Tybee Island Update Letter #4 - OCTOBER 2000

Changes/additions based on responses to update #3 from: Juddie, Leland, and Carolee. Read carefullly. This will be on the quiz.

Oct 19:
Brothers arrive in Columbia at motel arranged by Leland in time for dinner, to which Leland will invite Elsie Sutherland Rast Stuart.
Oct.20:
morning - brothers tour renovated State House and State Museum, have lunch and proceed to Tybee
afternoon - brothers check into cottage/hotel arranged, with Juddie's assistance, by Loren and Leland (and paid for by same). (We may not all fit in the cottage - more detail in update #5)
afternoon and evening - Carolee and family (and perhaps others) arrive at Tybee cottages
Oct. 21:
morning and early afternoon - Kate, Sam, Sally, Susan and Loren, David, Sarah and perhaps other cousins arrive
1 or 2 P. M - First event of Big Hendry Reunion - picnic (Savannah Shrimp Boil provided and supplemented by covered dishes - we can pick up ours at Tybee supermarket) picnic followed by games, (Possible R.E. Lee consult for David wlith Ruth Hendry, Hendry family historian.)
throughout day - beach walking, visiting etc. by cousins
Oct. 22:
morning - Big Hendry Family breakfast at Tybee restaurant; church at Methodist Church where Enoch, Juddie's brother, formerly pastored
morning & afternoon - cousins and others enjoy themselves
early evening - all hands event - dinner at Williams Seafood Restaurant with all Savannah Hendrys as arranged by Gail
Carolee and family return to Charleston
Oct. 23:
morning - brothers and others depart
brothers, as many as can, reassemble at E & E's mountain house

Williams Attendance Plans as of August 22
Loren and Sarah
Kate, Sam, Sally, Susan and Loren
David and Sarah
(Probables - Aaron, Steve and Helen)
Leland and Cornelia
Alex, Stuart, Carolee and Doug
Cooper and Barbara
Ellison and Elizabeth


FAMILY HISTORY NUGGET
Sam Cooper Williams' great, great, great, great grandmother, Mammy Cooper (Edith Hendry's -Nama's - mother) used to entertain her great grandson, Loren, by telling him stories about helping to bury the family silver to protect it from Sherman's troops in the winter of 1864-1865.

Love,
Cousin Loren