He is one of my patriot ancestors. He was born in 1729 in Monmouth County, New Jersey. When he was a young man, he moved to Hunterdon County, New Jersey.

When the Revolutionary War began, Cornelius Carhart went straight into action to help his coun-try. He was named a Captain in the Hunterdon County, New Jersey militia beginning in the year 1775. Lots of men served under him, mostly privates in the New Jersey militia, and his son Rob-ert Carhart. He gave commands to his men and may have carried a sword.

Captain Carhart and the New Jersey militia tried to build a fort on Staten Island before the British landed, but they couldn’t finish it. He fought mostly in the springtime and summer, but sometimes served in the winter. Mostly, the battles in which he fought were in Elizabethtown, Amboy, Staten Island (New York), Sandy Hook and Monmouth in New Jersey. He was fearless because he was always so close to the British on Staten Island that he could see them. He and his troops were also able to see British warships in New York harbor. One they could remember seeing was the HMS Roebuck.

The war ended in 1781. He served throughout the entire war. I admire Cornelius Carhart be-cause he never backed-down or quit.

Me at the Monmouth battlefield where the Hunter-

don militia fought the British.

My sisters and me at the grave of Cornelius

and Willimpia Carhart.


State Theme and Project– The Greatest Generation

Tennessee Society Children of the Ameri-can Revolution State President’s project for 2014-2015 is to honor The Greatest Generation and beyond. The T.S.C.A.R. is supporting Screaming Eagle Honor Flight by helping promote and fundraise for this wonderful initiative to honor our Veterans.

Screaming Eagle Honor Flight is new Hon-or Flight organization from Clarksville, TN. This organization gives Veterans the op-portunity to visit and experience THEIR memorials in Washington D.C. It provides this service through the generous dona-tions of individuals, organization, business-es, and corporations.

Screaming Eagles Honor Flight is a non-profit or-ganization that provides Veterans, at no cost to them, the opportunity to fly to Washington for the day. A guardian volunteer will fly with each veteran. This organization plans to have its first flight on Sat-urday, September 27, 2014 and to have two flights per year thereafter. If you know a WWII or Korean Veteran who would be interested in going on an Honor Flight to Washington, D.C. to visit his memorial, please contact T.S.C.A.R. State President Michael Zietz at 615.895.6027 or [email protected].

Programs provided by the Screaming Eagles-Guardian Program:

A Guardian is an individual that who pays for their own ticket for the honor and privilege of escorting up to three Veterans one if wheelchair bound. For more information please contact us

Volunteer Program:

Volunteers are vital to the success of Screaming Eagle Honor Flight. There are numerous ways to volunteer and help us. For more information please contact us or our Volunteer Coordinator, James Moore at 931-542-7813.

Speakers Bureau:

At Screaming Eagle Honor Flight we love to talk about what we do! Our presenta-tion can be tailored to fit your time and needs! To schedule your Speakers Bu-reau request please contact us.

Corporate/Organization Sponsorship Program:

This program allows Businesses, Organi-zations, and Corporations to sponsor as few as one Veteran or the whole flight and get recognition on our website, Face-book page, the media, and on the shirts given to the Veterans.


The National Theme for 2014–2015 is

O! Say Can You See. The 2014-2015 National President’s project is to make a donation to the Star-Spangled Flag House in Baltimore, Maryland, in honor of the Star-Spangled Banner’s bicen-tennial. The Star-Spangled Banner Flag House began as the home of Mary Pickersgill, the woman who sewed the Star-Spangled Banner, and has be-come a museum that retells the impact Mary and her flag had on our inde-pendence. The museum attracts nearly 10,000 visitors each year, with 30% of its visitors coming with school groups. Unfortunately, of the ten flags on the grounds of the Flag House, all ten are in need of repair. As this is an expen-sive project and falls outside of restricted exhibit funds, the Flag House has been unable to fix them. This year, the N.S.C.A.R. hopes to raise $20,000 to donate to the Flag House. With our donation, all ten flags can be restored, in-cluding a large Star-Spangled Banner that flies in front of the museum. Our donation will also cover the cost of a recognition marker for the N.S.C.A.R. on the Flag House grounds.

In addition to a donation to the Flag House, this year the N.S.C.A.R. will place an emphasis on learning about our nation’s flag. Local societies are

encouraged to spend time learning flag etiquette and exploring the history of the American flag. Our flag symbolizes freedom and independence, and our societies will pay tribute to it in its bicentennial. Join us as we honor the Ameri-can flag. “O! Say Can You See”, may our flag ever wave.


2014-2015 T.S.C.A.R. Society Presidents

SOCIETY PRESIDENT SR. PRESIDENT

Abigail Adams Brenon Twitty

Cookeville [email protected]

Chucalissa Connor O’Neal Monroe Donna Monroe

Memphis [email protected] [email protected]

Col. Return Sarah Hood Lori Cook

Jonathan Meigs [email protected]

Chattanooga

Elizabeth Paxton Cheyenne Miller Charlotte Miller

Houston [email protected]

Maryville

General William Ginger Cooper

Lenoir [email protected]

Lenoir City

Good Ship Taryn Kile Misty Swindle Kile

Adventure [email protected]

Nashville

James Sevier Ronnie Lail

Elizabethton [email protected]

John Sevier Payton Kinler Sue Oehmen

Memphis [email protected] [email protected]

Joseph Greer Edward Vance Jean Vance

Fayetteville [email protected] [email protected]

Judge John McNairy Leslie Myers Tabitha Myers

Brentwood [email protected] [email protected]

Matthew Fontaine Gordon Oliver Carol Moss

Maury [email protected] [email protected]

Franklin


SOCIETY PRESIDENT SR. PRESIDENT

Michael Peeler Katelyn Payne Natalie Payne Millington [email protected] Old Stage Road Shelby Shepherd Cindy James Memphis [email protected] [email protected] Pinson Mounds Dylan West Jennifer Rowan Jackson [email protected] [email protected] President Polk/ Jackson Baxter Derek Peck President Jackson [email protected] [email protected] Rocky Mount Greta Lane Julie Hyatt Kingsport [email protected] Sevier Station Derek Clark Alicia Clark Clarksville [email protected] [email protected] Stones River Rebekah Umbarger Karen Hudson Murfreesboro [email protected] [email protected] The Overmountain Men Johnye Klossner Kitzman Gallatin [email protected] William Diamond John Calvin Bryant Lindsey Brewer Lawrenceburg [email protected] Reorganizing - Julia Doak Gloria M. Beauchamp Morristown [email protected] Organizing- Three Rivers Audra Morton Kingston [email protected] Organizing Marisa Moazen Knoxville [email protected]

2014-2015 T.S.C.A.R. Society Presidents

Membership Matching Game By Allison Cook, age 14

Fill in the blanks with the correct word from the list of words below.

False Yes True Revolutionary Leadership Application Friendship Invite Patriot

1. CAR members enjoy _________ with other society members in their local society and across the state.

2. CAR members can be between the ages of 0 – 22. T or F

3. To become a CAR member, you must complete an ____________________.

4. A great opportunity that the CAR offers is gaining _______________skills.

5. Is there a fee to join CAR?

6. Your ancestor must have fought in the _______________ War to be eligible for membership in CAR.

7. __________ your friends to a CAR meeting.

8. To be eligible for membership, you must have a _____________ ancestor.

9. CAR stands for Children Are Rowdy. T or F

10. When you join CAR, you are automatically a Life Member. T or F (Answers on page 20)


SOCIETY NEW MEMBERS

John Sevier Society:

Margaret Reed Hamer

Samantha Justine Smith

Brooke Madison Underwood

Judge John McNairy:

Sarah Lauren Cagna

Welcome to the newest Society in the TSCAR!

General William Lenoir Society will hold an Organizing Meeting Saturday, September 20th

Lenoir City Welcome Center

Organizing Sr. President - Ginger Cooper

Organizing Members: Katy-Lynn Charity Cooper

Alexis Marie Hamilton

David James Hamilton

Jessica Marie Hamilton

Ian Ross Mayhood

Lydia Ann Mayhood

Olivia Frances Willis


Col. Return Jonathan Meigs Society

June 11,2014 Col RJ Meigs Society member Emily Blackwell gave a program at the regular meeting of the Nancy Ward DAR chapter. She spoke to the chapter about the Founding Fathers, and gave a descriptive biog-raphy on Thomas Jefferson and his role in the for-mulating of both the Constitution and Declaration. Emily used a powerpoint presentation so that pic-tures were shown of historic places and figures while she talked about them. Emily is 9 years old and is picture to the right with her mother, Natalie and Nancy Ward Chapter Regent Jo Hill. Emily also served as a helper at the Junior Sales table at the DAR State Conference.

Right: Members of the Col RJ Meigs Society are pictured at the rock climbing wall at MTSU's recre-ation center for the annual packet meeting. Mem-bers are L to R: Ava Scotchie, Allison Cook, Olivia Scotchie and Tapanga

First meeting was held at Veterans Memorial Park in Collegedale. R: Samuel Hood gave a program on Medal of Honor Recipient Desmond

Doss.


Col. Return Jonathan Meigs Society (cont.)

Col RJ Meigs Society President Rachel Hood brought greetings at the grave marking of Pri-vate Joseph Lane, held in Bradley County by the Benjamin Cleveland Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution. This was the second grave marking in a broad project to identify the resting places of all thirteen Revo-lutionary Patriots known to be buried in Brad-ley County. Pictured Left: Rachel Hood and David Whaley, SAR Chapter President. Pic-tured Right: The color guard did their best to fire three volleys during the ceremony even through the rain, it was surprising that more guns fired than didn't.


Elizabeth Paxton Houston Society

The Elizabeth Paxton Houston Society Children of the American Revolution (C.A.R.), sponsored by the Mary Blount Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) participated in the 238th Independence Day Celebration at James White Fort sponsored by the Sons of the Ameri-can Revolution. C.A.R. member Audrey Palladino gave greetings for the organization, and C.A.R. members and other children read the names of all of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence. Pictured from left to right are Audrey Palladino, Leu Antonov, Julia Palladino, Mary Blount DAR Regent Pat Reilly, Broden Ramkin, C.A.R. Sr. President Charlotte Miller, Liam Ramkin, Justin Johnson, William Hurley, and Brantley Harriman.


Sevier Station Society

Clarksville, Tennessee

September 2014

School is back in session and we hope each of you have settled in and are off to a wonderful start. Sevier Station had a wonderful, albeit busy, summer. Derek Clark and his mom, Alicia Clark hit the road in June to attend the Re-gional Meeting in Columbus, Ohio (right). They were able to visit another region, meet the in-coming N.S.C.A.R. officers, and make new friends.

During the summer, our Society always likes to take fun outings. This summer was no exception! In June, we headed to Nashville to tour the recently renovated Ronald McDonald House. After the tour, our Soci-ety donated over 83 pounds of soda tabs, $20.00 worth of paper towels (an item they specifically said their families could use), and over one hun-dred pens, pencils and markers (see picture). After that, our Society headed over to the Bicentennial Mall where we had a picnic lunch, played in the water sprinklers and shopped at the local Farmer’s Market.

In July, we had the oppor-tunity to tour Allendale Farm which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Mrs. Amelia Hartz, grandmother of two of our newest members, and her father, Mr. William Allen Bailey, gave us a wonderful tour of its two historic log homes. We also got to see family antiques, artifacts and in-teresting books and


interesting books and documents. After our tour, we headed to the fields to see the cows up close and feed their horse. Our day finished with a picnic lunch, yard games and a splash in the pool (see picture)

Our first meeting of the year was held on Au-gust 23, 2014 at the historic L&N Train Station, our new meeting location. As we gathered, we worked on coloring pages which will be part of our U.S. Constitution display table at our Pub-lic Library, 17-23 September. Following our ritual, our new Society President, Derek Clark, announced the 2014-2015 National and State Themes and Projects; reported on what hap-pened at the State Packet Meeting in Murfreesboro; and discussed upcoming events. Derek then introduced our guest speaker, Mrs. Camille Allison, a member of the Captain William Edmiston DAR Chapter and a sign language interpreter at Fort Camp-bell, Kentucky. Mrs. Allison taught our mem-bers how to recite the “Pledge of Allegiance” using sign language. She also brought her son, Noah-a prospective member, to participate in our meeting. We plan to prac-tice our new skill at every meeting for the rest of the year. To thank Mrs. Allison af-terward, our Society presented her with a T.S.C.A.R. State Project lapel pin. While the adults met to talk business, our members had fun decorating flag-shaped cookies and playing games (see picture).

Our next event is to participate in the Captain William Edmiston DAR Super Saturday Social on Septem-ber 13th. Michael Zietz, our T.S.C.A.R President has gra-ciously accepted to be a guest speaker and will present his State Theme and Project to the group. Thanks in advance Michael!

Sevier Station Society (cont.)


Stones River Society held a ‘Meet A Hero’ Event in Murfreesboro at a local coffee shop owned by a veteran and known for helping connect veterans through coffee and fellowship. Stones River members set up a booth out-side of the coffee shop to promote the Screaming Eagles State Project and to encourage townspeople to come inside and “Meet a Hero”. Members handed out fliers and sold pins.

Stones River Society

Left to right: Rachel and Rebekah Umbarger, Mike Flood (who started Screaming Eagle Honor Flight), WWII Vet Fayne Haynes, Korean Veteran Rosemary Needler, Michael and Olivia Zietz, Ma-rine and Army Veteran Matthew O'Dell

WWII Veteran Fayne Hynes talking to Teresa Kant and Veteran Rosemary Needler

State President Michael Zietz speaks with visitors to the booth at the “Meet a Hero” event.

Audience hearing stories from WWII Veteran Fayne Haynes

State Regent Susan R. Thomas and the

Tennessee Society Daughters of the American Revolution

Invite you to attend the Thirteenth Annual

CONSTITUTION WEEK BELL RINGING

Sunday, September 21, 2014

2 pm

Tennessee State Capitol, near the Liberty Bell Replica

600 Charlotte Avenue, Nashville, TN 37243

Speaker: Mr. James A. Hoobler

Curator of the State Capitol and Senior Curator Art & Architecture, TN State Museum

Drivers will be allowed to drop off

attendees at the top of the hill,

and park, space permitting,

after checking in with the Gate House.



Letter from the Editor

Ashleigh Cook

Dear Members and Seniors,

Thank you for the articles and pictures submitted for this edition of the Liberty Bell! The State and National Projects are exciting and I am look-ing forward to reporting each Society’s progress on helping with these.

I hope everyone’s school year has gotten off to a great start, and I look forward to seeing many of you at the Bell Ringing! Keep up the good work in promoting Our Greatest Generation.

Until the next issue,

Ashleigh

[email protected]

Answers to the Membership Matching Game

1. Friendship

2. True

3. Application.

4. Leadership

5. Yes

6. Revolutionary

7. Invite

8. Patriot

9. False!

10. False

Please remember to also submit your pictures and articles to the NSCAR Magazine for national publication!

Submit to: [email protected]

Pictures should be in jpeg format

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