On Friday, May 1, 2009 Phil & I celebrated our 33rd Wedding Anniversary as we were driving to Wiggins, Mississippi (which is about 35 miles north of Gulfport, Mississippi on Highway 49). We went to the 100th Year Family Reunion of the Holcomb Family. We are on the Benjamin Charles (Charlies) Holcomb and Elizabeth Hargrove branch of this tree, which is one of 12 children that James Madison Holcomb and Elizabeth Hargrove gave birth too.
There were about 170 in attendance in Wiggins. We had the get together at a state park with a lake and swimming area so the kids had something to do. It was really weird sitting in a room full of people and realizing that you are related to every one of them one way or another. The oldest member there was 92 and the youngest was 2 months old. The family branch with the most in attendance was Gardner with 58 and Charlie's branch had 16 (that's us).
It was really great to get to see cousins that I hadn't seen in quite a while. June McGraw, (Aunt Iris' daughter - Clarissa Swaggart (Aunt Iris' granddaughter) and her family, Letitia Whittington O'Neill and her family of three children and three grandchildren were there a s well.
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