I first found FindAGrave when looking for some family members. I never knew such a resource existed. It was amazing to me how many other people were interested in HELPING others find their ancestors.
I learned through my own journey that finding out where you came from is an important part of discovering who you are as an individual. Knowledge that you are part of everyone before you made a difference in my own life and, I hope, in the lives of those that will come after me.

I dedicate my efforts to my beloved 2nd cousin, "Aunt" Emma Lou Odom Price who was DECADES before her time and an amazing inspiration in my genealogical education--I hope I can be like her for my last 40 years.

I stole this from a fellow Find A Grave member. May it be as meaningful for you as it was for me the very moment I saw it. It is why I continue to do what I do, because someone else will gain what I gained the moment I met my grandmother, Carlie Horton Subel. Someone else is destined to meet another ancestor---God Bless!

"Dear Ancestor
Your tombstone stands among the rest;
Neglected and alone.
The name and the date are chiseled out
On polished, marbled stone.
It reaches out to all who cares
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, in blood, in 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."
Author Unknown

I first found FindAGrave when looking for some family members. I never knew such a resource existed. It was amazing to me how many other people were interested in HELPING others find their ancestors.
I learned through my own journey that finding out where you came from is an important part of discovering who you are as an individual. Knowledge that you are part of everyone before you made a difference in my own life and, I hope, in the lives of those that will come after me.

I dedicate my efforts to my beloved 2nd cousin, "Aunt" Emma Lou Odom Price who was DECADES before her time and an amazing inspiration in my genealogical education--I hope I can be like her for my last 40 years.

I stole this from a fellow Find A Grave member. May it be as meaningful for you as it was for me the very moment I saw it. It is why I continue to do what I do, because someone else will gain what I gained the moment I met my grandmother, Carlie Horton Subel. Someone else is destined to meet another ancestor---God Bless!

"Dear Ancestor
Your tombstone stands among the rest;
Neglected and alone.
The name and the date are chiseled out
On polished, marbled stone.
It reaches out to all who cares
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, in blood, in 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."
Author Unknown