Mitchell Family returning to Coosa County to celebrate Family Reunion, June 20-22, 2025
2010 Family Reunion group photo
Special to the News
Submitted by Deloris Mitchell Boykin and Teresa Lee Mitchell
After fifteen years, the Mitchell Family returns to Coosa County, Ala., to celebrate family during the weekend of June 20-22, 2025. And this year, the reunion most fittingly coincides with the National Juneteenth Holiday.
During that weekend, the family will engage in activities to strengthen the bond of unity through remembering shared experiences and honoring our ancestors who led us on a path to success.
We gather to honor our earliest known ancestral couple, Henry and Amanda Leonard Mitchell (1823-1913). The couple was together in Taliaferro County, Ga., until the 1840s when, through the capriciousness of slavery, Amanda and their four children were brought to Coosa County, Ala., and Henry remained in Georgia. The family was forever separated.
Through their three surviving children; Mariah, Andrew and Henry; they have many descendants. Some remained in Coosa County, contributing to the growth and vibrancy of the local community. Others sought opportunities elsewhere, especially during the Great Migration (1915 – 1970).
Among their descendants are the following: Joseph Everett Mitchell (1876-1952), founder, editor and publisher of the “St. Louis Argus;” Reverend Adolph Thomas (1870-1953), a local minister; Reverend Chester Mitchell (1910-1976), also a local minister; and Mrs. Queenie “Sweetie” Thomas-Hill (1908-2010), a beloved member of the community for more than 100 years.
The Community Life Center of Coosa County; located at 188 County Road 30, Kellyton, 35089, on the campus of Peace and Goodwill Baptist Church; will be the primary site of the reunion activities.
During the weekend there will be tours of historic sites, wreath-laying ceremonies in remembrance of deceased ancestors, a family picnic with fun and games, and a banquet.
The culminating event will be attending family worship on Sunday morning at the New Home Baptist Church located at 4181 Coosa County Road 30, Rockford, 35136, where many of our early ancestors were congregants.
Many are the sons and daughters of the early family who are now spread throughout the United States and abroad, but there seemingly remains a yearning to periodically return to the place known as our family home.
