We're always looking for new members! Since your aunt was eligible for DAR, would not you be eligible, too? All you would need is the proper documentation to meet DAR standards, i.e., birth certificates, death certificates, or copies of family bible information, etc., and you could file through the nearest chapter to where you reside. Contact them for information. Good luck! Marian ----- Original Message ----- From: <mooneymouse58@hotmail.com> To: <KYMASON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 6:32 PM Subject: [KYMASON-L] Re: APPLEGATE - 1830 - Mason Co., KY > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: Applegate-Cooper-Jenkins > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/WBB.2ACI/2950.1.1.1 > > Message Board Post: > > I don't believe my aunt was a DAR member because at the time what she did > know of our family (my mother's side), all were recent immigrants1850+. I > do think she was hoping to find an ancestor who served in the > Revolutionary War and hoped to find that connection in our Jenkins/Cooper > or Cochran/Chandler lines. However, she succumbed to Alzheimers before > this occurred. I don't know if they admit members posthumously but if I > find a connection for her, I'd give it a whirl in her memory. She'd be > ecstatic. > I am descended from Malinda Cooper and John Jenkins' daughter Nancy Ann > Jenkins and her first husband, Thomas Shehane. Nancy Ann lists her > address as "Cooperstown, Ohio County, IN" in a letter to a cousin. > I'm glad I posted! I got results and I thank you very much! > I visited Mt. Pleasant Cemetery (Ohio County IN) in late June of this year > where Malinda Cooper Jenkins and many of her family are buried and found > it in good condition. Malinda's stone is in remarkably good shape. > However, per a cousin who guided me around and helped me identify Thomas > Shehane's grave, there were many more stones in the low lying area of the > cemetery before the late 1950s when the cemetery was vandalized. > Although both Nancy Ann Jenkins Shehane Pate's husbands are buried in Mt. > Pleasant, Nancy is buried in Littlefield Cemetery, Switzerland County, IN. > near her youngest child and my great-grandfather Charles Shehane. > > > > ==== KYMASON Mailing List ==== > The Simon Kenton Festival and Kenton Kin Reunion is an annual event > that is held in Old Washington, Mason County, KY, during the > 3rd week-end in Sept. The Festival features Pioneer encampments > and craft demonstrations, historical buildings and genealogy research. > >