Your tombstone stands among the rest,
neglected and alone.
The name and date are chiseled out
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, in blood, in bone.
Our blood contracts and beats a pulse,
Entirely not our own.
Dear ancestor, the place you filled,
so many 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.
Sarah Mitchell Whitten Ard is one of 11 children of Rev. Arphax Whitten of Smith Station, Alabama.
Sarah M Ard has a CSA pension on line in the GA archives virtual vault. She says she married George W. Ard in Russsell Co, Al in Jan 1867. He enlisted in Lumpkin, Stewart County, Ga with Company K of the GA Ga regiment. He lost a leg at the Battle of Antietam in Sept 1862 and died on July 30, 1894. Proof of her own death on Nov.
Title: Ard, Sarah M Mrs
Prefix Mrs; Last Name Ard
First Name Sarah
Middle Name M
County STEWART; Record Type Document
Cite as Confederate Pension Applications, GA Confederate Pension Office, RG 58-1-1, GA Archives Digital Collection; Confederate Pension Applications; Record ID USAMILCONFEDGA_187816-00473
Date created 2009-08-1319, 1930 is also included.
neglected and alone.
The name and date are chiseled out
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, in blood, in bone.
Our blood contracts and beats a pulse,
Entirely not our own.
Dear ancestor, the place you filled,
so many 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.
Sarah Mitchell Whitten Ard is one of 11 children of Rev. Arphax Whitten of Smith Station, Alabama.
Sarah M Ard has a CSA pension on line in the GA archives virtual vault. She says she married George W. Ard in Russsell Co, Al in Jan 1867. He enlisted in Lumpkin, Stewart County, Ga with Company K of the GA Ga regiment. He lost a leg at the Battle of Antietam in Sept 1862 and died on July 30, 1894. Proof of her own death on Nov.
Title: Ard, Sarah M Mrs
Prefix Mrs; Last Name Ard
First Name Sarah
Middle Name M
County STEWART; Record Type Document
Cite as Confederate Pension Applications, GA Confederate Pension Office, RG 58-1-1, GA Archives Digital Collection; Confederate Pension Applications; Record ID USAMILCONFEDGA_187816-00473
Date created 2009-08-1319, 1930 is also included.
Your tombstone stands among the rest,
neglected and alone.
The name and date are chiseled out
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, in blood, in bone.
Our blood contracts and beats a pulse,
Entirely not our own.
Dear ancestor, the place you filled,
so many 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.
Sarah Mitchell Whitten Ard is one of 11 children of Rev. Arphax Whitten of Smith Station, Alabama.
Sarah M Ard has a CSA pension on line in the GA archives virtual vault. She says she married George W. Ard in Russsell Co, Al in Jan 1867. He enlisted in Lumpkin, Stewart County, Ga with Company K of the GA Ga regiment. He lost a leg at the Battle of Antietam in Sept 1862 and died on July 30, 1894. Proof of her own death on Nov.
Title: Ard, Sarah M Mrs
Prefix Mrs; Last Name Ard
First Name Sarah
Middle Name M
County STEWART; Record Type Document
Cite as Confederate Pension Applications, GA Confederate Pension Office, RG 58-1-1, GA Archives Digital Collection; Confederate Pension Applications; Record ID USAMILCONFEDGA_187816-00473
Date created 2009-08-1319, 1930 is also included.
neglected and alone.
The name and date are chiseled out
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, in blood, in bone.
Our blood contracts and beats a pulse,
Entirely not our own.
Dear ancestor, the place you filled,
so many 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.
Sarah Mitchell Whitten Ard is one of 11 children of Rev. Arphax Whitten of Smith Station, Alabama.
Sarah M Ard has a CSA pension on line in the GA archives virtual vault. She says she married George W. Ard in Russsell Co, Al in Jan 1867. He enlisted in Lumpkin, Stewart County, Ga with Company K of the GA Ga regiment. He lost a leg at the Battle of Antietam in Sept 1862 and died on July 30, 1894. Proof of her own death on Nov.
Title: Ard, Sarah M Mrs
Prefix Mrs; Last Name Ard
First Name Sarah
Middle Name M
County STEWART; Record Type Document
Cite as Confederate Pension Applications, GA Confederate Pension Office, RG 58-1-1, GA Archives Digital Collection; Confederate Pension Applications; Record ID USAMILCONFEDGA_187816-00473
Date created 2009-08-1319, 1930 is also included.
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