The annual Pioneer Family Reunion will be held, as has been traditional for more than a half century, on Point Mountain in Webster County, WV, on Aug. 22, 1999. There will be a difference this year though. On Sunday morning, there will be a dedication of the Pleasant Grove United Methodist Church, established in 1841, as a family research center. The church is on the Bergoo Road one-half mile from its intersection with WV Rt. 15. This reunion was the gathering place in the past of Hamricks, Gregorys, Dodrills, Chapmans, Cogars, Millers, Rigglemans and Mollohans and their friends. In more recent years, it has been carried on by Hamricks and a few Gregorys and Dodrills. This reunion once attracted 5,000 to 10,000 people and has dwindled to a couple hundred. It would be our great hope that we can begin to see it grow instead of decline. Your help and attendance can go a long way toward doing that. I am founder and secretary of a non-profit organization that acquired the Pleasant Grove Church for use as a Pioneer Family History museum and research center. I also happen to be chairman of the reunion this year. We want very much to present a genealogical program in the afternoon that will feature Dodrills and Gregorys, as recent ones have been devoted almost exclusively to Hamricks (even if I are one!). Of course, the truth is that we all are related. We will relay details about the programs as they develop. We publish a newsletter once or twice a year about activities relating to the preservation of family history. The newsletter is free. It does contain a solicitation of funds. But no contriubtion is required to get it. If you would like a copy of this newsletter, usually sent out in May, please send your name, postal address and phone number and we will put you on the list. If you have already been receiving it, you are on the list. If you have questions, please contact me at [email protected] or my wife >at [email protected] DAN HAMRICK 402 23RD STREET NW CANTON OH 44709 PHONE AND FAX: 330-454-2376