Col. Tench Tilghman DAR Chapter-History

CHAPTER HISTORY

The Colonel Tench Tilghman Chapter was organized on November 3, 1922 by the following members:

Nellie Allnut	Corresponding Secretary
Sarah Loughborough Brown	Recording Secretary
Virginia Pitzhugh Crawley	Registrar
Emma Moffat Dickens	Treasurer
Elizabeth Getsendanner	Regent
Sara Randolph Hardeastle
Mary Welsh Henderson
Margaret Cabell Loughborough	Vice Regent
Margaret McClelland Loughborough
Mary Lyddane	Historian
Anne Estelle Hall
Alberta Brown Regester
Ethel Lyddane Spears

The Col. Tench Tilghman Chapter has been guardian of the Bethesda Madonna of the Trail Statue since its dedication on April 19, 1929. To mark the old trails used by settlers, twelve of these NSDAR memorials to Pioneer Mothers were erected from Bethesda to Upland, California. The Bethesda statue was originally located at the corner of Wisconsin Avenue and Montgomery Lane. It was stored for a number of years during the construction of a Metro station, but eventually relocated on the north side of the post office in the Bethesda Metro Center, only a block from its original location. In 1986 the chapter held a rededication ceremony and in 1993 promoted restoration of this cherished monument.

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