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This site is dedicated to the memories of MARTHA ELIZABETH STONE MILLER and
can be accesssed with our case sensative password ... nl04 .. small N .. small L ..
zero .. 4 We hope you enjoy. 
Although it began as a small way of passing on to my children their hard earned 
heritage, it is now gladly given to YOUR FAMILY.  Our ancestors came from all 
over the world to a small corner of northwest Missouri.. they put down deep 
roots and OUR TREE has spread far and sheltered many. To those who sacrificed 
much along the way to bring us here I say, for all of us, "Thank you". The 
effort for accuracy is non-ending and as FAMILY COUSINS, if mistakes are found 
please make us aware. All who would like to join in our effort with history, 
photos or stories are welcome. Many have given to our project but I owe special 
THANKS to MARY SMITH, BECKY/PAUL DERKS & DAN HAYES for Stone/Varvel, to GAIL 
MARTIN editor of Duclos/Declue, to OWEN THOMPSON who brought Holman, Fields, 
Robinson lines. Kudos to "Kissin'Cousins" JUDY CLAYBOURNE, JAN WHITE & JOHN LEE 
who "Permit" us to go on. JANET SCHNURR gave us Byrd/Bird lines and DEB GRAY 
added Moore/Rowe family lines, and Jean Sellers gave us our Native American 
lines in Doniphan/Holt counties.  These "cousins" have more than just bloodline 
ties... they each have a Title and Creed as: 
                             The STORY TELLERS .....
We are the chosen..... My feelings are 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 and cried? 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. It goes 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 bone 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 in or 
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 storytellers. That, is why I do my family genealogy, and 
that is what calls those young and old to step up and put flesh on the bones.
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                Please enjoy and remember to sign our LOG BOOK.

So far family members have traced their lines back to 3 of our Presidents:
  **GEORGE WASHINGTON** ... **ABRAHAM LINCOLN** ... **ZACHARY TAYLOR**
and to Tribal Chief: MAMENTHOUENSA "Francis-Xavier Rouensa" who was Chief of 
the Illini Federation and of the now extinct Kaskaskia Tribe. We also have 
representatives of the Western Cherokee, Ioway and Omaha Tribes who were 
located in Doniphan & Brown Co KS and Richardson Co NE.