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The 97 th Gathering of The Descendents of Bethania Hauser Williams Russell

The 97 th Gathering of The Descendents of Bethania Hauser Williams Russell Family and Friends Reunion July 20-22, 2012 Looking Into the Past to Enrich Our Future. The Hauser Williams Russell Family Reunion Comes Home to North Carolina. Yadkinville, NC. High Point and Yadkinville, NC.

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The 97 th Gathering of The Descendents of Bethania Hauser Williams Russell

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  1. The 97th Gathering of The Descendents of Bethania Hauser Williams Russell Family and Friends Reunion July 20-22, 2012 Looking Into the Past to Enrich Our Future

  2. The Hauser Williams Russell Family Reunion Comes Home to North Carolina Yadkinville, NC High Point and Yadkinville, NC

  3. Reunion Activities Friday July 20, 2012 6:00- 8:00 pm Family Social -Hospitality Room, Suite #119 9:00 pm Card party at the Pinckney’s Saturday July 21, 2012 Breakfast On your own 9:00 am Leave for Yadkinville, NC 10:00 am Memorial Service and Pleasant Grove Cemetery, Tennessee Street, Yadkinville, NC 3:00-7:00 pm Dixie R. Moore Fellowship Picnic, High Point City Lake Park Picnic Shelter #2, 602 W. Main Street, Jamestown, NC Later Jazz Club Sunday July 22, 2012 11:00 am Church Service Pleasant Grove Baptist Church, Yadkinville, NC

  4. The HWR Family Beginnings We are the descendents of Bethania Hauser Williams Russell born between 1840 and 1848 on a plantation in Bethania, NC. She was purchased for $850, sometime in the 1850’s (We think around 1858), by TC Hauser, merchant and planter in Yadkinville.

  5. The HWR Family Reunion Beginnings The reunions began when Bethania’s second son, Martin began inviting family to celebrate his mother’s birthday.

  6. Bethania had three sons while on the TC Hauser Plantation in Yadkinville, NC – Alexander Hauser, Martin Hauser and Sanford Hauser. All three where born while she was a slave.

  7. After slavery she married Lewis Williams and had four more children – William Taylor Williams, Louis Williams, J. Crawley Williams and Sarah (Sallie) Williams. Sarah (Sallie) Williams Taylor and wife Mary

  8. When he died she married David C. Russell and had four more children- Lucy Russell, Joseph Commodore (Commie) Russell, Henry Lee Russell and Dixie J. Russell. Joseph C. Henry Dixie

  9. In the early 1990’s the family decided to rotate reunion locations. The reunions are held in North Carolina every other year. Yadkinville, Winston-Salem, Clemmons, High Point Cleveland, OH College Park, MD Northridge, CA, Williamsburg, VA Las Vegas, NV, Atlanta, GA, Washington, DC Myrtle Beach, SC, Harrisburg, PA

  10. The 2012 reunion began in High Point, NC at the Best Western Plus Hotel.

  11. Friday Social

  12. A quilt made by me Jannis Floyd, my mom Doris Hauser Floyd Elliott and my sister Lisa Floyd Gaw, from squares decorated at the 2011 reunion was displayed.

  13. Family members later convened at the home of Donna and John Pinckney in High Point for cards and further reconnecting.

  14. Saturday Morning Family members met at the Pleasant Grove Baptist Church cemetery in Yadkinville, NC to remember and honor Bethania, and all other family members buried there with prayers and a reading of the Black Family Pledge. Flowers were placed on Bethania’s and all HWR family member grave sites.

  15. THE BLACK FAMILY PLEDGE Written by Maya Angelou BECAUSE we have forgotten our ancestors, our children no longer give us honor. BECAUSE we have lost the path our ancestors cleared kneeling in perilous undergrowth, our children cannot find their way. BECAUSE we have banished the God of our ancestors, our children cannot pray. BECAUSE the old wails of our ancestors have faded beyond our hearing, our children cannot hear us crying. BECAUSE we have abandoned our wisdom of mothering and fathering, our befuddled children give birth to children they neither want nor understand. BECAUSE we have forgotten how to love, the adversary is within our gates, an holds us up to the mirror of the world shouting, "Regard the loveless" Therefore we pledge to bind ourselves to one another, to embrace our lowliest, to keep company with our loneliest, to educate our illiterate, to feed our starving, to clothe our ragged, to do all good things, knowing that we are more than keepers of our brothers and sisters. We ARE our brothers and sisters. IN HONOR of those who toiled and implored God with golden tongues, and in gratitude to the same God who brought us out of hopeless desolation, we make this pledge.

  16. Saturday Picnic at the City Lake Park in High Point, NC Family members had a great time -swimming, nature walks, boats rides, train rides, craft activities and just catching up.

  17. Saturday evening Local Jazz Club in High Point.

  18. Family Participants Over 60 family members travelled from Los Angeles, CA; Boston, MA; Louisville, KY; Mansfield, PA; Washington, DC; Herndon and Sterling, VA;, Laurel and Hyattsville, MD; Atlanta, GA; Cleveland and Shaker Heights, OH; Columbia and York, SC, as well as Winston Salem and Mocksville, NC.

  19. Family Meeting 2013 Reunion: Atlanta, Georgia. Elections Vice -President: Sherrie Hauser Simmons Atlanta, GA. Secretary: Maria Hauser W-S, NC Treasurer: Sterling Hauser Shaker Heights, OH

  20. Family News • Graduation Daniel Jackson, son of Curtis Jackson and grandson of Velma Hauser Jackson, graduated from Univ. of CA- Sacramento. • Business Ventures Sentsy –Fragrances Lisa F. Gaw, Louisville, KY Lisagaw.com GoFoods Global -Gourmet Foods –No GMO, MSG or Additives Donald Gaw, Louisville, KY http://www.trysomefor free.com

  21. Family News • Business Ventures DME digital images Graphic Designs Daniel M. Elliott, Silver Spring, MD RealSweetShirts.com • Military Captain Talgin L. Cannon, son of LaTrice Callaway Cannon and grandson of Dora Hauser Callaway Wallace, completed his command of Bravo Battery 5th Air Defense Artillery Battalion on August 9th. He received a new command assignment.

  22. Family News • Military Daniel Jackson, (son of Curtis Jackson and grandson of Velma Hauser Jackson) is an Officer Training Candidate, Marine Corp, Quantico, VA • School Louis Bell and Lawrence Bell sons of Karen Hauser Bell and grandsons of Lawrence R. Hauser, are beginning college in Charlotte, NC in the Fall. Karen Hauser Bell has started a Master program.

  23. Family News • July Wedding Anniversaries Justin and Diayle Pinckney Davis - 2nd Lee and Olena H. Paige - 54th • July Birthdays Lois B. Hauser July 17th Yvonne and Yvette Floyd July 22nd Diayle P. Davis July 23rd Olena Hauser Paige July 26th

  24. Family News • Community Service Donna C. Pinckney and John Pinckney coached a tiny tots (ages 6-8) basketball team this spring. Doris Hauser Floyd-Elliott, daughter of Daniel and Callie Hauser, is an active volunteer and the Crescent Cities Senior Center in Hyattsville, MD.

  25. We Are Family The Descendants of Bethania Hauser Williams Russell

  26. Thank You Donna C. Pinckney Reunion Chairperson Sterling Hauser Treasurer And Committee Members

  27. Pictures Very Special Thanks to all the family members who posted their pictures on Facebook. My camera broke on Friday.

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