A History of a Fragment of the Clan Linn and a Genealogy of the Linn and Related FamiliesReport print, 1906 - 204 pages |
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A History of a Fragment of the Clan Linn and a Genealogy of the Linn and ... George Wilds Linn No preview available - 2018 |
A History of a Fragment of the Clan Linn and a Genealogy of the Linn and ... George Wilds Linn No preview available - 2018 |
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ABRAHAM LOUGHRIDGE Alice Ann Widney BARKER beautiful Belle Benjamin Wilds BRATTON Burnt Cabins cabin called Celts CHARLES LINN Cherry Fork CISNEY COHILL daughter death decease DESCENDANTS DEVENNEY died early ELIZA ELIZABETH farm father five children four children George Loughridge GOTTER Hannah Roberts Harry Hester Hugh Linn 2d Hugh Wallace Huntingdon County Illinois Iowa James Widney Linn Jane Linn John Linn Kansas Keagy land LAUTHERS Linn and Jane Linn and Mary Linn family LINN was born lived logs Maddensville Margaret Linn married MARTHA Mary Linn Matilda Shaver McConnellsburg MCLAUGHLIN Methodist Church miles mill mountain Nancy Linn Newton Hamilton night Path Valley Penn'a Pennsylvania Philadelphia Pierce City pioneer Polo religious reverence ried Sarah Chilcoat Sarah Linn Sarah Widney settlement seven children Shelby six children SNYDER three children Tuscarora Tuscarora Creek Tuscarora Mountain village of Concord Washington WESLEY wife WILLIAM LINN William Loughridge WOOLHISER
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Page 75 - When I remember all The friends, so linked together, I've seen around me fall, Like leaves in wintry weather, I feel like one Who treads alone Some banquet hall deserted — Whose lights are fled, Whose garlands dead, And all but he departed...
Page 65 - Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear Him. For he knoweth our frame ; He remembereth that we are dust.
Page 63 - Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream ! — For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal ; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
Page 68 - We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. \Ve should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
Page 21 - Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine, A Man's a Man for a
Page 65 - Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; Who healeth all thy diseases; Who redeemeth thy life from destruction ; Who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies ; Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things ; So that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.
Page 83 - So the multitude goes, like the flower or the weed That withers away to let others succeed ; So the multitude comes, even those we behold, To repeat every tale that has often been told. For we are the same our fathers have been : We see the same sights our fathers have seen: We drink the same stream, and view the same sun, And run the same course our fathers have run.
Page 50 - Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned to stray; Along the cool, sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.
Page 33 - A land of beauty, virtue, valor, truth, Time-tutored age, and love-exalted youth : The wandering mariner, whose eye explores The wealthiest isles, the most enchanting shores, Views not a realm so bountiful and fair, Nor breathes the spirit of a purer air. In every clime, the...
Page 181 - The muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo; No more on life's parade shall meet That brave and fallen few. On fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead.