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This Web Site is dedicated to Martha, and William, for their service. It was my honor to study their lives, and place
in history, which came alive for me, when I was at last able to walk up to the mill site, after 225 years it spent lost under
the sands of time.
Remember, that our past was someone's present! They lived out their lives to make a better life for themselves, and for
their children, and their childrens' children. What we are looking at it not just a pile of stones, or some old relic with
no value to the present.
We are witness to the lives of those who came before us, who in many cases, gave of their lives so that you and I might
have a better life!
In 2006, I worked with a decendent of Martha Bell, Jennifer Welborn to secure the Grave Site of the Bells into the National
Historic Register. We were unsucessful in doing so, because the Register seeks buildins rather than graveyards to protect.
To date only one or two graveyards have ever been protected.
I think that it is a real shame for so much of our real history to just disappear without a trace, and so now this website
will have to serve as one of the last attempts to save that which is lost, so that their lives will not be totally forgotten.
William, and Martha, I thank you.
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Personal footnote: Col. Lee, was Col. (Lighthorse) Harry Lee, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and is
an Ancester of mine. My middle name is Lee, given me by my father in honor of my grandmother, Rosa Lee Strader. I can not
describe the feeling I have of walking in the same dirt as my forefather, seeing the same place that he saw.Let me know what
you think! Since this Event is one of the most important events of my life, I plan to keep photos of the Mill on the Web Site
for some time.
Just click this address to send me mail:
glstrader@gmail.com
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