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Clapp Family Reunion...August 12-14 2004
August 12...
Dinner at 6:30pm
Come to Brick Church for the dinner buffet catered by Western Steak
House . For reservations mail a check for $10.00 per person or call
Donna Bonds or Bruce Clapp. Afterward enjoy Grandma's pound cake and
homemade ice cream. [See bottom for addresses and phone numbers]
Speaker at 7:15
Heather Hampel from Ohio State Univeristy will share her American
Medical Association article about a genetic change that affects Clapp
cousins.
This change affects 50% of children. See page 12 for more information..
August 13..
Genealogy Exchange
9:30-Noon
Join the genealogy exchange and shake your family tree. Heather Hampel
will return to counsel and offer free testing to at-risk individuals.
Light snacks and beverages will be provided.
Afternoon Tours
At 2:00 PM Tours of Clapps Mill, Alamance
Battleground, Pyles Defeat, and Lindley Mill will be available for those
who are interested.
Saturday Dinner...
6:00 PM
Gather at Brick Church for a home-cooked buffet. For reservations mail a
check for $10.00 or call Donna Bonds or Bruce Clapp. [See bottom for
addresses and phone number]
7:00 Speaker . Following the meal, John Braxton will speak about "our"
kinfolk ties to the Clapp & Gates Gun Shop.
August 14...
Brick Church
11:00 Service...
Worship with your Clapp Family at "Der Klappe Kirche".
At 12:20 PM Lunch at a local restaurant.
John Braxton To Tell the Story of Clapp & Gates:
From Farm Implements to Gun Shop
North Carolina Treasure". John W. Braxton, nationally renowned metal
smith and muzzle loading rifle and musket authority, will trace and tell
of "our" kinfolk ties to the Clapp & Gates Gun Shop which earned
legendary fame for manufacturing Confederate weaponry.
The shop, only a few miles distant from Brick Church , was burned by
enemy forces during the Civil War.
It began as a manufacturer of farm implements. Braxton will show
examples of before and after Military contracts pushed the metal workers
into armory items that are now rare and collectable
Braxton is a much sought-after speaker. In his Snow Camp blacksmith
shop, he reshuffled work to duplicate the 1830's door locks and design
the matching steel hand rails for both front doors of "Old Brick" so
that its restoration was completed on schedule.
Clapp cousins May Have A predisposition to cancer
Donna T. Bonds
Recently Mother [Grace Thompson] received a call from a researcher
friend in Pennsylvania who shared an article entitled "Back to Berks"
written by Steven Henshaw for the April 14, 2005 edition of the Reading
Eagle. In it Hinshaw spoke of the discovery that traced a genetic
mutation with a high predisposition for colon and endometrial cancer to
ancestors of those settling in Berks County, Pennsylvania
This genetic change, known as the American Founder Deletion, has a 50%
chance of passing to children noted researchers at Ohio State
University. "Testing confirmed that the families, nine of them, had a
relative in common (Reading Eagle, A2)."
Three of these nine families have been linked 13 generations to a single
German immigrant family that arrived in 1727 on the James Goodwill.
After settling in Berks County, researchers indicated that part of the
family moved to Guilford County, NC. Then, after a few generations,
migrated through the Cumberland Gap where researchers found mutations
along the way.
Mother was concerned because researchers estimate 15,000 descendents are
predisposed to colon and endometrial cancer. She had endometrial cancer
25 years ago, her mother had cancer, and three of Bruce Clapp's uncles
(one of them with colon cancer), an aunt, and a sister died of cancer. .
As a result, Mother had me send copies of the news article to family
members and learned recently that the genetic change affected two of
George Valentine and Anna Barbara Stiess' sons, Johann Philip and John.
They do not know whether it was George Valentine or Anna Barbara who
carried the gene change. As a result, mother is sending a blood sample
to the Ohio State researchers for testing. If she has this gene, they
will conclude that the father was the carrier rather than the mother.
Want to know more about this research? Join us at the Clapp Family
Reunion. Heather Hampel, certified Genetic Counselor from Ohio State
University will share information on Friday evening after dinner. She
will return on Saturday to counsel with individuals and will offer free
testing for the known gene change to appropriate at-risk family members.
If you have questions about the American Founder Deletion, call Heather
Hampel, cancer genetics counselor at Ohio State University toll-free at
1-888-329-1654.
Reservations $10. per meal and Newsletter 10. per year.
Mail to Linda Patterson at 703 Heather Road, Burlington, NC 27215.
Or phone Donna Bonds at 336/993-5782
or Bruce Clapp at 336/449-6103 at work or 336/449-7633 at home.
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Mary Ellis
County Coordinator Alamance NCGenWeb
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