Hello Carol, I just tonight read your query about the Tucker Reunion at Hopewell. Our leaders did not do a good job on getting the word out this year. I think you were the one last year who put out the word here on the Tucker list. I had to call Janette Herrin to verify the date and then got the one and only newslettter of the year on either Tuesday or Wednesday before we left on Thursday for Winfield. She was supposed to have contacted me to see if I would help with registration, but she forgot to mention that when I called her. At the meeting she brought the box of materials just as it was boxed up after last year's meeting. Nothing had been done to get ready for this one. Margaret Wallace volunteered to help me and did a great job of fixing the name tags while I registered their names in the book. The Herrins had a copy of your correspondence at the meeting at their home. Thanks for the input. It certainly claifies what I was thinking that George was not likely to have been in Maryland after the war. I had a nephew from Birmingham who met us and I was talking with him for the first part of our time at their home. When I joined the others, Bill said they had been talking mostly association business. Apparently there was no discussion of any further research on Bill's latest thoughts on the Tuckers being from Maryland. I wish our genealogy meetings were structured. I have not benefited from any during the four years I have been there. There was a couple from out of state that had information on an heretofore unknown line. I referred her to Bill but apparently she never got to talk with him. They must have left without ever sharing anything. I could probably identify them from the register, but it was already boxed and in her pickup when I asked him about them. He had no idea who they were. That has concerned me greatly -- that we have someone come and they get ignored -- doesn't speak well for us at all. Sorry you could not make it. However, the rain storm and the cold front that came through Friday evening almost spoiled everything. It was so cold we could barely manage. There were at least 96 attendees, but after registration many of them had to return to their cars for warmth. None of us were prepared for such a drastic change in the weather. There was a good turnout for the memoral and dedication service at the Daniel and Prudence Tucker cemetery. It was very well done. I didn't hear anyone say whether or not they agreed or disagreed with Bill's information. If you have the newsletter, then you may notice that he has kinda backtracked on several things. If he is on the right track, then a lot more is going to have to come to light to support what he has presented thus far. Keep in touch, Jynelle