Doing the family genealogy for the past 25 plus years off and on.I live in north central Florida near Gainesville and Lake City.Surnames I am researching are:Volz, Sipe, Hedrick, Craven, Schrader, Chidlow, Hertz, Rothwell, Cresci, Molino, Coates, Canavan.I am more than willing to do photos for this area. Any relatives who want memorials transferred to them, please let me know. I'll be glad to do so."Dear Ancestor,Your tombstone stands among the rest;Neglected and alone.The name and date are chiseled out,On polished, marbled 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 pulseEntirely not our own.Dear Ancestor, the place you filledOne hundred years ago,Spreads out among the ones you leftWho would have loved you so.I wonder if you lived and loved,I wonder if you knewThat someday I would find this spotAnd come visit you."(This poem was written in 1906 by Walter Butler Palmer)

Doing the family genealogy for the past 25 plus years off and on.I live in north central Florida near Gainesville and Lake City.Surnames I am researching are:Volz, Sipe, Hedrick, Craven, Schrader, Chidlow, Hertz, Rothwell, Cresci, Molino, Coates, Canavan.I am more than willing to do photos for this area. Any relatives who want memorials transferred to them, please let me know. I'll be glad to do so."Dear Ancestor,Your tombstone stands among the rest;Neglected and alone.The name and date are chiseled out,On polished, marbled 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 pulseEntirely not our own.Dear Ancestor, the place you filledOne hundred years ago,Spreads out among the ones you leftWho would have loved you so.I wonder if you lived and loved,I wonder if you knewThat someday I would find this spotAnd come visit you."(This poem was written in 1906 by Walter Butler Palmer)