Ancestors and
Family Photographs Page 9
Diane and her
husband met while Diane was working at the Lippitt Farm House at
the Farmers' Museum. They were married in the 1791 Farmers'
Museum Church. They held their reception in the Museum's 1796
Bump Tavern. During the summer before the wedding Diane gathered
and dried wild flowers from the roadsides of Otsego County, NY.
From these dried flowers Diane arranged all of the flowers for
the wedding. A most memorable time was had gathering pearly
everlasting on a hill overlooking the beauty of the Susquehanna
River.
The arrangement
of dried flowers includes Goldenrod, Joe-Pye Weed, Pearly
Everlasting, Tansy, Statis, Straw Flowers, and Baby's Breath. The
invitations were done by the printer at the Farmers' Museum on
the old printing press.
The above picture
was taken from the balcony on the Bump Tavern. A glimpse of the
church and the hills beyond can be seen in the background at
sunset.
Charles Burnett
Deuel and his great granddaughter Sarah. There is an incredible
family resemblance, especially since they both have red hair.
Sarah E. Johnson
Sarah has my
mother's eyes. My mother's great grandmother had the same eyes. I
wonder who farther back in the line had those eyes.
I look at
pictures of my great great grandfather and it seems as if I had
always known him because I can see my uncle in him.
A new found
cousin sent us these words by Richard Llewellyn that seem to fit
so well.
"I saw
behind me those who had gone, and before me, those who
are to come. I
looked back and saw my father, and his father,
and all our
fathers, and in front, to see my son, and his son, and
the sons upon
sons beyond.
"And their
eyes were my eyes.
As I felt, so
they had felt, and were to feel, as then, so now, as
tomorrow and
forever. Then I was not afraid, for I was in a long
line that had no
begining, and no end, and the hand of his father
grasped my
father's hand, and his hand was in mine, and my
unborn son took
my right hand, and all, up and down the line
that stretched
from Time That Was , to Time That Is, and Is Not
Yet, raised their
hands to show the link, and we found that we were
one, born of
Woman, Son of Man, made in the Image, fashioned in
the Womb by the
Will of God, the Eternal Father"
by Richard
Llewellyn, From How Green Was My Valley
Photograph of
Sarah by Christmas Tree & Photograph of Sarah with Rose by
Diane Shepard Johnson
Photographs
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Diane Shepard Johnson & Sarah E. Johnson
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