It's Time for the Alexander-Anderson 45th Annual Family Reunion In The DMV

More Than Just a Family

Reminder
Dear Family, 

This is a friendly reminder about the upcoming deadlines for the 2025 Alexander/Anderson Family Reunion. The due date to secure lodging at the host hotel is fast approaching and we want to ensure that you don't miss it. The last date to make hotel reservations at the group rate is July 4, 2025. The deadline for all registration fees is July 12, 2025. Don't forget to order your reunion t-shirt(s) and submit your sizes. Please check the Family Facebook group at Alexander/Anderson Family Reunion Facebook page and website   (https://www.django57.com) for any updates. If you have any specific questions or concerns, you can contact me via cell phone 301-996-2535 or email d_jaxon@hotmail.com. We look forward to seeing you in August! 
Best Regards, 

David Jackson

Cory Alexander

President

Tiffany Alexander

Family Treasurer

Cynthia Johnson-Lee

Vice President

Brenda Johnson

Secretary

 According to Toni Austin our Family Historian: In 1977 Cora Lee (Alexander) Whitaker (wife of Andrew Whitaker), spearheaded the first Alexander and Anderson Family Reunion in South Carolina, the family’s home as of 1850. For many years she dreamed of bringing family members from across the nation back to their roots. They came by bus, cars, trains and planes. Most had left Camden years earlier and they came back under conditions much different from when they had left. To them this was a homecoming. But to many of their off spring, those born elsewhere, this represented a look in the past and a new adventure. She along with cousins: Clifton (with wife Daisy Belton) Alexander, Frankey (Cooper) Hull, Eunice (Canty) Hatten, Ruth (Alexander) Cooper, Barbara (Anderson) Thompson , Mamie (Anderson) Richardson and Fannie (Stover) Furman held the first Alexander-Anderson Family Reunion in Camden, South Carolina. Cousins who deserve honorable mention: Sammy Alexander, Sylvia (Anderson) Drakeford, Helen Anderson, Della (Alexander) Anderson, Betsy (Alexander) Murphy, Bessie (Lewis) Alexander (Rev. Rosevelt Alexander’s mother) for their years of service. Cora Lee, like many others of her generation, had retained much of the family history, a history unknown to most. Those elders with this historical knowledge secreted in their memory, were primarily the ones who had remained in Camden. Some family history had been passed on from generation to generation. It wasn’t a history that was recorded on paper or by a tape recorder. This was a history that was verbally shared between family members and at times whispered because of some less favorable accounts. As family members gathered in Camden in 1977, very few understood why it was called the Alexander/Anderson family reunion. So, that first family reunion, held at the Holiday Inn in Camden, was one of curiosity. It involved the meeting of family members who were for the most part strangers to each other. And just as diverse was their ages, complexion, education, occupations, life styles, religions, and yes, attitudes. The most compatible were the elderly, who knew each other or at least had been told of each other by their parents or their immediate ancestors. There were cousins, first, second and third generations that knew nothing of each other. These were the strangers, and like strangers among strangers, they congregated and associated at the reunion with those they came with or knew, seldom did they venture to meet and understand more about those strangers, known only as cousins. For almost 48 years of the reunion’s existence, the family had met annually in different cities throughout the country. Over the years, new family members have joined the reunion, and just as many no longer attend, as a result of passing on or some other reasons. What has become obvious is that the Alexander/Anderson family is larger than most people realize, but it is still a family of strangers. 

AC Hotel
AC Hotel, National Harbor, located at 156 Waterfront Street, National Harbor, MD 20745, (301) 749-2299, Rooms Information: Standard single King Room $179.00; Double Queen Room $199.00 to host Alexander/ Anderson Family Reunion, 

Parking facilities are next door to the hotel at The Mariner Garage. Please find attached a map of the area so that you can see where it is in reference to the hotel. It’s noted as J on the map and the hotel is on block K. The address and fees for the garage are noted below for you to share with your guests. The daily parking fee is $24.00 per day, the hotel cannot charge for hourly parking. If you have any guests that will not be parking overnight, hourly parking is available (fees are noted below) and they must pay at the kiosk in the garage or at the gate when they leave the garage.
 Registration Fees
Registration Fees: 
Adult - $185.00 
Youth - $85.00 (this includes ages 6-12 years old) Child – Free (this includes under 5 years old)

REUNION T-SHIRTS
Adult   Price
S     $20.00
M   $20.00
L     $20.00
XL $20.00
2XL $25.00
3XL $25.00
4XL-5XL $28.00
Youth     Price
S           $15.00
M        $15.00
L           $15.00

We can accept Money Orders, Venmo, Cash-App, and Zelle as forms of payment. Please request mobile payment information.
  •  8/8/2025 06:00 PM - 8/8/2025 11:00 PM
  •   Washington, DC, USA

This event is for the family banquet on the Potomac River.

  •  8/9/2025 10:00 AM - 8/9/2025 01:30 PM
  •   1400 Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20560, USA

Buses will depart from the hotel promptly at 10:00 am headed to the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC. We will board the buses from the Museum to George Washington National Park in Virginia at 1:30 pm.

  •  8/9/2025 02:30 PM - 6/20/2025 05:12 PM
  •   8999 Fort Hunt Road, Alexandria, VA 22308, USA

This is an event which is used for the gathering of the family to fellowship and break bread as one loving entity.