The Narrow Line

We walk a lonely road
Or so I have been told
That life's a lonely journey for us all
But here I'd like to say, somewhere along the way
We choose how we stand and how we fall

For to walk upon this earth, there's a price I have to pay
For all you do and say, and all you hope and pray
And all that you oppose and obey

And all that you believe, and all you laugh and grieve
and what you have become today

And to think the way I do, there's a price I have to pay

Walk the narrow line, walk the narrow line
Walk the narrow line back home
I'll walk until I find, my truth and piece of mind
I will walk the narrow line

Peace will come, your peace will come
When all is said and done
It's only a memory away

And when you find peace, and all your angers cease
Then you'll make some sense of it all
Then the promises of truth, that shone so bright in youth
Give way to greater knowledge as they fall

To be truthful to myself, there's a price I have to pay

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Descendants of Charles A Ferris

I received an email from Ann Ferris who turns out to be the widow of one of the Descendants of Charles A Ferris and Margaret L Dearmond. I was most curious about one of Charles and Margaret's sons named John ( like me ) who also shares my October 13 birthday. John it runs out married a woman named Dorothy and had three boys, two of which have children alive today. I am so excited by this communication as it represents the first "touch: from the descendants of Robert James Ferris's brothers or sisters carrying the Ferris name. And it appears that there could be other children alive today descended from Charles and Margaret as they had four children.

I worked briefly on updating the information Ann so generously supplied so that my data would reflect the changes in case any of her family wanted an updated Family Tree. It is just these types of encounters that take the research of history and genealogy away from trying to bring to life ancestors through fact, data, stories and pictures to actually talking to a live cousin who is part of your large extended family tree. I am grateful today that all my research paid off on this one branch and look forward to further communication with them. AND.... I still have more letters out there that have not been responded to !
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