LET IT BE KNOWN!
FOR MANY OF US THE TIME WILL COME
	WHEN WE WILL WONDER WHERE WE’RE FROM.
            WHO WERE THEY WHO WENT BEFORE
		THEIR NAMES, THEIR HOMES, THEIR LIVES OF YORE.
                        

      OUR PARENTS TELL US WHAT THEY KNOW
	  REMEMBERING STORIES FROM LONG AGO.
	     MEMORIES SHARP OVER ALL THE YEARS
		BUT WASN’T TOLD TO CHILDREN’S EARS.

	TO THE OLDER ONES WHO LIVE THERE STILL
	    WE ASK, “DO YOU RMEMBER MARY OR WILL”?
		HOW MANY CHILDREN DID THEY REAR?
		  WHERE WERE THEIR HOMES, THEIR FARMS?  
                     RIGHT HERE?

	WE PROVE - WE SEARCH THROUGH RECORDS DIM
 	    WE FIND A NAME, A DATA-SUPPOSE ‘TWAS HIM’
 		A SINGLE PICTURE MEANS SO MUCH 
		     A GRAVE STONE TOPPLED,
                         WE DARE NOT TOUCH.

	A WILL, WE FIND, AND NAMES OF KIN
	     A SALE OF PROPERTY LEFT BY HIM
		WE KNOW NOT MORE OF WHERE HE DIED
		     OR WHERE HE LIVED AT EVENTIDE.

	OUR RECORDS NOW, HAVE ALL WE KNOW
	      WE’VE RESEARCHED LONG HOURS, THE REST
                  MUST GO UNKNOWN TO THOSE WHO WOULD FIND
		      IT IS LATE. NO, TIME IS UNKIND.

	LET IT BE KNOWN - THIS BOOK NOW HOLDS
		OUR FAMILY’S SECRETS YOUNG AND OLD.
		   IF LOST IT NEVER CAN BE REPLACED.
		       ITS CONTENTS WERE GATHERED FROM MANY A
                          PLACE.

	 SO TREASURE IT WELL, AND PASS IT ON
		YOUR CHILDREN MAY WONDER -----
                        WHERE THEY ARE FROM .

				        Author Unknown
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