Dingler Family History

2008 Reunion - Dinner Meeting Details

The 2008 Reunion is only 48 days away! Have you made your reservations? If not, the deadline to get the discounted rate is June 20. Don’t miss out!

Our dinner and meeting will be held on Saturday night (July 19) at Chimneyville Smokehouse. Chimneyville Smokehouse is a family style barbecue and farmers market restaurant and catering service in Jackson, across from the Mississippi State Fairgrounds.

Our dinner will be served buffet-style starting at 6 PM. The menu includes:

• Smoked pulled pork and chicken
• Baked beans, potato salad, and rolls
• Peach Cobbler
• Iced tea

The cost is $13 per person. We need to have a headcount to the caterer a couple weeks in advance, so if you will be at the reunion and dinner, please email us at reunion@dingler-family.org and let us know how many people will be in your group.

After dinner, we will have our meeting, and maybe if we’re lucky Terry will bring some photos from the trip he is on right now in the Middle East.

I don’t know about you, but I’m getting hungry for some good barbecue! Be sure to join us in Jackson and at Chimneyville Smokehouse.

Cemeteries in Douglas Co. Georgia

On March 22, I posted about the Dingler Cemetery in Douglas Co., Georgia. Recently I received copies of photos of the headstones in that cemetery along with photos from the Oak Grove Cemetery. Some background info from Sandy Whittington of the Douglas Co. Cemetery Preservation Commission:

Coordinates for the Dingler cemetery are N 33 35 36.3 and W 084 53 50.1 - it’s in landlot 184, district 3, section 5. When James Dingler settled here in the 1850s, it was part of Carroll County but subsequently became part of Douglas County in the 1870s. James moved here from Pike County, GA.

The Sticher cemetery and the Dingler cemetery are one and the same (though we found no Sticher markers). John’s sister Clarissa married Newton Sticher, and they’re both buried just up the road in Oak Grove cemetery — along with several other members of the Sticher family.

The photos I received were resized from the originals, so I’m checking to see if we can get the originals. I’ve posted them as is but will re-post if I can get the originals. Here are J.T. and Sarah’s markers. To see all of the photos and for more info about the cemeteries, see the links that follow.

Dingler Cemetery (Douglas Co., Georgia)

• Google Maps (Select Dingler Cemetery from list on left)
• RootsWeb
• Celebrate Douglas County

Oak Grove Cemetery (Douglas Co., Georgia)

• Google Maps (Select Oak Grove Cemetery from list on left)
• RootsWeb
• Celebrate Douglas County