| MySource |
Song: Grandfather Rogers' Clock |
| Author |
Ada E. Blackman Callihan |
Coverage
| Place |
Richland, Ohio, United States |
| Year range |
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| Surname |
Blackman
Foster
Hollabaugh
Horner
Rogers
Sipe |
Citation
| Ada E. Blackman Callihan. Song: Grandfather Rogers' Clock. |
Repository
| Name |
Rebekah Carlisle |
| Address |
Westerville, Ohio |
Our grandfather [Almanza Rogers] had a very large clock,
In a room of his home on the farm.
It was put there nearly a century ago,
And hung on the wall out of harm.
At this clock they would look,
When ‘twas time to go to school.
And when time for their beaux to go home.
But they never will hear that old clock tick again,
For they all are gone.
Clarinda and Matilda, Mary, Ellen, and [Florella],
Philander, Bethiah, Lorenzo and Jehiel.
But they never will hear the old clock tick again.
They have gone their last mile.
After grandfather’s death the reunion was held,
At the home of his children once a year.
The homestead was taken by Uncle Jehiel.
And it held many memories dear.
Here the cousins and the nieces and the nephews loved to come.
Children played in the barn on the lawn.
Of the second generation few are left any more,
Nearly all are gone.
Of the Rogers, Sipes’, and Horners’, Blackmans’, [Hollabaughs’] and Fosters’
Of this second generation most are gone.
Few are left to hear the old clock tick again.
Nearly all are gone.
Of Almanzo Rogers’ family there are here today
His grandchildren great, great, great.
For Andrew [Andrew Jackson/A. J. Rogers] and Mary [Mary Gould Rogers] who last lived in this home,
For the coming of the rest now wait.
[Mamie] [Mary G. Rogers, daughter A. J. & Mary] of lives in the home and the clock keeps ticking on.
And I’d like once again just to see,
In my memory’s vision, all the dear ones gone before
As I [sit] near the old locust tree,
For the years keep going, coming,
While the sands of time keep running,
And if true to God there ‘waits for us a crown,
For soon we will be on Eternity’s shore,
And we too [will] be gone.
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