“The Ultimate Summitt Gathering"
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact Person: Bob Shuping
3201 Irish Potato Road; Concord, North Carolina 28025
Tel: 704.786.5252; Fax: 704.786.6283; [email protected]
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ULTIMATE SUMMITT MEETING TO UNITE FAMILY MEMBERS FROM ACROSS COUNTRY
CONOVER, NORTH CAROLINA – Descendants of the original Summit(t) Family who first settled in Pennsylvania in the 1750s and later migrated to Kentucky and present day Catawba County, North Carolina during the American Revolution, will gather from across the nation at St. John’s Lutheran Church for “The Ultimate Summitt Gathering: The National Reunion of 2001” on July 13-15.
The event will take place at the same church in Catawba County (then Lincoln County) where the original North Carolina ancestor, Francis Summit also known in German as Johannes Frantz Sammet, attended church with his large family. Still standing in the church cemetery is his classic German script tombstone which translated reads: “Here lies buried Frantz Sammet. He was born in the year 1741 in February and he died on 27 February in the year 1818.”
Six months before the event has even taken place, family members from as far away as Arkansas, West Virginia, Oklahoma, Indiana, Missouri, Massachusetts and Florida are already making plans to attend the national reunion.
“After searching for my ancestors for well over three decades and publishing The Summitt Family Quarterly for six years, I finally have the chance to go back to the place where my ancestor Francis Summit lived his life,” said Paul M. Summitt of Columbia, Missouri. “This is going to be a meaningful trip for both me and my family. I am sure I will not forget this experience anytime soon.”
For years, numerous Summit reunions have taken place in states like Missouri, Tennessee, Indiana and North Carolina; however, never before has a national effort to combine all branches of the Summit(t) Family -- that have been in America for 250 years -- been attempted before.
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