"Mark the perfect man and behold the upright for the end of that man is peace"
- - - William Henderson Smith Marker - - - 
- - - D. Jonesborough, TN. August 27, 1854 - - -

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DEAR ANCESTOR
Your tombstone stands among the rest
 Neglected and alone.
 The name and date are chiseled out
 On polished marbled stone.
 It reaches out to all who care
 It is too late to mourn.
 You did not know that I exist.
 You died and I was born.
 Yet each of us are cells of you
 In flesh, in blood, in bone.
 Our blood contracts and beats a pulse
 Entirely not our own.
 Dear Ancestor, the place you filled
 One hundred years ago
 Spreads out among the ones you left
 Who would have loved you so.
 I wonder if you lived and loved.
 I wonder if you knew
 That someday I would find this spot
 And come to visit you.
 ~ author: Unknown ~

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