Please don't hesitate to contact me with changes, additions, or questions. If the memorial is not a relative of mine but is related to you, I will gladly transfer.

DEAR ANCESTOR

YOUR TOMBSTONE STANDS AMONG THE REST;

NEGLECTED AND ALONE

THE NAME AND DATE ARE CHISELED OUT

ON POLISHED MARBLE STONE

IT REACHES OUT TO ALL WHO CARE

IT IS TOO LATE TO MOURN

YOU DO NOT KNOW THAT I EXIST

YOU DIED AND I WAS BORN.

YET EACH OF US ARE CELLS OF YOU

IN FLESH, IN BLOOD, IN BONE.

OUR BLOOD CONTRACTS AND BEATS A PULSE

ENTIRELY NOT OUR OWN.

DEAR ANCESTOR, THE PLACE YOU FILLED

ONE-HUNDRED YEARS AGO

SPREADS OUT AMONG THE ONES YOU LEFT

WHO WOULD HAVE LOVED YOU SO.

I WONDER IF YOU LIVED AND LOVED,

I WONDER IF YOU KNEW

THAT SOMEDAY I WOULD FIND THIS SPOT,

AND COME TO VISIT YOU?

Author: unknown

Family is a gift that lasts forever.