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French Family Reunion Records

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Date: 1908 to 1970
Location: New Englandmap
Surnames/tags: French Reunions New England
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Minutes of the French Family Reunions

In 1908, Rhoena Aurelia (French) Cater organized the first French Family Reunion in order to honor the lives of Charles Freedom French and Aurelia White (Horton) French, her parents. Those attending the reunion elected a reunion president, vice president, secretary, and reporter, hoping to keep the group well informed and give the group a reason to look forward to meeting in the next year.
The site for each of the Reunions was chosen during the 'business' portion of the previous year's gathering. In some cases, a member would offer their home for the next reunion. Sometimes, the group decided on a space, especially as the French Family grew larger. It was considered to be quite an honor to be the venue for the year.
Elections were held each year for the positions listed above. Records of the election results, entertainment provided, special remarks, births, deaths, and marriages for the previous year were handwritten in a notebook. This notebook was kept by the family reunion secretary and passed along. All in all, there were three notebooks covering the years 1908 through about 1970.
The tradition of holding an annual French Family Reunion continues to this day.
These are the links to the transcriptions of two of the three known notebooks containing the handwritten records of the annual meetings, AKA the French Family Reunion. The whereabouts of Book #1, covering the years 1908 through 1933 are unknown.
From Book 2 of the Reunion Records




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