2004 Family Reunion
The descendants of George Washington Harrington and Elizabeth Hester Anne Forrest have had a number of family reunions since 1957.Over the last several years, genealogical research has been conducted on the ancestors of this family.Currently the ancestry of George Washington Harrington has been traced back two additional generations to George Harrington and Mary Adrian of County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
Mary’s father was James Adrian and her mother’s first name began with an E..George and Mary had two identified sons, George and James.George the senior died in Ireland.
Mary remarried Henry Cowden and immigrated to the US along with their daughter Mary and the young George and James Harrington.The young George first married Sarah Milburn, had 7 children, and after Sarah’s death married Mary Ellen Gheen and had 6 additional children.
James married a widow, Hannah Cummings, and had as many as 10 children.Hannah Cummings daughter from her first marriage, married Michael Laughlin.The Harrington, Adrian, Cummings, and Laughlin families migrated from Ireland and initially settled in Loudoun County Virginia.Some members of the families later migrated to St. Francois County Missouri.Later some members of the family returned to Alexandria Virginia.Since that time many descendants have remained where their ancestors lived, others have scattered allover the United States.
During June of this year a reunion is being planned for the descendants of these families.The location will be announced in the next month or so but will likely be planned for Frederick County Maryland or Loudoun County Virginia.
The following surnames have been identified as being descended from this family or married to descendants of this family:
Abel, Adrain, Adrian, Albert, Allnut, Amorosi, Anning, Ashby, Aspinall, Baker, Barnicle, Baxter, Beissner, Benton, Bibb, Blakistone, Bohrer, Boothe, Bradley, Brame, Brill, Burger, Burgess, Butler, Byers, Cahill, Callahan, Carr, Caviness, Caylor, Cheshire, Chichester, Clarke, Clauss, Clem, Coatney, Cochran, Cockrell, Conely, Cook, Cooper, Cowden, Crone, Cronin, Cummings, Custer, Dalton, Daniel, Deihl, Delauter, Dix, Donaldson, Dooley, Dorsey, Duckworth, Dunham, Durant, Duvall, Eldreth, Elmo, Emeigh, Engard, Engert, Erwin, Finch, Fletcher, Follin, Ford, Forrest, French, Gambrel, Garner, Gerhard, Gero, Gheen, Gosnell, Grant, Griffin, Grimes, Haines, Halley, Hally, Hamilton, Hancock, Hardy, Harman, Harrenton, Harrington, Hauser, Havener, Havenner, Hawes, Heiss, Herington, Herrington, Hogan, Holmes, Houser, Howard, Howser, Huffer, Hummer, Hyland, Itnyre, Itynre, Jaccard, Jones, Kaiser, Kearney, Keith, Keller, Kelley, Kelly, Kendall, Kidwell, Kimble, Koogle, Krebs, Kropp, Laughlin, Lauglen, Lear, Letterman, Logan, Loughlin, Lourdes, Love, Lowe, Lyons, Main, Mankin, McBrien, McCallum, McCuen, McDermott, McDonnall, McLaughlin, McPherson, Mercer, Merchant, Milburn, Milbourne, Miller, Minish, Moffett, Montgomery, Moore, Moran, Moreland, Morrison, Munday, Murcko, Murray, Myers, Nonnenmacher, Norris, Nozer, Ormsby, Parker, Peacher, Pearell, Penland, Perry, Peterson, Peyton, Phillips, Pieri, Presgrave, Preston, Pretta, Price, Raff, Ramsay, Ratican, Rector, Redheffer, Resinger, Rhoads, Rice, Roger, Rossi, Ruegg, Rush, Sanders, Saunders, Schaeler, Schmidt, Schwenk, Schweppe, Shafer, Sharpe, Shaw, Shuff, Shuford, Sigler, Sinclair, Smith, Sowers, Spann, Stalp, Stets, Stevens, Stockman, Stohr, Stone, Stoneburner, Stuckey,Suits, Taylor, Toadvine, Toothacher, Townsend, Trinidad, Truax, Trumpower, Virts, Watson, Ways, Weaver, Weir, Whelen, Whipp, White, Whitt, Williams, Willits, Wisner, Woods, Wulff, Wyner, Yanes, Youtz (Please forgive any I have missed)
We hope you will plan to attend this reunion.Further, since I don’t know the names and addresses of all of the descendants of this family, I would like for you to let other family members know of this reunion and have them contact me with their interest in participating in this reunion.
I would like to produce a family photo album to be presented to guests of this reunion.I would be happy to borrow and return or purchase photos for this album.Photos of yourselves, children, parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, homes or other items of interest to the family would be greatly appreciated.
Please take a few minutes to answer the following survey:
Would you consider attending this reunion? _____Yes _____No
Which county location would you prefer? _____Loudoun, VA _____Frederick, MD
_____Outside(Picnic) _____Inside(Hotel)
Which date would you prefer? _____12 June (Sat) _____13 June (Sun)
Would you prefer food? _____bring your own picnic style _____ catered meal
Would you like to have entertainment?_____ games_____music _____photo display _____sharing family stories _____home movies _____family olympics
______ family craft display _____recipe swap
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Are you willing to share photos for a family photo album? _____Yes ______No
Would you write a brief story of interest about your family to include in the family newsletter? _____ Yes_____No
Are you willing to have your name and information published in a family phone directory?________ Yes_________ No
Please provide names and addresses or phone numbers, e-mail addresses of others you think might be interested on the reverse side of this survey form
Please return this form to (new address):
Mr. Kim Myers
4104 182nd Avenue SE
Issaquah, WA 98027
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