The Settlement Grows
Let us get now to our program;
Let us hurry through the pattern;
These three tales are everybody's;
These three stories are our own.
These three stories are the world's, too,
Through the years, and fresh today.
Captain Morgan, though you traveled
To the center of new country
While the ashes in the Indian fires were warm.
Running from all foreign nations,
Running from the every-port girls,
Running from the foreign flesh pots,
Their religions, skirts and cookies,
You ran smack into three families
Who had other origins.
Irish, Spanish, and Norwegian
Were the three roots planted first,
Though it lately was Ohio or New Jersey
Illinois or Tennessee, Kentucky or Vermont.
The Millers laughed with Irish blood,
Oh, see the sweet Colleen,
Who brings to every Irish heart
The Wearin' o' the Green.
Now Lars was pure Norwegian,
Born on a Norway farm - wait!
He came from Tvedt in Holmedal Sogn, Skogsvag
Prestegjeld South Hordaland Bergens
Stift, Norway - Skol! (Hunt up our ginger cookies)
Comment
Morganville's roots are in the Miller, Silver, and Anderson families, but are like all places, then and now.
Morgan arrived to these three families and their descendants.
Carson states that the Millers' roots were in Ireland, the Silvers' were in Spain, and the Andersons' were in Norway and
for some, their parents or grandparents had lived in other states before coming to Kansas. Of course, family lore
sometimes has errors. For example: the Silvers' roots appear to be in England.
Ireland is associated with the color green.
Scandinavians are associated with ginger cookies.