It was just a short trip over to Covington for the third of the Reunions. This was the only Reunion where I had met any of the local family members. Erin and I had visited Vicki and Jack (296) a couple of years ago as we were traveling to the east coast. Jack's father, John Snyder Wettig (285), is in a large part responsible for my interest in this Wetttig genealogy. In 1963, he wrote a letter to my mother which described the Karl Heinrich Friedrich (63) family as he remembered it. It was a fascinating story. When I got my first computer in 1988, I used his letter to store the first bits of information about the family. It wasn't until 1993, however, that I "got the genealogy Bug" and things haven't been the same since!
Vicki
and Jack were very much involved in the wedding of a Granddaughter
on the weekend of the Reunion, but they had done a very good job
of getting the word out and making arrangements at the local Home
Buffet, a very nice cafeteria. There were fourteen of the family
there. Jack's son, John Thomas Wettig, II (296), was there, but
the younger John Thomas Wettig, III, whom I had met on the earlier
visit, was not able to attend.
Lisa and Don Wettig
(454), who had travelled to the Richmond,
Indiana, Reunion, were there as part of the family of Paul (296)(deceased)
and Eleanore Wettig, Jacks brother's family. This family had visited
Wilmington, North Carolina, my home town, back in the 1970s, and
while 
there they visited my Mother. I was not in Wilmington
at the time, but my Mother had gathered all of the local family
together to meet these strangers from Kentucky. Eleanore sent
me a picture of the two families together and I have used that
in one of the early Wettigs of Amerika Newsletters. Eleanore's
Grandchildren - Stacey (452), Jesse (453) and Byron ( ), were
the life of the party. They are beautiful, intelligent and well
behaved children - what else would you expect at a Reunion of
the Wettigs! I was also at this Reunion and, along with all of
the above, represented the Karl Heinrich Friedrich Wettig Family.
The family of Georg Heinrich Christian Wettig
(417), youngest of the three brothers who emigrated from Neustadt
am Rübenberge, is also well represented in the Cincinnati
area. We had hoped that Helen (Pritchard) 
Wettig, the wife of the late John Robert Wettig (596),
and her daughter, Nancy (Wettig) Watkins (668), would be able
to come, but Helen had just been released from the hospital. She
was staying for a few days with Nancy and they were not able to
come. Helen is the Grandmother of the actress, Patricia Wettig
(600). Only one of the Georg family, Peggy (Wettig) Doesburg (747),
was able to come to the Reunion. Peggy is the Granddaughter of
John Harry Wettig (729). I hope that we will be able to assemble
a Reunion of the Georg Family sometime when I am able to attend.
The pictures which I obtained from this Reunion will make a Chapter on the Wettigs of Cincinnati and Covington very interesting reading.