Yesterday (7 November 2020) I completed my family history research for the family of William and Delilah Frizelle.  They were my 3rd great grandparents.  My objective was to find all of their children, and to check and correct the vital information of each.  I traced each descendant in all of their lines down to at least the year 1910.  I made sure that each person either had all of his or her temple ordinances completed, or was put on my own reservation list where I could see to it that the work is done.  I sifted through hundreds of people, made scores of corrections, and am now in a position to offer the precious temple ordinances to dozens of people who have not yet had their temple work done.

This is a great privilege.  My premise is that these people are all as anxious for their grandchildren of every generation to have their temple work done as I would be about my own grandchildren.  I previously completed this project for all eight sets of my 2nd great grandparents.  William and Delilah are the sixth set of 3rd great grandparents that I have completed.  (I have completed Andrew and Helen McCornack, Robert and Margaret Eakin, John and Mary Condon, Arnold and Ruey Holt, Frederick and Rebecca Barrows, and now William and Delilah Frizelle).

William was born in England.  I don't know when or why he came to America, nor do I know who his parents were.  Perhaps that information will come to me, as it did during my researches for the antecedents of Rebecca Lindley Barrows.

William and Delilah died within a day of one another in June 1849.  I asked myself why.  I discovered that an adult son died with them, and that a daughter and her husband died earlier in the month.  Further researches revealed that cholera was the cause.  We have a viral pandemic happening right now in our own day, but previous epidemics were even more costly in human lives than our current one.  That cholera epidemic in Illinois took the lives of my own family members.

At death I will meet my mother and my father and all of my people back to the beginning.  I will meet William and Delilah.  What a happy day that will be.