The Journey's Just Begun
Don't think of me as gone away--
my journey's just begun;
life holds so many facets--
this earth is only one.
Just think of me as resting
from the sorrows and the tears
in a place of warmth and comfort
where there are no days and years.
Think how I must be wishing
that we could know, today,
how nothing but our sadness
can really pass away.
And think of me as living
in the hearts of those I may have touched...
for nothing loved is ever lost --
and know I loved you so much.
Author Unknown
We find Joe Bell 44 years old, a widow on the 1880 Houston County Census. He tells the census taker he was born in Virginia as were both his parents. The census taker says Joe Bell is Mulatto. He is the only one in the household.
Don't think of me as gone away--
my journey's just begun;
life holds so many facets--
this earth is only one.
Just think of me as resting
from the sorrows and the tears
in a place of warmth and comfort
where there are no days and years.
Think how I must be wishing
that we could know, today,
how nothing but our sadness
can really pass away.
And think of me as living
in the hearts of those I may have touched...
for nothing loved is ever lost --
and know I loved you so much.
Author Unknown
We find Joe Bell 44 years old, a widow on the 1880 Houston County Census. He tells the census taker he was born in Virginia as were both his parents. The census taker says Joe Bell is Mulatto. He is the only one in the household.
The Journey's Just Begun
Don't think of me as gone away--
my journey's just begun;
life holds so many facets--
this earth is only one.
Just think of me as resting
from the sorrows and the tears
in a place of warmth and comfort
where there are no days and years.
Think how I must be wishing
that we could know, today,
how nothing but our sadness
can really pass away.
And think of me as living
in the hearts of those I may have touched...
for nothing loved is ever lost --
and know I loved you so much.
Author Unknown
We find Joe Bell 44 years old, a widow on the 1880 Houston County Census. He tells the census taker he was born in Virginia as were both his parents. The census taker says Joe Bell is Mulatto. He is the only one in the household.
Don't think of me as gone away--
my journey's just begun;
life holds so many facets--
this earth is only one.
Just think of me as resting
from the sorrows and the tears
in a place of warmth and comfort
where there are no days and years.
Think how I must be wishing
that we could know, today,
how nothing but our sadness
can really pass away.
And think of me as living
in the hearts of those I may have touched...
for nothing loved is ever lost --
and know I loved you so much.
Author Unknown
We find Joe Bell 44 years old, a widow on the 1880 Houston County Census. He tells the census taker he was born in Virginia as were both his parents. The census taker says Joe Bell is Mulatto. He is the only one in the household.
Inscription
Julie Leonard, David Murphy, Hallie Murphy, Charles Dawson and I surveyed and photographed all of Old Cedar Branch on July 1, 2013. We did not find a headstone marking this grave, all except I have relatives buried here and Charles remembers as a child and young man coming to this lovely old cemetery, not far from the banks of the Trinity River, and knew were many of the family plots and rows are.
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