To David M. Waid dmwaid@provide.net and other WAID researchers in Crawford County. Here is the information I found on Pember Waid in the "History of Crawford County, PA, 1885." "Our subject's parents and deceased brothers, as well as his grandparents - Pember and Anna (Lord) Waid - and other relatives not here mentioned, are interred in the Blooming Valley Cemetery, and on August 13, 1884, Mr. Waid, assisted by Sherman and Root, of Cambridgeboro, this county, and others, erected to their memory a plain Quincy gray granite monument brought from Massachusetts. It is known as the "Waid Monument." On the west side of it are the names of his grandparents, father and mother, all born in Connecticut; on the south side is his father's family record; on the north side his own family record, and on the east side the following inscription: "In memory of my father, mother and kindred, this monument is erected by F.C. Waid." The height of the monument is nine feet, and it cost $400. At the graves of Anna and Pember Waid, also that of our subject's twin brother, Ira C. Waid had suitable tombstones erected, and after his death his widow had one placed at his grave, all of which are extant. R.L. Waid's resting place is near these, and is marked by a monument which was erected at a cost of $175. Franklin P., twin brother of the subject of this sketch, died May 28, 1854, aged twenty-one years, one month and five days, cut off in the very bloom of youth, torn from the companionship of the brother who had accompanied him into the world, and who was his every day associate through childhood, boyhood and youth. "Life is but a fleeting show, and submit we must, with becoming reverence, to the bereavements that teach us, as a lesson, how transitory we are, and how soon we must decay. At the demise of this noble-hearted young man a singular instance of the fulfillment, to the hour and minute, of a presentiment or prevision occurred. Franklin was prostrated with typhoid fever which confined him to the house and his bed seven weeks to a day, and the day before he died, he said, addressing the members of the family as they all stood near his bedside, "This is the last day I will be with you," and then, intimating that they might not believe it, added "It is so; I will die tomorrow at noon." Next morning early he called his father to his bedside and said, "Father, this is the last day I will be with you; I will died at 12 o'clock today." And this he repeated hour after hour till his spirit fled to the "undiscovered country from whose borne no traveler returns," precisely as the old family clock struck the hour of twelve. The loss of his brother has been to Mr. Waid one that no lapse of time can ever restore, and the memory of him and the many happy days spent in each other's companionship, no prosperity, no adversity can over efface. "In my youth," writes Mr. Waid, "at the age of about sixteen, I began writing down the little transactions and common events of my life, together with such notable things as claimed my attention in our community. At the age of seventeen I was so interested in my undertaking, and did not want to lose what I had written, so I bought quite a large book, 8x10, containing about 400 pages. In this book, in the year 1851, I began writing, keeping a kind of journal, personal and otherwise. I thought it a hard task at first, and it was only with reluctance that I could persuade myself to continue, but here is the old saying, 'No real excellence without labor.' I pursued it, and instead of disliking, I loved it. It proved a source of pleasure to me then, and has been a great satisfaction as well as profit ever since. On Saturday, April 22, 1854, the day before our marriage, I found I had written the book through, except the last page, and had only perhaps improved the spare moments that would have otherwise been lost. I want others to profit from a wise improvement of their time. It is the little things after all that make a useful life. I bought N. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary March 30, 1852, and I find w ritten in connection with my mame my motto of life as expressed then and there. It is 'Be Industrious and active in life - better wear out than rust.' He who said, 'To him who walketh uprightly I will withhold no good thing,' means or implies action, and that, too, in the right direction. How important it is for the young man setting out in life to take the right path. Solomon says: 'In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy path." David said: "Commit thy way unto the Lord and He will bring it to pass." So there is something in holding communion with the Lord. Some may wonder at so many thoughts like these, but that which I love best I expect to love longest, and I want others to seek the truth which will make us free and good." More to follow! Kathy Brubaker Volunteer Genealogist Linesville Historical Society kbrbkr@toolcity.net