Georgia Society, Sons of the American Revolution

244th Anniversary Commemoration of the First Siege of Augusta
2025-09-13 09:30 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Kroc Center Auditorium, 1833 Broad Street, Augusta, GA, 30904, United States
The Henry Laurens Chapter, Aiken, South Carolina Society and the Colonel William Few Chapter, Augusta, Georgia Society Sons of the American Revolution Cordially invite you to attend the 244th Anniversary Commemoration of the First Siege of Augusta
Saturday, 1:00 PM, September 28, 2024
Salvation Army Kroc Center Auditorium, 1833 Broad Street, Augusta, Georgia
Schedule of Events:
1. 9:30 AM – 12:00 PM. We will host a combined meeting of the Georgia and South Carolina C.A.R. in the Kroc Center Auditorium.
2. 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM. The local SAR chapters with assistance from the Augusta Chapter, NSDAR, will host a luncheon consisting of BBQ sandwiches, potato salad, and tea provided by Larry Sconyers BBQ in the Kroc Center Lunchroom. There will also be dessert. You must sign up for the luncheon in advance and the cost is $16.00 per person.
3. 1:00 PM – 1:45 PM. We will conduct the commemoration ceremony in the comfortable 300-seat Kroc Center Auditorium. The ceremony will consist of bringing greetings, a battle seminar by Historian Steven Rauch and wreath presentations.
4. Following the indoor ceremony, we will go out to the battlefield behind the Kroc Center to watch a mock battle reenactment demonstration to be conducted by our militia and artillery sections firing black powder muskets and six black powder cannons.
SAR, DAR, C.A.R. and other patriotic and lineage societies and chapters are invited to participate in a formal wreath laying ceremony as part of the program. Participants presenting a wreath need to fill out the following form and return it to me. Please check in with Sue at the registration table by 12:30 PM. Continental, Militia or period attire is encouraged.
To ensure your organization’s recognition in the program, please complete and return the registration form provided to Sonny Pittman, Event Coordinator, at: sonnypittman@comcast.net
Sonny and Sue Pittman, Event Coordinators, 2202 Holly Haven Court, Augusta, GA 30907-3779, (706) 860-1050; sonnypittman@comcast.net
244th Anniversary of the First Siege of Augusta Attendance and Wreath Registration
Registration forms should be returned to Sonny Pittman at sonnypittman@comcast.net
Your Contact Information (will be held in strict confidence):
Name: ___________________________________________________________________
Address: _________________________________________________________________
Telephone Number & Email Address: __________________________________________
Society Name: ____________________________________________________________
Chapter Name: ___________________________________________________________
Name of Presenter: _______________________________________________________
Title (if desired): _________________________________________________________
Will be in Uniform/Militia or Colonial Attire: Yes _______ No _______
Will Participate in the Color Guard: ________________
Will Participate in the 12:00 PM lunch @ $16 dollars per person. Yes ______ No ______
Number of Attendees for lunch: __________________ x $16.00 =_______________total

Funeral - Karen Sikes - Wife of David Sikes - Button Gwinnett Chapter
2025-09-13 13:00 - 14:00
SAR Color Guard has been requested
A Memorial Service will be held at 1:00 PM on Saturday, September 13, 2025, in the Chapel of Tim Stewart Funeral Home in Lawrenceville
Arrangements by Tim Stewart Funeral Home, 300 Simonton Road SW, Lawrenceville, GA 30046.
Tom Jacques of the Button Gwinnett Chapter is coordinating.

Constitution Day - Augusta - 10:00 AM
2025-09-16 10:00 - 23:30 | St. Paul’s Church, 605 Reynolds St, Augusta, GA, 30901, United States
The Augusta Chapter, NSDAR cordially invites you to join us for a Wreath Laying Ceremony celebrating Constitution Day and honoring Colonel William Few, Jr., signer of the U.S. Constitution
Tuesday, September 16, 2025at 10:00 AM
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church 605 Reynolds Street Augusta, GA

Luncheon to follow, $20 Tyler Hall R.S.V.P. by September 11, 2025
Julie Berry 1107 Glenwood Drive Augusta, GA 30904
Augustadartreasurer@gmail.com 706-799-7250

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Constitution Day with Junior American Citizens - Watkinsville, GA
2025-09-16 16:00 - 18:00
Program hosted by Rev John Andrew Chapter NSDAR and their Junior American Citizens (JAC) group at the Watkinsville County Library. A skit will be preformed on the Consitituion with display tables related to the American Revolution Time Period.
The SAR will be hosting a table on Revolution Era Weapons and Flags.
Time: 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM

250th Dedication of Acworth Granite Marker
2025-09-17 11:30 - 12:30 | Patriots Point, 4425 Beach Street, Acworth, GA, 30101, United States
Come join us in a ceremony dedicating a granite marker honoring the 250th Anniversary of American Independence, 1776 – 2026
Veterans Memorial Park at Patriots Point, 4425 Beach Street, Acworth, GA 30101
Wednesday, September 17, 2025, at 11:30 AM – note that the time of the event has been moved from Noon to 11:30 AM
Sponsored in cooperation with the City of Acworth by the Captain John Collins Chapter.
For questions, contact Chris Thompson at chris.thompson561@gmail.com

Presentation of Colors - Sunbelt Ag Expo - Moultrie, GA - Noon
2025-10-14 11:00 - 13:00
Presentation of Colors at the Sunbelt Ag Expo at Noon (please be onsite by 11:00 AM) in Moultrie, GA
Sunbelt AD Expo, 290-G Harper Boulevard, Moultrie, Georgia 31788-2157
We need to know of your participation AT LEAST TEN DAY in ADVANCE

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Presenting the colors at the Sunbelt Ag Expo in October will certainly be a feather in our tricorns. The luncheon begins at noon so we need to be on site no later than 11:00. Guardsmen need to allow extra time as traffic is usually congested at Spence Field, site of the Expo. Since most of the guardsmen live north of Columbus and Macon, they may want to come the night before. If so, they need to make arrangements as soon as possible as lodging is at a premium for miles around during Expo. There are only two hotels in Moultrie that I would recommend, Hampton and Holiday Inn Express. There are quite a few hotels in Tifton which is 30 miles north. They need to make a reservation as soon as possible. I will need to let Expo know how many passes we need 10 days in advance which would be Oct. 4.
If the guardsmen have never attended Expo, they may want to spend the afternoon walking the grounds of North America’s premiere farm show. The Expo includes a 100-acre exhibit area with both indoor and outdoor exhibits adjacent to a 530-acre working research farm. Exhibits also include lawn and garden, hunting, fishing and family living. The show is held at Spence Field, site of a World War II Army Airfield training facility. Some remnants of the airfield are still visible. I’m sure they would generate attention as they always do walking through Expo in their Continental attire.
Thomas Coleman is the coordinator and has invited anyone with a camper to park it at his farm which is about 17 miles from the event site.

Heroes of the Hornets Nest Commemoration
2026-02-13 10:00 - 15:00 | Elijah Clark State Park, 2959 McCormick Highway, Lincolnton, GA, 30817, United States
Elijah Clark State Park – 2959 McCormick Highway, Lincolnton, GA 30817
10:00 AM – Kick off at the restored cabin and Elijah Clark Museum with a variety of demonstrations on colonial lifestyle, colonial attire, a Traveling Trunk display, and cannon and musket demonstrations. Fourth grade classes from Lincoln County Elementary School will rotate through each station.
12:00 P.M. – A free indoor chili cookout and dessert buffet at noon will be served compliments of the Elijah Clark State Park, Lincoln County Historical Society, Chapters of Georgia Society SAR and the Elijah Clarke Chapter NSDAR. After lunch, the featured program will be a Sons of the American Revolution Grave Marking Ceremony for Col. John Dooly of the Wilkes County GA Militia. We will dedicate the new Dooly cenotaph beside the grave of Elijah and Hannah Clarke.
1:00 PM – Please arrive for the Grave Marking Ceremony Wreath Presentation Check-in.
1:30 P.M. – Col John Dooly grave marking ceremony beside Elijah Clarke’s grave. Regional color guard and militia units will combine to bring pomp and circumstance to the occasion.
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Patriot Information
Patriot Name: Col. John Dooly
Patriot ID: P-149226
Ceremony Date: 13 Feb 2026
SAR Cemetery #: C-0112976
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Park entry fees will be waived for attendees. www.GaStateParks.org/ElijahClark
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Revolutionary Days Heroes of the Hornets’ Nest Ceremony
Elijah Clark State Park
Lincolnton, GA
Friday, February 13, 2026
1:30 pm
Wreath Registration
Name of Wreath Presenter________________________________
Organization: SAR DAR CAR (Please circle) Other___________________
Position: _____________________________________________
Presenter’s e-mail address ________________________________
Send registration form by February 7, 2026, at 6 p.m. to
Bill Tankersley, email: wjtank@comcast.net
Little River Chapter, GASSAR
706-825-5810
Or by regular mail to:
Bill Tankersley
2645 Louisville Rd

Battle of Kettle Creek - Morning activities in Washington, GA
2026-02-14 08:00 - 12:30 | Washington Georgia, Washington, GA, United States
Saturday Morning – February 14th, 2026
A National Society SAR Historic Sites & Celebrations Committee Event
Washington Square in Historic Downtown Washington, GA 30673
9:50 A.M. – The Georgia Society SAR Elijah Clarke Militia Honor Guard with Musket Salutes will raise the 1776 Colors of the Revolutionary War on the Wilkes County Courthouse Flagpole.
9:50 A.M. –12 Noon – Come experience Revolutionary Living History including demonstrations and performers. Located just off the square in the Court Street Livery (16 W Court Street, Washington, GA) Look for the SAR Living History building signs.
10:10 A.M. – The Georgia Society SAR combined Color Guard & Militia will gather at the Revolutionary War monument on the Washington City Square to Salute and Honor the Wilkes County Militia – (the Heroes of the Hornets’ Nest) and all Revolutionary War Patriots.
10:30 A.M. – Color Guard and parade participants gather behind the Courthouse for the assembly of the Revolutionary War Parade — ALL the public (Children & Grownups) are welcome to participate in the event as our National Colors and re-enactors lead us around Washington Square. Parade STARTS at 10:45 A.M.
10:45 A.M. – The parade will start and will march two complete times around Washington Square and will end behind the courthouse at Fort Washington Park.
11:15 A.M. – Georgia Society SAR Elijah Clarke Militia and other re-enactors with black-powder muskets will present a dramatic portrayal of the Battle of Kettle Creek in Fort Washington Park behind the Wilkes County Courthouse.
12:00 P.M. – The Georgia Society SAR Color Guard–Elijah Clarke Militia and others, will present arms and fire a thunderous musket salute as the Revolutionary War Colors are lowered and our Present-day National Colors are raised on the Wilkes County Courthouse Flagpole.

Commemoration of Vann's Creek - 11:00 AM
2026-02-21 11:00 - 12:00 | Bobby Brown Park, 2509 bobby Brown State Park Road, Elberton, GA, 30635, United States
New Date
Battle of Vann’s Creek Ceremony February, 21, 2026
The Samuel Elbert Chapter GASSAR invites the GASSAR, NSDAR, CAR and general public to attend a Revolutionary Ceremony in honor the Battle of Vann’s Creek on Saturday February 21, 2026 at 11:00 a.m. at the Danny Guthrie Pavilion, The address Bobby Brown Park, 2509 Bobby Brown State Park Rd. Elberton, Ga 30635.
This will be the 15 th Annual Ceremony.
Our speaker will be Eden Pethel, President, Elisha Winn Society, Children of the American Revolution. She will be doing her prestation on Georgia’s 2026 tag that she designed. Our Liberty Tree and Bench will be ½ miles from the pavilion. Plans are to have it completed before the ceremony. We will have a small part of the ceremony dedicated to this and get pictures next to our bench and tree. An article will be in the Graniteer Magazine along with a photo. Our bench is donated by Micheal Baston, Baston Granite, Elberton, Georgia.
Directions from Elberton at GA Hwy 17/GA Hwy 72 and Oliver Street Go South on Hwy 17/72 2.0 miles, turn left on GA-72 East, Go 12.2 miles then turn Right on Bobby Brown State Park Road go 7.1 miles to
the Bobby Brown Park entrance.
Tell the attendant you are with our ceremony. The address is for the entrance. We will have SAR signs at
the entrance and each turn.
Wreath Presenters:
Register by February 18, 2026 to be printed in the program. RSVP to present a wreath.
Note: Send this to Russell Terrell 706-491-2714 or samuelelbertsar.rbt@gmail.com or rbterrell58@gmail.com
Directions from Elberton at GA Hwy 17/GA Hwy 72 and Oliver Street Go South on Hwy 17/72 2.0 miles, turn left on GA-72 East, Go 12.2 miles then turn Right on Bobby Brown State Park Road go 7.1 miles to the Bobby Brown Park entrance.
Tell the attendant you are with our ceremony. The address is for the entrance. We will have SAR signs at the entrance and each turn.
Musket firing will be allowed.

Lyman Hall Chapter - Birthday Celebration for Patriot Lyman Hall - 1:00 PM
2026-04-11 13:00 - 14:30
Lyman Hall Chapter Georgia SAR and the Colonel William Candler Chapter National Society DAR Invite you to attend a ceremony celebrating the 302nd Anniversary of the Birth of Lyman Hall
Saturday, April 11th, 2026, at 1:00 PM
Monument near parking lot at Hall County Government Center – 2875 Browns Bridge Rd, Gainesville, Ga 30504 – GPS N34° 27.8365 W83° 87.715
Please RSVP for Wreath Presentations by Tuesday, April 7th
To: Mike Watkins at Michael.LHSar@Yahoo.com
For wreath registration please include: Organization, Name of Presenter, Office or Title of Presenter, Email Address, Telephone number

Flag Day Service and Annual Flag Retirement - Cumming, GA
2026-06-13 10:00 - 11:00 | Ingram Funeral Home, 210 Ingram Avenue, Cumming, GA, 30040, United States
The Robert Forsyth Chapter and the Piedmont Chapter of the Georgia Society SAR invite you to their Flag Day Service and Annual Flag Retirement Service.
Location: Ingram Funeral Home Chapel – 210 Ingram Avenue – Cumming, GA 30040
Date: 13 June 2026
Time: 10:00 AM
This is considered a National Event by the NSSAR Color Guard

Georgia Society SAR Summer Board of Managers Meeting
2026-07-25 10:00 - 12:00 | Garden Patch Restaurant, 100 Southland Drive, Barnesville, GA, 30204, United States
Georgia Society SAR Summer BOM Meeting
Pam’s Garden Patch Restaurant
100 Southland Drive
Barnesville, GA

Georgia Society SAR Fall Board of Managers
2026-10-24 10:00 - 12:00 | Garden Patch Restaurant, 100 Southland Drive, Barnesville, GA, 30204, United States
Georgia Society SAR Fall BOM Meeting
Pam’s Garden Patch Restaurant
100 Southland Drive
Barnesville, GA
