The Carlin Reunion for descendants of Rev. War soldier, John Champ Carlin,
will be held on Saturday, October 20, 2001, at
the Park Casino building at the Monett city park
at Monett, Missouri. The gathering will begin at 11:00 a.m. with a pot-luck
lunch at 12.
There will be a meeting after the lunch, and updates on descendants and
the family history. A table will be provided for for old photos, family
Bibles, and other family treasures.
After the meeting, there will be a tour to the sites related to Asa and Amos
who settled in the area.
Some of the sites will be a drive by the New Site Baptist Church where they
attended services, a drive to the New Site Cemetery where many, many Carlin
descendants are buried, then a stop at the farm and gravesite of Asa and
Maria, a stop by the pioneer monument dedicated to Asa and Maria at
Purdy, Missouri, and then a stop at the secluded Carlin/Wallen cemetery
where Amos's wife and two children are
buried. (It is in a woods on the farm that she and Amos owned.) The tour
will end with a
stop at the restored Jolly Mill, located in a picturesque valley along Capps
Creek. That is the mill where Amos and Asa and many others in the area
took their grain to be ground. (There used to be a settlement there known
as
Jollification. It was burned during the Civil War by bushwhackers.)
For more information, contact: Frankie (Carlin) Meyer at 2235 S. Fallen
Oak. Joplin, Missouri 64801. e-mail: fjmeyer(a)4state.com