Living the present without procrastinating, look forward to the future with solutions, and respect the past with love

Peter Forney ChapterMontgomery, Alabama

Let us comprehend our trust, and to the same keep faithful January 2015

January 10 Chapter Meeting9:30 a.m.

Alabama Department of Archives and HistoryJudge Walter B. Jones Room, Third Floor

Parking is available at the back of the building off Adams Avenue

Mark Your Calendar for March Meeting

Make plans now to be a part of the 117th Alabama Society Daughters of the American Revolution Conference in Auburn March 5-8. We’ll celebrate 125 years of the National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution. The ASDAR Conference will be held at The Hotel at Auburn University and Dixon Conference Center. Rooms are also available at the Holiday Inn Express in Auburn.

You should have received an email regarding this important conference. If not, you can register and find more information here. Information will also be mailed to you.

To sit together at mealtimes, Regent Marilyn Tucker has offered to mail all conference registrations at one time. Please make your check payable to ASDAR State Conference, complete the form and mail it to Regent Tucker so she has it before Saturday, February 7. She will put everything in one envelope and drop it back in the mail the same day. The final deadline is February 14 with registration mailed directly to Peggy Johnson in Huntsville.

Our own late Lucile Cunningham will be remembered during the ASDAR State Conference Memorial Service so everyone is encouraged to attend.

This annual conference is a great opportunity to meet other DAR members, hear about DAR programs and services and, generally, have a wonderful learning experience. Make plans to attend!

Calling all DelegatesIf you’ve been a chapter member for a year, please consider

being a delegate or alternate to the ASDAR State Conference. A ballot is being prepared for our chapter meeting on January 10 so please let Regent Marilyn Tucker know. Please note that if you are a delegate you must pick up your credentials when you arrive and after you register at the conference.

Thank You For Your ServiceOur Peter Forney Chapter is proud to be a commemorative

partner as part of the 50th Anniversary of the Vietnam War. You may be surprised that many Vietnam veterans will tell you no one has ever said thank you to them. Our chapter, as a commemorative partner, will right that wrong when we thank hometown veterans.

At our January chapter meeting, we will honor Linda Moreland, Jerry Moreland, Tom Jaworowski, and Clark Dorsey (Cheryl’s husband). Click here to view the “Thank you for your Service” video which captures why this national commemoration is so important for this generation of veterans and our country.

Regent Marilyn Tucker, right, congratulates Elizabeth Cox, left, for 40 years of service to DAR at our December chapter meeting.

Make a Resolution to AttendBegin your new year with a resolution to attend our chapter

meeting. Dr. William T. Dean, our guest speaker, will talk about the American invasion of Canada, the siege of Quebec and the death of General Montgomery.

Dr. Dean is a favorite chapter speaker and is Elizabeth Dean’s husband. He is an Air University professor and his lectures are excellent. Make plans to join us on January 10.

Peter Forney Chapter 3052Officers

Regent: Marilyn TuckerVice Regent: Sue Jaworowski

Chaplain: Joan EricksonRecording Secretary: Linda Moreland

Treasurer: Kathy ParkerRegistrar: Lucy Hale

Historian: Jean S. BradleyNewsletter Editor: Jean S. Bradley

Peter Forney Chapter 3052c/o Marilyn Tucker456 River Oaks DriveWetumpka, AL 36092-3057

Alabama Minute: Europeans Return to Alabama

With the founding of Charleston in 1670, traders migrated into the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama. The English traded guns,

muskets, powder and lead for skin, furs, and Indian slaves. African slaves soon replaced Indian slaves with the Warrior, Coosa and Tallapoosa Rivers becoming the market centers of the slave trade. The British and Scottish traders built stores and mercantile in these areas.

Four years after the Spanish founded Pensacola in 1702, Iberville and Bienville Le Moyne, French brothers, arrived in Alabama. Bienville settled approximately 27 miles up river from Mobile Bay to a bluff where Fort Louis de la Mobile was eventually built. The town adjacent became known as Mobile.

It was here the French, Spanish and English competed for the Indian trade making Mobile a garrison town of traders, soldiers, artisans, priests and a few families. In 1710 Mobile experienced a great flood and Bienville ordered all the settlers downstream to safety to the present-day location of the city of Mobile.

After an Indian uprising in South Carolina in 1717, the French sent an expedition up the Alabama River to the junction of the Coosa and Tallapoosa Rivers. They built Fort Toulouse on the site of present day city of Wetumpka thus giving the French the upper hand in controlling Alabama.

In 1756 following the war between the French and English, the latter took control of the trade with the Indians. In 1763 the French signed a treaty to withdraw from North America thus abandoning Fort Toulouse.

The English opted not to occupy the fort. (Kathy Parker did the research)

January 6: Sue Hansford Jaworowski January 12: Jo Ann McClellan January 13: Judith Osborne January 15: Jennifer Dvorak January 16: Marilyn Axtell Cheney

Judy Osborne, left, receives a certificate for 10 years of service to DAR from Regent Marilyn Tucker, right, at our December chapter meeting.