Nuss Family Genealogy

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=200 BGCOLOR="#FFFF80" TEXT="#080000"> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="0546ea50.jpg" border=0 width="110" height="165" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Our Grandparents and Their Ancestors</B></div> <div> <A HREF="nuss.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Charles Burdette Nuss Sr.">Charles Burdette Nuss, Sr.</A></div> <div> <A HREF="hoaglund.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Anna Hilder Hoaglund">Anna Hilder Hoaglund</A></div> <div> <A HREF="fosler.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Oscar Robert Fosler">Oscar Robert Fosler</A></div> <div> <A HREF="glaim.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Belle Susanne Glaim">Belle Susanne Glaim</A></div> <bR> <div> Send comments to:</div> <div> <A HREF="mailto:sncuster@cox.net" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:sncuster@cox.net">Sharon Nuss Custer</A> </div> </td> <td valign="top" width="100%" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B>Nuss Family Genealogy</B></div> <div> <I><B>In Loving Memory of Mom and Dad</B></I></div> <div> <B>The Children of Carl and Winnie (Fosler) Nuss</B></div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="1204" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#0000FF" BORDERCOLORDARK="#6699FF" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 614 WIDTH="396"><div> For those we love within the veil</div> <div> Who were the parents of our way</div> <div> We thank you, Lord; for they have won</div> <div> To cloudless day;</div> <bR> <div> And life for them is life indeed,</div> <div> The splendid goal of earth’s strait race;</div> <div> And where no shadows intervene</div> <div> They see your face.</div> <bR> <div> Not as we knew them anymore,</div> <div> Toil-worn with earthly burdened care.</div> <div> Erect, clear-eyed, upon their brows</div> <div> Your Name they bear.</div> <bR> <div> Free from the fret of mortal years,</div> <div> And knowing now your perfect will,</div> <div> With quickened sense and heightened joy,</div> <div> They serve you still.</div> <bR> <div> O fuller, sweeter is that life,</div> <div> And larger, ampler is the air;</div> <div> Eye cannot see nor heart conceive</div> <div> The glory there;</div> <bR> <div> Nor know to what high purpose you</div> <div> Do yet employ their ripened powers,</div> <div> Nor how at your command they touch</div> <div> This life of ours.</div> <bR> <div> There are no tears within their eyes;</div> <div> With love they keep perpetual tryst;</div> <div> And praise and work and rest are one,</div> <div> With you, O Christ.</div> <bR> <div> Adapted from the poem</div> <div> by</div> <div> William Charter Piggott</div> <bR> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="07e90310.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="561" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="396"><bR> <bR> <bR> <div> DEAR ANCESTOR</div> <bR> <div> Your tombstone stands among the rest;</div> <div> Neglected and alone.</div> <bR> <div> The name and date are chiseled out </div> <div> On polished, marbled stone.</div> <bR> <div> It reaches out to all who care.</div> <div> It is too late to mourn.</div> <bR> <div> You did not know that I exist;</div> <div> You died and I was born.</div> <bR> <div> Yet each of us are cells of you</div> <div> In flesh, in blood, in bone.</div> <bR> <div> Our blood contracts and beats a pulse</div> <div> Entirely not our own.</div> <bR> <div> Dear Ancestor, the place you filled</div> <div> One hundred years ago</div> <div> Spreads out among the ones you left</div> <div> Who would have loved you so.</div> <bR> <div> I wonder if you lived and loved;</div> <div> I wonder if you knew</div> <div> That someday I would find this spot,</div> <div> And come to visit you.</div> <bR> <div> Author Unknown</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=3 HEIGHT= 80 WIDTH="1194"><bR> <div> A people which takes no pride in the noble achievments of remote ancestors </div> <div> will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants.</div> <div> <I>Thomas B. Macaulay</I></div> <bR> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>