Keeping “The Land of The Free” FreeBy: Terry L. DuBois, DBFA President

From the Revolutionary War, to the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, DuBois men and women have proudly served in the military defending our freedom. What is a veteran? A Veteran is someone, who at one point in their life wrote a blank

check to the United States of America for amount up to and including, their life. That is beyond honor, and there are people in this country who no longer remember that fact. Freedom isn’t free!My father, William R. DuBois, was in the Army Air Corps in WW II. My older brother Larry and I both served in the Air Force in the 60’s. My younger brother, Jon, had a 20 year career in the Air Force from 1973 to 1993. I served in the Air Force from 1966 to 1970 as a security and law enforcement specialist. In 1968 and 1969 I was stationed at Udorn Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand as a K-9 attack dog handler with the 432nd Security Police Squadron. In 1969 and 1970, I was stationed at Nellis AFB in Las Vegas, Nevada. Larry served from 1963 to 1967. He was a jet engine mechanic. Jon was a missile technician and finally a Tech School Instructor for the minute man missile. He retired as a TSgt. Two of Larry’s children are currently serving in the National

Guard. His oldest daughter Jenny, a Captain, is currently serving her second tour in Iraq. His son David, who was wounded in Iraq, is a National Guard recruiter.In April 1782, Gen. George Washington rode into Newburgh N.Y. and found a sprawling town. At the end of what is now Library Street was the fieldstone house of the late Col. Jonathan Hasbrouck. The wife of Col. Hasbrouck was CATHARINE (Tryntje) DUBOIS, born. 2-19-1730. Catharine was my 1st cousin 7 times removed. From April 1782 to August 1783, Hasbrouck’s house became Washington’s home and his longest-occupied military headquarters. At the end of the Revolutionary War, Washington left “headquarters,” as it came to be known, and the Hasbrouck family reclaimed the house. A period of extended decline followed, until the Hasbrouck family could no longer maintain the property, and it was ultimately purchased by the State of New York. On July 4, 1850, Washington’s Headquarters was named a state historic site and became the first of its kind in the nation.Dina DuBois, past DBFA President, “My father Jesse DuBois, one of the founders of DBFA, served in the

navy in 1918. I have a picture of him in his naval uniform. When he went home by train on Nov. 11, 1918 and the band was playing when he got off, he thought it was because of his birthday. He turned 18 on November 11, 1918. He didn’t know it was because the armistice was signed that day....He received great care at the VA hospital being a WWI vet.”

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December 2010

ContentsThe Land of the Free 1President’s Message 2The Gathering 4

Executive BoardTerry L. DuBois, President46715 McLeod RdMyakka City, FL 34251-3907President@dbfa.orgPamela Bailey,Vice President Finance305 Hyde Park RoadLandenberg, PA 19350finance@dbfa.orgCatherine Smith, Treasurer 119 N Ohioville Rd/New Paltz, NY 12561genealogy@dbfa.orgMarjorie FindlayVP Growth & Retention538 Willoughby RoadMason, MI 48854-9442Sally DuBoisVP Indiana State Chair3020 Garfield AvenueHighland, IN 46322-1746Lynn Perez, Secretary & Membership Chair2 Milton PlaceHuntington, NY 11743secretary@dbfa.orgmembership@dbfa.orgAppointed OfficersEditor-In-Chief, Sally Lord4268 RT 20Durham, NY 12422newsletter@dbfa.orgwww.durhamvalleygraphics.com

From The President’s DeskBy Terry L. DuBois, DBFA President

Seasons Greetings!On behalf of the DBFA Executive Board may you all have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!It was great to see so many of you at the Gathering! HHS did an outstanding job with this first time event. The weather was perfect. The DBFA was well represented. Seeing all the families there together for the first time was a thrill. We said goodbye to Eric Roth and his wife Dawn. They will be missed.We also welcomed Christina Bark as the interim Executive Director of HHS. We look forward to

working with her While at the Gathering, the DBFA Executive Board met in full for the first time in several years. In the past the Board has held meetings by telephone to conduct business. I presented Dr. Pamela Bailey with a certificate of appreciation for 10 years of service to the DBFA. We have done some reshuffling of the Board. Pam will remain on the Board as VP of Finance. The Board approved appointing Catherine Smith to the Board as Treasurer. Formerly the offices of VP of Finance and Treasurer were combined and held by Pam Bailey. Pam will chair the finance committee, oversee our investments and serve as financial advisor. Catherine Smith will also continue to serve as DBFA genealogist. Catherine is working on the completion of volume 20 of the DBFA genealogy books.The year 2011 is a special time for the DBFA. At our reunion/ business meeting in October the DBFA will celebrate our 45th year. Make plans to be there for a VERY special weekend! Shortly after the beginning of the year I will be setting up committees to plan a memorable event. If you have pictures from the early years please contact me. Most of the DuBois Family genealogy has been focused on American descendants of Chretien DuBois and his children, Anne, Francoise, Louis and Jacques. Very little was known about Chretien, his wife and their families, which the DBFA would accept as proven. In August, at the Executive Board meeting, the DBFA Executive Board was presented a report on extensive research into our family genealogy in France. DBFA Genealogist, Catherine Smith, presented the Board with the report on behalf of the author. Catherine has been corresponding and met with the author for about a year. We were all very impressed with the information in the report. The research answers many questions about Chretien and his family and fills in many blanks. It goes back a number of generations before Chretien. The Board approved accepting the information. Beginning with the June 2011 newsletter, the DBFA newsletters will feature a series of articles on this new information. May you all have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!Terry L Du Bois, President

Joyce Conrad, “My husband, Russell Conrad Jr. SMSgt, USAF (Ret) served in the military 21+ years...Serving in both Korea (while in the Army) and in Viet Nam while in the Air Force. Our youngest son Kelly L Conrad SMSgt, USAF (Ret) also served in the Air Force having retired after 21 Years+...We now have a grandson, Christopher M. Graves, TSgt USAF serving in the military (Air Force) who is planning on making it his career (in his ninth year now). Our oldest son Kevin L Conrad Machinist Mate...well, he went Navy...”David J. Beisler, served in the Air Force. His brothers, Robert A. Beisler and Peter C. Beisler, both served in the Army.Jerry D. Lomshek, US Navy, 1962-1966 Fran DuBois, “My brothers: Robert Lee DuBois dob: 13 Dec 1929, Edward John DuBois dob: 10 Mar 1931, Cousins: Raymond L DuBois dob: 9 July 1929, James L DuBois dob: 12 Dec 1937, Carl Lawrence Cousins continued - Three brothers all served at same time in WWII: Bruce O Byrnes dob: 11 Dec 1921, Gerald A Byrnes dob 20 Mar 1925, Ward R Byrnes dob 2 Nov 1923 And of course, great-great grandfather Martin DuBois served in the Revolutionary War.”Caroline DuBois, “My grandfather, Captain Eugene Floyd DuBois - US Navy WW I, was awarded the Navy Cross for rescuing (twice) a submarine in WW1 - first by climbing the mast and fixing the radio antenna in a storm, and second fixing an oxygen purifier while deep under the sea. My father, a past DBFA President, Lt. Commander Eugene DuBois - US Navy WW IIWanza Merrifield, Vernon C. Merrifield, M.D. Captain---Army, Vernon C. Merrifield, Jr. – ArmyLois Whealey- “My Uncle Larry (Laurence Philip Hatch), a great grandson of Lana DuBois Manning, served as a navy medic in World War II in the Pacific. My great uncle (Merle) Elliott Ranney, a grandson of Lana DuBois Manning, served in World Wars I and II. In WW II he had a top post at the supply depot in Bayonne, NJ. He had a tour with NATO, and retired as a Captain. My husband, Robert H. Whealey PhD, served in the peacetime army, 1955-56 and was with the Historical Division of the 7th Army Headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany.Edmund L. DuBois, Brig. General (Ret) U.S. Army, “My grandfather, Edmund DuBois, wounded in battle in the Philippine Insurrection while serving as a Captain; my father, Bird S. DuBois, retired as Colonel; my son, Laurence M. DuBois, retired as Major.”

Col. Lewis DuBois, As a Captain in the Revolutionary War he commanded the 5th New York Regiment in the battle of Fort Montgomery in 1777.James S. DuBois, Pilot in the Army Air Corps in WW II. “My father Fred Daniel DuBois served in the U.S. Army in WW I (signal Corps).My granddaughter, Abigail D. Fulgham Capt USAF intelligence officer still on active duty.”Susan Sloan, Abraham DuBois, NJ, Captain of Militia, 2nd Battalion, Revolutionary War Gary Hartman Beach, WWII, Army Air Corps., Lewis Boswell Beach, WWII, Navy, John Fisher Sloan, Jr., WWII, Army, John Fisher Sloan, III, Vietnam Era, Army, Capt. Ben King, Afghanistan, currently deployed.There are no doubt many more that were not been mentioned.We also remember and honor those not related that serve. We thank them and their loved ones for their sacrifices for our freedom. May they all have a MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR! THANK YOU ALL!

Coming in the June 2011 NewsletterResearching the ancestry of Chretien du Bois“The DuBois family is fortunate in that descendants have been interested in the family’s history for well over a century.” Henry B. Hoff, Some Observations on the Du Bois Family, 126 New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 175, 177 (1995). It is to the intrepid determination of our genealogical pioneers that the American descendants of Chrétien du Bois of Wicres, France, owe a great debt of gratitude for the knowledge we hold of our revered ancestors.Fortunately, the intense interest in the life and times of Chrétien and his family has not been limited to us, but, it turns out, is also held by those of that family who never left France. The research of descendants of Chrétien’s daughter, Anne, has borne fruit and the results have recently been posted on French websites and published in French genealogical periodicals. On the basis of combined knowledge that could not have been attained without the aid of e-mail and internet, the picture of Chrétien’s ancestry and his family has suddenly become much clearer, opening exciting new avenues of research and endeavor. Monte Horton Birmingham, Alabama

A Message from the President of Historic Huguenot StreetMary Etta Schneider

This past August we held The Gathering on Huguenot Street. History was written. It was the first time, to my knowledge, that all of the Family

Associations gathered to hold their meetings at the same time, as well as to meet our cousins and celebrate this incredible treasure that we share.

The Family Collaboration Committee was formed in 2008 to provide a forum for all of us to work together to ensure the growth and sustainability of HHS for future generations. Your president, Terry DuBois, represents the DBFA on this important committee. Most other Family Association Presidents participate as well. We are working together to set a road map that provides transparency and vision for the Families and HHS. An important part of work of this committee in 2010 was to organize The Gathering. Roger Crispell recently sent me an email that expressed my own feelings so well. He said that “All Families realize that Historic Huguenot Street is unique, and that it needs to be supported and

nourished” by all of us. For several years we have been functioning as multiple organizations. But let us consider what future generations

should remember of our contribution to Huguenot Street. Roger goes on to say that “the Family Associations are vital to HHS, and

each is playing an important role on Historic Huguenot Street by helping to keep their associated properties ‘alive and well’. At the same time, Families

have pursued their individual family interests, and that is encouraged. All families are documenting their genealogy, and equally important, they’re

recording the stories of their family histories. These collections are the valuable history of Historic Huguenot Street and are what make it come alive.”

Historic Huguenot Street did come alive at The Gathering. I hope that many more of you will be inspired to engage, not only in future Gatherings, but also by celebrating

your heritage, your connection to American history and the pride of knowing that the Street is our collective home…where history continues to be written. If you haven’t done so recently, visit our website at www.huguenotstreet.org to see what’s new or sign up for

our free eNews. It’s a simple as clicking on the button at the top of our home page. Editor’s Note- For links to the Family Associations, visit the Huguenot Street page on the DBFA website:

http://dbfa.org/huguenot_street.htm

All Families realize that Historic Huguenot Street is unique... it needs to be supported and nourished” by all of us.

The ice cream table was kept busy. Getting acquainted at the Lefevre House.

Eric Roth giving his farewell address.

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The benches of the Fort porch were a popular spot.

Lunch on the Lawn of the Deyo House.

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******* Important Notice *******Change in DBFA Dues Collection Procedure

Effective immediately, all DBFA dues should be mailed to Catherine Smith, DBFA Treasurer. Catherine will deposit the checks and email a report to the membership chair, Lynn Perez, who will then record the payments and print and mail new membership cards to the members.Dues renewal notices should be mailed soon. All dues that expire on December 31, 2010 or before are now due. Check the date on your membership card. Please mail your dues in now. You don’t need to wait for the renewal notice. Please mark check - dues renewal and type of dues (individual, household, family ETC). Make check payable to DuBois Family AssociationMail toCatherine Smith DBFA Treasurer119 N. Ohioville Rd.New Paltz, NY 12561Current DBFA dues levels and feesIndividual - 1 year ……$20 / 3 years ………….. $50Household (2 adults) - 1 year..$30 / 2 Years ….…$50Family (2 adults 3 children) - 1 year ………….....$60Contributor one year …………………………….$50Donor one year …………………………………. $100Patron one year …………………………………. $500

Membership forms are available on the DBFA website www.dbfa.org