Mrs. Betty (Tom) Leininger, at the February 2024 meeting, presented a program for the Isaac Van Wart Chapter, NSDAR, on her experience attending the NSDAR Continental Congress held in Washington, D.C., in June 2023. From visiting Ford’s Theatre, the DAR Library, the DAR Museum containing 31 Period Rooms, and  hearing outstanding speakers in the DAR Memorial Hall, it was an exciting and fun week.

Any woman 18 years or older who can prove lineal descent from a Patriot of the American Revolutionary War is eligible for membership. Visit the NSDAR Membership webpage to learn more.
Photo courtesy of a chapter member.

Isaac Van Wart Chapter, NSDAR, at the March 2024 meeting, inducted two new members. Pictured left to right are Chapter Regent Deb Hardeman, Inductees Kimberly Dick Robbins and Nancy Bowen Ellzey, Chapter Chaplain Nancy Smith, and Chapter Registrar Mickey McConahay.

If you are a woman 18 years or older and can prove lineal descent from a Patriot of the American Revolutionary War, you are eligible for membership. Visit the NSDAR Membership webpage to learn more. Photo courtesy of a chapter member.

DAR member Sheila Baltzell-Linn gave a presentation in September 2023 on Samuel Fuller, the physician on the Mayflower who settled Plymouth Colony in 1622. He was a signer of the Mayflower Compact which was the first self-governing document in the colonies. Sheila told the harrowing story of the pilgrims. Samuel Fuller was her eighth great-grandfather. Photo courtesy of a chapter member.

Isaac Van Wart Chapter, NSDAR was privileged to have Mr. Harrison Frech, a local historian, speak to the group in February 2023. He shared the story of rediscovering the identity of Hugh Thompson, a Civil War soldier suffering from amnesia after war injuries, who eventually found his family again in Van Wert, Ohio. Photo courtesy of a chapter member.

Isaac Van Wart, NSDAR, recently inducted new members in February 2024. Pictured left to right are Cora Scharf, Rebecca Macki, Christal Etzkorn, and Mindy Wehner. Photo courtesy of a chapter member.