1. Living the present without procrastinating, look forward to the future
with solutions, and respect the past with love
Peter Forney Chapter
Montgomery, Alabama
Let us comprehend our trust, and to the same keep faithful
January 2015
January 10 Chapter Meeting
9:30 a.m.
Alabama Department of Archives and History
Judge Walter B. Jones Room, Third Floor
Parking is available at the back of the
building off Adams Avenue
Mark Your Calendar
for March Meeting
Make plans now to be a part of the 117th
Alabama Society
Daughters of the American Revolution Conference in Auburn
March 5-8. We’ll celebrate 125 years of the National Society
of Daughters of the American Revolution. The ASDAR
Conference will be held at The Hotel at Auburn University
and Dixon Conference Center. Rooms are also available at the
Holiday Inn Express in Auburn.
You should have received an email regarding this important
conference. If not, you can register and find more information
here. Information will also be mailed to you.
To sit together at mealtimes, Regent Marilyn Tucker has
offered to mail all conference registrations at one time. Please
make your check payable to ASDAR State Conference,
complete the form and mail it to Regent Tucker so she has it
before Saturday, February 7. She will put everything in one
envelope and drop it back in the mail the same day. The final
deadline is February 14 with registration mailed directly to
Peggy Johnson in Huntsville.
Our own late Lucile Cunningham will be remembered
during the ASDAR State Conference Memorial Service so
everyone is encouraged to attend.
This annual conference is a great opportunity to meet other
DAR members, hear about DAR programs and services and,
generally, have a wonderful learning experience. Make plans
to attend!
Calling all Delegates
If you’ve been a chapter member for a year, please consider
being a delegate or alternate to the ASDAR State Conference.
A ballot is being prepared for our chapter meeting on January
10 so please let Regent Marilyn Tucker know. Please note
that if you are a delegate you must pick up your credentials
when you arrive and after you register at the conference.
Thank You For Your Service
Our Peter Forney Chapter is proud to be a commemorative
partner as part of the 50th
Anniversary of the Vietnam War.
You may be surprised that many Vietnam veterans will tell you
no one has ever said thank you to them. Our chapter, as a
commemorative partner, will right that wrong when we thank
hometown veterans.
At our January chapter meeting, we will honor Linda
Moreland, Jerry Moreland, Tom Jaworowski, and Clark
Dorsey (Cheryl’s husband). Click here to view the “Thank
you for your Service” video which captures why this national
commemoration is so important for this generation of veterans
and our country.
Regent Marilyn Tucker, right,
congratulates Elizabeth Cox, left,
for 40 years of service to DAR at our
December chapter meeting.
Make a Resolution to Attend
Begin your new year with a resolution to attend our chapter
meeting. Dr. William T. Dean, our guest speaker, will talk
about the American invasion of Canada, the siege of Quebec
and the death of General Montgomery.
Dr. Dean is a favorite chapter speaker and is Elizabeth
Dean’s husband. He is an Air University professor and his
lectures are excellent. Make plans to join us on January 10.

2. Peter Forney Chapter 3052
Officers
Regent: Marilyn Tucker
Vice Regent: Sue Jaworowski
Chaplain: Joan Erickson
Recording Secretary: Linda Moreland
Treasurer: Kathy Parker
Registrar: Lucy Hale
Historian: Jean S. Bradley
Newsletter Editor: Jean S. Bradley
Peter Forney Chapter 3052
c/o Marilyn Tucker
456 River Oaks Drive
Wetumpka, AL 36092-3057
AlabamaMinute: Europeans
Return to Alabama
With the founding of Charleston in 1670,
traders migrated into the Carolinas, Georgia
and Alabama. The English traded guns,
muskets, powder and lead for skin, furs, and Indian slaves.
African slaves soon replaced Indian slaves with the Warrior,
Coosa and Tallapoosa Rivers becoming the market centers of
the slave trade. The British and Scottish traders built stores and
mercantile in these areas.
Four years after the Spanish founded Pensacola in 1702,
Iberville and Bienville Le Moyne, French brothers, arrived in
Alabama. Bienville settled approximately 27 miles up river
from Mobile Bay to a bluff where Fort Louis de la Mobile was
eventually built. The town adjacent became known as Mobile.
It was here the French, Spanish and English competed for
the Indian trade making Mobile a garrison town of traders,
soldiers, artisans, priests and a few families. In 1710 Mobile
experienced a great flood and Bienville ordered all the settlers
downstream to safety to the present-day location of the city of
Mobile.
After an Indian uprising in South Carolina in 1717, the
French sent an expedition up the Alabama River to the junction
of the Coosa and Tallapoosa Rivers. They built Fort Toulouse
on the site of present day city of Wetumpka thus giving the
French the upper hand in controlling Alabama.
In 1756 following the war between the French and English,
the latter took control of the trade with the Indians. In 1763
the French signed a treaty to withdraw from North America
thus abandoning Fort Toulouse.
The English opted not to occupy the fort. (Kathy Parker did
the research)
January 6: Sue Hansford Jaworowski
January 12: Jo Ann McClellan
January 13: Judith Osborne
January 15: Jennifer Dvorak
January 16: Marilyn Axtell Cheney
Judy Osborne, left,
receives a certificate
for 10 years of service
to DAR from Regent
Marilyn Tucker, right,
at our December chapter
meeting.