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Twiggtown Chronicle TWIGGTOWN CHRONICLE JUNE, 2021 75th Twigg Reunion is Sunday, June 27th! Union Grove Campground WHAT’S INSIDE: MAKING THE 75TH REUNION A REALITY! • “Ginger” Robinette Hello Family! I hope you are all doing well and keeping safe since we last met virtually for Twigg reunion. In 2020 we had a virtual reunion! We were not going to be denied! There were guessing • Twigg Ministries games, graduation announcements, and an awesome genealogy presentation by Krista Cessna on the • Reflections of Two Twigg Twiggs beginning with their arrival on the eastern shore all the way to Twiggtown. We will be making Sisters this reunion a reality this year on Sunday, June 27th at Union Grove Campground so make your plans • now to attend in person! The Year 1947 Reunion Officers President: Jeff Mcintyre Vice President: Patty Hopkins Secretary: Carolyn McDonald Treasurer: This year we will be having guessing games, kids games, a business meeting and watermelon. All the things that make Twigg reunion a tradition. Alex Twigg If you would like to see the presentation from last year and watch the entire virtual Twigg Reunion, please go to www.twiggtown.net. We are looking forward to meeting in person with hugs all around. Now more than ever it is important to maintain our family traditions so make sure to plan your visit for Twigg reunion! TWIGG REUNION AND COVID Because Governor Hogan with a mask and bringing writing, it is all systems go has lifted the mask mandate your own food, please feel for the 75th Twigg reunion for outdoor events at the free to do so. We will have at Union Grove. It will be time of this writing, we will sanitizer available. Should great to have a “normal” have the reunion as usual things change before the reunion this year with food, with a pot luck lunch. reunion, be prepared to fellowship and frivolity. Please bring food to share bring your own picnic lunch Looking forward to seeing so we can all sample the fine for your immediate family everyone! cuisine of the Twigg clan. If and a desert to share with Jeff Mcintyre and Wayne Twigg you feel more comfortable everyone. But as of this Past Presidents PAGE 2 TWIGGTOWN CHRONICLE MEET GINGER (AKA VIRGINIA ROBINETTE) Ginger is a housekeeper at the MD State Finan Center. Her very hot PPE costume included gown, gloves, hair net, shoe covers and a battery pack for air. It only required a couple minutes to dress in the gear. During the pandemic, the Center requires employees to pass a temperature check every day and take a Covid-19 swab test every week. In the strictest part of the pandemic, for one month, Ginger had to dress in her gear and go to her assigned cottage. She had to stay in the same area for her whole shift and patients had to stay in their rooms. Surprisingly, the patients were not disturbed by the protective equipment. They were glad to see Ginger. She cleaned and cleaned, non stop then went home and took a bath, had supper and went to bed by 6pm. The next day was the same routine all over again. For two additional months, the gear was reduced to a face mask and face shield. Now, the temperature checks still happen every day and Ginger wears a mask and gets tested for the virus every week even though she is vaccinated. Employees can choose to be vaccinated or not. Ginger is the daughter of William and Una Robinette and her grandmother is Una Twigg. LIFE IN 1947? Popular Songs: Dinah Shore-Anniversary Song; Bing Crosby-White Christmas; Frank Sinatra-Mamselle Popular Movies: Miracle on 34th Street; The Ghost and Mrs. Muir; Out of the Past, Angel and the Badman; Gentleman’s Agreement; The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer; Life with Father; Road to Rio; Tarzan and the Huntress. Sports: #42 Jackie Robinson is the first African American in a major league baseball; Jimmy Demaret wins his second Masters golf tournament shooting a 281. Heavy weight Joe Louis KOs Tamy Mauriello; Yanks beat Dodgers in 1st televised WS; Jack Kramer won tennis’ US Open for a grand slam title; The Tour de France returned after a 7-year hiatus due to WW II. In the world: India declares independence from the UK; the AK-47 goes into production in the USSR; WW II peace treaties signed; USSR increases power in Eastern Europe, takes control of Poland, Hungary; National Security Act passes as the US gears up for the oncoming Cold War; Princess Elizabeth of England marries Prince Philip in West- minster Abbey; International Monetary Fund begins to operate; the UN votes to establish an independent Jewish state; The disposable diaper is invented. US President: Harry S. Truman Average costs: gallon of gas-15₵; loaf of bread-13₵; postage stamp-3₵; house-$1,824 Average wages per year: $2,850 Mysteries: UFO allegedly found on July 7 in Roswell New Mexico; The still unsolved “Black Dahlia” murder in Los An- geles Notable births: Farrah Fawcett; Elton John; Kareem Abdul-Jabbar; David Letterman; OJ Simpson; Arnold Schwarzenegger; Stephen King; Ted Danson; Don Henley and many, many more since the baby boom was ramping up. Science: Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier; first mobile phone; first instant camera; first recorded use of the word “computer” referring to a digital machine; the first use of cardiac defibrillation on a human subject; The international Or- ganization for Standardization is founded; Raytheon produces the first commercial microwave oven. In Maryland: State sales tax passed; women allowed as jurors in Maryland; Baltimore Colts played and won their first game in Baltimore (Memorial) Stadium; The Twigg family of Allegany County, Maryland hold their first family re- union. PAGE 3 Twigg Reunion 75th Anniversary 1947-2021 Sunday June 27, 2021 Union Grove Campground, Maryland Schedule 9:00 AM: Set-up Tables 11:00 AM: Registration and Table Set-up 12:30 PM: Invocation and Lunch 2:00 PM: • Annual Business Meeting and election of officers. • Kids Games • Watermelon Time and Vis- iting… The first reunion was in honor of Daniel Chapman Twigg. He was born June 4, 1855 at Twiggtown. He was 21 years old on April 13, 1876 when he married Mary Emma Willison at Murley’s Branch, Flintstone. They moved to Springfield, West Virginia where Daniel was a farmer and hotelkeeper. The family moved to Cumberland and Daniel became a blacksmith and repaired cars for the Western Maryland Railroad. He lived for 96 years and died on April 18, 1952. Daniel and Mary Emma’s children were: Olive Grace, Ira Rufus, Genieva Pearl, Ethel Rosanna, Jessie Oleta, Nellie May and Harriet French Twigg. The first president of the reunion was Charles Thomsen, first vice-president was Claude Twigg, first secretary/treasurer was Erma Harshbarger, first historian was Dorothy Barnes, first co-chairs of recreation were Mrs. Alton Walston and Mrs. Oliver Blaker and the first chair of entertainment Cumberland Times—1947 was Mrs. Gladys Daniels. Even at the first reunion in 1947 a picnic and business session was Seated: Daniel C. Twigg held. Officers were selected. By 1954, the newspaper clipping shows that a prayer was included and prizes for the largest family present, traveling the Behind: Children Jessie, Ira farthest distance, the oldest person attending, the youngest person attending. and Pearl Movies were shown from previous reunions and games played. PAGE 4 TWIGGTOWN CHRONICLE TWIGG MINISTRIES By Krista Cessna Does anyone remember attending the 1954 Twigg Reunion? Rev. Edgar Barrick entertained approximately 200 relatives with songs that he sang in an Indian language. Do you remember Aunt Virgie, Aunt Daphne or Aunt Mary Agnes? These three daughters of Horace and Lourenna (Middleton) Twigg were destined to Religious Ministries. Mary Agnes Twigg was 23 when she married pastor David Moreland in Ohio on January 5, 1905 in Findlay, Ohio. Daughters were Lourenna (born 1906) and Oilena. The whole family evangelized in Maryland, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Impressively, Rev. David became the State Superintendent for the Church of God in Missouri in 1927 and State Superintendent in New York in 1937. Lourenna Moreland Smith became a minister in Tennessee. Agnes died in 1967. The second sister, Daphne E. Twigg graduated in 1909 from Allegany High School, attended Frostburg Normal School and Tri-State Business School in Cumberland. She was 23 when she married Rev. Oliver Brann on October 25, 1916 in the little pioneer Pentecostal Church in Cumberland. Brother-in-law, Rev. David Moreland officiated. Oliver had been an ordained minister in the United Brethren for five years. Then they both became ordained ministers with the Assembly of God Church in 1917 and poured their Mary Agnes Twigg Moreland time into their Westernport, MD church. Rev. Oliver was voted to be the very first district superintendent of the “Assemblies” of Maryland. Their children were Rev. O. Kenneth Brann (b. 1917); Leona Marguerite (b. Oct 25, 1919 and Naomi Pearl (b. Oct 22, 1921). By Dec 1921 they were called to minister in Canton, Ohio. They moved from hall to event tent and tent to hall until they built Bethel Church on Elgin Avenue. They followed a call to Cincinnati in 1923 and worshipped in an old theater building. They moved to Mansfield, Ohio to pioneer “a work” in a tent until the weather got too cold. Some times were tough. One week all they had to live on was the $6 that son, Kenneth made on his paper route. In 1930, the Brann’s found themselves ministering to Faith Tabernacle, Binghamton, NY. In 1934, Rev. Oliver launched a 5 week evangelistic campaign at their original Westernport, MD church which turned into a pastorship.
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