I would like to say what I think my grandmother would say if she were here today.  She never had the opportunity that I have of making a tribute to you that so many of the family would be able to read about.

I think my grandmother would say to you, dear great grandfather, that she admired you greatly.  That you worked hard to make a home for the family.  The greatest tribute I think she would give you was of your faith.  She would reminisce about the Sunday morning worship service that you would conduct and her standing beside you on a chair holding a corner of the Hymn Book.  Not only did you provide for your family materially, but you also gave them the spiritual guidance they needed.

My dear great grandmother, I know that our grandmother would have expressed how much she would have wanted to have you longer here on earth.  I know that is what I had wished for my mother, she departed when she was very young as you did.  Like me this denied my grandmother, her brothers and sister the love that only a mother can give. The memories she did have of you she cherished deeply.   She wrote of how you were a spiritual woman and had taught her how to pray.  She also remembered all of the songs about Jesus that you had taught her.  Because of this training she always had a deep abiding faith in her Heavenly Father.

My grandmother Emeline departed a long time ago but she left us with memories of her that we cherish and also her memories of both of you.  I am holding on to all of these memories so I can pass them on to all of your future descendents.