Grace Fisher DeuPree, daughter of the late Robert and Colista (Davis) Fisher was born near Longview, Texas. In 1946, she married Captain Charles Lamar DeuPree, US Army, and their life together was blessed with forty-nine years of marriage and four beautiful daughters, Della Grace, Anne Colista, Cecilia Valerie and Elisabeth Frances; seven grandchildren; one great-granddaughter and one great-grandson. With four sharp little minds eager for knowledge, and Mrs. DeuPree and her husband’s shared interest in history, their mutual pursuit of family genealogy was launched.

Shortly after the outbreak of WWII, the almost sixteen-year-old high-school graduate prepared for her eight-hundred-mile journey to attend Christian College (now Columbia College) in Columbia, Missouri. She earned an Associate in Music Degree and was awarded a Piano Teacher’s Certificate. The highlight of many concerts was Mrs. DeuPree’s participation in duo-piano performances. To further her education as a concert pianist, she attended Southern Methodist University where she studied with Dr. and Mrs. Paul van Katwijk in the Music School. Mr. Charles Lamar DeuPree disrupted the concentration of her studies and completion of her degree.

Memberships

• National Gavel Society

• Order of the First Families of Virginia

• National Society of the Colonial Dames of America

• Order of the Crown in America

• National Society Americans of Royal Descent (Second Vice President General; member of the Most Venerable Order of Saint Louis)

• Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry (current President General)

• Order of the Three Crusades, 1096-1192 (Recording Secretary General)

• Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America (Member of the Council)

• Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in America

• Hereditary Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors (Second Deputy Governor General)

• Order of the Merovingian Dynasty, Council, Founder Member

• National Society of the Dames of the Court of Honor

• Jamestowne Society, (Vice-President of Lone Star Company)

• National Society Descendants of Early Quakers (Honorary National Presiding Clerk)

• Colonial Dames of America

• Dames of Colonial Cavaliers, 1640-1660 (Member of the Council)

• National Society Magna Charta Dames

• National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims (First Deputy Governor General)

• Presidential Families of America

• Order of the First Families of Maine

• National Society Colonial Dames of the XVII Century

• First Families of Georgia 1733-1797

• Order of the First Families of Mississippi

• National Society Order of Descendants of Ancient Planters

• Friends of Saint George’s (descendant member)

• National Society Daughters of the Seventeenth Century

• Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench and Bar

• Society of Descendants of Washington’s Army at Valley Forge

• National Society Women Descendants of Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company

• Flagon and Trencher

• National Society Daughters of American Colonists

• National Huguenot Society (Organizing Secretary General; Honorary State President of Texas)

• Huguenot Society of the Founders of Manakin in the Colony of Virginia

• Daughters of Colonial Wars

• National Society of New England Women (Registrar of the Texas Society)

• Hereditary Order Descendants Loyalists & Patriots American Revolution

• National Society Daughters of the American Revolution

• National Society Children of the American Revolution (life member)

• National Society Sons and Daughters of Antebellum Planters, 1607-186|

• Continental Society Daughters of Indian Wars

• National Society Daughters of 1812

• United Daughters of the Confederacy

• Southern Dames of America, Texas Society

• Daughters of the Republic of Texas

Other Notes

Mrs. DeuPree is an active member in her community. She is a communicant of Trinity Episcopal Church, in Dallas, Texas, and member of the Altar and Needlework Guilds. Mrs. DeuPree served on the Operating Committee and Board for the former Dean Memorial Home for Children for nine years until it closed becoming a center for dyslexic children. In addition, Mrs. DeuPree served on the Case Committee, as well as Chairman of monthly birthday parties.

She is a member of the Dallas Genealogical Society, the Dallas Eagle Forum, and a member of Lochridge Family Association. Furthermore, Mrs. DeuPree serves as Registrar, and on the Executive Committee of the highly-regarded Ligon Family and Kinsmen Association.

Mrs. DeuPree is a Charter Member of Dallas Needlework and Textile Guild and Greater Dallas Chapter of The Embroiderer’s Guild of America. She served as President of the Greater Dallas Chapter, and held a position on the board for six years. Mrs. DeuPree holds membership in the Dallas Knife and Fork Club; Lakeside Browning Club; Seneca Review Club; Matheon Club; and the Lady Day Reviewers. She is also a member of the Mary K. Craig Class.

Anne Carter Baldwin Holle was born in Washington, DC to Easton Leroy Baldwin and Lula Rice Hopkins. She was first married to Herman Richardson Allen and second to Major General Charles George Holle. She is buried in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia with her second husband. 

Memberships

• The Gavel Society (President 1986-1989)

• National Society Daughters of the American Revolution

• Vermont Society of Colonial Dames

• National Society of Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America (National President 1970-73, National Corresponding Secretary 1967-70)

• Arlington Historical Society

Publications

• Tombstone Tuesday - Wreath Laying at Arlington Cemetery

Warren Robertson Hull is the son of McKinley Hobart Hull and Grace Robertson Fontaine Johnson. He is a native of Birmingham, Alabama, and growing up, lived in Chicago, Illinois; Tarrytown-On-Hudson, New York; and Washington, D.C.

Mr. Hull attended George Washington University where he was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity and where he was President of the Student Council. After a stint in the U. S. Air Force during the Korean War, he enrolled in Columbia University, New York City, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree.

He enjoys a life-long interest in classical music, plays the piano and composes. He is a former governing member of the board of directors, Chicago Symphony Orchestra. For many years, he lived on a horse farm in southwestern Pennsylvania where he bred, trained and sold purebred Paso Fino horses.

Most of Mr. Hull's business career was spent at United States Steel Corporation where he was Director of Corporate Communications. He is now retired and resides in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Episcopal Church.

Membership

• National Gavel Society

• Order of the Crown in America (President General)

• American Friends of Saint George's and Descendants of the Knights of the Garter, Inc., Windsor Castle (President)

• National Society of Sons of American Colonists

• National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution

Authorship

• The Corporation, A Centennial Biography of United States Steel Corporation, 1901-2001; Pennsylvania: Cathedral Publishing, University of Pittsburgh, 2001 (Editor)

Colonel Andrew Martin Johnson, a native of Windom, Minnesota, is the son of Clayton Andrew Johnson and Emma Phylis Bennett. Col. Johnson attended the University of Minnesota where he received his Bachelor of Arts, and completed graduate studies in Public Administration, there, as well. He also completed training at Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

Memberships

• Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati

• National Gavel Society

• Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (former Commander-in-Chief)

• National Society Sons of the American Revolution (former Vice President General; recipient of the Minute Man Award)

• National Society Sons of Colonial New England (former Governor General)

• General Society of the War of 1812 (President of the District of Columbia Society)

• General Society Sons of the Revolution in the District of Columbia Society (member of the Board)

• National Society Sons and Daughters of Colonial and Antebellum Bench and Bar 1565-1861 (charter member)

• Military Order of the World Wars

• Military Order of the Carabao (Companero)

• Military Order of the Loyal Legion (Affiliate Member)

• Military Order of Foreign Wars (Past District of Columbia Commander)

Chivalric Orders

• Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem (Knight)

• Sovereign Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem (former Prior of the Priory of Saint King Charles the Martyr, Washington, D.C.)

• Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem (Officer)

• Ordo Sancti Constantini Magni (former Baillie of the Bailiwick of the East; Exarch of the Exarchate of the USA)

Authorships

• Burials of Some Civil War Soldiers at Saint Elizabeth's Hospital, Washington, DC (contributing editor)

• New York Civil War Veteran Burials at Saint Elizabeth's Hospital, Washington, DC

• "The District of Columbia Service Medal for WWI", OMSA Journal, Nov, 1985

Other

Col. Johnson was active in his local community as a member of the Lutheran Church (Missouri Synod) and volunteer coordinator of Meals on Wheels.

He also held membership in the VASA Swedish Descent Society; the National Rifle Association; the Fraternal Order of Elks; the Izaak Walton League of America; the Cottonwood County, Minnesota Historical Society; La Society Des 40 Hommes et 8 Chevaux; the American Society of Military Insignia Collectors; and the Orders and Medals Society of America.

Col Johnson was a National Security Commissioner of the American Legion; History Committee Chairman of the Douglas Park Civil Association of Arlington, Virginia; and Veteran Affiliate of the 3rd Infantry Regiment. He was also a former Commander of Garrison 65 of the Army and Navy Union of the United States of America.

He was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars; Association of the US Army; Army Historical Foundation; Reserve Officers Association; Civil Affairs Association, US Army; Arlington Heritage Alliance; Civil War Preservation Trust Member; and Friends of Fort Ward Civil War Park.

Col. Johnson received the following foreign decorations: The Ethnic Minorities Development Medal, RVN; and the Order of Polonia Restitution, Poland.

Henry Clinton Mackall, Esq., who was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and grew up in Fairfax County, Virginia on the family ancestral property, was son of Douglass Sorrel Mackall, Jr. and Mildred Parker. Mr. Mackall married Mary Margaret Sullivan 21 June, 1952. She passed away December 2002. Mr. Mackall has three daughters, Caroline Clark, Nancy Sorrel and Lucy Parker. He enjoyed his one grandchild, Henry Daniel, immensely.

Educated in Washington and Virginia schools, Mr. Mackall served in the United States Army, 1945-46, with the 11th Airborne, stationed in Japan during the Occupation.

Mr. Mackall attended the University of Virginia where he completed his B.A. in 1950, and his L.L.B. in 1952. Mr. Mackall was admitted to the Virginia Bar in 1951. He served as a practicing attorney in Fairfax, Virginia beginning in 1952, specializing in wills, trusts, estate planning and administration, and real estate. He was a Fellow of: The American College of Trusts & Estates Counsel, the American College of Real Estate Lawyers, and the Virginia Law Foundation.

Memberships

• Society of the Cincinnati of Maryland

• Order of First Families of Virginia (former Treasurer and member of the Board)

• Jamestowne Society (former Governor General)

• Aztec Club of 1847

• General Society of Mayflower Descendants

• Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York

• Society of The Ark and The Dove (former member of the Board)

• National Society of the Lords of the Maryland Manors (former member of the Board)

• Order of Scions of Colonial Cavaliers 1640-1660

Other Notes

Mr. Mackall was a member of the American Bar Association. He also held membership in the Virginia Bar Association where he served as Secretary of the Junior Bar Section (1959-1960), and as Regional Vice President (1963-1964). An active member of the Virginia State Bar, Mr. Mackall served on the Client Security Fund Board between 1976 and 1988 (Chairman 1977-1978); as well as the Tenth District Grievance Committee (1962-1965); (Chairman 1964-1965); and on the Board of Governors, Section of Real Property, Probate and Trust Law (Chairman 1973-1974). In addition, Henry Mackall served as President of the Fairfax County Bar Association from 1966-1967.

Furthermore, Mr. Mackall served as Assistant Commissioner of Accounts for the Circuit Court of Fairfax County, Virginia, as well as Special Commissioner in Chancery for Audit Purposes for the Circuit Court of Fairfax County, Virginia (1976 - to present). He was a substitute Judge for the Fairfax County Court and Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court of Fairfax County (1964-1969). Mr. Mackall served on the Board of Directors of the Fairfax County Chapter of the American National Red Cross; the McLean Bank, (1970-1984); Bank of the Potomac, Secretary (1988-to merger); F&M Bank, N.A. to merger; and on the Advisory Board of BB&T Corp. in the Fairfax Area (merger to 2004).

He was the Democratic nominee for Fairfax County for the Virginia House of Delegates in 1969; a candidate for Democratic Nomination to the Virginia Senate in 1971; a member of the Board of Trustees for the Fairfax Hospital Association (1966-1975). Mr. Mackall was a former member of the Executive Committee of the Georgetown Assembly.

Mr. Mackall was a member of the River Bend Golf & Country Club, having served as President from 1967-1968. He was also active in numerous historical societies, holding membership in the Maryland Historical Society, the Virginia Historical Society, the Northern Neck Historical Society, the Great Falls Historical Society, and the McLean Historical Society, where he served as President from 1990-1991. He was President of the Historical Society of Fairfax County, Virginia from 1970-1972, where he has also served as Treasurer.

A descendent of John Perkins who arrived in Massachusetts in 1630, Colonel Donald R. Perkins was born on April 15, 1927 in Peabody, Massachusetts, the son of Alfred Manchester Perkins and Ruth Antoinette Arth Perkins. He grew up in Las Cruces, New Mexico, graduated from Las Cruces Union High School and was drafted into the Army in 1945. He served as a non-commissioned officer in grades up to First Sergeant and then completed Third Army Officer Candidate School in Seckenheim, Germany, in 1947. He served as a Second Lieutenant in the Fifth Field Artillery until leaving active service at the end of 1947. In 1950, while attending New Mexico State University, he was recalled to active duty for service in the Korean War. In 1955 he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in History.

Until 1960 he served in various National Guard assignments in New Mexico and Wisconsin. In 1961, Col. Perkins returned to active duty with the 32nd Infantry Division Artillery during the Berlin buildup. On graduation from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College in 1962, he reported to the National Guard Bureau, Departments of the Army and Air Force, in the Pentagon where he served as a staff officer. Later, he was transferred to the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Military Operations as a Guard Bureau advisor to that office. In 1971, he was promoted to Colonel and assigned as the National Guard Advisor to the Commanding General, United States Continental Army Command, Fort Monroe, Virginia. He retired from active service in 1975. As a civilian, he served as Army Activities Director at the National Guard Association of the U.S. in Washington, DC, from which position he retired in 1987. He was later employed as a defense consultant to BMY Corp. and as librarian and archivist for the National Guard Association.

While in the service, Col. Perkins attended the Advanced Field Artillery course, the General Staff College, and the US Army War College. Col. Perkins received the Legion of Merit, Meritorious Service Medal, Army Commendation Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, National Defense Service Medal, WWII Victory Medal, Korean Service Medal with 3 Bronze Service Stars, and the Department of the Army General Staff Badge, among other awards. He was inducted into the Officer Candidate School Hall of Fame at Ft. Benning, Georgia, in 1981.

Col. Perkins was a long-time member of the Episcopal Church of the Ascension and St. Agnes in Washington, DC. As an accomplished long-distance runner, he ran in the Boston and New York City marathons. He was also an avid student of military history, speaking on the subject at many events in Washington, DC and New Mexico. His articles on military history have appeared in various publications.

Colonel Perkins is the father of four children: Karen Elizabeth Perkins Willis, Frank Sutherland Perkins III, Cynthia Oleta Perkins, and Kathryn Sue Perkins Holguin. He died on May 30, 2004, in Las Cruces, NM, and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

Memberships

• National Gavel Society

• General Society of Colonial Wars

• Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York

• National Society Americans of Royal Descent

• Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America

• Hereditary Order of the Descendants of Colonial Governors

• General Society of Mayflower Descendants

• Hereditary Order Descendants Loyalists & Patriots American Revolution (former Governor General)

• National Society Sons of Colonial New England (former Governor General)

• Military Order of Foreign Wars (former Commander of the District of the Columbia Commandery; former National Delegate)

• Baronial Order of Magna Charta

• Order of the Founders and Patriots of America

• General Society Sons of the Revolution

• National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution

• Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry

• Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts

• National Huguenot Society

• Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy

• Society of Descendants of Knights of the Garter

• Descendants of the Founders of Hartford

• Flagon & Trencher: Descendants of Colonial Tavern Keepers

• Order of the First Families of Massachusetts

• Military Order of the World Wars

• Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War

Chivalric Orders

• Sovereign Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem (Grand Prior IX)

• Most Venerable Order of Saint John of Jerusalem (Grand Priory in the British Realm)

• Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem (former Commander and Bailiff)

• Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem (Officer)

• Ordo Sancti Constantini Magni (former Bailiff for Eastern United States)

Other Notes

Col. Perkins was an active member of the American Legion; the American Military Institute; the Army War College Foundation; the Reserve Officers Association; the Retired Officers Association; the Augustan Society; the Company of Military Historians; the Council on America’s Military Past; the Historical Society of the Militia and National Guard; the International Chivalric Institute; and the Military History Society of the Southwest.

He was also member of the Saint David's Welsh-American Society; the National Guard Association of the United States; the National Trust for Historic Preservation; New England Historical and Genealogical Society; and the New Mexico Historical Society.