2018
Articles and Events
Chapter Work and Contributions
The Samuel Doak Chapter has a long history of public contributions.
All newspaper articles come from the Citizen Tribune by Lakeway Publishers Inc.
13 December 2018
12 December, 2018
17 September, 2018
On September 14, 2018, Barbara Baker attended the rededication of Rev. Samuel Doak's monument in Old Salem Cemetery at Washington College Academy in Limestone, Tennessee, which was placed by the Samuel Doak Chapter, NSDAR. The Kings Mountain Chapter, TNSSAR in Johnson City, TN, was in charge of the event which honored 5 patriots, Samuel Doak; John Blair; John Blair, Jr; Andrew Hannah; and Alexander Mathes. Barbara Baker, past regent of the Samuel Doak Chapter NSDAR, placed a wreath at Rev. Samuel Doak's monument.
On September 15, the 238th Anniversary of the "Gathering of the Overmountain Men" at Sycamore Shoals was held at 10:00 am. Barbara Baker, past regent of Samuel Doak Chapter, was again asked to place a wreath at the event. A history of the gathering, a walking tour of the reconstructed fort and live displays of colonial life were part of the event.
Three Samuel Doak Chapter Members, Regent Victoria Lynch, Registrar Barbara Baker, and Parliamentarian Jane Hersch, attended the John Sevier-Sarah Hawkins Chapter NSDAR and the Bonny Kate Chapter NSDAR rededication of the Sycamore Shoals Monument in Elizabethton, Tennessee, on September 15, 2018, at 1:00 pm. The monument stands at the original site of Fort Watauga on West G Street/Monument Place.
The picture to the left is of the Monument Rededication at Sycamore Shoals by the John Sevier-Sarah Hawkins Chapters and Bonny Kate Chapter. Lois Wetzel, chairman of the Historic Preservation Comm of John Sevier-Sarah Hawkins Chapter, was speaking.
The pictures above are of colonial life demonstrations and CAR children who took part in the color guard, fife and drum corp, and other events.
Charlotte Reynolds is at the center of the picture.
14 September, 2018
L to R: First Vice Regent Joyce Damon and 2nd Vice Regent Tracy Wood
Samuel Doak Chapter had a granite bench placed on June 14, 2018, at the site of the Indian War Path Monument located on Highway 92 near the Jefferson County High School, which was placed by the Samuel Doak Chapter in 1932. Two Samuel Doak Chapter Members Joyce Damon and Tracy Wood stopped by to view the new bench placed by the Tom Solomon company.
March 26, 1932 "A committee was named to choose suitable locations to place markers of the Old Indian Trails where the trail enters Hamblen County, and where it left the county and entered Jefferson County."
(Quote from the Tribune newspaper. Morristown, TN)
15 August, 2018
4 August, 2018
One hundred and twenty-four members from the chapters in the East Tennessee Area met at the First Baptist Church in Maryville, Tennessee, on August 4, 2018. The Tennessee State DAR Workshop was attended by five Samuel Doak Chapter Members: Regent Vicki Lynch, First Vice Regent Joyce Damon, Treasurer Mary Moffatt, Registrar Barbara Baker, and Parliamentarian Jane Hersch.
During the lunch break, Felicia Hix, who served in United States Army, was presented a quilt by Samuel Doak Chapter members Vicki Lynch, Jane Hersch, and Past Samuel Doak Chapter Regent Ellen Betts, who is a TSDAR Vice Chairman of the Crossnore DAR School, and now a member of the Martha Dandridge Washington Chapter. Felicia, an Associate Member of the Samuel Doak Chapter, is the Regent of the Colonel Hardy Murfree Chapter, a TSDAR Representative of the Veterans Affairs Volunteer Service, TSDAR Chairman of the Flag of the USA Committee, and Secretary/Treasurer of the Chapter Regent’s Club.
Major Felicia Hix served as an officer for 23 years in the Tennessee Army National Guard in the Branch of Quartermaster and Ordnance. Then she served as Platoon Leader, Operations Officer, Company Commander, and Battalion Staff Officer, primarily in Supply and Maintenance Units. In 1987, Felicia participated in the Bright Star Exercise in Egypt. In 1990, Felicia deployed with her unit during Operation Desert Shield/ Desert Storm, serving 8 months in Saudi Arabia. In 2010, Felicia retired with the rank of Major.
Her father, Warren Ridley, was very active with the Sons of the American Revolution, and was instrumental in Felicia joining the Samuel Doak Chapter NSDAR before she moved to Murfreeboro, TN.
4 August 2018
24 July, 2018
The Samuel Doak Chapter NSDAR’s First Vice Regent Joyce Damon and Registrar Barbara Baker attended the Naturalization of Sar Soun, a Cambodian lady who had been brought to the United States as a two-year-old. Sar’s parents, Soeun and Say Long, and older brother, San, have all become American Citizens. This family was nurtured by the First United Methodist Church in Morristown, Tennessee.
The proceedings took place at the Howard H. Baker, Jr. United States Courthouse in Knoxville, Tennessee. The Honorable Suzanne H. Bauknight presided. Sar’s son Xavier Simpson, and her fiancé Greg Worth and his son Isaiah, and his mother Claudia, and Shirley and Gary Brooks, who have worked with the Soun Family for over thirty years, were in attendance. In addition to Joyce and Barbara, Becky and Ronnie Reel, were also from the Friendship Sunday School Class which contributed to the fee that Sar had to pay to become a citizen. Other FUMC members attending were Reverand Walter Weikel, Evelyn Goodson, Peggy Smith and her daughter Melanie Baxley, Virginia Street and her sister Margaret Thornton, and Margaret’s nephew Louis Sartain.
22 July, 2018
L to R: Ina Schmidt, Connie Colson, Joyce Damon, Selena Blacketer, Jane Coleman, Barbara Baker, Victoria Lynch, Mary Moffatt, Carol Long, Lynn Pack, Anna Fay LaPlue, and David Rutherford.
4 July, 2018
22 June, 2018
14 June, 2018
4 June, 2018
2 June, 2018
On June 2, 2018, four members of the Samuel Doak Chapter NSDAR marched in the parade of women who re-enacted the Tennessee Women’s Suffrage Event that took place one hundred years ago in Knoxville, Tennessee. The march preceded a program which pointed out that Tennessee figured prominently in the quest for woman suffrage. Young Harry Burn of Athens, Tennessee, in the Tennessee Legislature cast the tie-breaking vote that made Tennessee the 36th and final state to ratify the 19th Amendment. It was his mother, Febb Burn of Niota, who wrote her son a letter urging him to vote “yes” on the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote across the nation.
Two of the Samuel Doak Chapter Members had special reasons for attending the event. Past Regent Gloria Beauchamp’s grandmother, Catherine Elizabeth Murphy Malley had taken part in the Massachusetts Women’s Suffrage movement, and two bricks engraved with her name will be placed in her memory in Knoxville, Tennessee. Regent -Elect Victoria Lynch wrote about the 19th Amendment in a high school paper. Regent Barbara Baker and Chaplain Carol Long both appreciate the history of their adopted state and wanted to support this celebration.
15 May, 2018
8 May, 2018
29 April, 2018
5 April, 2018
22 March, 2018
Sarah Beets’ grave was marked on March 22, 2018, by the Samuel Doak Chapter. Sarah had been Samuel Doak Regent from 1965-1967 and 1989–1901. She had started the Thomas McAmis Chapter in Rogersville, TN. During World War II, Sarah had served with the Red Cross in England and France.
L to R: DAR members Chaplain Carol Long, Registrar Joyce Damon, Regent Barbara Baker, and DAR members Tracy Wood and Jane Coleman, Paul Beets, son of Sarah Beets, and DAR member Lynn Pack.
13 March, 2018
3 March, 2018
Several Samuel Doak Chapter Members attended the workshop to work on their supplementals and a prospective member attended to complete her application on March 3, 2018, from 1-3 at the Morristown-Hamblen Library. Pictured L to R: Tracy Wood, Vicki Lynch, Joyce Damon, Barbara Baker, Earleen Sides, and Sandy Pittman. Not pictured was Carol Long.
27 February, 2018
DAR donates book to Hamblen County Archives. L to R: Jane Hersch and Cindy Lane
5 February, 1918
2 February, 2018