Pathway:
A Family History
A Pleasant Places Project from biographiks
"Magenis the illustrious and beautiful; They selected the warm hilly country; They were the Lords of all Uladh."- Irish bard John O'Dugan
"Mr. Pooley maught thank himself for he might fared the better but for his own words."- Cecely Reynolds Baley Jordan Farrar, 1623
"We do, in some measure of sinceritie, this day give up ourselves unto God in Christ, to be for him and not for another, at the same time renouncing all the vanities and Idols of this present evil world..."- Church Covenant, Salem Village, MA, 1689
"Would you have me belie myself?"- Rebecca Nourse, 1692, at the Salem Witch Trials
"May the Lord direct and guide those that are in place, and give us all submissive wills, and let the Lord do with me and mine what seems good in his own eyes."- Rev. Francis Dane, 1692
"13 head of young hogs, 5 cows and calves, 2 young heifers and two young steers, 2 old horses, 2 old beds and old furniture, 2 feather beds and bedstead and furniture, 2 old chests and old trunk, 7 pieces of earthenware, 2 old guns, 1 brass mortar and pestle, 1 spinning wheel."- Inventory of the estate of Christopher Pritchard, about 1730
"That he is desirous of obtaining a tract of land for himself and them to cultivate. Therefore, praying for 500 acres or whatever quantity to the council would seem meet..."- West Florida Council records of Thomas Berwick, 1769
"...upon this condition that if the said Christopher Bryan shall keep the peace toward all the good citizens of date thereof, particularly toward James Byrnside..."- Court verdict for Christopher O'Bryan, 1781
"Here lies the body of Joseph Barnett who departed this life by the fall of a tree March 1, 1802. Aged near 70 years. The good citizen, obligeing neighbor, affectionate husband, kind parent & indulgent father --all conspire to complete his character-- O Death Great is thy triumph-- But he shall rise in Glory at the great Day."- Epitaph of Joseph Barnett
"Ah, my son, when you were small you trod upon my toes, but now you tread upon my heart."- Mary McGrew, to Robert Perry, 1807
"Then I will go and stand in the street and wait till someone comes along who looks like a Methodist, and I will follow that one to the house of God."- Polly Hoagland, age 14, 1811
"For a short time my father seemed inclined to wander from home, but she with womanly tact recalled him by her delicate attentions and by making home a happy one."- Mary Augusta Perry, said of Robert Perry and Ezemily Booth
"Happy! I hear, I feel, I see nothing but Heaven opened and Hell closed."- Mary Alzenith Perry, age 13, 1838
"What it is that ails me I cannot tell you I am so nigh helpless that I can neither get up or down nor walk about the house nor yard only as Betty helps me and goes about with me and holds me up by the arm."- Susannah Smith, 1842
"Leaving you all behind how painful to tell but hope to meet again in life or in blest eternity where parting is no more."- Polly Hoagland, 1856
"I love all my children... (but) my other children are all old enough and competent to support and take care of themselves."- From the will of George O'Bryan, 1858
"This world is all a fleeting show nothing sure But heaven there fore lay all up on Gods alter and concecrate yourself to him and be assured you have the prayers of a Father & Mother that Loves you..."- Rev. Edmund McGinnis, 1859
"He observed to me that he would be glad to see his child and here him talk awhile which come nigh overcoming my feelings and I had for the first time fight breaking into tears from the fact that it brings memories of the past rushing back to the mind like a truant that it took all my courage to man..."- James Harvey Kidd, 1862
"The Country is full of widows and orphants, and disrepts of every kind. Our parts has suffered greatly by the Devils thing for I must call it for it eminated in Hell & to Hell it went."- O.C. Kidd, 1866
"I am abel to work and write a little though I feel quite feeble and often cough verry hard and suffer much yet the hope of heaven bears me up and I hope to live a while longer and want to groe better..."- Polly Hoagland, 1871
"I am serving God and trying to get to heaven. I want to be ready for death every day. Pray for me and all my children that we may all get to that good world where there will be no more parting."- Rev. David Allen McGinnis, Feb. 22, 1886
"First, it is my wish that my funeral shall be conducted without pomp or unnecessary parade or ostentation..."- Andrew Jackson Short, 1888
"...Let the goddess of science supply every need/And deprive me of a mother's love/T'would be a dreary world indeed."- Rex Oral McGinnis
""I'm not going back to that school. I can't talk like they do."- Gloria Ashorn Garrett, age 6, 1917
"Oh, why don't you invite that old, fat McGinnis and ease his pain?"- Ruth O'Bryan about her future husband
"My own dear husband, how I miss you. I have just lots to tell you. Have a secret but won't tell you til you are here."- Ruth O'Bryan, 1918
"Pet, it seems you are a long ways off and when I come to see you, I am so tired and sleepy that I am not jolly at all am I honey bunch? Bye bye dear wifey, your devoted husband Rex."- Rex Oral McGinnis, 1918
"Dear Sir, I have your card acknowledging rec't of my order for Sweet potato Plants. You say they will be shipped in season. What you mean by this I do not know. I ordered these plants to come some days since. I live six miles from Post Office and cannot be running all the time to see if they are there."- Enoch Marsh McGinnis, 1925
"Zehr gut!"- Franziska Marek
"The people are getting wiser, but they're getting weaker."- Dr. Alexander Stephens Garrett
"Put your foot on it and growl."- Rex Oral McGinnis
"What a travesty!... Bring peace by waging war?"- James Alpheus Garrett, 1983
"I pray for God to give me wisdom, not worldly wisdom but wisdom to really know the truth."- Gloria Ashorn Garrett, 1999
Preface 1: Rulers of Ireland 2: Publicans to Preachers 3: Gone to Texas 4: West Virginia Home 5: The Swedish Connection 6: Next Stop: Katy, Texas 7: Ruth and Rex 8: Sinners in Salem 9: Yankees Go South 10: Wandering Irish 11: Among the Cajuns 12: Pennsylvania Scotch 13: End of Plantations 14: From Dukes to Doctors 15: Lutherans on the Farm 16: Elva Meets Alpheus
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Narratives are taken from Pathway: A Family History, and may be freely distributed for non-commercial purposes.
© 1996-2004, Michael McGinnis, Bryan, TX
