Wednesday, February 10, 2010

2010 Reunion

Mark your calendars for the William John Thomas and Orinda Ann Karren Family Reunion:

SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 2010

Jack Thomas and Maxine Steele descendants will be together at this reunion at the Cheryl Steele Weathersby home.

five acres with horses
lunch with lots of activities for the kids
You won't want to miss this one! Please encourage your family to attend! This is a great chance to get to know who your relatives are. You might even find out you're related to someone you already know! My sister Liz was already friends with Cheryl's daughter when they found out, at a funeral, they were related!



Ways you can get involved:

We need EVERYONE'S email! We think we have them all, but if you know of someone missing, please let me know. Most correspondence will be by email, so we must have them all, or you won't know what is going on.
Family cookbook
Talent Show
Shirts (one color for Maxine's family and another color for Jack's family) with some kind of design on them.
We would appreciate any help! If you want to be involved let me know.

Letter from Elisha Hildebrand Davis

During a life of nearly 82 years, 59 of which time having been spent in the Church of Jesus Christ of Later day Saints, I can testify to the happiness of a life of moral honesty and religious devotion. Experience has taught me the high value of moral purity and religious sentiment, as reaching far above earthly pleasures, and the gratification of appetite and passion, which cannot produce lasting joy.

My success in life has come through my not borrowing money and mortgaging my home, but through my always living within my means, and sustaining myself and family by the sweat of my face.

When I owned little, I lived on little and was satisfied. My married life of 46 years has been a happy one; my wife was always true, gentle, faithful, kind and wise, a help mate in very deed to me. During our entire married life of 46 years, we never had a hard feeling, or cross word, but lived in love together, always adopting the rule of speaking gently and kindly to and of each other; and now, at the age of 82 years, standing as it were on the verge of eternity, my great desire and advice to all of you is to be faithful and true to our holy religion, to never depart from the faith and to turn against God.

Every day that I live, I rejoice more and more in the great work of the Lord, and in the hope of eternal life.

Your loving father and grandfather,
Elisha Hildebrand Davis