| In our end is our beginning; |
| In our time, infinity, |
| in our doubt there is believing; |
| in our life, eternity. |
| In our death, a resurrection; |
| at the last, a victory. |
| unrevealed until its season, |
| Something God alone can see. |
There is a sense in which the last things are the first things. ``The first shall be last and the last shall be first.'' It depends on the priority of the Designer. The dearth of written sources on the Watlington tribe in Tennessee as late as 1950 became a concern for several descendents, including the writer. The attempt to gather some facts and fiction and put it into words has been a challenge that is by no means coming to an end. What is here recorded and what Mary Watlington Wolford has recorded about the family should be a beginning, not an end, of the story.
May it be so. May this be a stepping stone for future family and community story tellers.