Honoring Our Ancestors

This blog is dedicated to the Brewer Family of North Carolina. These pages present our recent family gatherings and more distant family history.
We have an ongoing effort to capture the Brewer genealogy to best honor our ancestors. We've identified our ancestors who moved from Mecklenburg County, Virginia to Orange and Chatham Counties, NC as early as 1750. In the 1800s, we saw a migration to Alexander and Iredell Counties in NC, Tennessee, and Kentucky. By the 20th century our family made their homes all over the nation.
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Thursday, May 26, 2011

Brewer Family Reunion, June 12, 2011

We had a grand Brewer Family reunion on Sunday, June 12, at the Statesville Civic Center.  About 80 attended--the best attendance in our history.  Below are pictures of the event.  To see a larger version of any picture, just click on it.  If you want a high-resolution photo, let me know. 

Our senior members, the grandchildren of Jerry Milton Lee Brewer and John Preston Brewer

  
Family of Orlando Roy Brewer


Family of Ila Etta Elizabeth Brewer


Family of Dewey Samuel Brewer, Sr.


Family of Izetta Margara Brewer


Family of Joe Sephus Brewer, Sr.



Family of Shubert Pharis Brewer

Family of Thomas Benjamin Wiley Brewer and James Robert Brewer



Several members of the Brewer family were unable to attend our reunion on June 12, but these members got together a couple of months ago.  Below are pictures of the folks who were not with us in June:

Family of Ora Una Brewer



Family of Edna Bonnie Brewer



Family of Maldon Oscar Brewer


 


Sunday, May 22, 2011

Shoot Out Between the Duckworth Brothers and the Brewer Brothers

At our mini-reunion in October of 2010, we discussed the shoot out between our ancestors and the Duckworth brothers.  At the request of several family members, below is the newspaper article of August 18, 1892 in the Statesville Landmark.  We believe the Brewer brothers are John Preston and Jerry Lee Brewer.  Our Brewer ancestors were particularly skilled with their pistols.

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