Tombstone Tuesday~ Watson & Middler

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

The Kirkyard of Tarves

Stone 352 ( Flat)

In memory of Charles Watson late farmer in Cairnbrogie d. 18 Sept 1801 aged 64. Also Jean Middler his spouse d. 24 Feb 1806 aged 68. Also their son Charles Watson d. 18 Mar 1850 ages 81. Isabel Milne his spouse d. 31 July 1861 aged 86. James Watson their son d. Cairnbrogie 6 Sept 1872 aged 59. Also his son George d. 20 Apr 1882 aged 17 also his Grandson Robert Tough d. 19 Oct. 1884 aged 6. Also Isabella Wright wife of the above James Watson d. 1 May 1887 aged 63. Also Duncan Watson d. at Broadward 10 Apr. 1844 aged 32 and his father James Watson late farmer in Broadward d. 12 Sept 1856 and his spouse Margaret Paterson d. 2 Sept. 1863 aged 83. James Watson, Burnside, Schivies(sic) d. 16 Oct 1883 aged 78. Helen Gordon his wife d. 24 Jan. 1890 aged 71.

Stone 351 (Standing)

In Loving memory of John Watson South Burnside, Schiyas d. 25 Feb 1898 aged 43; his wife Helen Mitchell d. 20 Dec 1930 aged 75. Also their daughter Margaret M. Watson d. 24 May 1967. And their sons John, South Burnside,Schiyas 1889-1957; James Alexander, Glasgow, 1890-1971; Henry Gordon, New Jersey 1897-1977.

The flat stone left of the Standing Gravestone is the grave of my 5th Great Grandparents, Charles Watson and Jean Middler, their Son James and his wife Margaret Paterson my 4th Great Grandparents. The Standing Stone is the grave of my 1st Cousin 4xs Removed and his family, his parents were James Watson and Helen Gordon.

When I started typing this post the other day, I didn't have a photo to go with it so I thought I would find one of the Kirkyard to add, you can imagine my delight,shock and Joy as I scrolled through the pictures Google Search had found for Tarves Kirkyard and noticed this one for my family~

"May you embrace all the rich legacies of your heritage." ~ Irish Blessing~

"There is no King who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his"~Helen Keller~

" Without genealogy, the study of history is lifeless." ~ John Fishe~

" To forget one's ancestors is to be a brook without a source, a tree without a root" ~Old Chinese Saying~

"People will not Look forward to posterity, who never look backwards to their Ancestors."
~Edmund Burke~

“ The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.”~Cicero~

"This packrat has learned that what the next generation will value most is not what we owned, but the evidence of who we were and the tales of how we loved. In the end, it’s the family stories that are worth the storage.” ~Ellen Goodman~

"When our hearts turn to our ancestors, something changes inside us. We feel part of something greater than ourselves. Our inborn yearnings for family connections are fulfilled when we are linked to our ancestors…” ~Russell M. Nelson~

"If you don’t recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may not seem very important, but they are what binds families and makes each of us who we are. " ~Madeleine Engle~

"Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly in you. " ~Bill Bryson"

"In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage, to know who we are and where we came from."~ Alex Haley~

"Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future." ~ T.S. Eliot~

"How will our children know who they are if they do not know where they came from."~ unknown~

"Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future. We make discoveries about ourselves." ~Gail Lumet Buckley~

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