Susannah Hart Shelby Chapter
FRANKFORT
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CHAPTER ORGANIZED MARCH 1910
Chapters are sometimes name for pioneer women who risked the dangers of the wilderness. The first DAR chapter in the Capital City was named the Susannah Hart Shelby in honor of the first-first lady of Kentucky, wife of the first governor of Kentucky, who married at the first fort in this Garden of the Western Hemisphere.
Susannah was the daughter of Nathaniel Hart, one of the proprietors of the Transylvania Company. She came with her parents from North Carolina and lived for a time in Boonesborough. Isaac Shelby, a dashing young lieutenant who afterwards became conspicuous in three wars, twice governor of Kentucky, soldier, statesman, leader, and hero of King Mountain, was on military duty at Boonesborough. Young Shelby fell in love with the attractive, vivacious Susannah Hart and they were married in the spring of 1783 by Squire Boone, Daniel's brother. History records that the fair Susannah raised a crop of flax on her father's place near the fort. She spun and wove it into material so exquisitely fine for her wedding dress that it could be drawn through her wedding ring. Thus, the name of Susannah Hart Shelby is like a golden thread of romance and sentiment, and is woven with the warp and woof of the early history and traditions of Kentucky.
Among the charter members of this chapter were three sisters, who owned and resided at Liberty Hall, the first fine home built in Frankfort. It is a beautiful example of Georgian architecture, designed by Thomas Jefferson, a lifelong friend of the builder, John Brown, who later became the first U.S. Senator from Kentucky. In October after its organization, the chapter was hostess to the first DAR Conference held in Kentucky. Mrs. Matthew T. Scott, President General, of Washington, came for the meeting and was entertained at Liberty Hall by her sister-in-law Mrs. W.T. Scott.
Office Title |
Officer Name |
| Regent | Jane A. Semones |
| Vice Regent | Suzanne Cox |
| Chaplain | JeanEllen Melton |
| Corresponding Secretary | Linda Twyman |
| Recording Secretary | Linda Twyman |
| Treasurer | Mary Hines |
| Registrar | Myra Evans |
| Historian | Dorothy Wilson |
| Librarian | Dorothy Wilson |
CHAPTER PATRIOTS |
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| DAVID ALLEN of Virginia | CASPER KARSNER of Virginia |
| ROBERT ARMSTRONG of Virginia | GEORGE LAIL of Virginia |
| JAMES BALL of Virginia | ANTHONY LITSEY of Virginia |
| JOSIAH BOONE, JR. of Virginia | WILLIAM LONG of Virginia |
| LEROY BRIZENDINE of Virginia | MOSES LOOMIS of Connecticut |
| SAMUEL BURKE of Virginia | ANDREW LYNAM of Virginia |
| WILLIAM CHENAULT of Virginia | WILLIAM McBRIDE of Virginia |
| SAMUEL COBB of South Carolina | JAMES NOURSE of Virginia & Maryland |
| WILLIAM CORNETT of Virginia | JOHN NOURSE of Virginia & Maryland |
| JOSEPH COVENHOVEN of Virginia | WILLIAM OVERALL of Virginia |
| JOHN CREECH of North Carolina | THOMAS OWEN of North Carolina |
| AARON DARNELL of Virginia | JAMES PATTON of Virginia |
| MICHAEL DAVID of Virginia | BENJAMIN PENN of Maryland |
| JOSEPH DICKENS of Virginia | ABRAM POTTER of North Carolina |
| PETER EVANS of Virginia | WILLIAM PURVIS of Virginia |
| WM. ABRAHAM FERGUSON of Virginia | WILLIAM SAMPSON of Virginia |
| JAMES GARRARD of Virginia | JOHN SHACKLETTE of Pennsylvania |
| PETER GLASCOCK, SR. of Virginia | PLIKER DEDRIC SILER of North Carolina |
| BENJAMIN HARDING of Virginia | HENRY SPARKS of Virginia |
| NATHANIEL HART of Virginia & N. Carolina | CHARLES SPRINGER of Maryland |
| JOHN HAWKINS of Virginia | ISAAC STEVENS of Virginia |
| WILLIAM HAWKINS of Virginia | DEMOVILLE TALBOT of Virginia |
| JAMES HAYDEN of Virginia | HEDGEMAN TRIPLETT of Virginia |
| JACOB HEADY of North Carolina | JAMES VAN SANT of Pennsylvania |
| WILLIAM HEDGES of Maryland | CYRUS VOWLES of Maryland |
| THOMAS HELM of Virginia | WILLIAM WALLER of Virginia |
| JOHN HURST of Virginia | JOHN WHITAKER of Maryland |
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