Had a fantastic time at Family Reunion in 2009. Can't wait till another.

The Parry's from Iowa and the Harper's from Alabama.

My father, born in Montana, came to Alabama from Iowa with a degree in music  hoping to enrich the South with his music. He met and married a beautiful  southern lady and they moved to North Carolina to teach for one year. Forty  years later, he retired from the Rocky Mount city schools.
  The families they came from and the families that were created by them is the  subject of this project. Our ancestors include famous Baptist and Methodist  ministers, Revolutionary War heros, Yankees, Rebs, farmers, merchants,  Scottist, Welsh, Swedish, Russian and French. They helped settle Jamestown and  New Hampshire. 
 They went out West with the Forty-Niners to search for gold. Some became  ranchers, others became lawmen in the Rocky Mountains. They fought and died in  the Revolutionary War and The War of 1812. They even shot at one another at  Drewry's Bluff in the War for Southern Independence. Thank the good Lord they  were bad shots and missed each other. 
 Even one of the signers of the Constitution of the United States weaved his way into  the family.