Saturday, October 4, 2014
Kalena Kilfoyle-My beautiful granddaughter
Today, Oct 4th 2014 my granddaughter had the privilege of singing in General Conference in the afternoon session. She looked beautiful, and was close to our beloved Prophet. Her talents are numerous and she is the mother of 10 children.
Sunday, June 15, 2014
A Tribute to all the WONDERFUL FATHER'S in my life-Father's Day 2014
In honor of the most wonderful Father of all, My loving Heavenly Father, for all the wonderful blessings my son's and grandson's are and for the love they give to my daughter's and granddaughter's. As each of you strive to live a worthy life and help to take your family back to live with Heavenly Father...you will be blessed.
My earthly father's starting with my grandfather's, Samuel Graff and John Dennett, who gave me precious memories, will live forever in my heart. My father, I love him and hope to live with him again someday. My wonderful husband, the father to my children, I will always be grateful for, for providing us a good life, for being a man of honor and caring for others. To all the other wonderful father's that I love with all my heart...Reggie, Mikie, Lance, thank you for loving my daughter's. To the most wonderful and cutest bunch of father's in my life...my grandson's. Darren, Michael, Taz, Ryan, Michael, Tommy and Kyle. Thank you for giving me my 23 great grandchildren. To all my grandchildren that have come to our family in other ways, I love you. Bo, Paul, Mitchell, and one grandson in Georgia. Happy Father's Day. Thank you for my granddaughter's and your children. To grandchildren I do not know, I love you. You were brought into a loving family by your father who loves my daughter. May the Lord bless you always.
To my son's...continue to love your wives, cherish them, make their lives happy, Lead your families by the power of the priesthood, always be mindful of who we really belong to. The greatest happiness will be in living the gospel, stay strong and your family will follow.
Happy Father's Day to the one's I love most in the world...
My earthly father's starting with my grandfather's, Samuel Graff and John Dennett, who gave me precious memories, will live forever in my heart. My father, I love him and hope to live with him again someday. My wonderful husband, the father to my children, I will always be grateful for, for providing us a good life, for being a man of honor and caring for others. To all the other wonderful father's that I love with all my heart...Reggie, Mikie, Lance, thank you for loving my daughter's. To the most wonderful and cutest bunch of father's in my life...my grandson's. Darren, Michael, Taz, Ryan, Michael, Tommy and Kyle. Thank you for giving me my 23 great grandchildren. To all my grandchildren that have come to our family in other ways, I love you. Bo, Paul, Mitchell, and one grandson in Georgia. Happy Father's Day. Thank you for my granddaughter's and your children. To grandchildren I do not know, I love you. You were brought into a loving family by your father who loves my daughter. May the Lord bless you always.
To my son's...continue to love your wives, cherish them, make their lives happy, Lead your families by the power of the priesthood, always be mindful of who we really belong to. The greatest happiness will be in living the gospel, stay strong and your family will follow.
Happy Father's Day to the one's I love most in the world...
Sunday, May 11, 2014
MOTHER'S DAY 2014
Today is Mother's day and I have a lot of wonderful mother's in my life. My Grandmothers, Martha Jane Henderson Graff, Malinda Hepworth Dennett. I was privileged to know my Grandmother Malinda but Martha died 3 months before I was born but from all I have heard about her, she was a super woman. My own mother Indra Henderson Graff Dennett was the most amazing women and it was said about her that if there were Saints on this earth, she was one of them. The other wonderful and dear to my heart are my children and grandchildren that have the privileged of being mothers, Linda Lorena, Kathryn Diane, Andrea Jeanine and Anne Marie. Then comes my special girls, Kalena Marie, Kristen Michelle, Amanda Elizabeth, Nichole Leigh, Jennifer Diane, Cassie, and Carla Marie.
Great is the work you are doing in rearing families in this day of problems. As long as you are rearing your children in the Gospel of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, you need not fear the future. Your faith will help you along. Trust the Lord with all your hearts and feed on his words as they will ever be true. I love you all dearly.
Great is the work you are doing in rearing families in this day of problems. As long as you are rearing your children in the Gospel of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, you need not fear the future. Your faith will help you along. Trust the Lord with all your hearts and feed on his words as they will ever be true. I love you all dearly.
Thursday, January 2, 2014
Eleanor of Aquitaine (1122-1204) This is a grandmother on the Dennett side
Eleanor was a duchess and a queen successively of France and England. She was born near Bordeaux about 1122. She was the daughter of Duke Williams X of Aquitaine and Aenor (Eleanor) of Chatelleraut.
When Duke William died in 1137, Eleanor became the feudal ward of the dying King of France, Louis VI who sent his young son Louis to marry her.
Louis and Eleanor were known as the Duke and Duchess of Aquitaine at Poitiers and then they returned to Northern France as the new King Louis VIII and Queen.
Louis loved his wife passionately even though the marriage was for the great principality of Aquitaine under royal control.
In 1147, after the birth of their first child, named Marie, they left France on a second crusade. Louis and Eleanor had their second daughter, Alix, after which they agreed to a divorce. A French ecclesiastical granted the divorce on March 21 1152 (note the year of the divorce)
Eleanor moved to Poitiers where in mid-may, she married young Henry Plantagenet (Our Grandfather), Duke of Normandy and Count of Anjou, to whom she was almost as closely related as she was to Louis.
In 1153, a son was born and only lived a short while. Henry was in England fighting for the English crown to which he had a claim through his mother. A few months after Henry and Eleanor were crowned King and Queen of England, in December 1154, they had a second son, Henry.
During the years Eleanor traveled between the domains of England, Normandy, Anjou and Aquitaine she gave birth to the following children: Matilda 1156, Richard 1157, Geoffrey 1158, Eleanor 1161, Joan 1165, and John 1167.
In 1168 Eleanor ruled in Aquitaine where she directed the affairs of her son Richard, who was the Duke of Aquitaine.
In 1173 Eleanor and her sons rebelled against her husband Henry II Henry captured and imprisoned Eleanor and put down the uprising without difficulty. Eleanor was imprisoned ten years and then her husband allowed her to go out in public when it served his policies. She was kept under close surveillance until Henry died in 1189. Her son Richard became King and ordered his mother released. At this time Eleanor was in her late sixty's.
In 1190 Eleanor took a princess with her to Sicily to marry her son Richard. After Richard was captured on his return from Syria, Eleanor raised the money to pay the ransom demanded by the emperor of Germany.
John, who had conspired to overthrow Richard, was brought to terms through Eleanor's mediation. In 1194 Eleanor retired to the convent of Fontevrault, near Poitiers. Richards death in 1199 brought Eleanor back to support John against her grandson Arthur, In 1200 she journeyed to Castile to arrange the marriage of a granddaughter to the heir of France, as part of a treaty between John and the French King Phillip II.
In her own day and in the centuries to follow, legend pictured Eleanor as a figure of romance, passionate, jealous, seductive and inconstant. These stories may or may not be true but when Eleanor was close to eighty yeas old, she showed that she could still play an active part in political affairs, a woman of determination and remarkable vitality, she had survived two husbands and all but two of her children. She died at or near Fontevrult, March 31 (or April 1) 1204.
When Duke William died in 1137, Eleanor became the feudal ward of the dying King of France, Louis VI who sent his young son Louis to marry her.
Louis and Eleanor were known as the Duke and Duchess of Aquitaine at Poitiers and then they returned to Northern France as the new King Louis VIII and Queen.
Louis loved his wife passionately even though the marriage was for the great principality of Aquitaine under royal control.
In 1147, after the birth of their first child, named Marie, they left France on a second crusade. Louis and Eleanor had their second daughter, Alix, after which they agreed to a divorce. A French ecclesiastical granted the divorce on March 21 1152 (note the year of the divorce)
Eleanor moved to Poitiers where in mid-may, she married young Henry Plantagenet (Our Grandfather), Duke of Normandy and Count of Anjou, to whom she was almost as closely related as she was to Louis.
In 1153, a son was born and only lived a short while. Henry was in England fighting for the English crown to which he had a claim through his mother. A few months after Henry and Eleanor were crowned King and Queen of England, in December 1154, they had a second son, Henry.
During the years Eleanor traveled between the domains of England, Normandy, Anjou and Aquitaine she gave birth to the following children: Matilda 1156, Richard 1157, Geoffrey 1158, Eleanor 1161, Joan 1165, and John 1167.
In 1168 Eleanor ruled in Aquitaine where she directed the affairs of her son Richard, who was the Duke of Aquitaine.
In 1173 Eleanor and her sons rebelled against her husband Henry II Henry captured and imprisoned Eleanor and put down the uprising without difficulty. Eleanor was imprisoned ten years and then her husband allowed her to go out in public when it served his policies. She was kept under close surveillance until Henry died in 1189. Her son Richard became King and ordered his mother released. At this time Eleanor was in her late sixty's.
In 1190 Eleanor took a princess with her to Sicily to marry her son Richard. After Richard was captured on his return from Syria, Eleanor raised the money to pay the ransom demanded by the emperor of Germany.
John, who had conspired to overthrow Richard, was brought to terms through Eleanor's mediation. In 1194 Eleanor retired to the convent of Fontevrault, near Poitiers. Richards death in 1199 brought Eleanor back to support John against her grandson Arthur, In 1200 she journeyed to Castile to arrange the marriage of a granddaughter to the heir of France, as part of a treaty between John and the French King Phillip II.
In her own day and in the centuries to follow, legend pictured Eleanor as a figure of romance, passionate, jealous, seductive and inconstant. These stories may or may not be true but when Eleanor was close to eighty yeas old, she showed that she could still play an active part in political affairs, a woman of determination and remarkable vitality, she had survived two husbands and all but two of her children. She died at or near Fontevrult, March 31 (or April 1) 1204.
Ceawlin...Grandfather-Note Date 593- Dennett side)
Ceawlin was the King of West Saxons, or Wessex, from 560 to 592, who drove the Britons from most of southern England and carved out a kingdom in the southern Midlands.
Ceawlin helped his father, King Cynric, defeat the Britons at Beranbyrg (Barbury) in 556. In 586, eight years after he assumed the West Saxon kingship, Ceawlin and his brother Cuta severly defeated King Aethelberht I of Kent.
Ceawlin's victory over the Britons at Deorham (Dyrham) in 577 led to the capture of Gloucester, Cirencester, and Bath, The valley of the lower Severn River was thereby opened to West Saxon colonists, and the Britons of Wales were cut off from their kinsman on England's southwestern peninsula.
Nevertheless, a king named Ceol seized at least part of Ceawlin's lands in 591. After being defeated by Ceol at Woddesbeorg (or Wodnesbeorg; now Adam's grave in Wiltshire) in 592 included him in his list of seven successive rulers who were overlords (bretwaldas) of all the lands south of the Humber.
Ceawlin helped his father, King Cynric, defeat the Britons at Beranbyrg (Barbury) in 556. In 586, eight years after he assumed the West Saxon kingship, Ceawlin and his brother Cuta severly defeated King Aethelberht I of Kent.
Ceawlin's victory over the Britons at Deorham (Dyrham) in 577 led to the capture of Gloucester, Cirencester, and Bath, The valley of the lower Severn River was thereby opened to West Saxon colonists, and the Britons of Wales were cut off from their kinsman on England's southwestern peninsula.
Nevertheless, a king named Ceol seized at least part of Ceawlin's lands in 591. After being defeated by Ceol at Woddesbeorg (or Wodnesbeorg; now Adam's grave in Wiltshire) in 592 included him in his list of seven successive rulers who were overlords (bretwaldas) of all the lands south of the Humber.
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