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From: "DONALD J. SANDERS" <>
Subject: [SANDERS-L] DEAR ANCESTOR...
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 14:39:34 PST

Everyone,

I thought this was good enough to share with the groups. It was in a
site a newly - found cousin sent me. Enjoy.
Don Bemis-Sanders

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 morn.

You did not know that I exist

You died and I was born.

Yet each of us are cells of you,

In flesh and blood and 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 and visit you.

Author Unknown



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A boatload of Best Wishes... Capt. Donald J. Sanders, "from up on
Indian Creek, West of Sanders, Ky, and not too far a piece from Hickory
Thicket, Shoo Fly, and Rabbit Hash."
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