This year's 127th Detwiler Family Reunion was held on Saturday, August 19, 2023, at Camp Innabah, 712 Pughtown Road, Spring City, Chester County, PA 19475. This year's theme was "Creative Crafts".
Next year's reunion will be held at Camp Innabah on Saturday, August 17, 2024.
Please click here for the 2023 Newsletter.
Please click here to view the 2023 Historian's Report from Richard H. Lusch.
Please click here to view a group photo from the 2023 reunion.
Please click here to view a 2023 photo of Martha Detwiler Weed with the Detwiler family quilt that she designed and hand made.
Please click here to view a photo of the Henry and Catharine Detwiler grave markers in Morris Cemetary in Phoenixville.
Please click here to view a photo and deed history of the original Detwiler homestead in Tredyffrin Township, Chester County, PA, in Word format.
Please click here to view a photo of the first Detwiler family reunion held on September 30, 1897, at the home of Isaac Detwiler in Charlestown Township, Chester County, PA.
Please click here to view a copy of the Detwiler Reunion Memories form.
Please click here to view records from the Morris Cemetery in Phoenixville, PA, regarding deceased Detwiler family members.
A Detwiler Reunion Facebook page is available to join for descendants of Henry R. and Catherine Latshaw Detwiler. This is a closed site and you must request and be granted permission to join in order for you to participate in posting information on that site.
8/20/2011 - Forty descendents of Henry and Catherine Detwiler held their 115th Annual Reunion at Camp Innabah, Pughtown, PA. The focus for the reunion was "branching out and remembering our roots". Family members brought for display items with the name "Detwiler" on them and included a framed photo of the First Reunion owned by Chris Fetters, a 100th Reunion Photo Mug of Henry and Catherine Detwiler, report cards, sheet music owned by Frances Detwiler Espenship, an August 18, 2003 Daily Republican newspaper article showing the Detwiler Family Time Capsule noting that it would be opened 25 years later.
8/21/2010 - Fifty five descendents of Henry and Catherine Detwiler held their 114th Annual Reunion at Camp Innabah, Pughtown, PA. The focus for the reunion was "Vintage Cooking and Baking Utensils". Updates were made to the website to reflect the happenings of the reunion.
8/15/2009 - The 113th Annual Renunion was held at Camp Innabah, chester County, PA.
7/20/08 - Original hand written genealogy notebooks and related information have been turned over to The Historical Society of the Phoenixville Area with "restrictions" that the current President and/or Historian will be authorized to remove the information for display at the annual renunion.
7/15/08 - The 2007 Historian's report was added to the web site. The contact information has been updated to include the Renunion President and webmaster. A new section called "Renunion Memories" will be added.
8/29/07 - A Time Line of
Events has been added to the "Historical Events" section.
8/28/07 - "The Crest" has
been changed to "Coat of Arms", The Reunion Listing has
been updated. Historian Records have been added to the 2005
and 2006 Reunion Information Pages. The following sections have
been updated; "Contact Us", "Genealogy".
A new section called "Reunion Quilt" has been added.
8/27/07 - "Past Reunion Information" has been updated with
information from the 2007 Reunion.
8/05/07 - New Sections were added for "Family Crest" and "Historical
Events".
7/12/07 - A new section called "Newsletter" was added,
which now includes a copy of the 2004 through 2009 newsletters. The
"Genealogy" section has been updated.
To view Pughtown's weather report from the nearest weather station at Pottstown's Limerick Airport, please click here.
Please click here to view a copy of the Detwiler Reunion Memories form.
Please click to view a copy of the genealogy update form as a Word document.
The Detwiler Reunion was first held
on September 30, 1897, for the descendants of Henry & Catherine (Latshaw)
Detwiler who were:
