What a great experience, to pass your love of genealogy & your family on to your grandson. He will remember that the rest of his life. Myrlene Hastings ----- Original Message ----- From: <Peggyt1950@aol.com> To: <tnhenry@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 11:34 AM Subject: [TNHENRY] Cemetery hopping >I grew up close enough to Salem (Primitive? Missionary?) Baptist Church on > Blooming Grove Road in Weakley County to play there in the cemetery all > the > time as a child. We would even sneak in a back window of the church to > hold > "services." I was as comfortable among the tombstones as I was in my > living > room. I would read the inscriptions and try to imagine their lives. The > dedication stone I believe said "Stephen Pate 1844" and that sure seemed > like a > long time ago to me back around 1960. Still seems like a long time ago > now. I > always felt really bad for the graves that just had piles of sandstone on > them because no one would ever remember who they were. > > Cemetery hopping became a pastime that I shared with my father and we > spent > many good times driving the old country roads around Henry and Weakley > Counties searching for this grave or that. My dad could remember who a > lot of them > were and would point out the more gruesome deaths, like the accidents or > the > suicides or the murders. I guess that's what stood out in his mind when > he > was young. > > This past fall I got a call from my grandson in Illinois saying that his > teacher had assigned the class to tell where their ancestors had come from > and > why they came to America. Then they had to find out about the native > dress, > diet, etc. of these folks. When he asked me where his ancestors came > from I > was a little surprised and said, "Which ones?" It sort of bothered me > that > the teacher didn't understand that each one of those children had > hundreds of > grandparents. On his dad's side of the family, I could go back far > enough on > one line to tell him when they came to America and why. They actually > were > Quakers who settled in New Jersey and were very well documented in the > Minutes > of the church. I'm not able to participate in the daily life of my > grandson, so I was really happy that he called me to help him with > homework and he > was really proud to be able to report exactly when, where and why one set > of > grandparents came to America. > > Peggy M. T. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TNHENRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >