ORear family reunion will be July 15, 2000, at Beville State/Walker College site in Jasper, Al. from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The meal will be catered and the charge $6. Please RSVP by July 5th. You are invited to come a share a meal and good company. If you are interested and want to share more information, please come and bring photos or family charts you may have. Marion and Lamar Counties have a large number of ORear descendants through: 1- Frances ORear/Moses Loyd who were in already in MS Territory by the time that area became Marion Co., AL. 2- Permelia ORear m. C.C. McKay abt. 1836(known connections to Free, Bannister, Pyron, Felkins) 3- Daniel ORear/Mahala Moore who settled near Detroit in 1860s and their children some of whom are John ORear m. Cressie Gann (dau. of Smith Gann) Minerva ORear m. George S. McKay Lucinda ORear m. Edward James Beard Malinda ORear m. ??Johnson William ORear m. Sarah Terrell (dau. of Sarah Glasscock/B.H.Terrell) Frances M.ORear m. Wm. E. Hall The Jasper Library has some books of ORear descendancy charts from early 1600s in VA. There are also 2 file drawers of ORear information. There is a good deal of information available on the ORear family as they migrated south to AL. Our ORears who moved on to Marion/Lamar Counties could use some updating in the files and this would be a good time to begin bringing some information together----would LOVE to have any help help! Interestingly, the ORear and Glasscock families of Marion County trace back to Faquier Co., VA, where their families connected as early as 1724 when Margaret ORear m. John Glasscock.