Carole Jean Drake Belcher was a native of Binghamton, New York. She was the daughter of Carroll Clayton and Geraldine Skinner Drake. Carole was married to William Walter Belcher, and they had two children, Jon and Katryna. Carole received her B.S. in Library Science, and was a professional registered parliamentarian. During her career, Carole was a junior high school librarian.

Society Memberships

• National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (Honorary Vice President General)

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

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

• National Society Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America (National President 2015-2018)

• National Society Women Descendants Ancient & Honorable Artillery Co. of MA (National Corresponding Secretary)

• National Society of the Dames of the Court of Honor (Honorary Trustee for Life)

• Guild of Colonial Artisans and Tradesmen 1607-1783 (First Vice President General)

• National Society Sons and Daughters of Antebellum Planters 1607-1861 (Vice President General)

• Descendants of Sheriffs and Constables of Colonial and Antebellum America (2nd Vice President)

• National Society Daughters of the American Colonists (State First Vice President)

• National Society Daughters of Colonial Wars (Honorary State President)

• Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry (Past National Officer)

• National Society of New England Women (Past Director General)

• Dutch Colonial Society (National Genealogist)

• Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench and Bar 1565-1861 (Past National Officer)

• National Society United States Daughters of 1812 (Past State Officer)

• National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century (Past Chapter President)

• National Society Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century (State Officer)

• Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War 1861-1865 (Chapter Officer)

• Continental Society Daughters of Indian Wars (Past State Officer)

• General Society of Mayflower Descendants

• Flagon and Trencher

• Colonial Dames of America

• Order of Descendants of Colonial Physicians and Chirurgiens

• National Society Americans of Royal Descent

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

• National Huguenot Society

• Order of First Families of Connecticut 1633-1662

• Order of the First Families of New Hampshire 1622-1680

• Descendants of Early Postmasters 1607-1900

• Society of the Descendants of the Founders of Hartford

• Founders Fellowship

A native Georgian, Patricia Ann Scott Williams Garner was born to J. B. Scott and Frances Jones Scott at Rome Georgia. She is the widow of Colonel Willie D. Garner, Sr. She is of Native American heritage and serves as a healer of the Cherokee Tribe. Mrs. Garner also has many verified colonial and royal lines in America and Northern Europe. This candidate has two daughters, both graduates of Georgia Colleges, and three grandchildren, two college graduates, one of whom is a graduate of the United States Air Force Academy and on active duty as a First Lieutenant in the United States Air Force. Ann Garner taught him to fly. Her youngest grandson is a college sophomore and participating in the ROTC program.

Mrs. Garner retired from military duty in the rank of Major in the National Guard having served last as a Family Services officer. She has been employed for the past 18 years as General Manager of Dawson Municipal Airport. She was formerly a registered nurse and a dental hygienist, Ann Garner served in the medical field for 33 years prior to moving to Parrott. She owns a small farm where she grows cotton, peanuts and blue berries. She is also a Huguenot descendant and remains engaged as an artisan and silver smith. Additionally, she is proficient in Native American beading and garment designs, the creator of a number of the society portfolios and tote bags seen in DC during the heritage season, and various fine needlework. She supports a local Christian ministry in Parrott, Georgia by donating the space in two commercial buildings for worship and family activities. Recently she served as Mistress of Ceremonies and a primary benefactor for the Purple Heart Memorial Highway dedicated from Columbus to Albany, GA.

Ann Scott Williams Garner is considered by her peers as a leading example of a Renaissance Woman, as a Marine, Native American healer, nurse, hygienist, airport manager, pilot, silver smith, needle crafter, heritage leader, and officer, deceased military officer's wife, mother and grandmother She is a member of 30 plus hereditary societies.

Memberships

• Continental Society Daughters of Indian Wars (Governor General, former First and Second Deputy Governors General, and Registrar General. She served as Co-Chairman to digitize all applications for CSDIW and coordinated their storage at Stone Mountain)

• Order of Descendants of the Justiciars (Co-Founder, Chief Justiciar, former First and Second Vice-Justiciar)

• Society of Descendants of Lady Godiva (Co-Founder, First Lady in Waiting)

• Descendants of Colonial Mothers 1607 - July 4, 1776 (Co-Founder, 2nd Vice President)

• Order of the House of Wessex (Founding Secretary General)

• Order of Alba (Secretary General)

• National Society Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century (Organizing Secretary General, former Councillor)

• National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century (Assistant Registrar)

• Order of Monarchs of Rheims (Inaugural Chaplain)

• National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims (Elder General, former Organizing Secretary General)

• National Society Daughters of the American Colonists (Marshal)

• National Society United States Daughters of 1812 (Sergeant at Arms)

• Colonial Dames of America (South Carolina Chapter, Member)

• Founders Fellowship (Founding Council of Fellows, Chaplain)

• National Gavel Society

Other memberships will be provided upon request

Leadership of State Societies

• Continental Society Daughters of Indian Wars (Honorary GA Governor)

• National Society Daughters of Colonial Wars (Honorary GA President)

• National Society United States Daughters of 1812 (Honorary GA President)

Other Leaderships

• Continental Society Daughters of Indians Wars, INC (Organized and led the First Chapter)

• National Society United States Daughters of 1812 (Re-Organized and led the Benjamin Hardin Chapter)

• National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century (Organized and led Oglethorpe Chapter)

• Southern Dames of America (Organized and led Chattahoochee Valley Chapter)

Other Activities

Mrs. Garner is a member of The Army and Navy Club of Washington, DC and serves to sponsor CSDIW that holds Annual Board meetings on that site.

Sarah “Sally” Wood Hlavay is a native of Corvallis, Oregon. She is the daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Sidney Wood, Sr. and Mary Eleanor Grantham Wood. Sally was married to the late Joseph Francis Hlavay. Sally completed her undergraduate work at the University of Georgia, earning a B.S. She completed her M.B.A. at Pepperdine University, and an M.A. in Teaching at Emory University. Sally’s career has been as a Professional Fundraiser, serving as Associate Director of Alumni Relations for Emory University; as the Atlantic Regional Manager for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital; as an educator at Holy Innocents Parish Day School, as a number of other roles. Sally’s service to the community has been significant and extensive. She is, for instance, a fifty plus year member of the National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century, serving as Organizing President of First Emigrant Chapter in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. 

Memberships

• Baronial Order of Magna Charta

• National Society Americans of Royal Descent

• Military Order of the Crusades

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

• Order of the Merovingian Dynasty

• Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry

• Hereditary Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors

• National Guild of Saint Margaret of Scotland

• National Society Children of the American Revolution (admitted 1951, South Carolina State Society Vice President)

• National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (Chapter Regent-Heritage Chapter, Calgary. Alberta, Canada; First Vice Regent, Beverly Hills Chapter, CA)

• Colonial Dames of America (1979, Chapter XX, Los Angeles, California)

• National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century (Organizing President, First Emigrant Chapter, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Member)

• National Society Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century

• National Society Daughters of Colonial Wars (National President, Honorary National President)

• Continental Society Daughters of Indian Wars (Governor General, Honorary Governor General)

• National Society Women Descendants Ancient & Honorable Artillery Co. (National First Vice President Court President, Arizona)

• Order of Descendants of the Justiciars (2nd Vice Justiciar, Founding Member)

• National Society of the Dames of the Court of Honor (State President, Arizona)

• National Society of New England Women (State President, Arizona)

• National Society Daughters of the American Colonists (State Regent, Arizona)

• National Society Children of the American Colonists (Adult Adviser Chairman, Life Members)

• National Society United States Daughters of 1812 (State President, Arizona)

• National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims (Governor, Arizona)

• Hereditary Order Descendants Loyalists & Patriots American Revolution

• Hereditary Order of the First Families of Massachusetts

• Piscataqua Pioneers

• Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War 1861-1865

• United Daughters of the Confederacy

• Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy

• Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench and Bar 1565-1861

• Descendants of Cape Cod and the Islands (Founding Recording Secretary General)

• Descendants of Early Postmasters 1607-1900 (Founding Member)

• National Gavel Society

• National Society First Families of New Hampshire (Founding Member)

• Sons and Daughters First Families of Newbury

Listed In (Publications)

• Foremost Women of the Twentieth Century

• International Who's Who of Professional and Business Women (ABI)

• Who's Who of American Women (Marquis Who's Who)

Other

• Association of FundRaising Professionals

• National Charity League- Founder Chapter (Los Angeles, California)

• Washington Athletic Club

• Willow Park Golf and Country Club

• President's Society, University of Alberta

• Episcopal Church of the Advent

• Interests: Literacy, Travel, Golf, and Music

• Volunteer - CanLearn Society

• Chairman, Peter Gzowski Invitational Golf Tournament for Literacy

• (Raised over $1,000,000 for Adult and Children's Literacy for Calgary, Alberta) Willow Park Charity Classic

• Peter Gzowski Literacy Award NSDAR, National Literacy Award Winner Calgary Community Service Award

Charles Owen Johnson, Esq., was born in Monroe, LA, the son of Dr. Clifford U. Johnson and Laura Owen Johnson. On graduation, Mr. Johnson received a B.A. from Tulane University, being elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Later he received a LL.B. from Harvard Law School, a JD from Tulane Law School and a LL.M. from Columbia Law School.

Mr. Johnson, a member of the Louisiana State Bar Association and the Federal Bar Association enjoyed a successful career in law in Louisiana and Washington D.C. Mr. Johnson served for twenty-four years in the Tax Court Litigation Division of the Chief Counsel's Office, Internal Revenue Service, and as Chief of the Court of Appeals Branch, the last eleven years of his service. He was in the Army of the United States from 1950-1952, during the Korean Conflict, and was an overseas veteran the last year. Mr. Johnson resided in Arlington, VA, and Palm Beach, FL (his winter home).

Memberships

• Society of the Cincinnati in the State of South Carolina

• General Society of Colonial Wars (past Governor of the Washington D.C. Society, Fellow of the Samuel Victor Constant Society)

• One Hundred Living Descendants of Blood Royal

• National Society Americans of Royal Descent

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

• Order of the Merovingian Dynasty

• Ancient Heraldic and Chivalric Order of Albion

• General Society Sons of the Revolution (past President of the Washington, D.C. Society)

• National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (past President of the Washington, D.C. Society)

• General Society of the War of 1812 (past President of the Washington, D.C. Society)

• National Society Sons of Colonial New England (Founder, past Governor General)

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

• Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York

• Saint David's Society of the State of New York

• Saint Andrew's Society of Washington, D.C.

• National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims (past 2nd Deputy Governor General; past Treasurer General)

• Huguenot Society of South Carolina

• National Huguenot Society (Genealogist General; past President of the Louisiana Society)

• Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States (Associate Companion)

• Jamestowne Society

• National Society of Old Plymouth Colony Descendants

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

• Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy (past Chancellor Gen.)

• Hereditary Order Descendants Loyalists & Patriots American Revolution (Co-Founder, past Governor General)

• Hereditary Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors (past Governor General)

• First Families of Georgia 1733-1797 (past Chancellor General)

• Order of the Founders and Patriots of America (past Governor of Washington, D.C. and Louisiana Societies; past Genealogist General; and past Deputy Historian General)

• Order of the First Families of Mississippi 1699-1817 (past Founding Governor General)

• Military Order of the Stars and Bars (past Judge Advocate General)

• Hereditary Order of the First Families of Massachusetts (Governor General 2004-2006; Member No. 2, Registrar General)

• Order of the First Families of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (Founder, past Governor General)

• Order of Descendants of Colonial Physicians and Chirurgiens (past President General)

• Order of Descendants of the Ancient & Honorable Artillery Company (Governor General 2004-2006)

• Order of First Families of Connecticut 1633-1662 (Governor General 2004-2006)

• Plymouth Hereditary Society (Governor General 2004-2006)

• Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench and Bar 1565-1861 (Founder, past President General)

• National Society Sons and Daughters of Antebellum Planters 1607-1861 (Founder, past President General)

• Military Order of Foreign Wars of the United States

• Order of Indian Wars of the United States

• Continental Society of Indian Wars

• Hereditary Order of the Families of Presidents and First Ladies of America (Founding Member; Attorney General)

• Royal Society of Saint George

• Sons of Confederate Veterans (Gold Award Recipient)

• Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War

• Flagon and Trencher

• Louisiana Colonials

• Descendants of Founders of New Jersey

• Saint David's Society of Washington D.C.

• The Huguenot Society in New Orleans

• Sons and Daughters of the Province and Republic of West Florida 1763-1810 (Founder, past Governor General)

• Order of Scions of Colonial Cavaliers 1640-1660 (Founding Governor)

• Texas First Families certificate

• Certificate of Arkansas Antebellum Ancestry (awarded by the Arkansas Genealogical Society)

• National Gavel Society (Honorary President)

Chivalric Orders

• Knight of Grace of the Military and Hospitaller Order of St. Lazarus of Jerusalem.

Listed In

• Who's Who in the South and Southwest

• Who's Who in American Law

• Who's Who in Government

• Who's Who in the World

• Who's Who in America

• Who is Who in Freemasonry

• National Social Directory (1974)

• The Northern Virginia Social Register (1975)

• Social Register of Washington, D.C. (1976)

• Social Directory of New Orleans (1990)

• Social List of Washington, D.C.

• Blue Book of Washington, D.C.

Awards

Jefferson Davis Medal Certificate and Cross of Military Service, awarded by the United Daughters of the Confederacy.

Other Notes

Mr. Johnson served as first editor of the Hereditary Register of the United States of America, under the President and General Editor, John Griffin Richardson Rountree. He was also chairman of the editorial committee. Mr. Johnson was a member of the English-Speaking Union of the United States, the Harvard Club of the City of New York and the Harvard Club of Washington, D.C. He was active in a number of Fraternal Orders and is a Perpetual Member of Alexandria-Washington Lodge No. 22 AF&AM in Alexandria, Virginia, of which George Washington once served as Worshipful Master. He was a member of the Harvard Club of Boston, Massachusetts; the Round Table Club of New Orleans, Louisiana; and the Army and Navy Club of Washington, D.C.

Kimberly Kay Ormsby Nagy, M.D., is a native of Toledo, Ohio. She is the daughter of Donald E Ormsby and Ruth A. Steinbrecher, and has two children, Donna Maria Nagy and Amanda Leigh Nagy. Kim completed her undergraduate work at the University of Toledo with a B.A. She completed her M.D. at Ohio State University, and subsequently earned her PLCGS (Professional Learning Certificate in Genealogical Studies) at the National Institute for Genealogical Studies. Dr. Nagy is now retired after 30 years as a Trauma Surgeon at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, IL.

Memberships

• National Society Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America (National Vice President)

• Order of the First Families of New Hampshire 1622-1680 (Deputy Governor General and Founding Member)

• Guild of Colonial Artisans and Tradesmen 1607-1783 (Corresponding Secretary General)

• Descendants of Cape Cod and the Islands (Registrar General and Society Co-Founder)

• National Society Women Descendants Ancient & Honorable Artillery Co. (Registrar National)

• Descendants of Early Postmasters 1607-1900 (Surgeon General and Founding Member)

• Associated Daughters of Early American Witches (Honorary President General)

• National Society Children of the American Colonists (Honorary President General)

• Order of the First Families of Maine (2nd Honorary President General and Charter Member)

• National Society Sons and Daughters of Antebellum Planters 1607-1861 (Honorary President General)

• National Society Descendants of Early Quakers (former National Trustee)

• Descendants of Sheriffs and Constables of Colonial and Antebellum America (former Recording Secretary General and Founding Member)

• National Society Children of the American Revolution (former Senior National Assistant Registrar)

• Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy (former National Councilor)

• National Society United States Daughters of 1812 (State President)

• National Society Southern Dames of America (Organizing State President)

• National Society Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century (State Second Vice President)

• National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century (State Recording Secretary)

• National Huguenot Society (State Recording Secretary)

• National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (State Corresponding Secretary)

• Continental Society Daughters of Indian Wars (State Treasurer)

• National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims (Honorary Branch Governor)

• National Society Daughters of the American Colonists (former State Corresponding Secretary)

• National Society of the Dames of the Court of Honor (former State First Vice President)

• National Society Daughters of Colonial Wars (former State Chaplain)

• Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic (Circle Chaplain)

• Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War 1861-1865 (Tent Secretary)

• National Society of New England Women (former Colony President)

• First Settlers of the Shenandoah Valley (Charter Member)

• Order of the Founders of North America 1492-1692 (Charter Member)

• National Society Daughters of the Union 1861-1865

• Winthrop Society

• Hereditary Order of the Families of Presidents and First Ladies of America

• Flagon and Trencher

• Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench and Bar 1565-1861

• National Society of Old Plymouth Colony Descendants

• Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry

• Order of Descendants of the Ancient & Honorable Artillery Company

• Colonial Dames of America

• Hereditary Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors

• Piscataqua Pioneers

• Hereditary Order of the First Families of Massachusetts

• Order of First Families of Connecticut 1633-1662

• First Families of Ohio

• Descendants of Whaling Masters

• National Society of the Colonial Dames of America

• Society of Indiana Pioneers

• Descendants of Founders of New Jersey

• National Gavel Society (Secretary)

• Illinois Heritage Alliance (Treasurer and Founding Member)

• Century Families of Ohio (Charter Member)

• Founder's Fellowship (Charter Member)

• Descendants of the Founders of Ancient Windsor

• Settlers and Builders of Ohio

Authorships

• Kimberly Ormsby. My Ancestry: Selected Descendants of Reuben H. Hill, Sr. with Related Families Dodds, Beckets, Taylors, Foresters, Stovers, Dietericks, Wileys and Mumfords. Toledo, OH. Privately published. 1980.

• Kimberly Ormsby Nagy, MD. My Ancestry: Selected Descendants of Reuben H. Hill, Sr. with Related Families Dodds, Beckets, Taylors, Foresters, Stovers, Dietericks, Wileys and Mumfords. Second Edition. Downers Grove, IL. Privately published. 2001.

• Kimberly Ormsby Nagy, MD, compiler. Associated Daughters of Early American Witches Roll of Ancestors. Salt Lake City, UT: Family Heritage Publishing, 2012.

• Kimberly Nagy and Delories Robinson-Vaughn. "The Woman in the Well" in National Society United States Daughters of 1812 NewsLetter. 2014: 91 (2) 19.

• Boyd DR and Nagy KO: "Chapter 8: Trauma Unit". In Guinan PD, Printen KJ, Stone JL and Yao JST, eds. A History of Surgery at Cook County Hospital. Amika Press, Chicago, IL 2015.

• Nagy, Kimberly Ormsby: "Who Was the Father of William D. Hill?: Using Several Record Types and Locales to Prove a Theory". in Ohio Genealogical Society Quarterly. 2016: 56 (3) 295-9.

Listed In 

• Who's Who Among American High School Students 1977-78

• Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare 4th Ed. 2002-03

• Who's Who in Science and Engineering 7thEd. 2003-04

• Who's Who in American Education 7th Ed. 2006-07

• Who's Who in Science and Engineering 9th Ed. 2006-07

• Who's Who of American Women 25th Ed. 2006-07

• Who's Who in American Education 8th Ed. 2007-08

• Who's Who in Science and Engineering 10th Ed. 2008-09

Other Honors

• Illinois State Children of the American Revolution "Legacy of Leadership" Award 2007

• National Society Daughters of Early Quakers Appreciation Award 2010

• National Society Daughters of Founders and Patriots National Special Award 2011

Other

Dr. Nagy has been researching her family for over 40 years. Since retiring, she has more time to help others with their research as well as her own. In addition to the lineage societies listed above, she belongs to several Genealogical societies, including the Association of Professional Genealogists, the National Genealogical Society, as well as several local and state societies. She enjoys speaking about genealogy to these societies. She is also a prolific author, and her publications will be available for review on her personal listing. Kim is active in her community through First Congregational Church of Downers Grove, P.E.O., and other local community service groups.

Eleanor Warrene Smallwood Beasley Niebell was born in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Graeme T. Smallwood and Dorothy Hubbell Smallwood.  She married in 1943, in Washington, D.C., to William Niester Beasley and was the mother of twin daughters.  Her second marriage was in 1955, in Arlington, VA, to Paul Milton Niebell and was the mother of two daughters and one son, deceased. She resided in Potomac, MD.

Mrs. Niebell's early education was in Washington, D.C., much under private tutelage.  She later studied in Geneva, Switzerland and in Brussels, Belgium.

Memberships

• Order of Three Crusades 1096-1192 (2nd Vice President General)

• National Society Americans of Royal Descent (Treasurer General)

• Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America (2nd Vice President)

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

• National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (past Vice President General, Honorary State Regent of Washington, D.C. Society)

• National Society Children of the American Revolution (Honorary Senior National President)

• National Huguenot Society (past Assistant Treasurer General, Scholarship Committee Member, Trustee of the DuBois Scholarship Fund, Washington D.C. Society)

• National Society Daughters of the Barons of Runnemede

• National Society Daughters of Colonial Wars (past Councilor of the Washington, D.C. Society)

• National Society of the Dames of the Court of Honor (Treasurer of the Washington, D.C. Society)

• Order of the Crown in America

• National Society of the Colonial Dames of America

• Colonial Dames of America

• Dames of the Loyal Legion of the United States (Treasurer of the Washington, D.C. Chapter)

• Hereditary Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors (Councilor General)

• Hereditary Order Descendants Loyalists & Patriots American Revolution

• Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench and Bar 1565-1861

• Order of the First Families of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (charter member)

• National Society Women Descendants Ancient & Honorable Artillery Co. (past Delegate)

• National Society Daughters of the American Colonists (past Treasurer of the Washington, D.C. Society)

• National Society Children of the American Colonists (Life Promoter)

• National Order of the Blue and Gray (life member)

• National Gavel Society (Honorary President)

• Ladies of the Garter

• Club of Colonial Dames (2nd Vice President of the Washington, D.C. Club)

• National Congress of Patriotic Organizations, Inc. (past Regent)

Chivalric Orders

The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (Commander Sister Grade III, C.St.J.)

Awards

NSSAR and NSCAR (Recipient of the Good Citizenship Medal; Daughters of Liberty; CAR SAR Gold Medal of Appreciation; CAR SAR Bronze Medal of Appreciation, Martha Washington Award and Three Oak Leaves; member George Washington Fellows; and was honored with institution of 'The Eleanor Smallwood Niebell Award'.

Other Notes

Mrs. Niebell is the author of Centennial Plus One, The Centennial History of the National Society Children of the American Revolution 1895-1996.  She was a member of the Smithsonian Benefactors Circle, and a life member of the Maryland PTA.  Mrs. Niebell was an active member of St. George's Episcopal Church in Glenn Dale, MD.

LTC Charles Robert Odom was born the son of Ennis Guilford Odom and Effie Cacindy Nash Odom of Durham. He was married to Carla Lucille Whitehurst of Durham on June 6, 1964 at Grace Baptist Church, Durham. They have two daughters, Charlotte Martin Odom Lytle Perrin, Catherine Lynne Odom Quick and three grandsons.  

Mr. Odom was educated in the Durham Schools. At Campbell College he was Treasurer and a charter member of Nu Kappa Chapter of Alpha Phi Omega, Service Fraternity, President of Phi Beta Lambda, President of North Carolina Future Business Leaders of America, and selected the North Carolina’s Future Business Leader of the Year. Mr. Odom completed undergraduate work with a B.S. degree in Business. After a brief career with Carolina Power and Light Power Company in Raleigh, North Carolina he enlisted during the buildup of the Vietnam War.

Lieutenant Odom graduated from Officer Candidate School at Fort Lee, Virginia and was immediately deployed to the Republic of Vietnam where he served as an Engineer Supply Officer and later as a Subsistence Supply Officer. Following an assignment as a Test Officer at the U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. Captain Odom graduated from the Quartermaster Officer Career Course at Fort Lee. He deployed to the Republic of Thailand and was appointed Executive Officer to the Depot Commander and later Secretary to the General Staff. At Fort Rucker, Alabama he commanded the 108th Quartermaster Company followed by duty as Chief of Protocol. He graduated from Troy State University with a MBA.

At Campbell University, Major Odom was an Assistant Professor of Military Science with the ROTC Detachment and inducted into the Faculty Senate. He graduated from the United States Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas . He was deployed to Heidelberg, Federal Republic of Germany, at the United States Army Europe Headquarters in the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics. LTC Odom’s final military tour was a five-year assignment at the United States Army Logistics Management College (ALMC) at Fort Lee, Virginia as Director for both the United States Army Auditors and Major Items Management Courses. He was a graduate of a number of the other courses at ALMC. LTC Odom also served as a guest lecturer at the Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He retired in the Regular Army rank of Lieutenant Colonel. 

His post-military career included employment as a Systems Analyst at Computer Science Corporation, Co-Owner of B&O Computers, and recently as a G.E.D. Instructor. The Odoms returned to Durham after living around the world including 33 years in Virginia.

Society Memberships

• Descendants of Brian Boru (Co-Founder; Inaugural Parliamentarian)

• Descendants of Colonial Mothers 1607 - July 4, 1776 (Co-Founder; Inaugural First Vice President; Honorary President General)

• Descendants of Early Postmasters 1607-1900 (Founding Parliamentarian; Former Surveyor)

• General Society of Colonial Wars (Virginia and North Carolina Societies; Former Lt. Governor, North Carolina Society)

• General Society of the War of 1812 (Virginia Society)

• General Society Sons of the Revolution (Virginia and North Carolina Societies; Former Treasurer, North Carolina Society)

• Guild of Colonial Artisans and Tradesmen 1607-1783 (Former First Vice President General)

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

• Hereditary Order of the Red Dragon (Founder; Inaugural Parliamentarian)

• Military Order of Foreign Wars of the United States

• Military Order of the World Wars

• National Order of the Blue and Gray (Former Historian General)

• National Society Descendants of American Farmers (Co-Founder; Inaugural Advisor)

• National Society Sons and Daughters of Antebellum Planters 1607-1861 (Honorary President General)

• National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims (Honorary Governor Virginia Branch; Honorary Governor General; Founding Honorary Governor, Founding Treasurer, Virginia South Branch; Dual Member, North Carolina Branch)

• National Society of Sons of the American Colonists (Former Archivist General)

• National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (Former member Richmond Chapter)

• Order of Descendants of Colonial Cavaliers

• Order of the Descendants of El Cid (Founder; Inaugural Parliamentarian)

• Order of Descendants of the Justiciars (Honorary Member; Founding Auditor)

• Order of Indian Wars of the United States

• Order of the First World War

• Order of the Founders and Patriots of America (North Carolina Society)

• Order of the Founders of North America 1492-1692 (Founding Deputy Chronicler General; Charter Member)

• Order of the Kings and Queens in the Holy Lands (Honorary Member)

• Order of Monarchs of Rheims (Honorary Member)

• Order of the Second World War

• Order of the Steel Magnolias (Co-Founder; Inaugural Treasurer; Former Parliamentarian)

• Order of the Vietnam War (Founder; Inaugural Vice-Commander)

• Order of Washington

• Society of Descendants of Lady Godiva (Associate Member)

• Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench and Bar 1565-1861 (Honorary President General)

• Sons and Daughters of Virginia Founding Fathers (Charter Member)

• Sons of Spanish-American War Veterans (Associate Member)

• Veteran Corps of Artillery State of New York

• Virginia Huguenot Society (Honorary Member)

• National Gavel Society (Former Treasurer)

• Descendants of American Prisoners of War

• Descendants of Continental Colonial Officers (Founder; Inaugural Commander Retired)

• Founders Fellowship

• Hereditary Society Daughters of Founding Fathers of America 1606 – 1656 (Honorary Member)

• Order of Bacon's Rebellion (Founder; Inaugural Second Deputy Governor; Former First Deputy Governor)

• Order of Founders of the Granville District 1663-1763 (Founder; Inaugural Aide-de-Camp)

• Order of the Honorable Artillery Company

• Order of William the Marshal (Founder, Inaugural Parliamentarian) 

• Saint Andrew's Society of North Carolina

• Society of the 1704 Virginia Quit Rents (Inaugural Recording Scribe; Former Parliamentarian)

Chivalric Orders

• Sovereign Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem (Priory of Saint Thomas a` Becket, Knight Chevalier)

Editor

• The Planter, a publication of the National Society Sons and Daughters of Antebellum Planters 1607-1861, 2015-2017.

• The Barrister, a publication of the Sons and Daughters of Colonial and Antebellum Bench and Bar 2018-2020.

Co-Editor

• At Mother's Knee, a publication of Descendants of Colonial Mothers, 1607-July 4, 1776, 2019 - 2021.

• The Colonial Dispatch, a publication of Descendants of Continental Colonial Officers, 2020 - 2022.

• The Bugler, a publication of the National Order of the Blue and Gray, 2021 - 2023.

• Granville Gazette, a publication of Order of Founders of the Granville District 1663 - 1763, 2022-2024.

Other Notes

LTC Odom was of the Baptist and Episcopal Faith, and a former lector, Sunday School teacher, and member of the choir. He was the former President of the Chapel Council at Mark Twain Village Chapel, Heidelberg, Germany, Chairman of the Board of Deacons, Director of the W.W. Hammond Recital Series at Mount Pleasant Baptist Church, Colonial Heights, Virginia, and Junior Warden of Saint Paul’s Episcopal  Church, Petersburg, Virginia.  He performed solo, in quartet and with choirs, where duty called, in churches and choral festivals in America, Vietnam, Thailand and Germany.  He was a member of St. Luke's Episcopal Church.  

The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International named LTC Odom as a Paul Harris Fellow. He was former President of the Colonial Heights Club and a twenty-five-year member. He and his family received the Family Life Award as Family of the Year from the Coats Women’s Club. LTC Odom was former Chairman of the Board of the Fort Rucker School Association, member of the Board of Visitors at Mary Baldwin College, and for many years Class Agent for Campbell University. He was a former member of the Petersburg Music Festival Chorus and Vice President, Board of Directors of Crater Community Hospice.

For several years Charles Odom and his wife supplied and posted colors for individual patriots interred at the Spanish American War Cemetery, on the grounds of the Hampton Veterans Medical Center, Hampton, Virginia. During his administration President General Odom presented the National Society Sons and Daughters of Antebellum Planters bronze marker and certificate of award to Shirley Plantation at Charles City County, Virginia and to the Richard Wainwright Barber Farm, Rowan County, North Carolina. He served as sponsor for 26 hereditary groups for their respective events held at the Army and Navy Club, Washington.

He was a member of the Army and Navy Club of Washington, D.C. He was an adjunct member of the Swamp Fox Board of Directors and a founding member of the Book Club of Umstead Pines Club. LTC Charles Robert and Carla Whitehurst Odom established a Hereditary Society Community Scholarship at the College of William and Mary.

LTC Odom was the recipient of the Order of El Cid Merit Award. He was honored by Descendants of American Farmers with the Vietnam War Veterans medal and a Certificate of Valor presented at the Inaugural Military Tribute Ceremony.

LCDR Richard Morgan Wright, Jr., USCG (Ret.) was born at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, CA, the son of Captain Richard Morgan Wright, US Navy (US Naval Academy, ’41, Pearl Harbor – USS Tennessee (BB-43), World War II submariner (seven war patrols), Silver Star, Legion of Merit, Bronze Star, Navy and Marine Corps Medal and Knighted by Queen Juliana of the Netherlands as a Commander, Order of the Oranje Nassau) and Marilyn (Burgess) Wright. He married Diane Lynn Morgan and has two children Kelley Jean Wright and Julie Ann Wright.

He has Bachelor of Arts, History from the University of West Florida, 1974, Master of Arts, Economics from the University of West Florida, 1978, and U.S. Army Aviation School, 1970.

Captain, U.S. Marine Corps 1969-1978

• Naval Aviator: UH-1H and CH-46D helicopters

• Combat tour: Hoi An, Vietnam '71-'72 (Subunit 1, Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company (1st ANGLICO) and Air Liaison Officer, 2nd Brigade, Republic of Korea Marines) Awarded the Purple Heart, Air Medal, Navy Commendation Medal w/ Combat “V” (for valor) and the Combat Action Ribbon

• Flight Instructor, HT-18 Squadron, U.S. Navy Flight School, Pensacola, FL

• Search and Rescue Pilot, Station Operations and Engineering Squadron, Marine Corps Air Station, Cherry Point, NC

Lieutenant Commander, U.S. Coast Guard 1978-1994

• Coast Guard Aviator: HH3F helicopter

• Search and Rescue Pilot (New Orleans, LA, Sitka, AK, 202 Squadron, Royal Air Force, Scotland, UK, and Traverse City, MI)

• Operations Officer, Administration Officer, Coast Guard Air Station Traverse City, MI (Received the US Coast Guard Commandant’s Letter of Commendation)

• Chief, Aviation Life Support Branch and Program Manager, Helicopter Rescue Swimmer Program, USCG Headquarters, Washington, DC (Awarded the Coast Guard Commendation Medal)

• Director of Safety and Flight Operations, Helicopter Association International, 1996-2006.

Society Memberships

• Order of the Founders and Patriots of America (Governor General)
• Aztec Club of 1847 (former President)
• National Huguenot Society (President, Virginia Society)
• Order of the Norman Conquest (Fourth Vice President)
• Baronial Order of Magna Charta (Surety)
• Winthrop Society Archivist (former)
• National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (former Vice President, Northern Michigan Chapter)
• National Gavel Society
• Society of the Cincinnati (Massachusetts)
• Order of the Merovingian Dynasty
• Order of the Crown In America
• Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America
• Order of Three Crusades 1096-1192
• Order of Descendants of the Justiciars
• Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry
• National Guild of Saint Margaret of Scotland
• National Society of Saints and Sinners
• Society of Descendants of Lady Godiva
• General Society of Mayflower Descendants
• General Society of Colonial Wars (New Jersey)
• Hereditary Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors
• General Society Sons of the Revolution
• Hereditary Order Descendants Loyalists & Patriots American Revolution
• General Society of the War of 1812
• Military Society of the War of 1812
• Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States
• National Order of the Blue and Gray
• Military Order of the Stars and Bars
• Order of Indian Wars of the United States
• Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy
• Order of Descendants of Colonial Physicians and Chirurgiens
• Order of the Founders of North America 1492-1692
• Descendants of Sheriffs & Constables of Flagon and Trencher
• Order of the First World War

Honors

• Honoree, National Purple Heart Hall of Honor 

• Inducted into Phi Alpha Theta National History Honor Society – 1974

• Awarded the President’s Award by the Association of Air Medical Services for Extraordinary Service in the promotion of aviation safety – 2001

• Awarded a Grant of Arms by the College of Arms, London, England- 2012

• Inducted into the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels – 2014

• Awarded the U.S. Coast Guard's Victor Rouland Helicopter Rescue Swimmer Award for Distinguished Achievement - 2019.

Membership in the following non-Hereditary societies and organizations:

• Ancient Free & Accepted Masons - Master Mason - Henry Lodge No, 57 (Past Master)

• Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite - 32nd Degree Scottish Rite - Alexandria Valley Temple

• Royal Arch Masons-Fauquier Chapter No. 25

• The Heraldry Society, London

• The Ancient Order of the Pterodactyl (The Association of Coast Guard Aviation)

• 202 Squadron Association-Royal Air Force

• Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association

• Combat Helicopter Pilots Association

• U.S, Naval Academy Alumni Association (Class of 1969)

• Military Order of the Carabao

• Military Order of Foreign Wars

• Veterans of Foreign Wars

• Authorships

• "Edward Wright of Sudbury, Massachusetts"

• "Allied Families of Edward Wright"

• "William Burgess of Concord, Massachusetts and Allied Families"

• "The Morgan Family of Greenbrier County, West Virginia"

• "The Holcomb Family of Virginia"

• "The Camden Family of Virginia"

Listed In (Publications)

"U.S. Coast Guard Aviation, 1916 - 1996"

"So Others May Live - Coast Guard Helicopter Rescue Swimmers"