The organizing regent of this Chapter, Grace Lester Snyder, was a lady of unusual charm and intelligence, a lady highly respected by other organizing Charter Members. Mrs. Snyder was a descendant of John and Mary Willis Wade Strother. It was natural that the charter members would select the name of Mary Wade Strother for the name of the new chapter.

Mary Wade Strother was a comely woman; distinguished by her kindliness, dignity, and courage. Her husband, of the Colony of Virginia, held her in high and tender esteem and exacted from all in his household that they treat her with the deference due a woman of such noble character. When Mary Wade married, she had brought a tiny pear tree to her new home, "Wadefield," and from a branch of this same tree was carved the gavel used by the Regents of the Mary Wade Strother Chapter.

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