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| Wayne L. Osborne (#46540493)
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I am a son of an ex-POW. My brother and I are both Vietnam era veterans. I enjoy genealogy which is what led me to this site. I think this is a great place to share information of loved ones and to honor them. I will continue to add my relatives information and to visit strangers along the way. Please consider leaving a note and flower for my parents, J. D. and Dorothy Osborne, my wife's parents Howard and Gladys Brewer as well as our son, Sean Matthew Osborne.
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The Story Tellers.....
We are the chosen. My feelings are in each family there is one who seems called to find the ancestors. To put flesh on their bones and make them live again, to tell the family story and to feel that somehow they know and approve. To me, doing genealogy is not a cold gathering of facts but, instead, breathing life into all who have gone before. We are the story tellers of the tribe. All tribes have one. We have been called as it were by our genes. Those who have gone before cry out to us: Tell our story. So, we do. In finding them, we somehow find ourselves. How many graves have I stood before now and cried? I have lost count. How many times have I told the ancestors you have a wonderful family you would be proud of us? How many times have I walked up to a grave and felt somehow there was love there for me? I cannot say. It goes beyond just documenting facts. It goes to who am I and why do I do the things I do? It goes to seeing a cemetery about to be lost forever to weeds and indifference and saying I can't let this happen. The bones here are bones of my bone and flesh of my flesh. It goes to doing something about it. It goes to pride in what our ancestors were able to accomplish. How they contributed to what we are today. It goes to respecting their hardships and losses, their never giving in or giving up, their resoluteness to go on and build a life for their family. It goes to deep pride that they fought to make and keep us a Nation. It goes to a deep and immense understanding that they were doing it for us. That we might be born who we are. That we might remember them. So we do. With love and caring and scribing each fact of their existence, because we are them and they are us. So, as a scribe called, I tell the story of my family. It is up to that one called in the next generation to answer the call and take their place in the long line of family storytellers. That, is why I do my family genealogy, and that is what calls those young and old to step up and put flesh on the bones.
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Ruth
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Thanks kindly for visiting Isabella Blow.Added by Ruth on Jun 14, 2013 9:31 PM | | | George Otis
 | Mary Osborne Clark
I saw your request for photograph of Mary"s grave. Sorry to tell you it will not be found unless someone finds it buried under some brush as I found my G. G. G. Grandmothers. This is an excert from a letter I sent to the Allen Co. Historical Society:
Mary was my Great grandfathers sister Elizabeth Helen Follis Clark.
This Cemetery was hard to find. It shows on maps as Hinton Cemetery which is actually Northeast from here and South off Buck Creek Road on the private farm of the Martin Family. Foster Cemetery was sometimes called Hinton Hill Cemetery, because it is located on top of Hinton Hill between the old Hinton Hill Road and Fleet Road just West of Andrew Jackson Highway (Old U. S. 31 E.). This Cemetery has an old wire fence around with a gate facing North. I have never seen a Cemetery in such a deplorable condition, I would guess that it has not been touched in at least 40 years. If you look at it it just looks like a normal woods. I asked permission to enter from a house at the bottom of the Hill. I Could not get real close by car so co-ordinates are only within sight. Latitude 36.6610985, Longitude -862593994
I only found 40 Headstones readable out of 64 burials shown in Cemetery Records that I could find. I put them all in Find-A-Grave and linked them to family members as best I could.
I spent 6 days cleaning it out to get the pictures shown.
George Otis
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YOU MADE MY DAY !!! | | | Darlene♥
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Thank you Wayne for leaving a flower on my
beloved mother's memorial.
Blessings to you and your family
DarleneAdded by Darlene♥ on May 12, 2013 10:45 PM | | | Blessings ***
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Thank you Wayne for visiting my Mama on Mother's Day. Made my Day.
Hugs | | | Samantha Price
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Thank you for posting this. My children and I were looking up obituaries for their scrapbooks and we came across the one's for my Mom and Dad. It made my heart smile. | | | Caren
| Memorial# 66044138
WOW! You have done an amazing job. It is people like you that give family researcher hope. I thank you. I saw your photo of Nancy Manley Mansfield and wondered if I could copy it. I would be sure to give credit to you as the contributor.
A heartfelt thank you for all the work you have done.
Caren
Added by Caren on May 05, 2013 2:31 AM | | | Maxine Kravitz
 | Claypoole Correction
Thank you for the information as to burial site for Rebecca Claypoole's memorial. I would be happy for any further information you have on any of the Claypoole memorial's I posted. Also, I am looking for someone to transfer the memorials to so that they can be further "link" and "edited" are you interested? | | | Maja
 | Dear Wayne,
Thank you Wayne for your nice words. Gladly done.
I know nothing about my ancestors. I wish I had the time to search for more about my family. Greetings from Germany - Maja
Added by Maja on Apr 28, 2013 1:11 AM | | | Palm Springs Girl
 | LCDR Walter O Estes II
Thank you so much for leaving a token for Walt. It means so much to me when kind people like yourself stop by to remember him. Thank you again! | | | | [View all messages...] |
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