At the 2010 Tarvin Family Reunion, Gary Hoffman reported that the book committee has been busy preparing several books on the following lines: Line 11, Line 12, and Line 5. We hope to restart work on the Line 4 book as well.
Sales of the Line 1 book have exhausted the supply. Gary introduced a CD version of that book which will be available immediately. This joins the Line 10 Book on CD. Line 3 and Line 7 books are still available in hard bound format, but they are moving quickly.
Monday, October 11, 2010
Next year in Terre Haute
At the conclusion of the reunion in Ft. Mitchell, Kentucky, Tarvin Family Association president Ken Tarvin announced that next year's event will be held in Terre Haute, Indiana, an area that is home to many Tarvins of Line 10 plus some from other lines, including William. Watch the web site for more details
Great Reunion Concludes
Another Tarvin family reunion has just concluded. This was the best attended reunion ever. Over 120 cousins participated over the course of the three-day event. It had all you could ask for in a reunion: cemeteries, genealogy libraries, historical excursions, lots of food and family fun, plus the auction of memorabilia and the raffling of the Tarvin quilt.
Monday, February 8, 2010
2010 Reunion Planned for Northern Kentucky
The Tarvin reunion committee has announced the dates for this year's reunion. It will be held October 7th, 8th and 9th, 2010 in Ft. Mitchell, Kentucky, at the Drawbridge Inn. This Northern Kentucky area is Tarvin "ground zero," the area where Rev. George Tarvin's thirteen children raised their families and many descendants still live. It will be a treat to visit this area and get to know some Tarvin cousins.
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Cynthia Zavala tells of native forbears
Cynthia Tarvin Zavala is on the Saturday afternoon schedule in Mobile.
Cynthia grew up in Alabama raised by her Mother because of her Father’s struggles with alcoholism and finally his death when she was eleven years old. She never knew of her strong lineage to the Mvskoke and Cherokee people until adulthood. Always feeling a connection, she started her search in her twenties to find out about her Father’s people. She was thrilled to find how much rich history there was in her family. She is a direct descendant of Sehoy Tait, Wind Clan of the Creek; a descendant of the Panther clan of the creek; a descendant of a Tukabatchi Chief of the upper Creeks once living in Alabama; her Cherokee ancestors lived in New Echota during the Indian Removal (Trail of Tears).
Cynthia still resides in her Ancestors homeland of Alabama, A place she says is as much a part of her as the air she breathes, surrounded by their spirits.
She is an enrolled member of the Cherokee Tribe. She was a member of her Tribes all Woman drum group for several years. Now she has stepped away from the big drum and plays her hand drum to “Sing the Message of Spirit”. November is a very busy month for Cynthia, her “Apache” husband Jesse and their children and grandchildren. November being Native American History month, they are called to educate in schools throughout Alabama, teaching the History of the Indigenous peoples that once lived in Alabama and sharing with song drumming and dancing.
Cynthia will share her experiences with us at the hotel on Saturday afternoon following the luncheon at Bellingrath Gardens. We are hopeful her talented grandchildren will be able to accompany her to dance and join in song.
See her website: http://www.spirittravelers.com/.
Cynthia grew up in Alabama raised by her Mother because of her Father’s struggles with alcoholism and finally his death when she was eleven years old. She never knew of her strong lineage to the Mvskoke and Cherokee people until adulthood. Always feeling a connection, she started her search in her twenties to find out about her Father’s people. She was thrilled to find how much rich history there was in her family. She is a direct descendant of Sehoy Tait, Wind Clan of the Creek; a descendant of the Panther clan of the creek; a descendant of a Tukabatchi Chief of the upper Creeks once living in Alabama; her Cherokee ancestors lived in New Echota during the Indian Removal (Trail of Tears).
Cynthia still resides in her Ancestors homeland of Alabama, A place she says is as much a part of her as the air she breathes, surrounded by their spirits.
She is an enrolled member of the Cherokee Tribe. She was a member of her Tribes all Woman drum group for several years. Now she has stepped away from the big drum and plays her hand drum to “Sing the Message of Spirit”. November is a very busy month for Cynthia, her “Apache” husband Jesse and their children and grandchildren. November being Native American History month, they are called to educate in schools throughout Alabama, teaching the History of the Indigenous peoples that once lived in Alabama and sharing with song drumming and dancing.
Cynthia will share her experiences with us at the hotel on Saturday afternoon following the luncheon at Bellingrath Gardens. We are hopeful her talented grandchildren will be able to accompany her to dance and join in song.
See her website: http://www.spirittravelers.com/.
Amanda Ingram to tell of Tarvin-Creek Indian connection
Amanda Ingram will speak on Friday evening at the Mobile reunion.
Amanda Ingram, a native of Alabama, is a descendant of William (I) Tarvin and, more specifically, his son Richard (I) Tarvin. She was born in Dothan, Houston County, Alabama, to Ron Ingram and Cheryl Bailey. Dothan is in the southeastern corner of the state.
Although the family moved to Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama when she was 5 years old, she and her sister spent many summers with her great-grandparents in Brundidge, Pike County, Alabama. Brundidge is a very small, country town just south of Troy, Pike County, Alabama, with a population of about 2,300. It is such a small town that everybody knows everybody. In fact, almost everyone is related in some way or another.
Ingram’s great-grandparents were H.B. Galloway and Oramae Turvin, no the name isn’t misspelled. Turvin, or Tervin, is the surname of those Tarvin descendants living in and around south Alabama and northwest Florida.
H.B. Galloway worked many years paving highways for the Alabama Department of Transportation, while Oramae Turvin spent her time watching children. As they got older, they spent their time harvesting the crops they had planted during the season (e.g., squash, field greens, butterbeans, field peas, okra, watermelon, tomatoes, etc.). Any family that came to visit would be expected to shell butterbeans and peas alongside them.
These Turvin and Galloway families have been a very close-knit group. In fact, they hold an annual family reunion every June for members of this particular branch. It is held every year at Shady Grove Baptist Church in Brundidge, the church of Ingram’s great-grandparents.
In 2001, Ingram graduated from the University of Alabama (UA) with a major in Biology and a minor in Anthropology. This is where interest was sparked in history and other cultures. While at UA, she spent a lot of time cataloguing Native American remains, as well as participating in an archaeological dig at Moundville Archaeological Park.
In the fall of 2002, she graduated with a Master’s of Public Health, with a focus on Epidemiology, from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Upon graduation, she moved to Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, where she is a foodborne epidemiologist for the Tennessee Department of Health. She spends most of her time investigating foodborne outbreaks. However, in her spare time she likes to do genealogy research.
At the behest of her grandmother, Nadine (Galloway) Bailey, Ingram started doing research into her great-grandmother’s family, the Turvins. A lot of research had already been done on her great-grandfather’s side of the family (Galloway), but little was known about her great-grandmother’s side (Turvin). It wasn’t until she started digging further into records that she realized that this branch of Tarvins were of Creek Indian descent.
To hear more about this branch and their connections to the Creek Indians of Alabama, Georgia and Florida, Amanda Ingram will be speaking at the 2009 Tarvin Family Reunion Dinner on Friday, October 2nd.
Amanda Ingram, a native of Alabama, is a descendant of William (I) Tarvin and, more specifically, his son Richard (I) Tarvin. She was born in Dothan, Houston County, Alabama, to Ron Ingram and Cheryl Bailey. Dothan is in the southeastern corner of the state.
Although the family moved to Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama when she was 5 years old, she and her sister spent many summers with her great-grandparents in Brundidge, Pike County, Alabama. Brundidge is a very small, country town just south of Troy, Pike County, Alabama, with a population of about 2,300. It is such a small town that everybody knows everybody. In fact, almost everyone is related in some way or another.
Ingram’s great-grandparents were H.B. Galloway and Oramae Turvin, no the name isn’t misspelled. Turvin, or Tervin, is the surname of those Tarvin descendants living in and around south Alabama and northwest Florida.
H.B. Galloway worked many years paving highways for the Alabama Department of Transportation, while Oramae Turvin spent her time watching children. As they got older, they spent their time harvesting the crops they had planted during the season (e.g., squash, field greens, butterbeans, field peas, okra, watermelon, tomatoes, etc.). Any family that came to visit would be expected to shell butterbeans and peas alongside them.
These Turvin and Galloway families have been a very close-knit group. In fact, they hold an annual family reunion every June for members of this particular branch. It is held every year at Shady Grove Baptist Church in Brundidge, the church of Ingram’s great-grandparents.
In 2001, Ingram graduated from the University of Alabama (UA) with a major in Biology and a minor in Anthropology. This is where interest was sparked in history and other cultures. While at UA, she spent a lot of time cataloguing Native American remains, as well as participating in an archaeological dig at Moundville Archaeological Park.
In the fall of 2002, she graduated with a Master’s of Public Health, with a focus on Epidemiology, from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Upon graduation, she moved to Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, where she is a foodborne epidemiologist for the Tennessee Department of Health. She spends most of her time investigating foodborne outbreaks. However, in her spare time she likes to do genealogy research.
At the behest of her grandmother, Nadine (Galloway) Bailey, Ingram started doing research into her great-grandmother’s family, the Turvins. A lot of research had already been done on her great-grandfather’s side of the family (Galloway), but little was known about her great-grandmother’s side (Turvin). It wasn’t until she started digging further into records that she realized that this branch of Tarvins were of Creek Indian descent.
To hear more about this branch and their connections to the Creek Indians of Alabama, Georgia and Florida, Amanda Ingram will be speaking at the 2009 Tarvin Family Reunion Dinner on Friday, October 2nd.
Dawn Conway is expert on Baldwin County genealogy
Dawn Conway will speak on Thursday evening:
She grew up in Baldwin County, as did her husband Pete. After becoming interested in family history many years ago, she discovered that many of their ancestors have been in the Baldwin County area since the late 1700’s, making them some of the first settlers in the area.
Dawn and Pete left Baldwin County as newlyweds when he was serving in the Air Force. They lived in Zweibruecken, Germany for 3 years, then southern Maryland for a year, attended college in south Alabama, then back to southern Maryland. They lived and worked in the Washington, DC, area for over 13 years, but chose to move south to raise their daughters. They now live in north Alabama and work in the Huntsville area – where husband Pete is a program analyst for a defense contractor and Dawn is the lead software engineer for a NASA climate satellite project at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. They have been married for 31 years and have two amazing daughters – Kaitlin and Rebecca – Kaitlin is in college and Rebecca will soon follow. They also have a Shih-Tzu, Mollie, a Bassett Hound, Floyd, a mixed Bassett, Ginger, and three cats, Jake, Midnight, and Mitten.
They visit Baldwin County often since all their immediate family is in the area. They love to travel. They have been to Japan, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, many of our beautiful United States, and Pete has even been to the Marshall Islands. Besides travel and genealogy, her hobbies include jewelry making and scrap booking, and web page development. They are also active members of Friendship United Methodist Church in Athens, AL.
Dawn hosts the Baldwin County, Alabama Genealogy Trails site http://genealogytrails.com/ala/baldwin/
She will be speaking on Thursday evening, October 1st.
She grew up in Baldwin County, as did her husband Pete. After becoming interested in family history many years ago, she discovered that many of their ancestors have been in the Baldwin County area since the late 1700’s, making them some of the first settlers in the area.
Dawn and Pete left Baldwin County as newlyweds when he was serving in the Air Force. They lived in Zweibruecken, Germany for 3 years, then southern Maryland for a year, attended college in south Alabama, then back to southern Maryland. They lived and worked in the Washington, DC, area for over 13 years, but chose to move south to raise their daughters. They now live in north Alabama and work in the Huntsville area – where husband Pete is a program analyst for a defense contractor and Dawn is the lead software engineer for a NASA climate satellite project at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. They have been married for 31 years and have two amazing daughters – Kaitlin and Rebecca – Kaitlin is in college and Rebecca will soon follow. They also have a Shih-Tzu, Mollie, a Bassett Hound, Floyd, a mixed Bassett, Ginger, and three cats, Jake, Midnight, and Mitten.
They visit Baldwin County often since all their immediate family is in the area. They love to travel. They have been to Japan, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, many of our beautiful United States, and Pete has even been to the Marshall Islands. Besides travel and genealogy, her hobbies include jewelry making and scrap booking, and web page development. They are also active members of Friendship United Methodist Church in Athens, AL.
Dawn hosts the Baldwin County, Alabama Genealogy Trails site http://genealogytrails.com/ala/baldwin/
She will be speaking on Thursday evening, October 1st.
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