Membership Meetings 2024
Date: 01/15/2024
Time: 7:00 pm (EST)
Speaker -USC Professor Emerita Pat McNeely.
Topic – PowerPoint presentation about her new book, “Elizabeth & Ann Timothy: America’s first female journalists in Colonial and Revolutionary times.”
*Presentation is co-sponsored by the South Carolina Humanities Council.
Date: 02/19/2024
Time: 7:00 pm (EST)
Speaker – Austin China
Topic – African American Civil War Soldiers from Sumter County.
Will discuss pre and post war genealogy for African Americans serving the Union Army in the United States Colored Troop 104th Infantry Regiment, all of these men were slaves on plantations across Sumter County. During the Occupation of Potter’s Raider’s, they were recruited to join the Union Army, trained in Beaufort SC and stationed in the Low-Country. At the end of thir service the men returned to Sumter County where many were active members in the community.
Date: 03/18/2024
Time: 7:00 pm (EST)
Speaker – Barbara Kucharczyk
Topic – Women’s Military Memorial in Washington, D.C., which stands at the ceremonial entrance to Arlington National Cemetery.
Date: 04/15/2024
Time: 7:00 pm (EST)
Speaker – Stephanie Gibbons and Faye Carraway
Topic – Grace Baptist Church History
Date: 05/20/2024
Time: 7:00 pm (EST)
Speaker – TBD
Topic – TBD
No Speaker for June, July or August 2024
Date: 09/16/2024
Time: 7:00 pm (EST)
Speaker – TBD
Topic – TBD
Date: 10/21/2024
Time: 7:00 pm (EST)
Speaker – TBD
Topic – TBD
Date: 11/18/2024
Time: 7:00 pm (EST)
Speaker – TBD
Topic – TBD
Date: 12/16/2024
Time: 7:00 pm (EST)
Speaker – None
Topic – Anyone can share their Genealogy/Family history stories.
Membership Meetings are Open to the Public
Membership Meetings are at Swan Lake Presbyterian Church at 912 Haynsworth St, Sumter, SC 29150.