DEAR ANCESTOR
Your tombstone stands among the rest, neglected and alone.
The name and the date are chiseled out on polished marbled stone.
It reaches out to all who care; It is too late to mourn.
You did not know that I exist, You died and I was born.
Yet each of us are cells of you in flesh, in blood, in bone.
Our blood contracts and beats a pulse entirely not our own.
Dear Ancestor, the place you filled one hundred years ago
Spreads out among the ones you left, who would have loved you so.
I wonder if you lived and loved, I wonder if you knew
That someday I would find this spot, and come to visit you.
Author Unknown
Black, Benjamin & Jane
Black, Henry & Isabella
Black, Polly
Black, Children
Brumble, Martha
Cowser, William
Cowsert, Atwell
Cowsert, Baby
Cowsert, Bertha
Cowsert, Elishsa
Cowsert, George B.
Cowsert, George Washington (senior)
Cowsert, George Washington (junior)
Cowsert, Henry
Cowsert, James
Cowsert, Jesse
Cowsert, John
Cowsert, John H.
Cowsert, Mabel McDonald
Cowsert, Mary E.
Cowsert, Minnie
Cowsert, Raymond
Cowsert, Richard
Cowsert, Susan
Cowsert, Sarah
Cowsert, Thomas F. & Nora
Cowsert, Willie & Leona
Cowsert, Ulys & Audrey
Dickson, George W. & Margaret J. McDaniel
Dickson, Isaac and Louisa V. McDaniel
Doggett, Ethel Cowsert
Gill, Robert F. Jr.
Gill, Robert F. Sr.
Kelty, Anita
Kelty, Gertrude
Kelty, John
Kelty, Margaret
Kidwells:
Bobby, David & Susie, Doris,
Earnest, Elizabeth, Mary, Matilda,
Thomas, Thomas & Elizabeth, William, and William D.
Lamar, Elizabeth
Malone, Peter
McDaniel, Jemima Black
McDaniel, Leonadis
McDaniel, Mathew
Soward, Melisent Mills
Stone, Amanda
Stone, Baine W.
Stone, Orlando and Hattie
Stone, Russell Elijah
Friendship Cemetery
Ft. Leonard Wood, MO
McCann Cemetery
Ft. Leonard Wood, MO
Stone Church Cemetery
Rosiclare, Illinois
Cowsert Cemetery Rosiclare, Illinois
Bethany Cemetery, near Bernie, Missouri
E-MAIL ME AT:
Judy Stevens 44 @ Earthlink.net
(DELETE THE SPACES IN THE ABOVE EMAIL ADDRESS)
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DEAR ANCESTOR
The name and the date are chiseled out on polished marbled stone.
It reaches out to all who care; It is too late to mourn.
You did not know that I exist, You died and I was born.
Yet each of us are cells of you in flesh, in blood, in bone.
Our blood contracts and beats a pulse entirely not our own.
Dear Ancestor, the place you filled one hundred years ago
Spreads out among the ones you left, who would have loved you so.
I wonder if you lived and loved, I wonder if you knew
That someday I would find this spot, and come to visit you.
- Author Unknown
Black, Benjamin & Jane
Black, Henry & Isabella
Black, Polly
Black, Children
Brumble, Martha
Cowser, William
Cowsert, Atwell
Cowsert, Baby
Cowsert, Bertha
Cowsert, Elishsa
Cowsert, George B.
Cowsert, George Washington (senior)
Cowsert, George Washington (junior)
Cowsert, Henry
Cowsert, James
Cowsert, Jesse
Cowsert, John
Cowsert, John H.
Cowsert, Mabel McDonald
Cowsert, Mary E.
Cowsert, Minnie
Cowsert, Raymond
Cowsert, Richard
Cowsert, Susan
Cowsert, Sarah
Cowsert, Thomas F. & Nora
Cowsert, Willie & Leona
Cowsert, Ulys & Audrey
Dickson, George W. & Margaret J. McDaniel
Dickson, Isaac and Louisa V. McDaniel
Doggett, Ethel Cowsert
Gill, Robert F. Jr.
Gill, Robert F. Sr.
Kelty, Anita
Kelty, Gertrude
Kelty, John
Kelty, Margaret
Kidwells:
Bobby, David & Susie, Doris,
Earnest, Elizabeth, Mary, Matilda,
Thomas, Thomas & Elizabeth, William, and William D.
Lamar, Elizabeth
Malone, Peter
McDaniel, Jemima Black
McDaniel, Leonadis
McDaniel, Mathew
Soward, Melisent Mills
Stone, Amanda
Stone, Baine W.
Stone, Orlando and Hattie
Stone, Russell Elijah
Friendship Cemetery
Ft. Leonard Wood, MO
McCann Cemetery
Ft. Leonard Wood, MO
Stone Church Cemetery
Rosiclare, Illinois
Cowsert Cemetery Rosiclare, Illinois
Bethany Cemetery, near Bernie, Missouri
E-MAIL ME AT:
Judy Stevens 44 @ Earthlink.net
(DELETE THE SPACES IN THE ABOVE EMAIL ADDRESS)
(DELETE THE SPACES IN THE ABOVE EMAIL ADDRESS)