the Mary M. Fenstermaker of Kane,Il. Family

I have spent countless hours researching the Charles Fentermaker,Henry Hildred, Bybee, Nicholas Summers, Wiley Ford, Adam Weaver, Robert Gorrell,Elknah Young,William Crane, Peacocks, Swans and the list goes on and on...families that ended up settling and raising family in Illinois. I have found my search very rewarding because I now know where I came from and can preserve all I have found out for future generations so that they can feel as I do...just a part of something much bigger than myself.Please feel free to contact me if you fill you may be related or would like to exchange information about family history or it would be nice just to get to know you.

THINGS THAT ENDURE
Build me a mansion, call me a queen...take me to places that I've never seen...hand me a check for all I can spend, Take me to parties that never end. Shower me with diamonds,offer me fame...with hundreds of lights to spell out my name. Cards to gamble, money to lose...gold and silver to use as I choose. This all sounds great, many seek it I'm sure...but give me the simple life and things will endure.
written by: My grandmother, Mildred Ione (Ford) Summers