Cokonougher Family Reunion 1976

               This newspaper clipping documents the 1976 Ohio Cokonougher family reunion.  This was the first Cokonougher family reunion to have been held in Ohio in over 50 years.  Mrs. Viola Cokonougher planned, arranged, and hosted the reunion.  Viola continued to host the annual Ohio Cokonougher family reunions through 2006, after which her health prevented her from continuing the tradition.  There hasn't been any further reunions since.                                                                                                                         Starting in 1978, the Wisecup family was invited to the Cokonougher reunions, and the reunion became known as the Cokonougher/Wisecup reunion.  This was because the family reunions in the early 20th century had combined the Wisecup and Cokonougher families, and the older people wanted to continue the tradition.   Many of the Wisecups and Cokonoughers had also intermingled their families by marriage, and all of them lived close together in the same community at that time, so it had seemed natural to them to gather together at reunions and other celebrations.