This is a real tribute to family history! Thoroughly enjoyed and very intrigued as it mentions the Calmers but should it be Calmes? or was Calmes really Calmers? I ask because some of our Smither's md into the Calmes family. Eliz Emaline Calmes b 1817 dau of Marquis Calmes and Mary Ann Johnson, she md Robert Smither, son/o John Smither/Mary Greenway; son/o Gabriel Smither/Wilmouth Routt......he son/o George Smither/Ann..>>DE Smither's Marquis Calmes b may 9 1784 Newberry SC, son/o Wm Calmes/Nancy Berry. Wm Calmes b may 15 1761 Frederick Co Va d 1836 SC was son/o William Waller Calmes/Lucy Neville. Just curious if the Marquis Calmes was related to this family? I do not know the history of the Marquis until I read this poem I mean. thank you, Nena >From: Kay or Darrell Groves <kdwgroves@yahoo.com> Thomas K. Marquis "THE FOLLOWING IS A POEM I DISCOVER WHILE GOING THROUGH MY LATE AUNT MARY LOUISE MARQUIS PERSONNAL EFFECTS FOLLOWING HER DEATH IN MARCH OF 1993. THE MARQUIS CLAN Down in old Virginia, that's where I'd like to be roaming thru the hills and valleys to see what I could see, histories have been written of Virginia, you can read them in the books; That's why I'd like to tramp around and see how the country looks. To the wilds of old Virginia came the settlers long ago; stout-hearted men and women as all the records show. Came Major Marquis Calmers, the sturdy Hugenot, ***** the Marquises, William and his good wife Margaret, _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail