Where my name came from

I was born Alexis Lee Ensign on September 2, 1988 to Craig Allen & Belinda Lee Potter Ensign. I was born in Salt Lake City, Utah.  My parents liked the nicknames Ali or Alex but didn't like the name of Alexandra, so they chose to  name me Alexis. My mom and I both have the middle name of Lee.

Dear Ancestor

 

Dear Ancestor

 

Your tombstone stands among the rest.

neglected and alone

The name and date are chiseled out 

on polished, marble stone

It reaches out to all who care

It is too late to mourn

You did no know that I'd exist

you died and I was born.

Yet each of us are cells of you

in flesh, in blood, in bone.

Our blood contracts and beats a pulse

entirely not our own.

Dear Ancestor, the place you filled

one hundred years ago

Spreads out among the ones you left

who would have loved you so.

I wonder if you lived and loved,

I wonder if you knew

That someday I would find this spot,

and come to visit you.

 

Author unknown

 

 

Cemetery in Callendar, Scotland

My ancestors are buried here but the names are

so weathered it was hard to read them.