The Okemah Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution held their last meeting of the year this past week.
The meeting was highlighted with a program given by Rebecca Hold titled, “Nancy Ward, Beloved Woman of the Cherokees and DAR Patriot.” Ward was a Cherokee woman who aided America during the Revolutionary War promoting peace among the settlers and the Cherokees.
As an elderly woman, she earned the nickname, “Granny Ward” for taking in and caring for orphans. She died in 1822. The Nancy Ward chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution built a monument to her by her grave in 1923 near Benton, Tennessee.
The Okemah chapter was pleased to welcome new members Elizabeth Harkey Goedde, from Spring, Tex., who, along with other DAR members in the chapter, comprise five generations of women in DAR, and Ruth Newport from Paden.