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DEAR ANCESTOR



Your tombstone stands among the rest
Neglected and alone

The name and date are chiseled out

Rickey - Iron...

On polished marble 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 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 to visit you





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This day in family history March 10,1900 Margaret Irons died

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This day in family history

March 10,1900

Margaret Irons died

Margaret was wife of John Irons

Burial at Sorden Cemetery Keswick

View complete history for Margaret and John Irons at the Graef Historical Group

Blog: Graef Historical Group
Post: John and Margaret Irons
Link: http://graef-family.blogspot.com/2007/02/john-and-margaret-irons.html