Newsletter 2 1978.pdf - The Grayson Family

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1310 Plagler Avenue
Key West, Florida
August 22, 1978
Dear Dr, Gravson:
I have been want in^ to get some things to you for
the newsletter for some time but due to a bloodclot I have
been unable to sit and tv~e.
Ella Fiae Underwood has been so lovely to send me
some very interesting things about our ancestors and I was
sad that I was unable to share with her a few of the things
I had, but health has a way of interferring with plans at
times,
I have met some wonderful peo~le and found a few of
my family I did not know I had through your interesting newsletter.
I also have a few answers to some of the questions
posed now and then by some of your contributors that I will
endeavor to send to them when I am able to remain UP longer.
My family particularly enjoyed the writinps of Lund
and Peter Grayson Washington and S~ence Monroe Grayson, I
ho~e that what I have encluded here will help to fill out that
line. As you can see, this is all about our side of the family
beginning with the lineage of tb.e brothers Benjamin, Ambrose,
TQnas, their sisters, ~lizabeth and Mary and oir ancestor John
Grayson.
I can't help but agree with my beloved aunt Margaret
Grayson, Grand Dame of our Grayson Clan, that it is most inter-
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esting to studv the genealo~v of llyour rootslI because it is as
thouph those who have gone before you come alive for a moment
and speak out to your ape through you, %ut what is really important
is not so much what your ancestors may have been, as
"what kind of a person you are today, aqd what kind, through
gour own effor~s and God's guidance, you are be corn in^.^^
As we read the pages of this newsletter, we see such
beautiful exam~les of courage, honor, integrity, good-breeding,
application of education and talents for the benefit of God;
country and the fellowman, but most of all, the message that
comes to me from the pages of our earliest heritage is from
Matt 6:33
"Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness;
and all these things shall be added unto you," That and the cherished
words of Grandfather James Gordon Grayson, "Your name .
came from your father, it was all he had to give, 50 it's yours
to use and cherish as long as vou may live. If you loose the
watch he Rave you it can always be replaced, But a black mark on
your name, dear, can never be erased. It was clean the day you
took it and a worthy name to bear, When I got it from my father