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Page 1 of 4 BRACEWELL REUNION SET FOR JUNE 6 | Members of the Bracewell clan will gather on June 6 for the 35th Annual Bracewell Reunion. The meeting will be at the Bedias Civic Club Building in "downtown" Bedias, Texas. Lynn Bracewell, this
| | Year’s president, is expecting this to be the most successful reunion in recent times. The program is set for 11:00a.m., but everyone is encouraged to come earlier, if possible, to enjoy a few moments of visiting before the program.
| | A song service and devotional will open the program, to be followed by and introduction of guests, reading of memorials, and adding of memorials, and adding of the new "limbs." There’ll be a business meeting, then a final song
| | service before adjourning to the dinner tables. An effort will be made to keep the program short this year to provide plenty of time for visiting and sightseeing after lunch.
|  | | ‘70 Reunion Recalled
The Bracewell Reunion met for the 34th time on June 8, 1970.
Raymond Bracewell led everyone in "When We All Get To Heaven" and "Promised Land."
President Dick Parris welcomed everyone and introduced the visitors.
Don Crowson presented the devotional, which was based on "Reunion" from John 3:12.
The theme of the program was "Memories of Old Re-unions." Joe Taylor read minutes from the meeting of June 5, 1939.
Resolutions were read for J. B. Rice, George Stevens, B.B. McWhorter, Mona Reid Bracewell and W. E. Boney.
The business portion of the meeting was devoted mainly to a discussion of the newly founded cemetery fund. (See story on Page2)
Raymond Bracewell, reporting on the cemetery fund, said that James Bracewell had been elected to serve on the fund board and that Robert Lee Up-church would serve as depositor member of the board.
The nominating committee chairman presented the officer candidates for 1971, who were: Lynn Bracewell, president, Joe Taylor and Dick Farris, co-vice presidents, and Linda Massey, secretary- treasurer. All were elected by acclamation.
New "limbs" added during the preceding year included a son, Robert, to Kenneth and Shirley Farris. A son-in-law was added to the family of Sue Bracewell. | | Vol. 35, No. 1 | | | | June, 1971
| | Bracewells in US Since 1700
The ancestry of Joseph Marion Bracewell, grandfather to all who celebrate the Bracewell Reunion, has been traced to the early 18th Century. About the year 1700, an immigrant forefather from Ireland made his start in the New World. The site of that new beginning was in North Carolina on the Tar River near the town of Tarboro. The names of the immigrant father and mother are unknown; we know that two children were born to them, both boys: Richard and Robert. | | Richard Bracewell
Richard Bracewell was married twice and had nine sons.
The first son, Robert, served in the Revolutionary War, taking part in many of the important events of that struggle. He was the only child of the first wife.
From Richard’s second marriage came eight other sons, one of whom was Richard Bracewell II.
Richard Bracewell II
In 1764 Richard Bracewell married Agness Proc-tor. Many children were born to them. Again, they were all boys, except for one, Elizabeth, who was the first daughter to be born into the Bracewell family in this country.
All of the children were in North Carolina and faired well.
Soon after the Revolutionary War Richard sold his property and moved the family to Georgia. They made their home on Briar Creek in Burke County. Here, in contrast to their good fortune in North Carolina, several of the (Continued on Page 2)
| | Bracewell Homestead Built On Indian Village Site
By Joe Taylor
About a half mile south of the site of the old Bracewell homestead, (which is still in the family), on the crest of a hill is a small outcropping of rock. The rocks are common sandstone with a coating of platen indicating their long exposure.
In several of these rocks are holes, some 10 inches in diameter and 12 inches deep, which were obviously man made.
Although the last known camping grounds of the Bedias tribe was near Village Lake the tribe was known to have ranged the entire area between North and South Bedias creeks.
The Bracewell homestead was apparently an Indian
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MT. PLEASANT CHURCH - Bracewell Reunions began here 35 years ago.
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