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Descendants and friends of descendants of Bethania at the Hauser-Williams-Russell 2002 Family Reunion. I ? ? Dr. Charlie B. Hauser of Winston-Salem, the oldest descendant, and Jessica Harris of Clinton, Md., the youngest descendant attending the Hauser Williams-Russell 2002 Fam ily Reunion Hauser- Williams-Russell clan holds family reunion SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE The descendants of the Hauser-Williams-Russell family held their annual reunion July 26 28. Reunion headquarters was the Sleep Inn in Winston-Salem. The family started having annual family gatherings more than 80 years ago when Martin began inviting family members and friends to his home to cele brate his mother's birthday. Reunions are held in the Yad kinville-Winston-Salem area every even year and outside the area every odd year. Next year's reunion will be in Las Vegas. The Friday evening activities were held at the home of Dr. and Mrs. Charlie B. Hauser in Win ston-Salem. Activities included a social, a dinner, a business meet ing, a PowerPoint presentation showing a picture of the head of the family, pictures from previ ous reunions, and information and scenes showing past achieve ments of individuals and descen dants. The group took a bus tour Saturday morning through Win ston-Salem, Bethania, Boonville and Yadkinville. On Saturday night the Dixie Russell Moore Fellowship Banquet was held in Winston-Salem at the Urban League. Activities at the banquet included a memorial; family news; the giving of scholarships; the election of Sterling Hauser of Cleveland, Ohio, as president elect; and the recognition of Dr. Charlie B. Hauser as the oldest descendant present and Jessica Harris of Clinton, Md. as the youngest present. Scholarships were given to Talgin Cannon, a junior at Clem son University; Dayle Pickney, a junior at the University of Mary land; Sierra Hauser-Price, a soph omore at the University of Michi gan; Maria and Marlon Hauser, seniors at Eastern Michigan Uni versity; Bob Wagoner, a sopho more at A&T State University; and Michelle Rice, a freshman at Grossmont Junior College. The reunion was concluded Sunday with morning worship at Pleasant Grove Baptist Church in Yadkinville and a luncheon at the Western Steer Restaurant. The Hauser-Williams-Russelb family had its beginning in 1861 when Bethania gave birth to her first son. Alexander. She had been purchased for $850 in Bethania. N.C.. around 1840 by T.C. Hauser, a merchant-farmer, and brought to Yadkin County, where she later became Hauser's head housekeeper. She had two additional sons. Martin and San ford, before leaving the planta tion after the end of slavery. It was reported that the Hausers fathered the boys pnd the boys and Bethania took the Hauser name. After slavery. Bethania mar ried Ned Williams and they added four additional children to the family: Crawley, Taylor, Sally and Louis. After Ned's death, Bethania married David Russell and they added four more chil dren to the family, Commie, Lucy, Henry and Dixie. Bethania was therefore the mother of 11 children: four girls and seven boys. Many of the descendants of Bethania live in the Yudkinville Winston-Salem area, but others are scattered throughout the Unit ed States and the world. They have been or are now participat ing in many occupations, some of which are: farmers, business per sonnel. ministers, engineers, town councilmen, a state legisla tor, firefighters, a physician, police officers, a dentist, an actress, model, school teachers and administrators, college pro fessors. Descendants attending this year's reunion came from towns in North Carolina, California, Michigan. Ohio, Virginia. Mary land and Pennsylvania. Four of the descendants were from the family of Rev. and Mrs. D M. Hauser of Yadkinville. Fannie M. Rice of Northridge, Calif., trav eled the farthest to attend the reunion. Steven Floyd of Win ston-Salem is the past president: Dr. Jannis Floyd of Mansfield. Pa., is the present president; and Sterling Hauser of Cleveland, Ohio, is the president-elect of the descendants of the Bethania Hauser-Williams-Russell descen dants. Steele graduates from the Medical Careers Institute SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE Darla S. Steele has graduated from the Medical Careers Institute of Virginia Beach, Va. She ; attended the insti tute's practical nurs ing school in Nor folk. Va. The gradua tion was held June 14 ^ at First Baptist * Church in Norfolk. ; She received an L.P.N. (licensed practical nurse) degree. She is the daugh ter of Dorothy Steele of Winston-Salem and the late Denard Steele. She is also in the Navy Reserve in Virginia. She has a son, Terrez S. Steele, who is a junior at Norfolk State. She plans to con tinue her education in the nursing field. I M Darla Steele Community Calendar Literacy project Do you want to improve your reading skills or learn to read? The Buffalo Creek Literacy Pro ject of Stokes County is seeking adult reading students who would would like to work with a volunteer. Tutoring is free and available to any adult in the Stokes County area. Call 969 5808 or 922-9293 for more infor mation. Search under way The 1971 Junior Class of Atkins Senior High School is planning an Atkins 1972 "Class That Never Was" Reunion for Aug. 2-4. All classmates are asked to call (336) 767-8894 or (336) 764-8477. Volunteer assistance If your group is seeking vol unteer assistance for a one-day, nonprofit, community-related event, requests may be made in writing. Include organization's name, address, contact person and phone number, type of event, time, date, expected number attending and type of help need ed. Mail to: Sisters of Bivouac Chapter 530, Order of the East em Star, PHA, Attn.: Program Committee, P.O. Box 4652, Winston-Salem, NC 27115 4652. Power wheelchairs Miracle on Wheels makes available power (electric) wheel chairs to nonambulatory senior citizens (65 years old and up), usually at no out-of-pocket expense if they qualify. No deposit is required. The electric wheelchairs are provided to those who cannot walk and cannot self-propel man ual wheelchairs in their homes or independent living quarters and who meet the additional qualifi cations of the program. The serv ice also may be available to the permanently'disabled of any age. Call 1-800-749-8778 or visit the Web site at www.durablemedical.com for more information on the details of this program. Hospice Hospice welcomes volun teers. Opportunities are available to work with this agency in a number of ways, including: as patient-family volunteers, who run errands or stay with patients so care-givers can get away for a few hours; as bereavement vol unteers, who offer their support to families whose loved ones have died: as spiritual care vol unteers - clergy or lay people - who visit with patients and their families, providing a special sup port system; as volunteers at the Kate B. Reynolds Hospice Home, who are there on a daily basis, providing a support system for parents and their families as well as Hospice staff; as office volunteers, who help with day to-day activities, as Carousel group volunteers, who help by working as grief group facilita tors as well as assisting with monthly orientations, grief edu cation workshops and day-to-day activities; as Cqmp Carousel vol unteers. who assist with a week end camp for children and adults who have experienced the deaths of loved ones; and as Hospice Hands volunteers, who help by speaking to area groups, baking special treats, helping with odd jobs and repair work, assisting with bingo, helping with chil dren's support programs, coordi nating special events and'.work ing with annual programs such as Light Up a Life, the Memorial Tree, Hospice Sabbath and Hos pice Hope Run. For more information, call Susan Hudson at 768-3972. 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