This is a compilation of my family trees, there are many different people who have 
helped.  When I started out being curious about the genealogy of my family I was 
probably about 16 years old or so.  I asked questions, and was handed a family 
history book on the Hayman line of my family written by one of my great great aunts 
Lelia Eugenie Smith, so it to her I credit much of the information for that direct 
line.  I put it aside during my later teenage years, and came back to it when my 
Uncle Ed found my family a few years back through research, he has also been an 
awesome source of information, and some of this research is from what he had given to 
me as well. This goes to show people that genealogy helps reunite families as well as 
proves that those before us, and many of their deeds are past, but they are not 
forgotten. For many of the other lines, it is between too many to name every single 
person, but to everyone I thank you.  I think in the past couple years I have found 
so many new relations and count myself lucky, because I believe there is always room 
for more family.  For my Reid and Faulkner(Fagner) branches, I have a special thank 
you to John Maxwell, who opened up a world for me I had thought was lost.  For my 
Stinson/Knight/Paul/Wright/Stacy line, the thank you starts with Shirley O'Neil who 
led me into the right direction for mostly the Stinson/Knight line, the family opened 
up from those couple of names.  For the Bursey/Fagner/Reid lines, Jill Marshall and 
Wayne Puddister was a wonderful source of information. All of the names have passed 
away in my family line, for my grandfather's Smith line(which was an adopted name, 
for which I am proud to carry as my adopted great great grandfather was for lack of a 
better term, a great man of his time) I am the last of his direct line who carries 
his last name, when the time comes and I get married the name dies in my line.  I 
hope that this helps someone in their search it is by no means completed and I am 
working on more sources for my more direct lines, and it is always a work in 
progress.  I have no intention of taking the credit for others work, which is why I 
tried to be as detailed as possible in my source lists. Another special thankyou to 
Jeff Keats for his information on the Bursey, Keats, and Garland files.  I do not 
have my source list on here so if there is a question regarding a person please send 
me an email and ask, and I'll do my best to answer as quickly and accurately as 
possible. For some of the families, even though there may not directly be a blood tie 
to myself, I have continued until the line stopped to keep the records as complete as 
possible.

In closing, here is a genealogy poem I came across in one of my searches : 

THE STORY TELLERS 

Unknown 


          We are the chosen, in each family there is one who seems called to find the 
ancestors. To put flesh on their bones and make them live again, to tell the family 
story and to feel that somehow they know and approve. We are the story tellers of the 
tribe. All tribes have one. We have been called as it were by our genes. 

          Those who have gone before cry out to us: Tell our story. So, we do. In 
finding them, we somehow find ourselves. How many graves have I stood before now and 
cried? I have lost count. How many times have I told the ancestors you have a 
wonderful family you would be proud of us? How many times have I walked up to a grave 
and felt somehow there was love there for me? I cannot say. 

          It goes beyond just documenting facts. It goes to who I am and why do I do 
the things I do? 

          It goes to seeing a cemetery about to be lost forever to weeds and 
indifference and saying 'I can't let this happen'. The bones here are bones of my 
bone and flesh of my flesh. 

          It goes to doing something about it. 

          It goes to pride in what our ancestors were able to accomplish. How they 
contributed to what we are today. 

          It goes to respecting their hardships and losses, their never giving in or 
giving up, their resoluteness to go on and build a life for their family. 

          It goes to deep pride that they fought to make and keep us a Nation. 

          It goes to a deep and immense understanding that they were doing it for Us; 
that we might be born who we are; that we might remember them. 

          So we do. With love and caring and scribing each fact of their existence, 
because we are them and they are us. So, as a scribe called, I tell the story of my 
family. It is up to that one called in the next generation to answer the call and 
take their place in the long line of family storytellers. That, is why I do my family 
genealogy, and that is what calls those young and old to step up and put flesh on the 
bones. 

--author unknown
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Now the actual closing, this tree is dedicated to all those who came before me, for 
without them, where would we be.  To my family, immediate and extended this is not 
only for us, but for those who come after us, when I started this it was a long time 
ago out of curiousity, and now it's like there are whole new worlds, and times 
opening up.  Most people think they know what it was like in the times of their 
ancestors, but only through research of not only the ancestors, but where they lived 
and things that happened around that time period, can they really have more of a 
sense of what they went through.  For the Quakers in my family lines, they were 
persecuted, and like the Pilgrims sought religious freedom.  For the French 
Huegenots, they were exiled from their homeland, and shipped to Nova Scotia on ships 
where the conditions were barely able to sustain life, and many perished at sea.  We 
will never know all of our ancestors, but by people sharing and showing as much as 
they can there, you can find there is so much more out there about them all.  For my 
Hayman ancestor, William, he was a Scotsman, who signed up during the American 
Revolution as a British regular with the Royal North Carolina Regiment, there is a 
document in existence which is his discharge from the army. There is a lot of time 
and effort already into this tree and I can only hope that as time goes on, there are 
more details and more connections made through people finding it, which is why it was 
placed on here. 


As a sidenote:  Some of the files were imported into my original program, source 
lists and all, some may not be direct source lists from myself, but rather from the 
original imported file. I have not put the source list on here, if someone would like 
to know where I received information from on a family line, feel free to ask, and I 
will do my best to answer, as I said some was found and imported into the main file, 
and I've tried to document those as best as possible.  Am fixing errors as I go 
along, making corrections, and so on.  It is as it will probably be for the rest of 
my life, a work in progress.  If you find a correction that needs to be done, please 
let me know, and I will fix it in my main file, and when the file is reuploaded to 
tribalpages, you will see correction made.  

7/6/08
  As this family page grows I feel the need to add more commentary.  In the recent 
months I have found quite a bit of new information regarding family lines
Kathy