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MARTHA WAYLES JEFFERSON CHAPTER NSDAR
LEE COUNTY, ALABAMA


LEE COUNTY COURT HOUSE IN OPELIKA

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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