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From: "C.A." <>
Subject: Re: [ILKNOX-L] Galesburg/Knoxville surnames
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 21:50:41 -0600


Thanks, Beryldean,

I appreciate anything you can come up with.

Cheryl

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From: <>
To: <>
Date: Thursday, December 09, 1999 1:33 PM
Subject: Re: [ILKNOX-L] Galesburg/Knoxville surnames


>Sorry, I could not locate my grandmothers' photo album in which the
funeral
>card is but I did find it today.
>
>This is the information on it:
>
>IN LOVING REMEMBRANCE
>
>John Swigart
>Died Jan. 26, 1903
>Age 76 yrs. 25 days
>
>Gone but not Forgotten
>
>Dearest father, thou has left us.
> And our loss we deeply feel,
>But 'tis God that has berefit us;
> He can all our sorrows heal
>Yet again we hope to meet there,
> When the day of life is fled,
>When in heaven with joy we greet thee,
> Where no farewell tear is shed.
>
>
>This was from my fathers' side of the family. However, my mother's
mother
>kept a scrap book which I have and there may be an obit in it.
However, a
>cousin put all the information on a CD disk for me and sealed the
scrapbook
>so that it would not deteriorate any more than it has. I will have
to go
>over to my daughters to see if I can get the CD to run on her
computer as it
>won't on mine. I will try to get over there this weekend but as she
is
>putting in so many hours trying to get programs redone for the Marion
County
>Health Dept. so they will be Y2K compatible, she may have to work
this
>weekend. I will get back to you just as soon as I can get the
information.
>
>Beryl
>
>

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