Martha Wayles Chapter DAR Opelika, Alabama

CHAPTER OFFICERS, 2009-2012

Linda Williams Shabo		Regent
Betty Pridmore		Vice Regent
Carolyn McGill		Chaplain
Sarah Rowe Morton		Recording Secretary
Ann Davis		Corresponding Secretary
Mary Hanson		Treasurer
Kathy Penton		Registrar
Charlotte Hoyt		Historian
Virginia Allen		Librarian
Jean Martin		Parliamentarian

TUSKEGEE VETERANS HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER REPRESENTATIVES

Linda Williams Shabo		Director
Virginia Wilcox Allen		Deputy
Sara Rowe Morton		Deputy

HONORED CHAPTER DAUGHTER

Shelby Dean Ward

ASDAR REGENT 2006-2009

Vice-President General

CHAPTER HISTORY

The Martha Wayles Jefferson Chapter NSDAR was organized on July 4, 1897 by Fanny Witherspoon Harrison, a descendant of Thomas andMartha Wayles Jefferson . The chapter held its first meeting in Lee County in Opelika, Alabama in the Opelika Courthouse Square home of Mary S. Lockwood..Lee County was created by the Alabama legislature on December 5, 1866, and formed from Chambers, Macon, Russell, and Tallapoosa counties. Opelika, which had a population of more than 4,000 in 1866, was selected as the county seat of the newly created county. The name Opelika in the Creek Indian language means "big swamp." Lee County is bordered on the east by the Chattahoochee River and the State of Georgia.

The Lee County area was opened to settlement in 1832 by the Treaty of Cusseta. The city of Opelika was established in 1834 . Other towns and communities in Lee County include Loachapoka and Auburn, the site of Auburn University. In 2005, the Opelika-Auburn Metropolitan Area had a population of 123,254.Members of the Martha Wayles Jefferson Chapter come from Auburn which accounts for more than half of our current membership followed by those who reside in Opelika, and communities in Macon, Russell, Chambers, Clay and Randolph Counties.

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