2023 Kentucky Stiles Family Reunion

August 6, 2023
Location: Union Band Baptist Church

 

Invitation to the Nelson County Stiles Reunion

You are invited to the 87th Nelson County Kentucky Stiles Reunion. It will be held on Sunday, August 6th in the air-conditioned Union Band Baptist Church Fellowship Hall at 5434 Howardstown Rd., New Haven, Ky 40051. It is located on Highway 84 in Nelson County between Howardstown and Gleanings.

 

Please make plans to attend and bring some type of food to share at our pot-luck lunch at 1:00 p.m. There is always a generous amount of delicious food.

We will have a short business meeting and will be followed by sharing pictures and memories of our families, where families have moved to other states and the reunions. We will have a letter from David Allen Stiles and memories from Mary Lois Stiles Judy. We welcome others to share history of their family or pictures. Please email me if you are unable to come and share information about your connection.

We began creating a Stiles Family Archive last year with the leadership of Palmer and Rose Stiles. If you have family documents or pictures that your children no longer wish to keep they must have attached names, approximate year, grandparents on both sides of the giver, and the main family they are descendants of: Lewis, Charles, Eunice, Densy, John, Chilion, Rhoda, Abraham, Demas or David Stiles, Jr. We need information about the giver: name, address, phone number and email address. Which of the ten children are you a descendant? Sue Lane, the president of the Reunion, will store the donations in a filing cabinet at her home.

We will collect donations for the small 167-year-old church and the amazing Stiles Cemetery. If you are unable to come, please think about making donations to the church where we have met since 1938 and has stain glass windows of our ancestors and to the Stiles Cemetery. YOUR GENEROSITY is our only income other than selling grave plots to continue mowing and upkeep. It takes approximately $2,000 yearly. Donations to the Stiles Cemetery can be sent to our treasurer: Bill Shoemaker,180 Gaddie Ford Rd., New Haven, Ky 40051 c/o Stiles Cemetery. The cemetery has a granite Monument to David Stiles by the John Fitch D.A.R. erected due to his service in the Revolutionary War.

We look forward to hearing from you by email, donation or coming to the reunion. You will enjoy visiting the church and the cemetery behind the church.

 

Sue Stiles Lane, Reunion President
sue.lane1@twc.com