Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-10-19
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FUNCTION OF ToMssToNEs
? ma. os<w4r~ rsea sAaAianAsvs
asrr Cernrsetety- -
Tonhs,oneS are euaocbtedS ereete
!. 10 keep aliFe tie menory OF mos
whose boSies rst n pesee beneai
den Il 5 doab,ful u any otae
ieS,Ssio7 <aa X ASsigRei 70 then
TIER sAape the snoVnt o. exp.udl
t-7s Their ensail up0n ire living, an
81 o;aercrzsso be se.tied in-rs
sp~cLi0ssaez az matters Of sRisvidua
TSae sad le-e Gebas2be Rs
rshS3EseeA "a az etaase theaam'
gA,d .A-~ cf 4, 9ArteL an4 only 70
y 3zy.o weS. buy 2.Dnz as III
mes. SsvzS:e material eau ovSast th1
s<zssssSzs certain without tn
nSxS;;y ~ :sSsaey 4rzumeqt
4 .aFT iDSusry growing rapidly II
kms1A IS la; u ;Ae g.1salasis'
g;iter-ot tae Isjsel States hav'
I, racaei the p1ia; wa-se they can af
fora 10 kare ancestor. There is muci
rs praise and is,ie .t,s.hiane h.tais
Io3esd, the I'D dic;un, III you would
learn who Won are. learn whehce 20,
/ canes has ra~es-the approval. o,
ire h'sAes, sceRii6c-a authority Ths
ferrarot iz,ecess n the. earlier strug'
gle OF thl AnsacaT people torinte
pSa3eaee- srr.e8 on Though the
agency o. the patriotic hereditary so
c~ie,iss, Is rsponsib.e for this in'agrear
measure
I, Is possible 70 conceive that a man
may not Il proud Of the fact tlat hi:
fought
for ;hesalvztionoflhe colonies agains,
the French sud Indians, his great-great,
Erandtataers for the existence Of the
newborn nation agains; the British'in
-l-'6, his greasgrandtathers again fh
ISL, hissyansiathersagaip the Mex
leans and lis fatarr in the battles tc
preserve he pnian, but il IS extremely
imppbable. The lessop to be iDcul,
Gated is thatW p~atgiatisn and honest
pgi9e the MN who bragsxot il, pr
thinks hims& betssr than his fellow.
eitizeps ~ feE onahat acc9nit shows
himself ignorans of'the very lesson the
Struggles of his ancestors ought 10
teach him. ..
In establishing claims to, member
ship in such organizations. as the Sons
PIT the Ierofit15n, the Sons Of the
American Revolution, the Society OF
Colonial Wars, the Military and Nayai
Order Of the Emitted States, the Society
OF the War of 1919. and others, as well.
as in,makShS-hp a line of descent for
any dtl1er' purpose, legal or otherwise,
the gfnealogist. after exhadsting the
uleager facts of family tradition and
those contained in thtr scant family
archives, finds himself thrown upon
the public T'eeords. These, however
well kept, are often misleading. The
custom Of the ori. mai settlers of hav
ing a single urnainc selected from o
LIMITED range of scripture makes it i'm.
possible sometipes to- tell which of q
scote'of John Bigelows,or Jacob Good.
no"s it was wtio. was married or who
died 1t agiveh time. -.
: In an emergency ofthis kind RECOURSE
must be. had to old tombstones IT H.
hardly necessary to add that tomb
stones pf'to-day will be resorted to fol
This purpose by generations yet un.
born. A glance about the cemeteries
OF Fhifaea gives abundance of proof
that they will be -gazed at in vain fol
the most part, and, that only u few
as .hations. go. artneedGd to have
the descendants of 'a.man whose mem
Dry is supposed to be perpetuated in
dull: cold granite. look. ,rpon :the stone
without the Slightest knowledge o.
their Relationship.
The attempt to establish a complete
line of descent usually fails in the fe.
male line. The mothers family name
Is unknown, of course, and f~requentl,
the mothers mothers name. ,Hei
mother's.name is often buried bevord
possibility of recovery, however,
and a enerationfurtherb hack has even
less hope ofmaking itself knoWn,, :,
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