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Richard F. Williams Grandfather and others

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Post icon  Posted 20 April 2009 - 09:59 AM

My Grandfather was Richard Franklin Williams. My Great Grandfather was Theodore Garrett Collett. Both were Kentucky men from Harlan County. Pa Collett was a school teacher at one point in his life and he taught my mother to write. Her penmanship looked like the writing on the US Constitution! She had a beautiful flowing script. Pa Collett was a stern taskmaster. He would accept nothing but her best work. I could tell a lot of stories about that man! I guess I need to write them all down sometime. If I die without doing it they may be lost forever. No man like Thee Collett should be forgotten! He and his wife Lucy were remarkable people.

My grandfather was as well. I will always admire this man I don't remember meeting. He was a man of God and I owe him my Christian heritage. He poured the Word of the Lord into his ten children. My mother prayed for me most of her life. She knew more scripture than most seminary professors and believed every word of it. They all did... I think of him often and am confident of meeting him and many other members of the family in heaven one day...

A godly heritage is a gift from God. There are no words to say how much I appreciate what was given to me by the Williams family and the Gilliam family. They were Kentucky people also. My grandfather was a railroad man and a God fearing Methodist! Some of my earliest memories of worship were in a small white Methodist church in Shelbyana, Kentucky with my grandfather... Good days. They were good people who loved God and loved their children. I wish it were possible to transfer the images in my mind to print! You would see them all so clearly! You could almost taste Grandma Gilliam's cooking and hear the steam engines outside in front and in back of the house. What a remarkable time to be a kid! My children and grandchildren have seen pictures of steam engines... I played on them as if they were toys. I guess my mother would have tanned my hide had she caught me at that! Fortunately she did not. I keep those memories close.

The trains are gone now, as is the little white church building. Long ago it was replaced by a brick building. (I think it burned.) My grandparents are gone too, but not the memories or the lessons they taught us. They were passed to children, grand children and now to their great grand children. That is how faith continues to live. Moses said, "Teach these things diligently to your children..." That is what they did. I thank God for it.

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