~Remembering Our Ancestors~Updated September 21, 2008 |
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| What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine? The wealth of seas? the spoils of war? They sought a faith's pure shrine. Aye, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod; They have left unstained what there they found, Freedom to worship God. These pages are dedicated to all those who paved the way for us to be where we are today...Let's not "ever" forget those who risked it all so that we could be free! We must study the past to prepare for the future... Standing there, looking at my great great grandparents, Joseph Reid's and Isabella Baskin's, final resting place in the edge of the woods behind Old Pickens Presbyterian Church, located between Pickens and Walhalla, SC, made me wish that I had had the opportunity to 'climb up on his knee' and listen to his many tales about the fight for American Independence in the Revolutionary War. I imagine he had many tales to tell about rural farming life in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in South Carolina. I would love to have been held close by my great great grandmother, Isabella Baskin Reid, and listen to the pounding of her heart as she recalled the time, during the Revolutionary War, when the Tories came while she and some other female friends were outside at her Uncle William Baskin's house. She said in a document for a pension that they made her remove all of her clothes except her undergarments. I can't believe that they stopped there! Can you? But, of course, she wouldn't tell 'the rest of the story'. As I walked through the cemetery I was touched by my thoughts of the lives of the families of those men, women and children who paved the path for us. A respectful sadness makes you want to know about these people and especially your ancestors. And the more you learn, the more you want to know... Genealogy is not just a list of names, dates and places, it's your family history. Who were these people that came before you? Where did they live? How did they live? When you begin your research, collecting information about your family members may seem overwhelming, but, you can make this research into as large or small a project as you wish. It all depends on how much time, energy, and space you want to spend on it. Several years ago I started researching my ancestor George Reid who came to this country from the province of Ulster, Ireland and settled in the Ninety-Six District of South Carolina. I started my research in Abbeville, South Carolina...and got the thrill of my life when I found and held George Reid's original 'hand written' will in my hands!!! Have you ever had chills run down your spine???? I did!!! Although I 'started' my research with George Reid I have since learned of other ancestors and am searching daily for information about them. At this time I have begun searching for other family members who are related in some way to the first ancestor... Wish me luck! As always when working with genealogical or historical materials, you should independently verify the information. Just because it's on the Internet doesn't mean that it's true! I am also researching the following ancestors: ANDERSON, BASKIN, BINNS, BRADY, COCHRAN, DENNARD, DOUGLASS, FOUCHÉ, GRAY, HARTGROVE, HODGES, McGILL, REID, SINGLETON, STOKES, STUART, THOMSON/THOMPSON |
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