Following Our Ancestors' Journeys
Tracing our family's history
Through time.
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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." 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.
John France, born 1879, married Martha Smith. He died in 1918 in Alabama.
Thomas and Martha Smith married in 1936 in Louisiana. They
had eight children.
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