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Carlfred Broderick, a social scientist, coined the term “transitional character”. Chain breaker -significant changes for good in a family line
A few in our own direct family tree
Singing America the Beautiful in old 2nd Ward building remembering Grandpa:
2. Oh, beautiful for pilgrim feet,
Whose stern, impassioned stress
A thoroughfare of freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America!
God mend thine ev’ry flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law.
3. Oh, beautiful for heroes proved
In liberating strife,
Who more than self their country loved,
And mercy more than life!
America! America!
May God thy gold refine,
Till all success be nobleness,
And ev’ry gain divine.
Walter Donaldson- Civil War ultimate sacrifice
Grandpa
Christina Campbell
Livingston
1789-1876
12 kids, took 6 orphaned grandchildren, joined church in Scotland and embraced gospel. Crossed Ocean and plains to Utah.
We also have ancestors who were the first pilgrims. Through one of these lines we get to Isaac Hollister 1749-1828-Indian capture
Christina Campbell’s grandsons- one was Charles Livingston - He and his brother worked running the stone quarry for the Salt Lake temple; Thomas Doxy also worked on it.
One morning, Sir Christopher Wren, a famous architect, who was not personally known by many of the workers building the Cathedral he designed, stopped and asked three different laborers, all engaged in the same task, what they were doing. He got three different answers.
The first said, “I am cutting this stone.”
The second answered, “I am earning three shillings, six pence a day.”
The third man straightened up, squared his shoulders, and still holding his mallet and chisel, replied, “I am helping Sir Christopher Wren build this mighty cathedral.”
John Ruskin poem: “Therefore, when we build, let us think that we build for ever. Let it not be for present delight, nor for present use alone; let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us think, as we lay stone on stone, that a time is to come when those stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say as they look upon the labor and wrought substance of them, "See! this our fathers did for us."
