Fred Smith Family
Fred Smith
Born 1862
Married Ellie Capon
Had 5 children: Susan, John, Steve, Frank, Lilly
In Search of Family
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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.
Married Ellie Capon
Had 5 children: Susan, John, Steve, Frank, Lilly
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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.
Why
waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics
and your opponents will do it for you.
Everyone
has ancestors and it is only a question of going back far enough
to find a good one.
We've
uncovered some embarrassing ancestors in the not-too-distant
past. Some horse thieves, and some people killed on Saturday
nights. One of my relatives, unfortunately, was even in the
newspaper business.
Southerners
are so devoted to genealogy that we see a family tree under
every bush.
My
grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty.
She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she
is.
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can use this area to place information about family or places.
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We've been researching
this family name for over 30 years. I found lots of information at the State
Archives, but once the internet exploded with genealogy, many more doors
have been opened for me to research.
If you have something you would like to add or if you would like to submit documents for inclusion on this web, please let me know.
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