Thank you so very much to all the volunteers who have contributed to Find A Grave for all the valuable work that you do! Your efforts bring honor to the memory of those who have come before us and who are now at rest.

This website has aided me a great deal on my journey to discover my own roots. I was adopted as an infant, my birth surname was Holmes. Through DNA matches my maternal biological connections include the family names of DAVIS, HOLMES, TAYLOR, GROVES, WILSON, BARRY, BAPTIE, FERGUSON, ELLIOTT from Peterborough and Hastings Counties in Ontario, Canada. I am still searching for information and connections from my paternal biological family.

We are all volunteers and we all try to provide as much and as accurate information as possible for the loved ones family. Please be civil if for some reason your suggestion gets declined, when possible providing supporting evidence will assist. It is my hope that my contributions and the photos that I have taken may help someone else in the future.

~~~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 did 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

so long ago

Spreads out among the ones you left,

who would have loved you so.

I wonder how you lived and loved,

I wonder if you knew

That someday I would find this spot,

And come to visit you.

~~~Author Unknown