Hi Janet, Welcome back. Pat -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Monday, March 08, 1999 10:54 PM Subject: Re: [ILMONROE-L] Re: ILMONROE-D Digest V98 #36 >Lots of WAGNERs, but no Phillip. No Elizabeth HUBER, but see previous message >for all HUBERs. > > >==== ILMONROE Mailing List ==== >The Elusive Ancestor >poem by Merrell Kenworthy > I went searching for an ancestor. I cannot find him still. > He moved around from place to place and did not leave a will. > He married where a courthouse burned. He mended all his fences. > He avoided any man who came to take the U.S. Census. > He always kept his luggage packed, this man who had no fame. > And every 20 years or so, this rascal changed his name. > His parents came from Europe. They should be upon some list > of passengers to U.S.A., but somehow they got missed. > And no one else in this world is searching for this man. > So, I play geneasolitaire to find him if I can. > I'm told he's buried in a plot, with tombtone he was blessed; > but the weather took engraving, and some vandals took the rest. > He died before the county clerks decided to keep records. > No Family Bible has emerged, in spite of all my efforts. > To top it off this ancestor, who caused me many groans, > Just to give me one more pain, betrothed a girl named JONES. > >