I'M ORIGINALLY FROM CENTRAL ILLINOIS AND MY ANCESTORS (WALTER-HOOTS & WALKER-MCGONIGLE FAMILIES,ETC.) MIGRATED WEST FROM THE EASTERN U.S. AND PRIMARILY SETTLED IN THE MIDWEST DURING THE EARLY 1830s AND ONWARD. I HAVE DONE EXTENSIVE GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH OF ABOVE LISTED SURNAMES AND HOPEFULLY THIS INFORMATION WILL BE SHARED WITH OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS. TO MAKE CONTACT LEAVE A MESSAGE AND/OR EMAIL ADDRESS. GENEALOGICAL INFORMATION RECEIVED WILL BE UTILIZED FOR THOSE PURPOSES ONLY!

IT IS OUR INHERITIVE RIGHT AND IMPERATIVE, THAT THE EMBODIMENT OF OUR FOREFATHERS DEDICATED LIVES BE NOTABLY REMEMBERED FOR THEIR SIGNIFICANT SOCIAL AND MORAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO OUR DESCENDING GENERATIONS. TO DISREGARD THE INDELIBLE PRINT OF OUR VERIFIED AND DOCUMENTED ANCESTRAL HERITAGE, WOULD DISHONOR OUR INVALUABLE AND ENDURING FAMILY LEGACIES.

PERSONAL ORIGINAL QUOTES:

{PROCLAIM OUR ANCESTRAL PAST, PRESERVE IT}
{GENEALOGY IS A RELATIVE TO ALL OF MANKIND}
{OUR INHERITED LEGACY IS THE IMMORTALITY OF OUR ETERNAL ANCESTORS}
{FOR FAMILY GRAVE SITES I HAVE NOT FOUND, HOPEFULLY I'VE GRACED MY FOOTSTEPS UPON THEIR HALLOWED GROUND}
{RIDING THE RANGES AND TRAILING THE FENCES, I FIND PAST
AND PRESENT RELATIVES TO MAINTAIN THE FAMILY CENSUS}

MY CONSENTED EPITAPH: THE AUTUMN LEAVES, TURNING IN A WHISPERING BREEZE, EMIT A SETTLING OF RESTFUL MELODIOUS SOUNDS; A SENSE OF PEACE GRANTED FOR MY HEARTEN SOUL. (JEWM)