Show family trails the poem given below was written by john C houston of lovell wyoming tor for a reunion of the asay family which was wag held at lovell a month or k more ago living in the fatherland long long ago the assayer assayed joined with the french huguenot i the very earliest knowledge history t tells e their homes bornes wore were in the city ot of aux la chappells if all weve been told la is really true the asay name goes back to the year 1122 1422 Re thru history the tact fact one gleans that our kinship is traced to the maid halil ot of orleans A famous deliverer IllI heaven eaven did send the hundred years war she brot to an end joan 0 at are arc led the dis heartened french the war spirit of england she did quench the name name was spoken by the french alsaye an a and the a were dropped at a later day because ot of war on the huguenots Huguen so much they took refugo refuge among the peace loving dutch spain ruled holland wt with th an iron hand war existed quite universally over the land in western europe everywhere was strife the toll loll of a protestant was to pay with hla his life always at war with the In floodIng sea from this enemy eneany the dutch will never be tree free this warfare has made them determined and brave they would turn in the sea their liberty to save an early assane assays married a holland isu ish dame that she was wealthy sone some people claim phillip of ot spain in his tyrannical are lre burned dute dutch il cities their home be did fire the spanish inquisition drove many away the assayed left holland early so writers say they felt they had stood all they could endure persecuted french yielded to canadas lure in the eighteenth century the we find having settled in acadia with those of 0 their kind thinking the land was owned by the french they raised the tha trench french flamand flag fla gand and themselves did entrench for over a C century tho the french lived in the land prosperity sprang up on every hand these people at las ins a haven had found nothing to annoy them not even a sound it was autumn when in walked one day at noon time into the busy village 0 of f grand pre an A english officer with papers from the king inton the church he be was everyone to bring everyne came whether from fields or from loom hastily they tilled filled every nich in that room the windows were locked the door was barred while about the building wac placed a guard there was breathless stillness not a sound never a person the reason had found I 1 t now stood before them in haughty mein main the kings representative rather tall and lenn lean ile he said that it was vas his majesties Majest les decree that every F benchman hman there should be immediately transplanted to other I 1 1 lands ile he was sorry buc it was the kings commands sad indeed thu most heartless way i 1 these Jn innocent people wera vera treated that day they were taken direct to th tile a wat 1 ors era deep into row beats boats they wera a loaded ltee like sheep I 1 I 1 A boat would more on i pith load jolter i complete wi ia families wore were parted never again to meet some soma boats sailed balled one way sonio some another separating children from father and mother ono one boat with rather an interesting fato fate carried an asay and hla his dear mate on the isle ot of jersey this boat did land tho the sprang from these parents grand joseph asay As ay crossed to io now new jerseys shore two sons they had and possibly more isaac at trenton a gardener became joseph at camden attained a like fume fame the land was rich wag waa made by the sea for gardening it was rich as rich could be the theas a fore p parents arents settled here herd in 1775 they clustered together like bees in a hive it la Is said that the are ot of worthy decent industrious honest and ot of well meaning intent outto out to colorado moved sol richards brother I 1 while the attractions attraction ot of south dakota lured another two asay brothers established a trading post in nebraska the state by them liked most the are today all over the union our organization hopes to got get into com 1 with vit h all the branches scattered everywhere and add them to 19 our family famila tree now quite bare A purpose purpose ot of this union ot of asals here to not only unite those living livina near but to include in our great family tree all af 0 our name wherever they may be and not only the living but also the dead we hope to dealto our great famil family y head mortal time will at last be done away wo we will all know each other at some future day in those early days valuable land they got for to io create town sites this athla land later was hot bot not all were farmers so we are told some were niini ministers christian teachers bold some had trades some wealth allowed As a family they were said to be rather proud restless youth at length came west the first to come his faith to attest was our grandfather joseph and family all they had gladly heeded the missionary call westward others got the moving razed craze into many states the trails they did blaze into illinois alford moved his wor dortly kiy dame while to iowa richard and his wife came no one is happy tor for to live all alone when beyond at the toot of our fathers throne we will join with the family both tor and near our joy will be complete comple te in a circle so dear it la Is a call made ot of each one a call roni rom above to tb search tor for 1 tho the records ot of those jhc whom we love the noblest labor asked ot of you aud and ot of me I 1 Is bal anz to establish ones own family tree |