** The Margaret Gaston Chapter of the TNDAR meets at 3:30 PM the 1st Wednesday of every month at Cumberland University K Hall from January through June and from September through December of each year.
Our Chapter Officers Meet our Chapter Officers of the Margaret Gaston Chapter of the TNDAR. Mrs. Bettye Jane Stone - Chapter Regent Bettye Jane Stone has been Chapter Regent Since 2007. She was previously the Chapter Vice Regent from 2005 thru 2007. Read more...	Tennessee Society of the NSDAR Membership Information Request Form DAR Patriot Lookup Service Membership Eligibility Application Paper Copy Requests Information Related Organizations State & Chapter Web Sites Overseas Chapters Genealogical Conference at the DAR

Wilson County, Tennessee About "Sandy," one of Tennessee's oldest native American Artifacts - AD 1,000 to 1,600 One of Tennessee's most spectacular prehistoric artifacts, popularly known as "Sandy," represents the earliest known creation of our region's Native American artisans. The artifact is a sculpted Mississippian period effigy (ca. A.D. 1250) from the Sellars Farm site in Wilson County, Tennessee. Sandy was found in 1938/39 and was purchased by the Frank H. McClung Museum at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 1940. For more information, see the links to the Sellars Farm State Archaeological Area. Please visit the Wilson County Convention and Visitors Bureau to plan your visit to our area. Brochures and Websites: Fiddlers Grove Historic Village Website Long Hunter State Park Website Sellars Farm State Archaeological Area Website Lebanon Museum and History Center Website

This month's Featured Patriot is Isaac Rankin of Virginia. The Revolutionary War Journey of Isaac Rankin Part I of III It was July 1781 near Wyers Cave Virginia and Isaac Rankin was sitting on the bank of Naked Creek with a decision to make. In the last month, his father Richard and brothers Richard, James, John, Joseph and Robert as well as most of his neighbors and friends had joined Captain George Given’s Company in the cause of fighting the British for control of the Colonies. Even though he was only eighteen, it was Isaac’s turn to sign up and he was pained to have to leave his sweetheart Ann Seawright, and the comfort of his father’s plantation to do what would be difficult but necessary. England had been taxing people to the point of starvation and trying to control what farmers like his family could grow. For so long, no one had dared to complain publicly in fear of their very life and property, and Isaac had witnessed homes burned and people shot for openly opposing the Brits. Now there was a growing movement in the colonies to stop those practices and live a freer life. Isaac’s father Richard had left County Derry Ireland for Lancaster County Pennsylvania to escape harsh British rule the same as Richard’s grandfather William had been forced to flee Ayrshire Scotland to go to Ireland. Enough was enough! Now was the time for the Rankin’s to stop running away, stand their ground and stop being afraid of England. Many meetings were being held in secret to avoid the prying eyes of the British and their sycophants who owed their fortunes to the special favored treatment they received. But Isaac knew the British had underestimated the mindset of Virginian’s in Augusta County, for they were tough frontiersmen who had carved their world out of the wilderness. The “Scots-Irish” were fiercely independent and had faced a century of religious censure, forced migrations, poverty, starvation, and savage Indian attacks. And they had endured.

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