Marc Wheat, President of the Germanna Foundation, will be the guest speaker at the Quarterly Meeting of the Madison County Historical Society on Sunday, August 15, 2010 at 2:00 p.m. in the auditorium of the Madison County Administrative building in downtown Madison and will be followed by refreshments in the Kemper Residence next door, the home of Germanna descendant and Virginia Governor James Lawson Kemper.
The Madison County Historical Society has done much to preserve and communicate the heritage of Madison County and her families. Many of the earliest Europeans to settle during colonial times in what is now Madison County are Germanna descendants still familiar in Madison: Aylor, Blankenbaker, Broyles, Brumback, Clore, Cook, Crigler, Crisler, Crim, Deer, Delph, Fishback, Fleshman, Garr, Hanback, Harnsberger, Hitt, Hoffman, Holt, Holtzclaw, Kemper, Koontz, Holt, Martin, Moyer, Nay, Rector, Spilman, Tanner, Thomas, Utterback, Utz, Wayland, Weaver, Wilhoit, Yager, and Yowell – among other families, and variously written.
The Germanna Foundation has done much in the last few years to publish books reflecting the latest scholarship on these interrelated families; copies may be purchased at the Madison County Historical Society Quarterly Meeting or directly from the Germanna Foundation. The two books by Cathi Clore Frost, The Yager Family: The First Five Generations (Germanna Record 19) and The First Four Generations of the Michael Clore Family (Germanna Record 16), heavily document these founding Madison families. John Blankenbaker’s The Second Germanna Colony and Other Pioneers (Germanna Record 18) surveys many other Madison families with a Germanna connection, how they interrelate, and identifies the German village of origin for many of them.
Please join us to learn more about the people of Germanna and the work being done through the Germanna Foundation. More information on this event, future events, membership information and a tribute to Germanna Association Board Member Emily Williams can be found in the current Madison County Historical Society Newsletter .