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Fred Smith Family
Fred Smith
Born 1862
Married Ellie Capon
Had 5 children: Susan, John, Steve, Frank, Lilly
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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.
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.
We
are so excited to have found this side of our family.
Joseph Bourgeois was born in St. Charles Parish, LA
in 1736.
It
was great fun to see our family's journey to Louisiana
on one of the seven original ships bound for New Orleans.
Finding
the old ship's manifest with our ancestors' names was
just thrilling. Love to find new information!
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