Claire Grace
Claire Grace was the wife of Martin Savoy. She is the daughter of Thomas Grace.
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We are the chosen. In each family there is one who seems called to find the ancestors. To put flesh on their bones and make them live again. To tell the family story and to feel that somehow they know and approve. Doing genealogy is not a cold gathering of facts but, instead, breathing life into all who have gone before. We are the story tellers of the tribe. All tribes have one. We have been called, as it were, by our genes. Those who have gone before cry out to us: Tell our story. So, we do. In finding them, we somehow find ourselves. How many graves have I stood before now and cried? I have lost count. How many times have I told the ancestors, "You have a wonderful family; you would be proud of us." How many times have I walked up to a grave and felt somehow there was love there for me? I cannot say. It goes beyond just documenting facts. It goes to who I am, and why I do the things I do.
It goes to seeing a cemetery about to be lost
forever to weeds and indifference and saying - I can't let this happen.
The bones here are bones of my bone and flesh of my flesh. It goes to
doing something about it. It goes to pride in what our ancestors were able
to accomplish. How they contributed to what we are today. It goes to
respecting their hardships and losses, their never giving in or giving up,
their resoluteness to go on and build a life for their family. It goes to
deep pride that the fathers fought and some died to make and keep us a
nation. It goes to a deep and immense understanding that they were doing
it for us. It is of equal pride and love that our mothers struggled to
give us birth, without them we could not exist, and so we love each one,
as far back as we can reach. That we might be born who we are. That we
might remember them. So we do. With love and caring and scribing each fact
of their existence, because we are they and they are the sum of who we
are. So, as a scribe called, I tell the story of my family. It is up to
that one called in the next generation to answer the call and take my
place in the long line of family storytellers. That is why I do my family
genealogy, and that is what calls those young and old to step up and
restore the memory or greet those who we had never known before."
By Della M. Cummings Wright; Rewritten by her granddaughter Dell Jo Ann McGinnis Johnson; Edited and Reworded by Tom Dunn, 1943."
Claire Grace was the wife of Martin Savoy. She is the daughter of Thomas Grace.
Martin and Martha Smith married in 1936 in Louisiana. They had eight children.
Herman Frederick is the father of "Bob" Frederick. "Bob" was adopted by his mother's new husband.
Emily Savoy was the wife of Brian T. Savoy. She is the daughter of Thomas Savoy and Lisa Lee.
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