I am interested in finding and managing my ancestors' memorials, but am happy to help when I can. Please reach out if you may have a common relative.

Surnames:

Klein
Ziegler (Czeigler, Siegler)
Paulauskas/Paulauski
Masities

DEAR ANCESTOR
-Walter Butler Palmer

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 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.

I am interested in finding and managing my ancestors' memorials, but am happy to help when I can. Please reach out if you may have a common relative.

Surnames:

Klein
Ziegler (Czeigler, Siegler)
Paulauskas/Paulauski
Masities

DEAR ANCESTOR
-Walter Butler Palmer

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 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.