Catawba Valley Chapter joined in with Salisbury Chapter and several others to take part in the Faith NC Independence Day Parade. In my best estimation, we had 3 DAR Chapters and at least 4 SAR chapters involved in the 2 floats and marching contingency that we as a group provided. Many thanks to Frank Merrill, […]
President Ben Setser of Catawba Valley Chapter was honored to present Cole Anthony Panaccione of Boy Scout Troop 327 with the Eagle Scout Award on Thursday, 23 June 2022. This is the 4th Eagle Scout Award Catawba Valley Chapter has presented this year!
Catawba Valley Chapter conducted a grave marking for Patriot Adam Setser on Saturday, 11 June 2022 at Littlejohn Methodist Church, Lenoir NC. Fourteen people were present, including 3 direct descendants, those being Susan Houck of Quaker Meadows Chapter DAR, Ben Setser, President, Catawba Valley Chapter, SAR and John Jay Cline Vice President, Catawba Valley Chapter, […]
Catawba Valley Chapter SAR had the pleasure of presenting Marcus Orion Sanders the Eagle Scout Award at his Eagle Court of Honor on 5 June 2022. Congratulations Marcus.
The Commemoration of the 242 Anniversary of the Battle of Ramsour’s Mill in Lincolnton NC is in the books and was a great success. There were more than 140 people gathered at the Mass Grave for the Commemoration. In that group, we had 27 members of the Combined Color Guard form 5 States and many […]
Compatriot Stephen Harrison of Catawba Valley Chapter presented Pastor Andrew Miller of Old St Paul’s Lutheran Church, Newton NC, with a Certificate of Appreciation on Sunday, May 29, 2020 for supporting Catawba Valley Chapter, SAR in erecting and dedicating the monument to 12 Patriots buried at Old St Paul’s Cemetery on May 20, 21 and […]
Eagle Scout Charles Louis Lovelace, Troop 398, was presented the Eagle Scout Certificate and Medal at his Court of Honor, Saturday afternoon, May 21, 2022.
During our Grave Marking yesterday, May 21 2022 at Old St Paul’s Lutheran Church in Newton NC, our State Society President, Jay Deloach presented Compatriots Jack Bowman and Frank Merrell with the highest honor and medal that the State Society can present, The Patriot Medal for long and continued service to the State Society and […]
Our second day of Honoring the 12 Patriots buried at Old St Paul’s Lutheran Church in Newton NC on Saturday, May 21, 2022. It was very hot, many people from SAR and DAR, family menbers of the Patriots and church members turned out for the celebration. It was a fabulous day for everyone.
Catawba Valley Chapter began it’s three day grave marking service on Friday afternoon, May 20th 2022.
Catawba Valley Chapter held it’s regular bimonthly meeting yesterday, May 14th, 2022. If you weren’t there, you missed a great day. Along with our regular business, our speaker, Fred Weyler of Andrew Jackson Chapter, TN SAR spoke on The Battle of Kings Mountain and afterwards, presented the Chapter with a copy of his book, “All […]
Catawba Valley Chapter finished up their JROTC season by presenting the Bronze JROTC Medal and Certificates to Cadet Sgt Maj Daniel Atwood at South Iredell High School, presented by Chapter President Ben Setser, and Cadet Richard Obert at St Stephen’s High School, presented by Chapter Vice President John Jay Cline. Congratulations to these outstanding young […]
Catawba Valley Chapter has the pleasure of presenting the Bronze JROTC Medal and Award Certificate yesterday, May 4, 2022 to Cadet Davis Tucker of Hickory High School, presented by Compatriot Michael Blackburn; and to Cadet !st Lt Kayce Bailey of Bandys High School, presented by Chapter President Ben Setser. It was a great honor and […]
Catawba Valley Chapter President Ben Setser had the honor to present Cadet 1st Sgt Dinnen Frank with the SAR JROTC Bronze medal and certificate on Friday, April 29th at Statesville High School, Statesville NC. Congratulations Cadet Frank!
Catawba Valley Chapter continues to honor our patriots for Patriots day. Here are the graves of Lt. John Hoyle, John Jarrett, Martin Coulter and Peter Little. Thank you for your service.
Catawba Valley Chapter President Ben Setser had the pleasure of presenting the Bronze JROTC Medal and Certificate to US Air Force Cadet Ryder Phares of Bunker Hill High School at their Military Banquet on 9 April 2022. We had a great time.
24 chapter newsletter 10 April 2022
Hear ye, Hear ye A call to action for all SAR Color Guard! All are invited to assist Catawba Valley Chapter, Sons of the American Revolution in the Grave Marking of Adam Johannes Setser/Setzer on 11 June 2022 at Littlejohn Methodist Church, 4120 Littlejohn Church Rd, Lenoir, NC 28645 at 10:00 am. Please help us […]