Written In The Stones

The story starts in Smithville United Cemetery, in Smithville, Ontario, Canada. Near the old church there is a grave which states:                                                                                                                                      Simon P. Emerson                                                             Born in Manchester, N. H., U. S.                                                                         Mar. 20 1810                                                                 Died in Smithville, C. W.                                                                         July 11, 1860 C. W. refers to Canada West, and of course N. H. is a reference to New Hampshire. Simon was born around 1809 and his parents are unknown, but he married a woman named Harriet Griffin Douglas on February 1st of 1840 and there is a plethora of information about her ancestry. They had one known child named Thomas Emerson, who was born in March 1841 in