{"id":22,"date":"2024-08-25T20:32:21","date_gmt":"2024-08-25T20:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chapters.georgiastatedar.org\/vidalia\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2024-11-16T20:15:48","modified_gmt":"2024-11-16T20:15:48","slug":"chapter","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/chapters.georgiastatedar.org\/vidalia\/chapter\/","title":{"rendered":"chapter"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Our Chapter<\/h1>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 120px; text-align: left;\">The Vidalia Chapter was organized on April 14, 1928 and confirmed on April 23, 1928. Organizing Regent was Inez Smith Warthen.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"margin-left: 120px; text-align: left;\">The charter members were:<\/h2>\n<ul style=\"margin-left: 240px; text-align: left;\">\n<li>Cleo Hall Auld (Mrs. Earnest Malcolm)<\/li>\n<li>Myra McCord Granade (Mrs. G. Frank)<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Annie Hurst Godbee (Mrs. Lewis B.)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Katherine Louise Godbee<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Abba Joe Gordon<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Evielyn Hilsman James<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Jennie Louise Showalter Jones (Mrs. William Ashworth)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Suzanne Partin McNatt (Mrs. Percival Jiles)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Frances Gay Mercer (Mrs. Joseph Eugene)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Annabel Dowdy Oliver (Mrs. William Leon)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Mary Graham Ragan (Mrs. John Thornton)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Mary Dunwoody Roberts Rountree (Mrs. George Sumner)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Grace Amelia Smith<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Inez Smith Warthen (Mrs. Ober DeWitt)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 120px; margin-right: 120px; text-align: justify;\">Chapter records indicate that most of the charter members &#8220;established new lines&#8221; with their applications, necessitating a considerable amount of communication between the chapter and NSDAR Headquarters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 120px; margin-right: 120px; text-align: justify;\">The charter members chose to name their chapter to honor their home town of Vidalia rather than for a person or place associated with the Revolutionary War.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 120px; margin-right: 120px; text-align: justify;\">Today, chapter members reside in the nearby towns and communities of Ailey, Alston, Lyons, Mt. Vernon, Reidsville, Soperton, Tarrytown, and Uvalda, as well as Vidalia. In addition, a number of chapter members live outside of the local area.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 120px; margin-right: 120px; text-align: justify;\">If you are interested in joining us at a meeting, please <a href=\"mailto:vidaliachapterdar@gmail.com\">contact our chapter<\/a> for additional information.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_144\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-144\" style=\"width: 316px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-144 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/chapters.georgiastatedar.org\/vidalia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/80\/2024\/11\/JoanMildred.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"326\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chapters.georgiastatedar.org\/vidalia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/80\/2024\/11\/JoanMildred.jpg 326w, https:\/\/chapters.georgiastatedar.org\/vidalia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/80\/2024\/11\/JoanMildred-244x300.jpg 244w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 326px) 100vw, 326px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-144\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Current members packing boxes to mail to service members. Photo courtesy of the chapter.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p align=\"center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Chapter The Vidalia Chapter was organized on April 14, 1928 and confirmed on April 23, 1928. Organizing Regent was Inez Smith Warthen. The charter members were: Cleo Hall Auld (Mrs. Earnest Malcolm) Myra McCord Granade (Mrs. G. Frank) Annie Hurst Godbee (Mrs. Lewis B.) Katherine Louise Godbee Abba Joe Gordon Evielyn Hilsman James Jennie &#8230; <a title=\"chapter\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/chapters.georgiastatedar.org\/vidalia\/chapter\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about chapter\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-22","page","type-page","status-publish"],"featured_image_src":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapters.georgiastatedar.org\/vidalia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapters.georgiastatedar.org\/vidalia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapters.georgiastatedar.org\/vidalia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapters.georgiastatedar.org\/vidalia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapters.georgiastatedar.org\/vidalia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/chapters.georgiastatedar.org\/vidalia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160,"href":"https:\/\/chapters.georgiastatedar.org\/vidalia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions\/160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapters.georgiastatedar.org\/vidalia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}