Hello, About 4 years ago, my friend, Bob, and I attended the funeral of his brand-new daughter-in-law's father ! His son and daughter-in-law had just been married near Boston, MA, and her father "walked her down the aisle" and sang "beautifully" during the service ! Unfortunately, just a week or two later, just days before the extended family was moving to Florida, he died suddenly ! At the funeral home in Boston I saw a beautiful poem in a frame on the wall. When I inquired about it, they said I could have a copy of it: Merry Christmas from Heaven I still hear the songs I still see the lights I still feel your love on cold wintery nights I still share your hopes and all of your cares I'll even remind you to please say your prayers I just want to tell you you still make me proud You stand head and shoulders above all the crowd Keep trying each moment to stay in His grace I came here before you to help set your place You don't have to be perfect all of the time He forgives you the slip if you continue to climb To my family and friends please be thankful today I'm still close beside you in a new special way I love you all dearly now don't shed a tear Cause, I'm spending my Christmas with Jesus this year (Seems to have been written in the 1980's by a John Wm. Mooney) Betty (near Lowell, MA, USA) P.S. I just lost a KERR uncle in October; even though he had long-standing health problems, he died quite suddenly ! It has just occurred to me that I should send this poem (and the other) to my aunt and cousins ! Also, I borrowed a special book from the Library a few weeks ago. It was the "History of Argenteuil County, Quebec Province ....." published in the late 1800's ! It is an excellent "history book" of the history of Canada from the early 1800's ! Both my uncle and I are descended from two people mentioned in the above book: There is a short paragraph on William HENDERSON, who it states was from .. County Sligo, Ireland ! And, there is a very brief mention of "that Irishman KERR" !! George KERR's grandparents were William KERR (from Argenteuil County, Quebec) and Elizabeth HANNAH, whose parents had come from Glasgow to Boston in the 1850's, when she was an infant. (The parents had been born in Donegal.) William KERR was the oldest son of cousins, Robert KERR and Elizabeth HENDERSON, who had been born in Argenteuil County in 1827. Their "related" parents arrived there in 1823. They had left Sligo, and they reportedly were born in Sligo in the 1785 to 1805 timeframe. But, not even the County Sligo Heritage and Genealogy Centre was able to find out who their parents were ! They probably lived in the outskirts of the county - possibly in the area of the Calry Parish ! (KERR's were definitely in that Parish - I don't know about the HENDERSON's).