tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532831281757512977Sat, 18 Jul 2026 05:02:07 +0000timememorieslifepastfamilygravesdeathhandsheavenGodcemeterieslovesunyearsfatherforgottenfriendsrainhistorystoriesHomedayforevergenerationsheartnightstarstreesancestorsangelsbooksdawndusteyesgrandmanamesriverskyvoiceswindChristmasTexasWhittierchildhoodchildreneveningflowerslaughtermomentsrememberstonesummertearswinteryesterdaysLongfellowMemesRockdale ReporterbellsbirdschildchurchdreamsearthheartsholidayshouselyricsmorningmotherpeaceprayersroadshadowssorrowtomorrowvoicewarBeNotForgotClemensJesusLlewellynNew YearRansonTwaincloudsdeaddewechoesfathersgenealogygrandpagrassesgriefhopeslightmoonmusicphotographpictureprayingpresentreunionsilencesmilesnowsodsoldierssongssonssoulsouthernspringvalleyBrownEliotEmersonFrostHaleyJarvisJuddLordMother's DayRichardsonThoreauWhitmanWilderWilsonaffectionbenedictionblossomscummingsdarknessdyingeducationeternityfacefacesfamily treefleshforefathersforestforget-me-notfreedomfuneralgloaminggood-byegood-nightimaginationinspirationkinlamplettermeadowsmountainspainpathsrelativesrememberedseasseasonsingingstormstidetombtruthtwilightwhisperswhywindowsworldyouth1857185918631893AllenAmericaAuroraAvrettBaileyBarnesBostonBrackettBrowningBurbankBurkeCervantesCiceroCoeCookeCrichtonDecemberDickensDoudneyDunneEasterEwingFlintG-KarGaitherGeorgiaGibbonGillGillespieGodey'sGoetschGone With the WindGoodrumGoughGraphic GardenHawthorneHeineHenryHerrickHollandJuneKaneKempKenkoKiplingLantzLarkinLeviLondonLouise McHenry HickyMasterMaughamMayMcMurtryMiltonMontgomeryMorganMother GooseNallsNovemberOslinParadisePentecostPichelPsalmsRayeRhioRicheyRossettiSNGFSadlerSchlitzSeussShakespeareShawSiddonsSouleSpurgeonStanleySteinbeckStutterSusie's GraphicsTalmageTeasdaleThanksgivingWhippleWildeWillsWrightabsenceadventureagingarmsashesatomauthorsautumnbabiesbarefootbedroombedsbirthblackblazebloggingbodybonesboybrookbrooksburialsbutterfliescampfirecandlecanvascarecarvedchaircharacterchimeschoreschurchyardcirclecivilizationclayclipartclockscometscomfortcompassconversationscouchcowboycreativedaughterdaysdescendantsdespairdirectiondirtdisciplinedogseffigyembersembraceendlessepitapheveexistexistencefallfamefarewellfearfeetfieldsfingersfireflagflamefoesfoostepsfootprintsfootstepsforeignerforgetforgiveforgotfuturegardensgarmentsghostsgiftsgloomglowgonegriefshandwritinghappinesshatredheadhearinghearthheatherheavenlyhillshorizonhorizonshorseshouseholdshymnsignoranceimmortalityin the newsinkinstitutionislandsjoyjudgmentjusticekaleidoscopekinfolkkittensladieslawnleafleavinglibertylibrarieslifetimelingeringlipslisteninglivelivinglongevitymagicmanmansionmarblemelodymemorymeteormidnightmilestonesmournersmoviesnaturenerveoathsopportunitypartypathpathwaypatriotismpenpilgrimplacesplanetpostcardsquestquiltsranchrecollectionsrelationsremainingrememberingreminiscerestrosessacredsaintsscenescribescrollseasonsseekersshadesshipsshoresilentsojournsparkspiritstarlitsteedstorytellersstrengthstrifesunrisesunsetssunshinetalenttelephonethoughtstimestodaytogethertokenstombstombstonetrailtrailstraintribevacancyvicevisitvoyagewalkwanderingsweddingswildernesswildwoodwingswitherwitnesswivesworkwreathhttp://benotforgot-quotes.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (BeNotForgot)Blogger135125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532831281757512977.post-840028634091630056Wed, 19 Mar 2025 17:00:00 +00002025-03-19T12:00:00.130-05:00childrendescendantsfamilyfathergenealogygenerationsDear Children:Being sensible the foregoing genealogy neither is or can be of any public benefit, it cannot be worthy of public notice. I therefore have no other meaning than to hand it down to you, to the end that you and your descendants may (if you or any of them have or may have the curiosity) look back to the first of the family... from whom you derived your nativity, and may http://benotforgot-quotes.blogspot.com/2025/03/your-affectionate-father.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (BeNotForgot)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532831281757512977.post-2084935336746745089Fri, 15 Nov 2024 20:05:00 +00002024-11-15T14:16:42.580-06:00birdscemeteriesdawnflowersforgottenrainseasonsspringsummerTexasOn this date . . . the 15th day of November . . . in the year 1877 . . . in San Patricio County, Texas . . . occurs the death of Susanna O'Docharty, who was tall and slender with a shock of red hair . . . this Susanna, along with many of her family members, were laid to rest in the Old Cemetery on the Hill . . . it has been said of her that she accurately predicted http://benotforgot-quotes.blogspot.com/2024/11/old-cemetery-on-hill.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (BeNotForgot)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532831281757512977.post-158312469921091892Sat, 09 Nov 2024 14:56:00 +00002024-11-15T14:17:47.480-06:00bedroomchildcouchdeathfamilylaughterparty I hope deathis like being carried to your bedroomwhen you were a childand fell asleep on the couchduring a family party.I hope you can hear the laughterfrom the next room.~~~~~Please leave a comment if you know who wrote this. The earliest post I found was in 2022, but with no attribution.http://benotforgot-quotes.blogspot.com/2024/11/i-hope-you-can-hear-laughter.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (BeNotForgot)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532831281757512977.post-2636869367980542817Fri, 22 Jan 2021 16:15:00 +00002021-01-22T10:17:11.513-06:00dustimaginationmemoryThere is an exquisite pleasure in reviving the memory of past days from the dust scattered over it by time, of which none but those engaged in the pursuit can have an idea of.Imagination loves to look back upon former ages, and fill up the remaining outline, which seems so dull to the incurious, with colors more vivid even than they ever possessed in reality.So memory in old age throws a fairy http://benotforgot-quotes.blogspot.com/2021/01/labours-of-antiquary.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (BeNotForgot)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532831281757512977.post-6446533392874141775Tue, 08 May 2018 23:19:00 +00002018-05-08T18:19:48.496-05:00handsheartmemoriesmotherMother's DayPentecostRockdale Reportertimeyears The Rockdale Reporter and Messenger (Rockdale, Tex.) Vol. 58, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 8, 1930 Page: 7 of 8   http://benotforgot-quotes.blogspot.com/2018/05/1930-memories-of-mother.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (BeNotForgot)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532831281757512977.post-3293574404188262283Sat, 21 Apr 2018 01:41:00 +00002018-04-20T20:42:50.055-05:00Crichtonfamily treehistoryleaftrees Photo by benotforgot The late novelist Michael Crichton is reported to have said, “If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree.” http://benotforgot-quotes.blogspot.com/2018/04/the-family-tree.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (BeNotForgot)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532831281757512977.post-1588893694332667858Tue, 17 Apr 2018 02:06:00 +00002018-04-16T21:17:44.286-05:00childhoodfacesfreedomHawthornehillsHomememoriesRockdale Reporterspiritwildwoodyouth The Rockdale Reporter and Messenger (Rockdale, Tex.) Vol. 53, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 16, 1925     http://benotforgot-quotes.blogspot.com/2018/04/over-hill.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (BeNotForgot)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532831281757512977.post-8913656469077450128Tue, 20 Mar 2018 18:25:00 +00002024-03-11T08:37:59.974-05:00dawnevefeetheavenLantzlifepathssunrisevoiceswhisperswind When, on my eve of life,a radiant dawn is breakingand whispering windsfrom Heaven's bright plainsare blown,   I hear,from out the sunrise,voices callingmy feet to brighter paths,untried,unknown.E.E.L. Emily Emerson Lantz  1862 ~ 1931 http://benotforgot-quotes.blogspot.com/2018/03/a-radiant-dawn-is-breaking.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (BeNotForgot)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532831281757512977.post-7050497460967836023Mon, 22 Jan 2018 01:53:00 +00002018-01-21T20:27:08.909-06:00AvrettbooksdeathforgottengenerationsghostsHaleyHenrylibrariesmemoriesNallsPsalms Psalm 102:18 Let this be written for a future generation . . . Alex Haley is often quoted as having said that when an old person dies, it is like a small library burning.  The difference is, most libraries only have books for which there are duplicates in many other libraries.  But when an old person dies, it is a tragic loss of the many and varied pages and chapters of the http://benotforgot-quotes.blogspot.com/2018/01/in-memory-of-betty-and-iola-and-dorris.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (BeNotForgot)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532831281757512977.post-3767922708223132939Mon, 01 Jan 2018 17:03:00 +00002018-01-01T12:18:54.220-06:00libertyLordNew YearprayersRansonsoldierswaryears For Thy guidance all the wayThrough the New Year, Lord, we pray, And in deep humilityPray for speedy victory. Let us hear it sung again:"Peace on earth; good will to men." Let this year see nations freedOnce again from war and greed. On the home front help us keepFaith with those in plane and jeep. On the land and on the seaFighting for our liberty. Bring them back, whom we hold dear,http://benotforgot-quotes.blogspot.com/2018/01/prayer-for-new-year.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (BeNotForgot)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532831281757512977.post-5593550862228475289Sun, 19 Nov 2017 18:59:00 +00002017-11-19T13:14:34.677-06:00cemeterieschildrenchurchyardfatherholidayskaleidoscopememoriesmotherRockdale ReporterTalmageThanksgivingwinter On Thanksgiving day  the memory becomes  a kaleidoscope,  and every minute  the scene changes.You give  to the kaleidoscope of memory  a turn  and there they are,  natural as life,  around the country hearth  on a cold winter night.I see that old Thanksgiving dinner.Father at one end,  mother at the other end,  the children between . http://benotforgot-quotes.blogspot.com/2017/11/the-memory-becomes-kaleidoscope.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (BeNotForgot)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532831281757512977.post-1231767963273866417Fri, 21 Oct 2016 21:08:00 +00002017-07-21T13:35:46.309-05:00CoedeadgoneliferemembersongsTexas . . . so when I'm dead and gone will you still sing my song? will you remember me? will you remember me? will you remember me? that's what I'm talkin about when my life runs out will you remember me? . . . but before I go I just wanna know if you'll remember me? will you remember me? will you remember me? that's what I'm talkin about when my life runs out will you remember me? http://benotforgot-quotes.blogspot.com/2016/10/will-you-remember-me_21.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (BeNotForgot)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532831281757512977.post-6062819853632970193Fri, 29 Jul 2016 16:16:00 +00002016-07-29T11:17:34.194-05:00conversationsechoesG-KarhearingleavinglingeringlisteningplacesremainingvoicesYou see, I believe that when we leave a place, part of it goes with us and part of us remains. Go anywhere in the station, when it is quiet, and just listen. After a while, you will hear the echoes of all our conversations. Every thought and word we've exchanged. Long after we're gone, our voices will linger in these walls for as long as this place remains. But I will admithttp://benotforgot-quotes.blogspot.com/2016/07/for-as-long-as-this-place-remains.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (BeNotForgot)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532831281757512977.post-4562790826896212636Sun, 08 May 2016 23:22:00 +00002018-03-24T08:47:54.894-05:00babiesbedsBeNotForgotburialschildrenfamilyforgottengenerationsgloaminggrandmahandshorizonskinfolkMother's Daypastquiltsstoriestrailsvoiceswanderings Remembering the Grandmas on Mother's Day . . . I hear the voices of my grandmasCalling out from a distant past"Please do not let us be forgot.Record our stories that we may last." Tell the children of our wanderingsLet the kinfolk hear the talesHow we braved the new horizonsHow we blazed the olden trails. How we buried too many babiesHow we struggled to keep them fedHow we caressed http://benotforgot-quotes.blogspot.com/2016/05/sentimental-sunday-remembering-grandmas.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (BeNotForgot)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532831281757512977.post-4457831456308415399Mon, 11 Apr 2016 16:00:00 +00002018-04-11T09:03:02.054-05:00brooksBurbankbutterflieschildeducationrelativestrees Every child should have . . .    mud pies,  grasshoppers,  water bugs,  tadpoles,  frogs,  mud turtles,  elderberries,  wild strawberries,  acorns,  chestnuts,  trees to climb.  Brooks to wade,  water lilies,  woodchucks,  bats,  bees,  butterflies,  various http://benotforgot-quotes.blogspot.com/2016/04/huckleberries-and-hornets.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (BeNotForgot)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532831281757512977.post-5304724213393943889Sun, 20 Mar 2016 09:00:00 +00002018-03-20T09:35:35.834-05:00ashesatomblazedaysdustexistglowliveLondonmeteorplanetsparktime I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my http://benotforgot-quotes.blogspot.com/2016/03/i-shall-use-my-time.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (BeNotForgot)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532831281757512977.post-3378113267494900344Sat, 19 Mar 2016 20:04:00 +00002018-03-19T16:35:33.126-05:001893Clemensgood-nightRichardsonsodsouthernsummersunTwainwind Warm summer sun, shine kindly here;Warm southern wind, blow softly here;Green sod above, lie light, lie light-Good-night, dear heart, good-night, good-night. These lines were adapted from a poem by Robert Richardson . . . the original can be found in a little book published in 1893 . . . Willow and Wattle . . . On this date in our extended collateral family history . . . the http://benotforgot-quotes.blogspot.com/2016/03/good-night-good-night.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (BeNotForgot)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532831281757512977.post-7214273303785275951Thu, 17 Mar 2016 16:00:00 +00002018-01-20T23:33:32.702-06:00deathHolland Death is nothing at all. It does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room. Nothing has happened. Everything remains exactly as it was. I am I, and you are you, and the old life that we lived so fondly together is untouched, unchanged. Whatever we were to each other, that we are still. Call me by the old familiar name. Speak of me in the easy way which you always http://benotforgot-quotes.blogspot.com/2016/03/when-we-meet-again.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (BeNotForgot)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532831281757512977.post-4002375216190431442Wed, 27 Jan 2016 19:01:00 +00002018-01-27T09:49:37.709-06:00affectionCervantesfuturehatredhistorypastpresenttimewitness Historians ought to be precise, faithful, and unprejudiced; and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should make them swerve from the way of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction to the present, and monitor to the future. - Cervantes. http://benotforgot-quotes.blogspot.com/2016/01/historians-ought-to-be.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (BeNotForgot)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532831281757512977.post-3916365021563574839Sun, 24 Jan 2016 00:42:00 +00002018-04-20T09:20:03.149-05:001857inksnowThoreau The coldest day that I remember recording, clear and bright, but very high wind, blowing the snow. Ink froze.  Thoreau's Journal 23-Jan-1857 http://benotforgot-quotes.blogspot.com/2016/01/ink-froze.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (BeNotForgot)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532831281757512977.post-7813650250386490686Sat, 23 Jan 2016 00:04:00 +00002017-10-18T22:08:54.582-05:00ancestorsBrowngenealogytruth To be a Responsible Genealogist is to be honorable, fair, and truthful,   to show respect for your ancestors by presenting a true and complete picture of their existence,   to be fair to your fellow genealogists by acknowledging their contributions to your research,   and to be relentless in your pursuit of factual data and in the search for the truthhttp://benotforgot-quotes.blogspot.com/2016/01/restoring-ethics-to-genealogy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (BeNotForgot)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532831281757512977.post-7880656247037652733Sun, 13 Sep 2015 20:37:00 +00002017-09-13T10:29:16.346-05:00benedictioninspirationmemoriesStanley From the tombstone of Dudley Snyder . . . who was buried on this date in the year 1921 . . .  His life was an inspiration, His memory a benediction. The above is an adaptation of the last lines in the following composition . . .  He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has enjoyed the trust of pure women, who has gained the http://benotforgot-quotes.blogspot.com/2015/09/his-memory-benediction.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (BeNotForgot)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532831281757512977.post-2646656556035746683Sat, 01 Aug 2015 21:54:00 +00002018-01-20T23:46:21.109-06:00deathearthlifeMaughammoviesriversojournstone Quoting W. Somerset Maugham from Razor's Edge [which I am watching at this moment] . . .  This is the young man of whom I write. He is not famous. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end, he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on this earth than a stone, thrown into a river, leaves on the surface of the water. Yet it may be that the way of life he has chosen http://benotforgot-quotes.blogspot.com/2015/08/quoting-w-somerset-maugham.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (BeNotForgot)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532831281757512977.post-3069191853887816783Tue, 28 Jul 2015 00:48:00 +00002017-07-27T12:41:44.720-05:00clipartdayendlessfamily treeGoetschlifenamesRhiostrifetimewings Remember me in the Family Tree - my name, my days, my strife. Then I'll ride upon the wings of time and live an endless life. Linda Goetsch http://benotforgot-quotes.blogspot.com/2015/07/wings-of-time.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (BeNotForgot)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532831281757512977.post-4996417131212547608Wed, 17 Dec 2014 16:32:00 +00002017-12-17T10:45:57.042-06:00dawneveningGodJesuskinmoonmorningpeacesunsunsetsWhittierwinter New York Times December 18, 1888 Whittier's Birthday. Quietly Celebrated at his Farmhouse at Oak Knoll.  Danvers, Mass.,  Dec. 17. -- At the quiet farmhouse at Oak Knoll, on the outskirts of the town of Danvers, there was a pleasant family circle to-day, and one of the most beloved of New-England's famous sons received congratulations on his eighty-first birthday.  Here, http://benotforgot-quotes.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-christmas-of-1888.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (BeNotForgot)0