2008 Barefoot Bulletin and 90th Commemorative Book: PRESIDENT ERDLEY’S MESSAGE TO THE BAREFOOT CLAN

Sunday, June 14, 2009

PRESIDENT ERDLEY’S MESSAGE TO THE BAREFOOT CLAN

Dear Barefoot Kin,
Another year has passed , and it is time to meet again for the 91st Barefoot Reunion. We are looking forward to seeing many of you there this year and hope that you will be able to be with us. 2007 proved to be an eventful year as we had T shirts, Polo shirts, and commemorative booklets available for sale to all of the families. We had many favorable comments on the book and the shirts. What an exhausting job, but fortunately you only have one 90th. It won’t be time for the 100th until 9 more years!!!
Once again we are making an appeal to all of our relatives to please share with us your personal family experiences. We would like to share them at the reunion and through the newsletter. If you fear public speaking, don’t worry; just send it to us and we would be glad to share your memories. We have been slowly entering the family into a genealogy program and searching through many records to verify all of the information available. It has been a slow process, and unfortunately family and work seem to interfere with my hobbies, and my mother refuses to allow me to chain her to the computer. (HAHA) Ancestry.com has been a great help to us in locating information on family members that we didn’t have access to before. It is a long and tedious process. By the next reunion we will have a website up and running.
Last year at the reunion we discussed the feasibility of correcting the information on Rebecca Barefoot’s tombstone. It would be a minimum of $700.00 just to remove the stone and transport it to the nearest monument company. Because of the size of the stone, it cannot be done on site. Once transported, then the cost could easily double to make corrections. I inquired about ordering a bronze plaque to just place over the misinformation but was told that would not work without removing the stone first. I checked with more than one monument company to verify this. At this time it was voted that we put this on hold.

We are glad to see the young people come out to support the reunion. It helps to keep the reunion going strong year after year. If you have family that is not receiving information about the reunion, please contact us with their information. I am so grateful to the other officers for all of the hard work they do to help make the reunion a success each year. See you in August.
Vicki

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90th Commemorative Book Posted

The 90th Commemorative Booklet for the Barefoot Reunions is now all posted. It took a while to scan, upload, and label each page. You are able to copy and paste it into a word processing software program for private printing. What the committee who compiled the book desired to do is to save the minutes, the notices, and the photos that still exist. It was not meant to be a story; rather it is a compilation of things past.

Sylvia Coleman began the layout, Vicki Erdley typed the old minutes except for the later ones typed by Bobbie Ann Woodley, Sec., and Sylvia Sonneborn did the layout. Betsy Hawthorne was the historian who looked up lineage and kept track of obituaries. Other researchers contributed information, including Sharon Sheldon, Becky Barefoot, Bill Kreiger, Gary Mickle, and Dale McLaughlin as well as records kept by Ella Hammer Krise, my mother Elizabeth Mae Krise Hott, and my sister Eleanor Lee Hott Kinnan. Older members of the clan, unknown to me, are also responsible for researching and saving information about the Barefoot Family.

DIRECTIONS TO ENLARGE: To enlarge a page for ease in reading, just click on the page and it will be larger. Back arrow to return.

We are asking that you do not copy this book and present it in a tome for sale. This information should remain free to be shared by all those descended from or interested in the Ross and Barefoot Families.

Enjoy a journey through memory's lane with your bare feet propped up on a hassock. Learn to know your ancestors so that you will recognize them in that great reunion that we will all have some day. So now, we give you the hard-working, serious, intellectual, productive, and sometimes funny Barefoot men and women of the past whose blood continues to flow through our veins to keep their legacy alive today.

Sylvia Hott Sonneborn