Regents Of The Daughters Of The American Revolution Donate Book To Wilkesboro Library

Representatives of two chapters from two states who are both Regents and sisters, along with their mother, a past DAR Regent, donated "Legacies of our Great Grand Mothers – Early Tennessee Women" to the Wilkes County Public Library for lineage research. Published as the State Regent’s project for 2013-2016, Tennessee State Regent Susan Thomas oversaw the gathering and production of the complication of biographies of early Tennessee women. 

As cited on the website for the complication of biographies, the two volume set is a “collection of stories and lineages of women who lived in the Tennessee territory prior to the first every-name census in 1850. About 275 women, many of them wives or daughters of Revolutionary Patriots, are featured in this two-volume, indexed publication of approximately 1500 pages. A narrative sketch and a lineage chart of known birth, marriage, death and burial dates and places of each woman, her parents and siblings, her husband(s) and his parents and siblings, and their children are included with source citations footnoted throughout the book.” Many of these women, whose origins were east of the Appalachian Mountain, became founding residents of Tennessee as their husbands sought more open country or claimed land grants merited by their service in the fight against the British.

The lineage research set was donated by Regent Susan V. Lindsey,  Judge David Campbell Chapter, Chattanooga;  Regent Elizabeth (Betsy) V. Deitz, Hickory Tavern Chapter, Hickory; and Past Regent Dr. Grace C. Vaught also of Hickory.  Julia C. Turpin, Wilkes County librarian, accepted the books for the Wilkes County Public Library.