Ward Community Reunion 2009
The 2009 Ward Community Reunion will take place on Saturday, September 12th from 10:30am until everyone decides it’s time to leave Carnifex Ferry Battlefield State Park (click here for more about the park – directions and contact information) near Summersville, West Virginia.
Please contact me at LisaIsbell@whiteoakattic.com if you have material to contribute (stories, pictures, all are welcome) and please share the link to this website with any you know who might enjoy it.
You may also contact Pam Smith, c/o Ward Community Reunion Committee, P. O. Box 504, Cedar Grove, WV 250309.
The reunion features live entertainment (a live band or a DJ) and lots of photos will be on display. Reunion books are available by order for $12.00 plus $3.00 shipping and handling. Please bring your own food and beverages to the event, free coffee is provided and there are picnic tables and pavilions first come first serve. If you would like to grill your food please bring your own grill and accessories.
You are encouraged to register when you arrive to be included in NEXT year’s reunion directory published at the back of the Ward Reunion Books. To be included in this year’s directory please send me an email at lisaisbell@whiteoakattic.com or write to the address above by the 2nd week of July, 2009 to make that deadline.
One last suggestion – come ready to share your memories and connections to this loved community. Bring pictures and mementos and see who you run into this year!
NOTE: If you are researching this area for genealogy or other projects please submit your questions about the area for publication in the Ward Reunion Book – many who do not attend the reunion purchase these books and any one of them may have the answer you’re seeking!
Janet Martin says:
August 27th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
I wish I had known about this web site a few years back.
My dad died last June 2008 and he was born and raised in the Cedar Grove and Ward area and new many people from that area. He was 92 when he died.
His name was Calvin Wesley Martin, b July 1916, Cedar Grove and died, 10 June 2008, Charleston, Kanawha Co., WV.
He was the s/o Andrew Lewis Martin and Lydia Jane Adkins.
Lydia Jane Adkins re-married Holly Ernest Snow when Andrew died about Feb 1918. They also lived in the same area. Lydia Jane was buried in the Mt. Lewis aka Mammoth cemetery along with her first husband, Andrew Lewis Martin.
Her mother, Nancy Adeline Smith Adkins was also buried in the same cemtery.
Lydia Jane Adkins Martin Snow had a sister, Anna Laura Adkins who md John Preston Hudnall they also lived in the same area. both of them died and are buried in the Ward Cemetery.
If anyone know of my relatives I would love to correspond with them
I have worked on my family genealogy for a good 27 years and have lots of people in my files from that area who are related and not related.
Janet Martin
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