All Fathers and Husbands of the Women of the Falmily

"TO MY HUSBAND"

These children of our youthful love, have twined themselves into my heart.

Oh, may they find the best in life, full strength and beauty, grace of soul and mind.

But you, you have first place.

Together we have met the blows, the care; At pain we have smiled and laughed when life was fair.

In time to come they'll go their separate ways, and I shall love as ever, watch and praise, but no intrude, because they are apart, their lives their own.....

But you, you hold my heart.

This poem, tattered and yellow with age, was found in the papers of one of the women of the family.....Ethel Badeger Tincher.

This taken from the book "Tincher Tribe"