Posted on: Coffee County Alabama Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Al/Coffee/10400 Surname: ------------------------- I'm posting this on behalf of Anne & Jesse: To: Reunion and Extended Family and friends. Mark your calendar and plan to attend. Invite others. Re: The 14th Annual Eanon Community- Extended Family Reunion. This is your notice of the reunion and invitation to attend. DATES: Thursday, May 3rd; Friday May 4th; & Saturday May 5th. LOCATION: Eanon Baptist Church and grounds, located at the junction of Hwys 147 & 148 about 1/2 mile from Pea River in Coffee County, Ala. Hwys 147 & 148 connect with Hwy 51 between Ariton & New Brockton. TIME: The reunion is a three-day affair of fellowshipping, visiting, eating, getting acquainted or renewing acquaintances, and genealogy. PREPARATION & SET UP: Thursday May 3rd. from 11 AM until about 3 PM will be the site and facility clean up and preparation time. We will be setting up our Family Genealogy displays and materials on this day and some help is needed. You are invited to come and help with the facility set up and be involved with the set up of your family charts & data. Bring a brown bag lunch if you are going to be here at lunch time. FAMILY GENEALOGY: Friday May 4th. from 10AM until about 4PM will be a time for exchanging information and reviewing family genealogy and history. It will be a great time for you to learn about your ancestors and relatives. Most of us are kinfolk, some more than one way. Also bring your family information to add to our Family Tree Data Base, if you have not already done so. We have a lot of interesting ancestors and relatives in our tree including soldiers from the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Indian Wars, Civil War, etc. We will show you how to get involved with family research. So come and join us for fun and fellowship. Bring your lunch. VISITING PLUS GENEALOGY& EATING: Saturday May 5th from 9 AM until 4PM. We dont have a formal program scheduled as a group activity. We plan for everyone to be free to visit with friends and relatives and to have time to get acquainted with new relatives that show up. There will be outdoor games for the young and young at heart. Indoors there will be a number of Family Books, Pictures, and Genealogy Information on display that you can review and look through. (You are encouraged to bring your own data to show and review with others). If the Heritage Book is printed by the time of the Reunion we will have copies for you to review and if you are interested in owning one we will have the order information (The Heritage Book is not one of our reunion publications and must be ordered direct from them.). If the Heritage Book is not in print at the time of the Reunion we will have loose leaf note books with many of the sketches Anne and I submitted, plus those of others from our group. We are continuing to seek and to add data and material to our folders for Cemeteries, the Old Mill, Eanon School, Local Churches, etc. So please bring any new data you may have for these. We will be adding to them for years to come and hope to make the data available in book format. FOOD: Saturday May 5th; The main dish will be Bar-B-Que provided by the White Family. We request that each family attending bring a side dish & salad or desert. Also bring ice tea. There will be plenty of food for all and everyone is encouraged to come and have a good time of fellowship and eating together. OTHER NEEDS: This is a community reunion and it is conducted entirely by volunteer effort and contributions. We need more people to help with the planning and execution of the reunion. Perhaps you may have some new ideas for consideration. Contact me or Anne Hood for information on how you can help. This invitation letter does not reach everyone and there are others that may not receive a direct invitation who would like to attend if they knew about the reunion. Feel free to invite those whom you think would be interested in seeing old friends and/or relatives; or those with an interest in meeting their cousins, maybe for the first time. This is an open Community-Extended Family reunion for those with roots or family ties to the Pea River Community of folks. If you need information and/or directions, or wish to ask how to get involved, please e-mail me at Jwhite2mill@JUNO.com, or Anne Hood at ahood@juno.com. See You there. Jesse White -Reunion Coordinator