Will "Will the circle be unbroken" be broken?

Posted by ESC February 28, 2005In reply to Will "Will the circle be unbroken" be broken? posted by A cotton-picking minute on February 28, 2005

What does the phrase "Will the circle be unbroken?", familiar from the old folk song, refer to?

Will the family circle be unbroken in heaven. Will everybody be there -- mother, father, sisters and brothers, aunts and uncles, cousins.