The Jernigan Connection  Newsletter    Issue Eighteen    Page Eight

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Wayne Hand's Original Poem


Alas, my elusive kinsmen
You've led me quite a chase
    I thought I'd found your courthouse
But the Yankees burned the place.

    You always kept your bags packed
Although you had no fame, and
    Just for the hell of it
Twice you changed your name.

    You never owed any man, or
At least I found no bills
    In spite of eleven offspring
You never left a will.

    They say our name's from Europe
Came state side on a ship
    Either they lost the passenger list
Or granddad gave them the slip.

    I'm the only one that's looking
Another searcher I can't find
    I pray (maybe that's his father's name
As I go out of my mind.


    They said you had a headstone
In a shady plot
    I've been there twenty times, and
Can't even fine the lot.

    You never wrote a letter
Your Bible we can't find
    It's probably in some attic
Out of sight and out of mind.

    You first married a ....Smith
And just to set the tone
    The other four were Sarahs
And everyone a Jones.

    You cost me two fortunes
One of which I did not have
    My wife, my house and Fido
God how I miss that golden lab.

    But somewhere you slipped up,
Ole Boy, somewhere you left a track
    And if I don't find you this year
Well.....Next year I'll be back.

Jernigan Tidbits    Births, Marriages and Other Items of Interest

    JAKOB MATTHEW CLONTS was born 8 Feb, weighing in at 8 lb. 10 oz.  His parents are Mindy Pittam and Matt Clonts of Gibert, AZ.  Jakob is the great-grandson of our co-editor, Dixie Clonts and her husband, Franklin.
    BLOOPER:  In the last newsletter, we identified a new arrival as Bryce Allan Speaker, the grandson of Jacque Tenge and the great-granddaughter of Dixie Clonts.  To clear this up, Bryce is a real boy and the great-grandson of Dixie.
    CORRECTION: In issue 16, the "John Wesley Thurman Jernigan" article, we identified John's third wife as. "(??) Mirror" who had a son, "Guy".  Rebecca (Becky) Jane Jernigan Embry advises that her name was not Mirror, but Mura Cason Jernigan and that Guy Jernigan was Becky's father.  Guy also had a son,  Roger Dale Jernigan , and granddaughter, April Suzanne Jernigan living in Texarkana, AK.  Becky's e-mail is [email protected].

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