*ATTENTION* VISITOR'S PASSWORD IS: NIGHT
 
          "A FAMILY TREE CAN WITHER IF NO ONE TENDS ITS ROOTS"

   Genealogy is a work in progress. And so, this web site is also a work in 
progress. It is not complete and never will be. 
  There are errors and omissions. Even the most careful research will turn up 
discrepancies and so it is with the contents herein. I have tried to do 
careful 
research or draw from information I know of first hand. I have used the 
memories of family members, old photographs, letters, census records, county 
and church birth, marriage and death records, searched out cemeteries and 
written more people than I can ever properly thank. 
  Some of the sources proved out to be suspect and full of errors while others 
provided invaluable information, photos and stories. Yet,as time marches on, 
how do I tell fact from fiction? Was it July 1st or Aug 1st? Did she like to 
call herself Ann or Anne?  I did my best to fill in the blanks. Some blanks 
will have to remain empty until a better source of facts comes around. 
Besides, 
what would life be with out a good mystery once in awhile? Maybe you have the 
answer to some of the blanks. By all means, fill them in. Write me and tell 
me. 
Continue the story of our family for I have just sketched out an outline for 
time to fill in. 
  Please note: due to space limitations,there are no personal notes or source 
references. Write me for further info. Also, due to program limitations, dates 
that are B.C. or CE do not show up as such. Sorry. You may find several files 
listed such as History of the Name, or About the Plantation, Cemetary etc. 
These are text files in my Genealogy Program and cannot show up here. They are 
listed here but you must write me to get the actual file. Again, Sorry.
 This project is dedicated to my sons, Joel and Lars and Chris, with love.  I 
hope you will enjoy it and get as many benefits out of it as I have. This is, 
truly, living history; a living history that you get to actively participate 
in 
and can show your descendents You were here.  
  Enjoy and remember,it's a work in progress!
 
Sherry Ellen Leverett  


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                    THE STORY TELLERS... (Unknown Author)

"We are the chosen. My feelings are that in each family there is one who seems 
called to find the ancestors; to put flesh on their bones and make them live 
again; to tell the family story and to feel that somehow they know and 
approve. To me, doing genealogy is not a cold gathering of facts, but instead, 
breathing life into all who have gone before.

We are the story tellers of the tribe. All tribes have one. We have been 
called, as it were, by our genes.

Those who have gone before cry out to us... Tell our story. So we do. In 
finding them, we somehow find ourselves. How many graves have I stood before 
now? I have lost count. How many times have I told the ancestors you have a 
wonderful family? You would be proud of us. How many times have I walked up to 
a grave and felt somehow there was love there for me? I cannot say.

I go beyond just documenting facts. It goes to who am I and why do I do the 
things I do. It goes to seeing a cemetery about to be lost forever to weeds 
and indifference and saying I can't let this happen.

The bones here are bones of my bones and flesh of my flesh. It goes to doing 
something about it. It goes to pride in what our ancestors were able to 
accomplish. How they contributed to what we are today. It goes to respecting 
their hardships and losses, their never giving up, their resoluteness to go on 
and build a life for their family.

It goes to deep pride that they fought to make and keep us a Nation. It goes 
to a deep and immense understanding that they were doing it for us that we 
might be born who we are. That we might remember them. So we do. With love and 
caring and scribing each fact of their existence because we are them and they 
are us. So, as a scribe called, I tell the story of my family. It is up to 
that one called in the next generation to answer the call and take their place 
in the long line of family story tellers.

That is why I do my family genealogy and that is what calls those young and 
old to step up and put flesh on their bones."
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