Commentary.

“Be prepared if you go looking too far back in the family tree.  You might find someone hanging from it.” 

Sage advice from my Grandpa Ralph Young for my sister and I as we ran across his front yard to the family cemetery across the road.  The pioneers who settled the land were mostly God-fearing, hard-working men and women, but outliers do show up once every few generations. 

Debbie and I spent many hours of our childhood walking and playing among the grave markers of our ancestors.  Decades later, we still enjoy walking through the cemetery together with our parents and talking about both our history and the future.

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