ROBESON COUNTY HISTORICAL & GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY MEETINGS ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR TWO (2) MEETINGS ! ! ! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- WHAT: ROBESON COUNTY HISTORICAL & GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY MEETING DATE: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2ND, 2006 TIME: 2:00 PM PLACE: EAST LUMBERTON COMMUNITY BUILDING 1608 EAST 5TH STREET LUMBERTON, NC 28358 Located in Lumberton, NC on East 5th Street, Lumberton, NC. Directions from Bladen Co NC: Take Hwy 211 West into Lumberton. Continue through stop light and continue and .30 of a mile to Slight curve. The East Lumberton Community Building is located on the left before you come to Cemetery. Directions from I-95 North: Take Exit 20 [Roberts Avenue] Turn left over bridge - continue miles to the intersection with stop light at Roberts Ave and East 5th Street - turn right onto East 5th Street - continue about .30 of a mile and the East Lumberton Community Building is located on the left. Directions from I-95 South: Take Exit 17 [West 5th Street and Hwy 72]. Turn right and continue down town - cross river - pass Library - continue straight through Lumberton for 1.2miles - watch for Cemetery on your right - immediately after passing the cemetery the community building will be the second building on your right. SPEAKER: Reverend Nash A. Odom will present a program to the society on "Using Diariesin Researching Robeson CountyLocal History and Genealogy. MEETING: Business Meeting to follow speaker. ACTIVITY: I will be bringing the Genealogical "Goody" Bag. Those goodies to be given from the bag will be items of interest to those researching: COUNCIL, DAVIS, ODOM, WOODELL, and other items of genealogical interest. SPECIAL: The new East Lumberton Community Center is indeed a community center, and a substation for the Lumberton Police Department. Special thanks to Mickey Biggs and the Lumberton Police Department for the use of this wonderful facility. Close by is East Lumberton Baptist Church, which will be celebrating her 100th Anniversary as an organized church in 2007. Also a closeby cemetery contains the remains of many early citizens of Lumberton and Robeson County, including the family who started the cemetery in the 1840's; High Sheriff Reuben King, Col. Francis Marion Wishart, both who were slain during the Lowery War in Robeson Co NC (1864-1872), many other prominent Lumberton families, residents of the Old County Home, victims of the Great Flu Epedemic in 1918, etc..... If anyone is interested, get with the president after the meeting time, and he will walk over to the cemetery with you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WHAT: CEMETERY WALK MEETING DATE: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7TH, 2006 TIME: 6:30 PM PLACE: McLEAN ROOM ROBESON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY LUMBERTON, NC 28358 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PUBLIC: PLEASE REMEMBER, WE HAVE AN OPEN DOOR POLICY AND THE PUBLIC IS ALWAYS INVITED TO ATTEND ! ! ! ! -- Sam West "Not all of us can do great things, but we all can do small things in a great way." author unknown