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Saint Helena Plantation Chapter
Palm Harbor, Florida
Organized April 20, 1987

Proud member of the
The Upper Pinellas and Pasco County Regents' Council

Welcome to our Chapter's Website

Saint Helena Plantation Chapter  was organized April 20, 1987, and confirmed by the National Board of Management on April 24, 1987.  The organizational meeting was held at the home of the Organizing Regent,  Mrs. Woodrow Vinson Register.

Count Odet Philippe, a native of Lyons, France, arrived in Pinellas County, Florida, in 1830 aboard his sailing vessel, the Ney.  Prior to his arrival here, Philippe had been taken prisoner by the British at Trafalgar, exiled in the Bahamas and upon release, went to Charleston where he married Charlotte Desheries in 1808.  After her death, Odet married Lady Hortense who helped him rear his four small daughters at Saint Helena Plantation.  It was at Saint Helena Plantation that Phillippe was the first to adapt the grapefruit to Florida culture.

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It is not known why Philippe named his plantation, Saint Helena, however, it is interesting to note that Napoleon was exiled on Saint Helena Island.

Significant to the Chapter's name is the knowledge that Saint Helena, who was the daughter of an innkeeper and mother of Constantine the Great, the first Christian Emperor, became a Christian at the age of eighty.  She gave large sums of money to the poor, and used her power to procure the release of prisoners and the recall of exiles and those condemned to the mines.  She built churches on the sites of the Passion, the Resurrection, and the Ascension.  It is during this period that she is reported to have discovered the wood of the True Cross. 

Diantha Kohler
Regent

We are delighted that you stopped in!
We would like to tell you about our Society.
 

The National Society Daughters of the American Revolution was founded October 11, 1890. There are nearly 180,000 women in some 3,000 chapters throughout the United States and in several foreign countries. The National Headquarters is located in three adjoining structures in Washington, D.C.

NSDAR MOTTO
"God, Home, and Country"

Objectives of the Society

Historic:
 To perpetuate the memory of the men and women who achieved American Independence.

Educational:
 "To promote, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge."

Patriotic:
To cherish, maintain and extend the institutions of American freedom, to foster true patriotism and love of country and to aid in securing for mankind all the blessings of liberty.

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Membership Qualifications

Meeting are held the first Saturday of  each month, October through May.
 For additional information please email our:
 Chapter Registrar

Mary Elizabeth McNaull


 

Chapter Officers

Diantha L. Kohler
Regent

Dorris J. Folwell
Vice Regent

Gladys J. Stout
Chaplain

Bernadette Roback
Recording/Organizing Secretary

Rebecca A. Bandy
Treasurer

Mary Elizabeth McNaull
Registrar

Dawn-Leigh Morrison
Historian

Charlotte D. Hutton
Librarian

Dara M. Zolkower
 Parliamentarian

Chapter Programs for 2009-2010

October 3, 2009
"Eliminating Toxic Chemicals From Your Home"
Speaker: Deborah Dadd

November 7, 2009
"Keeping the Faith"
Speaker: William C. Lewis

December 5, 2009
"Colonial Holiday Brunch"

January 9, 2010
"Cryptic Clues in the Bone Yard"
Speaker: Rebecca Bandy

February 6, 2010
"Lighten Up With Laughter"
Speaker: Michael Sanders

March 6, 2010
"Pinellas County Arts & Cultural"
Speaker: Judith Powers

April 3, 2010
"DAR Museum
Speaker: Roberta Schofield, State Curator

May 1, 2010
"Memorial, Chairman Reports & Awards"

Our Chapter's Patriots

Job Allen, NJ
Lawrence Baker, NC
William Beard, VA
Thomas Bell, NC
Leonard Bickel, PA
Edward Blackshear, NC
Thomas Brock, MA
Alexander Buchanan, NJ
Keith Caleb, MA
George Conn, MA
Lawrence Corley, SC
John Crane, MA
Peter DeHaven, PA
John Dent, MD
James Etheridge, NC
Nimrod Ferguson,VA
Jonas Friend, VA
Frederick Fritts, NJ
Nathaniel Gist, VA
 Simon Gist, PA
Lt. Obadiah Gore, Jr., CT
George Hood, PA
Ebenezer Janes, MA
John Knight, PA
John Knight, SC
Samuel Lawrence, NY
Brig. Gen. Robert Lawson, VA
John Leidy, PA
David Lindsay, PA
Isaac Longstreth, PA
Samuel Major, VA
John Malick, NJ
Nathaniel Mann, MA
Benjamin Manning, Sr., NC
John McRoberts, VT
James Patterson, VA
William Peach, MA
Eleazar Pope, MA
Ludwig Ranck, PA
Richard Sackett, NY
Abraham Seay, VA
Robert Severe, VA
Gideon Skinner, CT
Michael Sisler, PA
John Short, VA
Thomas Shubrick, SC
J. Peter Steigerwalt, PA
Francis Sturgill, VA
Jacob Sturm, VA
Lt. Nicholas Taliaferro, VA
Thomas Tillinghast, RI
Jacob Wentz, PA
Wilson Williams, NY
James Mastin Williams, VA
Matthew Wilson, VA
George Young, SC

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