My passions in life are my family, genealogy, and writing.

I started climbing my family tree when I was twelve, and haven't stopped yet!

Many of my ancestors came to America for religious reasons.

I have traced them through just about every war that America

has had or taken part in.

Turning Hearts comes from the last verse in of Malachi 4: 6 .

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Kindly visit Milo Lance Bingham's memorial ---207363845

and leave a flower, etc.

He fought a mighty battle with cancer from the

age of eight weeks. He died February 2020.

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QUOTES AND POEMS THAT I LIKE:

It is a second death after you are forgotten.

How many generations does it take, even in a close knit family, for the fabric to unravel....?

Albert Lewis, Jewish Rabbi

"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone." Harriet Beecher Stowe

"And death hath come upon our fathers; nevertheless we know then, for a Book of Remembrance we have written among us, according to the pattern of God. Moses 6: 45-46

It isn't the date on either end that counts

But how they used their dash

For that dash between the dates

Represent the time they spent alive on earth.

And now only those who loved them know

What that little line is worth.

William Elliot Dudley

Those we love, don't go away

They walk beside us every day

Unseen, unheard, but always near

--Still loved, still missed and

Very dear.

WHAT CANCER CANNOT DO

Cancer is so limited..

It cannot cripple Love

It cannot shatter Hope

It cannot corrode Faith

It cannot destroy Peace

It cannot kill Friendship

It cannot suppress Memories

It cannot silence Courage

It cannot invade the Soul

It cannot steal Eternal Life

It cannot conquer the Spirit

Cancer is so limited!

Transition by William Cullen Bryant

So live that when that summons

comes to join

The innumerable caravan which moves

To that mysterious realm where each

shall take

His chamber in the silent halls of death,

Thou go not like the quarry slave

at night,

Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained

and soothed

By an unfaltering trust, approach

thy grave

Like one who wraps the draperies of

his couch

About him and lies down to pleasant

dreams.

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Grief never ends,

but it changes.

It is a passage,

not a place to stay.

Grief is not a sign of

weakness or a lack of faith...

it is the price of love.

[The words above are thought to be based on an eulogy Queen Elizabeth made for her sister Princess Margaret.] Source: AlleCattSTU (#46897564)

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future." Alex Haley

When our hearts turn to our ancestors, something changes inside us. We feel part of something greater than ourselves. Russell M Nelson "Generations Linked in Love"

"In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep to know our heritage-to know who we are and where we have come from. Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning. No matter what our attainments in life, there is still a vacuum, an emptiness, and the most disquieting loneliness."

Alex Haley