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HISTORY FAMILY RESEARCH Issue 171-2017-01/February/2017 MEMBER HISTORY FAMILY RESEARCH Issue 171-2017-01/February/2017 Planning for the 2017 SGS International Reunion is well underway. SGS President Lynda Simmons and SGS Chief Genealogist Linda Crocker have visited the Mid-Ohio River Valley and checked out the sites that will be highlighted during Blennerhassett Mansion (Photo courtesy of http://www.blennerhassettislandstatepark.com) the reunion. Many IN THIS ISSUE: of the sites are historical in nature and Civil War fortification. It was built in offer a glimpse into what life was like 1863, by the 11th West Virginia TWO: The latest news and for our Seeley ancestors as they made Volunteer Infantry Regiment to information from SGS President their way across the country. ensure that the Baltimore and Ohio Lynda Simmons Railroad link between Wheeling and THREE: SGS Reunion Hotel Fort Boreman Historical Park Parkersburg, WV was not severed or Options We will begin our 2017 SGS commandeered by the Confederate FIVE: SGS Reunion Registration Reunion Thursday morning at Fort Army. Form Boreman in Parkersburg. Fort Fort Boreman was listed on the Boreman is situated on a hill above National Register of Historic Places in SIX: Site Nomination Form for 2019 SGS Reunion Parkersburg, WV, overlooking the 2002. Besides the overlook, there are beautiful Ohio River and its tributary, short trails to two other viewpoints. FIFTEEN: SGS Board Member the Little Kanawha River (pronounced Bob Enoch, President of the Wood Contact Information kuh–nah). County Historical Society, will give a SIXTEEN: SGS Pubs for Sale Fort Boreman is a historic short presentation, describing what we archaeological site encompassing a Please See Mid-Ohio River Valley Sites Page 3 SGS is a Title 501(c)(3) Organization. All Donations are Tax Deductible. 2 Seeley Genealogical Society February 2017 The Seeley Genealogical Society Newsletter SGS PRESIDENT’S REPORT is published quarterly by the Seeley Genealogical Society President, Lynda Simmons Seeley Genealogical Society Editors Reunion Planning Committee co- Paul Taylor Jesse Crisler chair Linda Crocker and I have spent Address newsletter correspondence to: a lot of time planning the 2017 SGS Newsletter Editor Paul Taylor Seeley Genealogical Society See Contact Info on Page 15 International Reunion in the beautiful Announcements The SGS Newsletter is published every Mid-Ohio Valley. Our reunion will February, May, August, and November. begin with a meeting of the SGS Announcements are published for free and are Executive Board on Wednesday, due to the editor by the 15th of the month preceding publication. June 14, 2017. The reunion’s main SGS Mission Statement program starts on Thursday, June 15, The Society shall engage in research, study, and will continue until Sunday, June verification, discussion, collation, publication, 18, 2017. A complete listing of our dissemination, and preservation of Seeley information for the Society, for the education activities appears elsewhere in this We would love to hear from you. and benefit of its members and for posterity. newsletter. Our meetings will be We want SGS to be and do the things Membership held in Parkersburg, WV, with that are worthwhile to you. Are Membership is open to anyone interested in activities within a fifteen-mile radius, there specific presentations you genealogy, history or biography; amateur or professional. Although the name Seeley refers to stretching to Marietta, OH. Our would like to have given at the one family surname, SGS counts among its meetings will be full of meaningful reunion? Would you like to share family those with surnames spelled a variety of ways such as: Seeley, Seely, Seelye, Sealy, information, the latest research, and stories and history about your Seeley Sealey, Seley, Selye, Seale, Seelee, Seela, lots of fun. We plan to have special family? We want to hear about the Cieley, Cealy, Cilley, etc. activities designed for children with wonderful branches of our family Membership Dues others planned so that all can enjoy tree, no matter how they spell Effective Oct. 1, 2011 SGS Membership dues are $10 per year, $18 two years, $25 three years, this picturesque part of the country. Seeley. Please get in touch with or $36 five years. Lifetime memberships are We especially invite our cousins Linda or me if you would like to $125. (Dues are in U.S. dollars and the from Canada to join us, since many share information about your Seeley membership year runs from Oct. 1 to Sept. 30) Pay all dues to: of you are not too far from this branch or suggest other reunion SGS Membership Chair reunion. Of course, we invite Seeley ideas. Marie Seelye cousins wherever you live to join us Some of you may wonder why See Contact Info on Page 15 and gain a new appreciation for our we decided to meet in June and not Seelye Research Center is co-located with the Seelye Mansion in great family and its rich history. August or September. Our first Abilene, KS. For more information, contact: The Wingate by Wyndham was reason was that the weather should Seelye Research Center, Director chosen as the host hotel for the be much more pleasant in June. Terry Tietjens See Contact Info on Page 15 reunion because it is close to our Then we discovered that the SGS International Reunions meetings and is extending a special Parkersburg Multi-Cultural Festival are held every two years. The next one is rate to reunion participants. The will coincide with the reunion scheduled for 2017, in the vicinity of Parkersburg, WV. Please advise the editor if Wingate has reserved a group of weekend. This is a free activity at your branch or family has plans for a sectional or rooms for SGS which will be held Parkersburg City Park which will be local reunion in the interim. Others might like to until May 14, 2017. Plan to register interesting to visit during free time know about it. early. The Wingate is also providing on Saturday or Sunday. You will Editorial Position The editorial opinions expressed in this SGS with a hospitality room for use find more information about this and newsletter are the opinions of the writers and do during the reunion. Hotel all of the other activities elsewhere in not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Society information can be found elsewhere this newsletter. or the editors, nor are the Society or its editors responsible for errors of fact or opinion. Proved in this newsletter along with airport I extend a great big thank-you to errors will be corrected. locations near Parkersburg. Please See SGS President’s Report Page 14 www.seeley-society.net www.facebook.com/ February 2017 Seeley Genealogical Society 3 Reunion Hotels CONTINUED From Page 1: Mid-0hio Valley Sites and Airports can see as we enjoy the view. For opulent Victorian homes. With plenty Hotels more information go to of history, two waterways, and a Wingate Hotel (Conference Site) greaterparkersburg.com. bustling downtown, Marietta offers 1502 Grand Central Avenue much to tourists. For more Vienna, WV The Memorial Church of the information go to mariettaohio.org. 1-304-295-5501 (Mention SGS Good Shepherd We will enjoy a trolley tour that conference for reduced rate) From Fort Boreman we will encompasses historic sites, museums, Just north of Parkersburg, close proceed to the Memorial Church of and Mound Cemetery, a historic to mall the Good Shepherd at 903 Charles cemetery developed around the base Hampton Inn Street in Parkersburg, the site of our of a prehistoric Adena burial mound 920 Emerson Ave. three morning meetings. Known known as the Great Mound or Conus, Parkersburg, WV locally as “The Pink Church,” Good which city founders in 1801 preserved 1-844-558-7603 Shepherd was founded by the first from destruction by establishing the New hotel in central location Episcopal bishop of West Virginia, cemetery, where today many famous close to conference hotel Bishop William George Peterkin, in Revolutionary War officers are buried. The Blennerhassett Hotel 1891 as a memorial to two of his sons In addition to the trolley tour we 320 Market Street who died at a young age. Consecrated will have time to visit two museums. Parkersburg, WV in 1906, the church was designed to 800-262-2536 resemble churches Peterkin admired Campus Martius Museum Beautiful historic hotel in on a trip to the American southwest, This museum interprets Ohio downtown Parkersburg hence its stucco exterior. Planned as a history from its earliest native (For other hotel suggestions, mission to “the wild boys of the east inhabitants to Marietta’s pioneers and contact Linda Crocker, see p.15) end of Parkersburg,” Good Shepherd the history of American migration Airports continues to serves its neighbors in westward. Campus Martius was the Mid-Ohio Valley Regional (PKB) the area surrounding the church. For second fortification in Marietta and Local airport between more information, go to the first used primarily for civilian Parkersburg and Marietta goodshepherdwv.org. defense. Via-Air service from Charlotte, The Rufus Putnam House, NC, 2 flights most days Marietta, Ohio, and the Trolley incorporated within the Museum, is Port Columbus (CMH) Tour the only remaining part of the original Columbus, OH Thursday afternoon we will visit fortification. The museum also 2 hours west-northwest of Marietta, Ohio, a picturesque river includes the Ohio Company Land Parkersburg via 4-lane highway town with European ambiance. Office, both listed on the National (Rt 33 to US 50) Located where the Ohio River joins Register of Historic Places. Yeager Airport (CRW) the Muskingum River, Marietta was Charleston, WV the first permanent settlement in the The Ohio River Museum Non-stop flights to several US Northwest Territory. It was founded Just a block away from Campus destinations (Charlotte, Chicago, in 1788, soon after the American Martius, the Ohio River Museum Houston, Washington, Revolutionary War and organization features an extensive collection of the Philadelphia, Atlanta) of the Northwest Territory, by Sons & Daughters of Pioneer 1 1/2 hours southeast of pioneers from Massachusetts, many of Rivermen.
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