2011 Mississippi Gordy Reunion
Current as of 31 March 2011
ALL GORDY'S ARE WELCOME!! Please come and join us.
We will gather on Saturday June 25 at the Fellowship Hall of the Decedar Baptist Church in Jasper County, Mississippi at 10:00 A.M. Directions to the church are available on the web. On Sunday June 26, 2010 we will meet at Fred and Eileen Gordy's house in the Newton County Prairie. (Directions will be available on Saturday or upon request, email Eileen.) The presentations will be on Saturday (coupled with visiting and food) and Sunday will be freeform - time to extend discussions, explore old family lands, look at original documents or visit the local cemeteries and, of course, enjoy more visiting and food.
The planned discussion this year will center on the finds of last summer’s trip to Maryland and Virginia. As a preview, we have plats of the earliest Gordy lands in what was to become the United States, photographs of Adrian Gordy’s land today, and some very interesting photographs of original documents belonging to Peter and Moses. Barbara Fox and Melinda Corporon will be here to discuss the trip and any other information on the 17th and 18th century history of the Gordy's on the Maryland Eastern Shore. This year has brought us some new additions to the Gordy Family y-chromosome DNA study which we will discuss. For cousins who were not here in previous years to see it, there is also Mississippi family location information for the latter years of 19th century and early years of the 20th century.
Copies of Melinda and Barbara’s book, The Gordy Family Story, will be available for purchase.
We have already received requests for photo copying this year and scanning equipment will be set up, so please bring any old family photographs that you have to share. Melinda will be adding information to the family genealogy database, so please bring the statistics for any recent life changes or new research in your lines. We will have computers and scanning equipment at the Fellowship Hall on Saturday, and on Sunday we will also have an internet connection, wi-fi, and printing/copying capability, so bring computers, flash drives, CD/DVDs for information transfer.
On both Saturday and Sunday we will have morning coffee/tea and snacks ready at 10:00. The Saturday mid-day meal will be an old-fashioned pot-luck. Everyone please bring a dish. All the eating utensils, ice, water, soft drinks and coffee will be provided. We will plan for the Sunday mid-day meal on Saturday afternoon. (Usually we have lots of leftovers from the Saturday meal.)
If you have questions, please contact Eileen. I would also appreciate knowing if you plan to attend so that we can have your name tag ready in advance. Thanks!
The Mississippi reunion is sponsored by the descendants of William D. Gordy (b. abt 1824 Hancock County GA, d. 13 Jan 1898 Newton County MS), PeterI/PeterII/Leonard/WilliamM. /WilliamD.