The October 2023 issue of the NCSSAR’s newsletter, The Old North State, is available at the link below. Enjoy 25 pages of chapter news, feature articles, and events about how compatriots are advancing the SAR mission in North Carolina. October 2023 “The Old North State”
Aliza Jankowsky, the winner of the NC SAR Rumbaugh Oration Competition, has placed third in the National Competition. Ms. Jankowsky won the Raleigh Chapter and NC Rumbaugh Competitions on March 11 at Governors Club in Chapel Hill, with her oration, “Esther Reed: The Enduring Innovator.” She, and all the other competing SAR State Society winners […]
All SAR members are invited to attend the North Carolina SAR 2020 Winter BOM immediately following the Cowan’s Ford Celebration. A catered lunch and meeting book costs $25 per person. Please RSVP today!
Seven members of the NC Society were present for the 2019 Annual Congress in Costa Mesa, California: Jim Becker, John Thornhill, Sam Powell, Gary Green, George Strunk, Jay DeLoach, and Michael Aycock. Events started with the Huntington Beach 4th of July Parade (with a 6.4 Earthquake), and a Let Freedom Ring Ceremony in Cerritos, CA […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Robert Sigmon Phone: (919) 349-8245 Email: NC Governor Roy Cooper Inducted into the SAR (Raleigh, NC, April 16, 2018) On Wednesday, March 28, the North Carolina Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (NCSSAR) had the distinct privilege to induct North Carolina Governor Roy Asberry Cooper, III and […]
Patriot spotlight: Joseph Sharpe volunteered in Salisbury district
The Silas McDowell chapter participated in the Blairsville, GA, Memorial Day parade with the Blue Ridge Mountain GASSAR. In the photo below, Silas McDowell chapter secretary and genealogist John Ruble poses for a photo following the parade holding their chapter flag.
The Silas McDowell chapter participated in the re-dedication grave marking ceremony for Patriot Cpl. White, killed in the Battle of Sugartown. The Compatriots who participated in the program (on the back row, left to right in the photo below) are Robert Haff, John Ruble, Robert Yates and Tom Long.
The Silas McDowell chapter hosted a Patriot grave marking ceremony for two brothers who served in the Revolutionary War today at the Sugarfork Baptist Church cemetery in Franklin, NC. Patriots David and Jesse Fulton served in the Fourth South Carolina Regiment and are buried beside each other. Members of the Silas McDowell Chapter were joined […]
Silas McDowell members Tom Long and John Ruble attended a grave ceremony for Patriot William Moore in Candler, NC, where they placed a wreath at the grave site. We also visited the Moore homestead where several log homes still are standing. This event was sponsored by the Felix Walker and Western Waters chapters. After lunch […]
The Silas McDowell chapter and the Western Waters chapter joined together for a presentation to the veterans at the Charles George VA Medical Center in Asheville, NC. See the photos below.
Members of the Silas McDowell chapter held a Patriot Grave Search/Headstone Cleaning event in Franklin, NC today. Compatriots Tom Long and John Ruble worked at two cemeteries in Franklin, NC searching for, finding, and then cleaning the headstones of six Revolutionary War veterans. Three veterans were found in the cemetery of the 1st United Methodist […]
Our Silas McDowell chapter completed our 2013 recruiting campaign with an appearance at the Mountain Heritage Fair in Cullowhee, NC. We had over 120 people stop (men, women, and children) to ask about who we are, what activities are we involved in, and interest in SAR, DAR, and Genealogy. Of these we had 14 individuals […]
The Silas McDowell chapter hosted a genealogy workshop for the community and interested membership prospects for joining the SAR. The interested prospects had visited one of our “demonstration” tents at area festivals this summer. We did have approximately 10 people attend the session of which three were ladies. We had four members from the chapter […]
The Silas McDowell Chapter, serving the western mountain region of North Carolina, hosted its first Patriot grave dedication and marking ceremony today in Sylva, NC, for Revolutionary War Patriot Samuel Monteith. (In the photos below, the SAR grave marker is installed at the grave of Patriot Samuel Monteith. And in the photo at right, Silas […]