--------------- m& YAIWtOUGH FAMILY QUAR.'IULY PublishtJ by the Yarbrough National Gmulogical & Historical Assdci4tion, Inc. Cominuation ofthe Yarborough Family Magazine Charles David Yarborough (/941-1985) Fosmding Editor oo arbrough Family Quarterly Volume 12 No. 1 Page 1 UNDERSTANDING OUR AMERICAN HERITAGE RLANI>FORD REENACTS FIRST BURIAL By:PAT KILE, StaffWriter 10/21/2002 Richard Yarborough came to the Virginia colony as a young man, prospered, and wa~" j(ui!Hk: "I It,"'' Parish in 1642. lle was the first person to be buried in Blandford Cemetery when he dic·d "' I /1 1 ' He was laid to rest on the rise called Wells Hill, before there was a Blandford Church. llw cl''"'h ,, ' i>!tili 33 years later. Today his grave site is just to the left of the front door of Blandf<m! ('Inn eh. With just a brief introduction, the Rev. D. Donald Dunn Ill, rector of Saint Paul's lpi,copal ( 'll!n• h. Petersburg, took the large cungregation back in time those 300 years. In those times, I hlllll sa1d. and '''I' I•' the 19th century, the parish church was the center ofthe community." The church hell would 11;,,,. ,,,,,,. first to tell of Yarborough's death, and later to end his funeral service. Anyone in the community would have known him, Dunn said, but he would not be mentioned hv 11:1111<.' 111 the service from the 1662 Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England. Another differeJln<, I lunn said, is that "the vast majority of people in this room wouldn't have owned a Prayer Book- or all\ h,,,,k • ''' order for the congregation to sing the Psalm, the minister sang a line, which the congrq•<~li'''' 1lwn ,,·p··,t···l That method was used Saturday. even though participants had bulletins with the entne '"'"'<:'' pt ;11\t'd '"' them to follow. Times changed. Yarborough would not have recognized the beautiful church where hi'> ik'"TlltLmt·. met Saturday, and certainly not Crater Road, nor the American English spoken with a Soutl1crn I lav"' :1•. hundreds waited for his funeral to begin. But he would have known and loved, and been honored once again, by the unchanging w()rds o!Scnptu!< that consigned him to God's mercy and the Psalm tune, which Anglicans in 2002 ~inl' to the· word~ "I .ct saints on earth in concert sing with those whose rest is won." Kay Carwile, president of llistoric Blandford Cemetery Foundation Inc., was well plcast:r.l with the response to Saturday's reenactment. "The church seats 190 comfortably," she said. "I w<>nld '"'tima~< t "''" • were 225 to 250 people inside fix the service." ----~ ------ -· Volume 12 No.1 Page 3 00 arbrough Family Quarterly Barbara Y. Blanton, President October 25, 2002 Dear Kin and Kindred. ~ c . of a\\1 Ted and\ have . , I .. , hecn the best Yarbrough l onlerence . \Ve have just returned trom wh.lt ma) '''"' . , l , ·t ·njovable one for us. Thts was m part due tll\h attended four conferences and this vvas eel talllll)'t f'~ ·tllt\lOl'slt :e ~ere invited by Kay Hawkins Carwile. · f 1 1 •1ttended ·md tot 1c .tc ' · · t ·n to the large numher o pe~)pe w w' - , ~. - Blandf()fd Cemetery Foundation. Inc. to parttclpa e I President ofthe Board of Directors ol the \llstonc ,. k ancestor Richard Yarb(o)rough. Jack \heir l ri-Centennial Celebration of the lkath ot ourl carl \est d'!.lOWal\nificent ;lleeting. I want to thank those ,. I b d PI 'I, l M'lf) Y·nbroug l p anne am, g ~ h and Joan Y. Smg au an \\ <111l ' · ' . ~ • f'. , , pcciallv those who attended fort e who attended and helped make this such an enJoyable con crencc. es . first time. 'i 1 R · h d y rb( 0 )rough was born and even fewer l'cw families can trace their anccstrv bact-. tu I (J I. w \Cn \C ar a k f eo le can go back as. far in England as we h;vc bel'll able to dod T~is~<; due .to! ~~;r~~:: ;~~is oc:~~!e~ce ~hich who have gone on before us. Many of thcst? were honore at a emona . - - honor Rev \\'''well r~n:ived. Also, thanks is dUL' to many still living and your Board ofD_Ircctor_s votled to d. ' · ·- · '1 1 , ftl , Board I have wnttcn h1m a etter regar mg l'dcr Yerburgh by making him an Lx < )fflt:Hl ,v em Kr o 1e · this honor which I will try to have published in a luture quarterly. i\s we look back 300 years to those who went before us, we realize that we ~rc ~tan?ing on the <;boulders of giant~. Those ancestors who founded our town, our churches, o~r mst1tuttons and our sc~ools. Without thes~ founding fathers, we would not he here today. Most of these g1ants were humble men m their time and would not have considered themselves leaders who would later be revered as fou_nders of our institutions and our civilization as we know it today. Some of us in our family have the potenttal to be and will be the giants of the future No matter ho\\ humble and insignificant we feel our efforts are as we go abuut our d;ilv lives. But the window nf hi.sturv allows us to look back with love and reverence because tlwir achieven;ents arc a shining light and an inspiration to those who are alive today. Who knows but what ,ome future writer will refer to,_us ;s giants in a l·eremony looking back 300 years from now. 1 thin\-, everyone will want to join me in th:mk ing the people of Petersburg for inviting our family to be a part of their Tri Centennial Celebration as we gathered at the gravesite to honor Richard Yarb(o)rough. Special thanks is also due to Neil and (iail Ord and Ken and Kimra Goble for their dedication in getting uur excellent quarterly to us. We also need to thank Karen Mazock for her marvelous research and willingness to help our family tind their ancestors. Thanks to Rea Donohue and her sister Ophelia Kessler whose efTorts have brought us to our CUITent state of knowledge about our family. Mike Kessler has been so generous in allowing us to usc the books hi~ Mother, Ophelia, compiled and deserves the thanks of the entire Yarbrough Clan. And certainly we cannot forget the cfTorts of our family researchers such as Jeanette Wilson, Arlene Weidinger, Mary Y. Daniel, Ann Broadbent and Beverly Moxley. There are so many others who have contributed to this cfrort that it is impossible to thank everybody individually in this letter but their etTorts are not unappreciated by their cousins in our extended family and if you are reading this and think that I should thank someone for a specific service. please let me know for further inclusion in this list since I am relatively new to the Conference. We look forward to an even larger Con terence (July 24-27, 2002) as Rea Donohue and her committee, Arlene Weidinger, Ken and Kimra Goble, and Jack and Joan Y. Singlaub make arrangements for us to meet in Dallas, Texas. We changed the meeting dates to summer time to allow families who have small children to attend since our fall meetings have excluded them to some extent. We would like to have a chairman from each state to work on membership and other needs of family members. If you would like to serve please contact me at the address listed under the Directors. Currently we have three chairmen, Bill Yarbrough, North Carolina, Arlene Weidenger, Missouri and Barbara Blanton: Mississippi. This_ will be an excellent way to get to know other Yarbrough's in your state. Please send art1cles and other famtly information to: (!ail Ord. 683 E. Scenic Hill Drive, North Salt Lake UT 85054. , iX1 arbrough Family Quarterly Volume 12 No.1 Page 4 TOGETHER ONCE MORE All my life I have sought For that long hallowed spot, Tho, in vain Fore the veil bars my way From the meadow beyond That leadeth me on, To my heavenly home far away. But I know that it's there By faith and by prayer, Yet more surely By the footsteps I've trod To the edge of the stream No uncertain dream, And the pathway that leads unto God. So fear not the day When once more He shall say, "Lo, Here ... Is the home you once knew Fo1e, ne'er alone are you left By the wayside bereft, But with loved ones and kinshps renewed. As together once more Here on heaven's fair shore, You'll join hands With glad hearts clean and pure Where love shall abound And praises.resound, Your reunion forever assured." Written: By William Kent Goble, 3 August 1999 Published in the Quarterly for the 2002 Re-burial of 'Old' Richard Yarborough 300 years after Richard's first interment. Volume 12 No. 1 Page 5 lX} arbrough Family Quarterly THE CATHOLIC REBELLION By Rev. Peter Yerburgh Henry VIII had been on the throne for nearly thirty y~ars. At the . be inning, everyone had expected so much of the clever~ muslcal and sportlng yo;ng king But the hope had changed to dismay. When hlS relgn had begun, the Reformatio~ has hardly influenced England. True, some, hat~d the wealth of t~e t monasteries and the great power of the Bishops but the ordln~ry people were JUS happy to attend Mass and to rely on the invocation.of the salnts and the Ble~sed Virgin Mary.