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| CHAPTER HISTORY |
| Cary, North Carolina |
| MEMBERSHIP |
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| Admission to membership in the NSDAR is either by invitation through a Chapter in your State Organization or Unit Overseas. No Chapter may discriminate against an applicant on the basis of race or creed. |
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| Any woman is eligible for membership who is no less than eighteen years of age and can prove lineal, blood line descent from an ancestor who aided in achieving American independence. She must provide documentation for each statement of birth, marriage, and death. |
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| The chapter's name, Asbury Station, was chosen for an early depot in the vicinity of Asbury Chapel which was founded about 1850. This locale is two miles east of Cary near what is now the front of Ephesus Baptist Church. Asbury Chapel was a Methodist church, which stood diagonally across from the Ephesus church and was named for Bishop Francis Asbury whose active ministry included the Revolutionary period. He made visits to Wake County in 1780, 1800, 1804, and 1811. His circuit in 1780 included a visit in the home of a County Magistrate, Tingnall Jones, who lived west of Cary in the area now known as Morrisville. |
| Asbury Station Chapter, NSDAR was organized February 5, 1982. Martha Dixon was appointed Organizing Regent on April 29, 1981 by the Board of Management. After many months of diligent exploration, prospective members started preliminary meetings in September at the Cary Public Library. They, also, met in November and the following January with these ladies as organizing members: |
| Asbury Chapel sold land to the North Carolina Railroad. An academy and several businesses flourish in the Asbury community in the 1860s and the 1870s. By 1880 the town of Cary had become the stronger community and by the turn of the century the Chapel ceased to exist. In 1896 the Southern Railway Company leased the North Carolina Railroad. Asbury Station became a stop at a platform where the train would take on and leave off passengers. |
| In 1869, Frank Page built the Page-Walker Hotel as a wayside lodging for rail travelers and today it is one of Cary's oldest historic structures. |
| The flag and name stood at that location until I-40 was extended through the area. |
| It has been repaired and renovated and serves as an arts and history center for the town of Cary. |
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| CHAPTER GOALS To survive and grow, stressing the ideals of NSDAR: Education, Patriotism, History, and hoping to promote an enlightened public opinion. |
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| Helen Jordan
Bourk Evelyn Totton Goodmon Irene Olive Kittinger Anna LaPage Neese Catherine Pinckney Williams Doris Finch Zacny |
| Martha Lehman Dixon Virginia Brown Ingram Marjorie Jordan Mathews Edythe Nance Perry Terrine Holleman Woodlie |