Yesterday



 

Days in life perpetuate
With memories sustained
Days of sweetest sunshine
Upon my heart ordained

Walks in life together
With love and side by side
Love in gentle whispers
They never will subside

Journey always perfect
Wherever we did go
Felt the warmth of heaven
Upon this earth below

Joy was always present
On these special days
Felt the love surround me
Like gentle breezes sway

Times in life we gather
For days to reminisce
These my special moments
Forever now exist

Always when I look back
Forever you are there
In my heart forever
A greatful gentle prayer.

<~Francine Pucillo
Read more of her Poetry here.

 


SHADOWS OF DAYS PAST
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Charles Doupe ~ Rachel and Charles ~ William Sidney and Susan Roselpha ~
Francis and Mary ~ Joseph and Emma




Susan Roselpha ~ Susan with Dog ~ Susan with Child ~ Catherine,Susan,Vera




Minnie Shier ~ Mystery Photo ~ John and Margaret Dobe


William Doupe and Children




Julius Doupe ~ Julius Doupe, Constable




Augusta and Eloise Shier ~ Rebecca and Andrew Lowe




LT. AND MRS. HENRY TICE SHIER
Henry Tice Shier,aged 32, of Ypsilanti,
enlisted as a Corporal on October 7, 1861, and was promoted to First Sergeant in 1862. June 30, 1863, he was commissioned as senior First Lieutenant. One Section of the Battery was under his command at the Battle of Decatur, Georgia; see An Encounter at Decatur for his report of the action. He was acting commander of the Battery during George Robinson's service at the corps level, until discharged at the end of his term of service, near Savannah, Georgia, on December 19th, 1864. Family tradition reports that Henry had a fine first tenor voice and was active in the Battery's glee club.
This photograph was taken November 2, 1865, the day of Henry's marriage to Cynthia Marie Preston; he was 37, she was 25. The Shiers farmed near Rawsonville, Michigan, until 1872, when they followed Henry's brothers to homestead in Saline County, Kansas, chosen in part to comply with Cynthia's requirement that there be good schools and a Presbyterian church near their new home.
Henry and Cynthia turned the farm over to their son George in 1901, when they retired to nearby Salina. Henry died in 1907, and Cynthia in 1911; they are buried at the Poheta Cemetery in Salina.
The Battery thanks George and Quita Shier for graciously permitting the use of the photograph and information about the Shier family.