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BeadleBlog's avatar

That is a beautiful story. I don't know your grandfather, but I know I love your grandfather.

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Steven Philbrook's avatar

This story reminds me of a parental proverb I heard a few years ago, “Be careful not to deprive your children of deprivation.” Not everyone grows as a result of deprivation but I wonder if true character can ever be developed apart from it. Thanks for sharing this story. I read this recently in the preface to my family genealogy:

"To know nothing of our ancestry, or whence we came, to have no reverence for the precious memories of the past, nor interest in those who are to succeed us in the battle of life, is to ignore the elements and influences that have made us what we are, and to repudiate the natural instincts and affections of the human heart, — to suppress the aspirations and hopes of a soul that is to come on through the endless ages of eternity.

" What more precious testimonials of your love of kindred and home can you leave than that which provides for the transmission of the history, of your ancestors, yourself and family to future genera-tions. This is a trust that Providence has confided to your care ; and who, so dead to sympathy and affection, to kindred and to country, that would not preserve the records of his ancestors, the place of his birth, the home of his childhood, and the sacred spot where repose the loved and lost ones of Earth?" - Hon. Marshal

P. Wilder's address at the annual meeting of the Society in 1884.

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