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To
Hazel Brooks Corder, who has shown unfailing
interest and appreciation for every new fact and find, no
matter how small, who drove me to Richmond and sat patiently
in the archives hour after hour, perching on a stepstool and
trying to make sense of spidery writing in moldy deed books,
and for having been my most vocal fan in all ways, even when
it isn't justified.
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To
Pearl Sluss Corder. Thank you for treating me as
if I was one of your own. You asked that you not be forgotten
and I made you that promise. Your memory will live on for
all of us who knew you and love you still, and for generations
to come.
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To
Zella Corder. Remember when I used to ask, "...and
who was his grandfather...?" Well, now we know.
Thanks for telling me what you knew, and for all the evenings
in front of the fire, letting a small child with dirty, sticky
fingers have unrestrained access to a shoebox full of old
family photos (and to just about anything else she darned
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| To Gladys
Reed Montgomery. Thank you for breathing life into the
memory of those long gone. I am so glad I found you before
it was too late. We did not have long, but we sure did have
fun. You showed me that only the body grows old - the spirit
stays young forever.
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Thanks and Acknowledgements
I want to express special thanks to the
following people who have helped me along the way with my
research:
- Thelma Henderson Schoolfield -
Thanks for the 40+ years worth of research materials you've
shared with me, and for infecting me with the Genealogy
bug!
- Plez Corder, my late grandfather
- Who grumped that I "always have him into everything",
but got his hat and the keys and went anyway to whatever
obscure family history destination(s) I've had on my agenda.
- Charles Henderson, my late grandfather
- I've found a lot of new information since you and I used
to drive the Carolina countryside of your youth. I wish
you could be here to hear about it.
- Paul Corder - Thank you for realizing
that a young person had limited resources, and that driving
all over creation doing research was draining to them. I
very much appreciated all those twenties.
- Jim and Louise Hoge - Thank you
for welcoming me to the Garden and treating me to some of
the most enjoyable and memorable times of my "research
career". I will always remember that winter afternoon
spent in your company; time measured by the ticking of the
mantle clock, softened by the crackling fire, sweetened
by dear old Sam's head on my knee, and infused with wonder
by the fat flakes of snow falling past the glass walls to
bury the Garden in white. Thank you for helping me preserve
something for my family that would have most certainly been
lost forever; the knowledge of the final resting place of
Elijah Corder, Sr.
- Mr. James Sewell of the Guildhall
Library, London - My sincerest appreciation for the
assistance and guidance you provided to me on many subjects
of 18th century English history, and for responding promptly
to each and every inquiry.
- And to all of you who have sat
patiently through endless rounds of persistant personal
questions and interviews, I thank you...and posterity
thanks you!
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