FINCASTLE COMMUNITY CLUB This club formed in the Fincastle area of Putnam County. Pauline Bridges **After I had initially placed this on the website, one of the researchers contacted me with the following information. I felt obliged to place it on the page just as she wrote it. Submitted by Shirley Asher Rose I have information on this club. I will tell you what I have then you can use it if you want. I was on the Sweetowen site the other day and found the list of the different clubs in Putnam county. I came across The Fincastle Community Club. This was just a social club. I am not sure of the year the club started but I know my Grandmother Edna Asher was in it & she was killed in a car accident in 1950. I got most of this information from my Mother who is 83 years old now. She said when she joined the club she was told it originally started out with 24 members. Two members would host the club each month. One of them having it in their home and the other helping with the games and refreshments. As far as my Mother remembers the main purpose of the club was for the ladies to get together & enjoy the company of the other members & to learn what was going on in the community. To get into the club, your name was put on a list by someone in the club & when your name came to the top of the list, you were voted on by secret ballet. Mom said she did not know of anyone who was ever voted against, but that was just one of their rules. They had a secret sister & exchanged birthday & Christmas gifts. I think the club broke up in the late 1970's. I think everyone who belonged also belonged to the Fincastle Community Church. The members we remembered Ruth Brothers Edna Asher Maude Brothers Letha Myers Nona Ruth Mildred Mandaco Marian Borden Mona Shoemaker Ellen Huber Bea Beams Oliver Mary Harmless Kathline Bridges Pauline Bridges Francis Asher Thelma Grimes Cora Robbins Phyllis Webb Phyllis Passwater Annis Grider Mary Virginia Clodfelter Sadie Sheevy Hallie Steele Ruth Fulwider Caroline Reed Olive Baird Anita Surber Anita's Mother in law Regina Shannon Doris Boller Elaine Rose Phyllis Asher ( My Mother) was president of the club for about 10 years I believe) I know some of the younger members of the club were Shirley Rose(myself) Rose Rose Linda Boller I know there were other members but right now I can't remember their names. I know i used to go with my Mother when I was a child then after I was married became a member myself. I don't know if you want to use this info or not but you are welcome to it if you like. My parents Clinton Shirley Asher & Phyllis Jean Wingate Asher they lived in Putnam Co. most of their lives. My Mother now lives in Parke Co. where we live. My Grandparents Harvey Clinton Asher & Edna May Rubeck Asher they were from Owen Co.