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Membership
Membership in the Hite Family Association shall be open to all descendants of the family name Hite (and variant spelling such as Hight, Hites, Heydt, Heit, Heidt, Heyd).
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Regular Membership: $20.00 - Includes Hite Family Association newsletter, published twice per year and sent electronically to you. Also free queries.
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Regular Membership: $25.00 - Includes Hite Family Association newsletter, published twice per year and mailed to you. Also free queries.
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Contributing Membership: $35.00 - Includes newsletter subscription (mailed or sent electronically), free queries, and Long Meadow and Fort Bowman cemetery Maintenance
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Sustaining Membership: $50.00 - Includes newsletter subscription (mailed or sent electronically), free queries, cemetery maintenance, and contributions to Belle Grove Plantation and reunion expenses)
Membership is yearly from January 1st - December 31st.
How to Join
Fill out the form below to pay for your membership online.
Or download, print, and mail membership form along with payment to:
Ray Hite, HFA Treasurer
1605 Gamewell Road
Silver Spring, MD 20905
All contributions above $20.00 go toward expenses for family reunions, the maintenance ofcemeteries at Long Meadows and Harmony Hall and special projects:
Long Meadows
The home of Isaac Hite (1723-1795) and his wife, Eleanor (Eltinge) Hite (1724-1792) in Frederick County, Virginia. Isaac was a son of Jost Hite. The original building is no longer standing, but the cemetery remains. Among those buried there are Isaac, Eleanor, their son Isaac Hite, Jr. (builder of Belle Grove) and both of Isaac's wives.
Fort Bowman (aka Harmony Hall)
Located in Frederick County, was the home of Mary (Hite) Bowman (born ca. 1715), daughter of Jost Hite, and the wife of George Bowman (died 1768), the extant "Stone House" was constructed 1751/5 and the extant Bowman Cemetery was use by the early family for 100 years
Belle Grove Plantation
Belle Grove is located in the northern Shenandoah Valley near Middletown, Virginia. It was the home Major Isaac Hite and his wife Nelly Madison Hite, sister of President James Madison. Major Hite, grandson of Shenandoah Valley Pioneer Jost Hite, used enslaved labor to expand his original 483 acres to a prosperous 7500 acre plantation, growing wheat, raising livestock, and operating a large distillery and several mills. The Manor House, completed in 1797, was the centerpiece of the property and is open for touring today.