"Virginia Roots" Photo Album

My grandmother, Maud Coleman Reynolds, daughter of Buford Coleman and Maggie Willard.  1890 Carroll Co Va - 1957 Wythe Co VA.  Wife of Ewell Branson Reynolds, Sr. of Wythe County, Virginia. Mother of fifteen children.

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This was one of her favorite poems.
Crossing the Bar
By Alfred Lord Tennyson.
 
Sunset and evening star,
And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning of the bar,
When I put out to sea,

But such a tide as moving seems asleep,
Too full for sound and foam,
When that which drew from out the boundless deep
Turns again home.

Twilight and evening bell,
And after that the dark!
And may there be no sadness of farewell,
When I embark;

For tho' from out our bourne of Time and Place
The flood may bear me far,
I hope to see my Pilot face to face
When I have crossed the bar.

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by Deborah Shelton Wood

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