The following are the directions to the East Brandywine Community Park:
East Brandywine Community Park Take Rt. 30W to Manor Ave/Rt 322 exit. Go right at bottom of ramp onto Rt. 322 West (away from Downingtown). Continue on Rt. 322 until 1st traffic light in Guthriesville(rental center on left, Sunoco and Blue Moon Florist on right). Go right at light onto Hopewell Rd to 1st road on left. Go left onto Dilworth Rd. to 2nd park entrance on left (about 3/4 mile on Dilworth).
This will be the first Tipton family reunion since the last Tipton Family Reunion held October 4, 1997. Prior to that reunion there was a Tipton family reunion held at the Westwood Fire Company in 1993 and 1995.
Cousin Richard "Dick" Tipton and his wife Linda are donating a roast pig for this reunion. Dick and his wife Linda also catered the last reunion in 1997. I will rent the pavilion. We need volunteers for bringing soda, water, paper plates, plastic utensils and napkins. Anyone who wishes to bring a pot luck dish like potato salad, cake, and pies are welcome but it is not a requirement to attend the reunion.
Unlike the last reunion we probably won't have live blue grass music. Bob Paisley, the wonderful blue grass musician died. I'll talk to Cousin Charles to see if he has any recommendations for music. We may have to have a boom box with blue grass music. If anyone else has suggestions, I will be glad to entertain them.
I am looking forward to this reunion because it will bring together another generation of Tipton cousins who have never met each other. The Tipton family reunions that were held when I was a kid were of the families of the original eleven Tipton brothers. Sad to say, all of the brothers have now passed on. The next generation is the thirty six Tipton first cousins and their children and grandchildren. I am in that next generation of Tiptons and it won't be too long before we too are gone from the scene. So that is why it is so important to continue the tradition of having the Tipton family reunions.
Hopefully we won't have to wait thirteen years again before the next Tipton family reunion. We'll see how successful this reunion is and if it is successful, then we will have one every two years.
As more details are being worked out I will post that information to this blog as it happens.
Hope to see you there!
7 comments:
It looks like a wonderful Reunion is planned. I can not attend though I wish that I could. I live in FL. amd we have in the past six years started an Annual Anderson Family Reunion in Middle TN. and have our seventh on 1 May 2010. I am of Tipton descendant on my mother's side. My gggreat grandfather is Wiley H. Tipton who married Elizabeth "Betty" Edwards in Mitchell County, NC, son of Samuel Tipton and he was son of Wiley Tipton. Lots of Wiley's in my line. Good luck on your Reunion and maybe one day I will be able to make it.
Saundra,
Good to hear from you! We're related. I'll check my family tree but I think we're fifth cousins. My gggrandfather was John Tipton, married to Martha "Patty" Bailey. He was a brother of Wiley Tipton who married Telethia Mull. They were also from Mitchell County (as was my father) and moved to Fannin County Georgia.
I hope to have a Tipton reunion at least once every two years. Now that I'm retired I can take care of that. It's a shame we haven't had more reunions but life keeps interferring doesn't it? :)
Take care,
Cousin Ron
Saundra,
I have a picture of your Wiley and Elizabeth "Betty" Edwards. Do you have those pictures also? If not, I can share them with you.
Cousin Ron
Hi Ron,I ran across your blog looking for my Honeycutt ancestors. Mose Honeycutt was my great grandfather. I can remember my mother talking about the Tipton family but cant remember how or if we were related. My grandmother was Cordelia Honeycutt Fleenor and as a child I soent a lot of summers at Uncle John and Aunt Sally Honeycutts house in Elizabethton Tn. I am interested in any info you may be able to give on my family Thanks Zona Mcgee.
Anonymous,
I would like to help you but I would need more information on your family like your name. You didn't give me much to go on.
Ron
HI MY NAME IS PATTI KIMMERLY, I AM FROM BATTLE CREEK MICHIGAN. MY MOTHER IS THE DAUGHTER OF JACK TIPTON WHO DIED IN SEPT. OF 1945 (SON OF JOSHUA N LILLY TIPTON, MITCHELL COUNTY, NC) MY MOM JUST FOUND HER FAMILY HISTORY, WHICH WE HAVE WANTED TO DO FOR A LONG TIME. I WAS WONDERING IF WE ARE RELATED, LOVE TO HEAR BACK FROM YOU. MY EMAIL IS ppmd.kimmerly@gmail.com.
Hi Ron,
I just sent you an email but in case you do not receive it. I grew up on Pigeon Roost. My father was William Howard Byrd. His father was Ulysses Byrd and his mother was Pansy Tipton Byrd. I hope I am climbing the right family tree here LOL. I was wondering if you had any pictures you would like to share. I have been on ancestry.com and am currently in the process of learning my way around that site. It is a little creepy but fascinating at the same time. Kim Byrd Church
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