tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60254345898798129142024-02-20T09:15:02.594-08:00milk & mettleMy family were some of the original settlers of Walworth County, Wis. Join me as I delve into their history, complete with vintage photos, journals, letters, recipes, joys and struggles.Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04924614042874872558noreply@blogger.comBlogger51125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6025434589879812914.post-84775768323578791142014-01-06T09:30:00.000-08:002014-01-06T09:30:05.157-08:00The brutal winter of 1836-1837<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I mentioned this in a previous post about my great-great-grandparents, <a href="http://milkandmettle.blogspot.com/2012/11/oh-pioneers-sam-and-sarah_7.html" target="_blank">Sam and Sarah Vaughn</a>, but the winter of 1836-1837 was a particularly brutal one in the history of the Midwest. Although weather data was being collected at a few locations in Wisconsin as early as the 1820s, this was still early enough in the history of record-keeping that it's hard to know exactly how it compared to winters that have come since. But from the anecdotal record, it seems that it would rank up there as one of the coldest, most extreme cold fronts ever to hit Illinois and southern Wisconsin.<br />
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Keith C. Heidorn has an <a href="http://www.islandnet.com/~see/weather/events/ilsuddenchange.htm" target="_blank">excellent and detailed examination of the weather event itself </a>on his Weather Doctor Blog. In it, he writes:<br />
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December 16, a severe snowstorm passed leaving about a foot of snow on the 17th. The storm was quickly
followed by milder weather on the 18th and 19th bringing "A Great Thaw" on southeast winds... From the weather observations at Fort Leavenworth (Kansas); Fort Des Moines (Montrose, Iowa); and Fort
Snelling (Minneapolis, Minnesota), we can surmise that a Colorado low was advancing along a frontal boundary lying
across the northern Plains on December 19... With sunrise on the 20th, a change was beginning... Ludlum reconstructs the likely storm path beginning in the central Great
Plains and then moving north-northeastward through Iowa to southwestern
Wisconsin by dawn. It then likely turned and raced due
northward across that state, likely deepening in the process. The
trailing cold front was observed to pass
through Burlington, Iowa on the western bank of the Mississippi River at
10 am and near Springfield, Illinois
by 2 pm, a speed of around 50 mph. It reached the Indiana border by 6 pm
and Cincinnati by 9 pm that
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In Walworth County in Southeastern Wisconsin, the front hit hard and fast. Here is what I wrote in my initial post:<br />
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"[The winter of 1836-1837] was an incredibly brutal one, possibly the worst Midwestern
winter in modern history. On Dec. 20, 1836, an exceptional cold front moved
with hurricane-force winds across the plains and the Upper Midwest and by <a href="http://www.islandnet.com/%7Esee/weather/events/ilsuddenchange.htm">some
accounts</a>, temperatures dropped 60 degrees in a matter of minutes, from 40F to
-20F. Wild animals, livestock and unprepared humans froze to death in a matter
of hours. In Illinois, two men crossing a prairie became disoriented by the
storm and got lost. One killed his horse and climbed into the carcass to keep
warm, to no avail; he was found frozen to death inside the dead animal the next
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In Spring Prairie, Wisconsin... the event was remembered as "the
four terrible cold days." Another early Walworth County settler, S.A.
Dwinnell, arrived in November of 1836. His account of that winter appears in a
history of Walworth County from 1890:</div>
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The pioneers of Wisconsin must ever remember the 20th of
December, for one of the most sudden changes to severe cold ever experienced in
our history. It had rained all day upon some fifteen inches of snow. Early in
the evening, the wind veered to the northwest and the temperature ran down at a
rapid rate. Having no thermometer, I can form no certain estimate of the
intensity of the cold. It soon became unendurable in our cabin, and, building a
large fire and hanging up blankets before it, I saw down in front of them to
keep from freezing.</div>
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It was so terribly cold that, had a person been caught four
or five miles from a house, he must have perished. Fortunately, few were thus
exposed. James Van Slyke, with his hired man, were on their way from Belvidere,
Ill., to his house, at the head of Geneva Lake, with a drove of hogs. They had
reached Big Foot Prairie, three miles from home, when the change came. They
soon left their drove and started at a rapid rate for their house. Van Slyke
succeeded in the undertaking, but his boots were so loaded with ice that it
took a teakettle full of boiling water to thaw it off, as his wife afterward
told me.</div>
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A mile from home, the hired man, named Disbro, fell,
exhausted and overcome with the intensity of the cold. He must have perished
had not a man, providentially at the house, started out at once and brought him
in. As it was, his feet were so frozen that he lost several of his toes, which
Mrs. Van Slyke amputated with her shears, having made unsuccessful efforts to
obtain a surgeon to do it. All the hogs, except two, froze to death that night.</div>
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From other Wisconsin and Minnesota reports, we can deduce
that the weather hovered between -30F and -20F during that time, after which it
probably warmed up to about 0F and started snowing relentlessly. </div>
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Mr. Dwinnell was entirely alone in his cabin during the four
terrible cold days of the last of December, and had hard work to keep himself
alive. He says, βIt soon became unendurable in our cabin, and building a large
fire and hanging up blankets before it, I sat down in front of them to keep
from freezing.β Notwithstanding the cold and the deep snow, Mr.
Dwinnell got so thoroughly lonesome that on the 20th day of January he
started on a journey of forty-five miles to have a visit with some friends in
Belvidere, Ill., then a little hamlet of six families. </div>
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In other words, for an entire month Dwinnell sat alone in a
bitterly cold log cabin struggling not to freeze to death, having no contact
with any other human beings, until it became necessary to risk his life with a
45-mile journey on horseback in the cold and snow just so that he would not
lose his mind. Pioneers had to be the toughest kind of people to survive."</div>
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<a href="http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/odd/archives/003219.asp" target="_blank">Another account from an early pioneer</a> to the state of Wisconsin, Ebeneezer Childs, recounts his journey from Madison to Green Bay during this same period. He traveled with a driver and doctor on his way to the Fort at Winnebago: </div>
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"When about half way I asked the driver how the doctor stood the cold β
for it was a stinging cold day. The doctor, who was completely covered
up with buffalo robes, made no reply and the driver, of course, could
not answer for him. I drove past them and on reaching a grove of timber I
stopped and made a fire. When the other conveyance came up, I went to
see the doctor, took the robes off, and found him completely chilled
through and could not speak. We took him out of the sleigh, carried him
to the fire, and rubbed him a long time before he could speak. I had a
little brandy with me; he drank some of that and after a while he was
able to walk when we again started for the fort. When we arrived at the
fort, as we did without further mishap, we found that the thermometer
stood thirty-two degrees below zero. I did not suffer at all with the
cold as I ran the most of the way."</div>
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Metereologist Heidorn includes these anecdotal records from central Illinois in his post:</div>
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"In an account from Lacon Township, north of Peoria, Spencer Ellsworth describes the situation: 'The
morning was mild, with a settled rain gradually changing the snow on the ground into a miserable slush.
Suddenly a black cloud came sweeping over the sky from the northwest, accompanied by a roaring wind as
the cold wave struck the land, the rain and slush were changed in a twinkling to ice.' The day was henceforth
known here as <em>Butler's Snap</em> after Mr Butler and his daughter who froze to death while attending their
livestock.
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John Moses recalled watching a heavy black cloud advance from the northwest on hurricane-force winds
about two o'clock in the afternoon. "Almost instantly, the strong wind...accompanied by a deep, bellowing
sound, with its icy blast, swept over the land, and everything was frozen hard. The water in the little ponds in
the roads froze in waves, sharp-edged and pointed, as the gale had blown it. The chickens, pigs and other
small animals were frozen in their tracks."<br />
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Another anecdotal report recounts this grave story:</div>
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"Martin Rinehart of Champagne County [IL, sic] remembers: 'It began to rain and continued all day, when suddenly it
turned intensely cold, making ice over the ground and freezing very hard. The sudden change caught many
persons unprepared, and they were frozen to death. Two men named Hildreth and Frame were crossing Four
Mile Prairie on that day. They became bewildered and lost their way when the change came. They killed
their horses, and Frame crawled inside the body of his horse for protection against the cold, but it proved his
tomb, as he was found therein frozen to death. Hildreth wandered around all night and when found in the
morning he was so badly frozen, that he lost his toes and fingers.'"</div>
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So the next time you're tempted to complain about the cold with all our modern-day conveniences, think of the pioneers of 1836-1837, struggling to survive one of the worst cold fronts in history with little more than buffalo robes, blankets and firewood.Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04924614042874872558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6025434589879812914.post-79097899453128506432013-11-27T10:55:00.001-08:002013-11-27T10:55:48.871-08:00Genevieve's Recipe Box: Thanksgiving EditionSince it's time for another Thanksgiving dinner, it seemed like a good time to rifle through my grandma Genevieve's recipe box for vintage and heirloom recipes for the upcoming holiday. If you haven't finalized your menu yet and are looking for something new-but-old to try, here you go!<br />
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Rich Brown Giblet Gravy </h2>
(Note: my dad still loves the turkey neck and giblets, because my grandma cooked them up so well.)<br />
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1 quart water<br />
Turkey neck and giblets<br />
1/2 cup flour<br />
1 cup cold water<br />
2 teaspoons salt<br />
Turkey fat <br />
2 teaspoons <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitchen_Bouquet" target="_blank">Kitchen Bouquet</a><br />
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Bring quart of water to boil. Add turkey neck and giblets, cook until tender. Drain off broth, measure and if necessary add additional water to make three cups total. Mince and add neck meat and giblets. In a separate bowl, blend thoroughly 1/2 cup flour, 1 cup cold water and 2 tsps. salt. Add to broth gradually, stirring constantly. Bring to a boil and cook for two minutes. Drain fat from roasting pan, measure and return 1/2 cup fat to the pan. Add thickened giblet sauce, stirring vigorously until thoroughly blended. Stir in two tsps. Kitchen Bouquet. Heat until thoroughly hot. Yields about one quart.<br />
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Broccoli Casserole</h2>
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2 pkgs. frozen, chopped broccoli, cooked and drained<br />
1 can cream of mushroom soup<br />
2 eggs<br />
4 oz. sharp cheddar, grated<br />
3/4 cup Hellman's Mayonnaise<br />
1 med. onion, chopped<br />
1/2 cup Ritz Crackers<br />
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Mix all ingredients except crumbs, pour into square, well-buttered baking dish. Sprinkle crumbs on top. Dot with butter. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.<br />
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Wild and Long Grain Rice Dressing for Duck or Cornish Hens</h2>
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2 pkgs. rice (Will fill 3 cornish hens and make large casserole, or 1 pkg make small casserole) Use only 1/2 of herbs in one pkg.<br />
bouillon cubes<br />
onion<br />
celery<br />
1/2 pound ground beef (optional)<br />
1 can mushroom pieces <br />
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Cook rice as on pkg, but add beef bouillon cubes. Brown onion and celery, cut up. Add about 1/2 pound of ground beef (optional). Add 1 can mushroom pieces. Add this to rice.<br />
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Note from Gen: I put giblets on top of rice casserole and cover it with foil until about done. <br />
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Whatever you end up doing for the holiday, I hope you have a great meal and great company! Happy Thanksgiving!<br />
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<br />Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04924614042874872558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6025434589879812914.post-70219704398220544542013-11-14T10:22:00.000-08:002013-11-14T10:22:41.033-08:00Otis's Siblings: Delia and LG LathamI've been doing a disservice to my great-great-grandfather Otis's sister Delia, by telling you all about her siblings and not devoting a whole post to her. So let's fix that today.<br />
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As you know, my grandmother's grandfather <a href="http://milkandmettle.blogspot.com/2012/10/fannie-and-otis.html" target="_blank">Otis Vaughn</a> had three siblings who survived to adulthood. We've learned about his sister <a href="http://milkandmettle.blogspot.com/2013/05/phebe-and-rufus.html" target="_blank">Phebe </a>and his brother <a href="http://milkandmettle.blogspot.com/2013/08/bf-and-martha-vaughn.html" target="_blank">BF</a> already. Today let's focus on his sister Delia, the second oldest of the Vaughn clan.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cordelia Bowher Vaughn, circa 1860s?</td></tr>
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Cordelia Bowher Vaughn was born in Tecumseh, Michigan on Feb. 16, 1833, during the few years that <a href="http://milkandmettle.blogspot.com/2012/11/oh-pioneers-sam-and-sarah_7.html" target="_blank">Sam and Sarah</a> lived there before continuing on to Wisconsin. Delia was five years younger than BF. Another brother, Melvin, had been born in 1831, but died in infancy. When she was just two years old, Sam and Sarah had another daughter, Abbie, while living temporarily in Franklin, Michigan. <br />
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When she was four years old, Delia's parents packed up a covered wagon (including among their belongings two dozen dozen grafted apple trees*) and traveled south around Lake Michigan, passing through the fledgling town of Chicago the year it became incorporated as a city. Sam's sister Mary and her husband made the trip as well, so it's likely the extended family caravanned together through Chicago. They arrived in Spring Prairie in March, 1837. Delia had just turned four years old; she would live in Walworth County for the rest of her life.<br />
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When they first arrived in Spring Prairie, the little family -- Sam and Sarah, BF, Delia and Abbie -- lived in a log cabin that Sam built. Phebe was born in the log cabin the next year. It wasn't until the fall of 1839 that Sam built the frame farmhouse on the property and they moved into a real house, so from the time she was four until she was seven, all Delia would have known was life in a log cabin or a covered wagon.<br />
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Two years after they moved into the farmhouse, my great-great-grandfather Otis was born there, rounding out the Vaughn family in Spring Prairie, Wisconsin.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">LeGrand Latham, Delia's husband</td></tr>
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In 1861, Delia married LeGrand (LG) Latham. LG was the son of early Elkhorn settlers Hollis Latham and Lemira (or Louisa?) Bradley Latham. In fact, LG's parents had the distinction of being the first couple married in
the town of Elkhorn -- they were married there in April 1838. LG was born in Elkhorn in January, 1839 and was named for another prominent early Elkhorn settler, LeGrand Rockwell. (Rockwell was the first clerk of court, register of deeds, acting postmaster and founder of the first bank in Elkhorn.)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Louisa Latham as a girl. She bears a resemblance to BF's four daugthers.</td></tr>
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In 1862, Delia and LG had their first child -- a son they named Hollis
after LG's father. Three years later, a daughter was born. They named
her Louisa. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Delia (back left) and Phebe pose with what appears to be LeGrand(?) and an unknown sitter</td></tr>
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It seems they remained close with the Vaughn side of the family. Both
Phebe and Delia had moved to Elkhorn when they were married, so it is
safe to assume they saw each other often. The few times that Delia and
LG appear in Corinne's scrapbook, they are usually mentioned along with
Delia's siblings.<br />
<ul>
<li>Date unknown: Otis Vaughn and
family, of Burlington; Peter Howard and wife; and LG Latham and wife,
journeyed northward on Saturday afternoon until they came to Idlewild at
Lake Lauderdale, where a week will be spent in pleasure and resting...</li>
<li>Date unknown: Mrs. Harriman and Mrs. Latham, of Elkhorn, made their brother, Mr. Otis Vaughn and family, in this village
a pleasant visit last Friday, returning to the quiet village of Elkhorn
in the evening after a day's pleasure viewing the sights of this
bustling city [Burlington.]</li>
</ul>
I have not
discovered what LG did for a living prior to 1876. But in that year, he
and Phebe's husband Rufus became partners in a meat market in Elkhorn.
Rufus eventually bought him out, and in 1900, LG's profession is listed
as "nursery agent," so presumably he owned or was working for a nursery in the area. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Louisa and HDL Adkins wedding photo, 1887</td></tr>
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In 1887, their daughter Louisa went on to marry HDL Adkins, who worked at the First National Bank in Elkhorn. Sadly, she died in 1889 at the age of 24, most likely from complications of pregnancy or childbirth. (Twenty years later, the same tragedy would befall Delia's niece <a href="http://milkandmettle.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-tragedy-of-rispah-and-harriman.html" target="_blank">Rispah</a>. In fact, all of the Vaughn siblings would lose a daughter relatively young, echoing the loss of their own sister Abbie at the age of 15.)<br />
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Hollis married Emily Duckett and they went on to have just one child -- a daughter born five years after his sister Louisa passed away. They named their daughter after Louisa, but changed the spelling slightly to Louesa. Hollis found work with the railroad and moved his family all over Illinois -- they lived in Hancock, Chillicothe, Aleda and Rock Island. (Interestingly, Hollis's daugther Louesa seems to have been quite a wild child. She got pregnant at 16 and went on to have a total of nine children, the youngest of whom just passed away in 2007.)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Delia, later in life</td></tr>
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Of Otis's siblings, Delia is the most enigmatic. I know the least about her life, perhaps because unlike Phebe, Delia had a child and grandchildren who survived her and to whom I assume she left the bulk of the things that would help to tell her story. She appears the least in the scrapbook as well, which could mean her name appeared in the paper less often than that of her siblings. Or it could just be that when Edna was doing this research, she was less interested in the Lathams and therefore didn't send requests to newspapers for clippings containing their names. It's hard to say.<br />
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Fifteen years after losing her daughter, Delia herself passed away at the age of 71. Her obituary described her as a "well known and esteemed resident of the city [Elkhorn]." It went on to describe:<br />
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The fulsome measure of love and esteem however which scores of friends and acquaintances held for her came not from a long residence but from an active life rich in sympathy and good works toward her neighbors and friends. Her life has been of availing helpfulness and her own patience in bearing those tribulations, the all too common lot of life, made firm those bonds so rudely broken by her death.</blockquote>
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*This <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/04/heritage-apples-john-bunker-maine" target="_blank">fascinating article</a> from Mother Jones about early American apple trees is really educational, and well worth reading. It helped put into perspective why my great-great-great-grandfather Sam would have prioritized bringing two dozen apple trees with him in a covered wagon.Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04924614042874872558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6025434589879812914.post-12636077570410687612013-09-01T13:51:00.002-07:002013-09-01T13:51:53.463-07:00Recipes: Labor Day picnic suggestionsGetting ready for a Labor Day picnic this weekend? How about a few vintage recipes from my grandma Genevieve's recipe box to bring to a potluck?<br />
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<h2>
Sauerkraut Salad</h2>
1 quart sauerkraut<br />
2 cups celery cut fine<br />
1 green pepper<br />
1 large onion<br />
1/2 cup sugar<br />
1/2 cup vinegar<br />
1/2 cup <a href="http://www.copykat.com/2010/04/17/what-is-salad-oil/" target="_blank">salad oil</a><br />
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Mix all ingredients and refrigerate for 24 hours.<br />
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<h2>
<a href="http://milkandmettle.blogspot.com/2012/05/origins-of-project-corinnes-scrapbooks.html" target="_blank">Corinne's</a> Carrot Casserole</h2>
1 1/2 pkg. carrots<br />
2 small onions <br />
2/3 cup Saltine cracker crumbs<br />
For topping:<br />
2 tsp. brown sugar<br />
chopped pecans<br />
little grated or powdered cheese<br />
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Cook carrots with about 2 T chopped onions. (Editor's note: I don't know what this means. Any ideas?) Then mash (or put through blender and then cook with a little water -- easier for large amount.) Mix with cracker crumbs. Put topping on and bake in casserole or flat 9x9-inch pan. Cut like brownies to serve.<br />
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<h2>
Cocktail Meatballs</h2>
1lb. ground beef<br />
1 lb. ground pork<br />
handful of Italian bread crumbs<br />
parsley (optional)<br />
Spices: Accent*, powdered onion, oregano, thyme, bay leaf and salt<br />
Egg.<br />
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For small electric casserole:<br />
4 lbs. ground beef<br />
1/2 lb. pork<br />
2 eggs<br />
Put in plenty of oregano<br />
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[Editor's note: There are no instructions listed, just ingredients. I assume you mix everything together in a bowl, roll out 1-inch meatballs and bake? Anyone have suggestions?]<br />
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<i>*Accent is a spice that combined MSG and hydrolized vegetable protein. Probably best to leave it out if you're taking this dish to a potluck, as many people are allergic/sensitive to MSG.</i><br />
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Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04924614042874872558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6025434589879812914.post-77529747506013095622013-08-19T11:11:00.000-07:002013-08-19T11:11:36.100-07:00B.F. and Martha Vaughn<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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As we've learned, my grandmother's grandfather <a href="http://milkandmettle.blogspot.com/2012/10/fannie-and-otis.html" target="_blank">Otis Vaughn</a> was the youngest of six children born to Sam and Sarah Vaughn (who I've recently learned was sometimes called Sally.) Their second child, Melvin, died in infancy in 1831. We've met Otis's sister <a href="http://milkandmettle.blogspot.com/2013/05/phebe-and-rufus.html" target="_blank">Phebe </a>already. So now let's meet his oldest sibling, B.F. (I like to call him Ben, though there's no evidence anyone else did during his lifetime.)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">No labeled photos of B.F. exist, so this may or may not be a picture of Benjamin Vaughn.</td></tr>
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Benjamin Franklin Vaughn was born in 1828 in Carver, Massachusetts, where Sam and Sarah were living at the time with Sam's younger brother David. Sam and David were trained as carpenters, but were also farming. When B.F. was around one year old, they packed up their things and moved west, most likely in search of better opportunities and better farmland. They first landed in Tecumsah, Michigan, which is about 30 miles southwest of Ann Arbor. By the time B.F. was 7, they had moved again to Franklin, MI, about 70 miles north of Tecumseh. It was a short-lived move.<br />
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In March 1837, when B.F. was 8, his sister Delia was 4 and sister Abbie not yet 2, Sam and Sarah hitched up a team of oxen and traveled around Lake Michigan, passing through Chicago the year it was incorporated from a village to a city, and landed in Spring Prairie, WI, "in those early days when the Indian and deer still roamed the prairies," according to B.F.'s obituary. (Though it's likely both Indians and deer were scarce when they made the trip: The winter of 1836-1837 was particularly brutal, and it was still very much winter in March when they came.)<br />
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B.F. attended one of the earliest one-room schoolhouses in Walworth County at a time when there weren't even roads to get there, and going to school required walking across the neighbors' lots: "when it meant a walk of six miles across lots back and forth each day in quest of the 3 "R's", then the specialty of the county schoolmaster" according to his obituary again.<br />
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Perhaps because he had done so much traveling and pioneering when he was under the age of 10, B.F. displayed a wanderlust all his life. It is probable that Otis didn't know his older brother very well; by the time Otis was born, B.F. was already 12. In February of 1850, when B.F. was 21 and Otis just 9, B.F. left Spring Prairie to join the hordes of gold-seekers in California. He went by ship around Cape Horn at the very southern tip of South America, a journey of six months, landing in California in August of 1850. He spent six years seeking his fortune on the west coast, but eventually returned to Spring Prairie, this time taking the shorter <a href="http://mygoldrushtales.com/2011/05/07/steamship-service-to-gold-rush-california-begins/" target="_blank">"Isthmus" route</a> across Panama. (The train route connecting the Pacific to the Atlantic across the Panama isthmus had been completed just one year earlier, reducing what had been a six-month journey to a 30-day trip.)<br />
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Shortly upon returning to Spring Prairie, he married Martha Vaughn, who lived in Honey Creek, the next hamlet over. (Where Otis's wife Fannie also came from.) It is possible that B.F. and Martha thought they were not related to each other, despite having the same last name, though two Vaughn families ending up in such close proximity to each other in southeastern Wisconsin, and having similar first names recurring throughout both lines might indicate they did in fact know they were distant relations. (We'll probably never know what they knew.) Modern internet research reveals that B.F. and Martha did in fact share a common
ancestor six generations back: Joseph Vaughan of Middleboro, MA, who was
born in 1652 and died in 1734.<br />
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Martha Vaughn was the daughter of Erastus and Olive Vaughn. (Erastus's middle name was Otis; you can see the similarities between the two Vaughn families.) She was 10 years younger than B.F. They were married on Dec. 9, 1856 and settled again in Spring Prairie. They had four children, all girls: May was born in 1858, Sadie born in 1862, Olive born in 1865, and Grace (who was evidently nicknamed "Birdie") born in 1871. A fifth child, a boy, died in infancy.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">May Vaughn West, oldest daughter of Ben and Martha</td></tr>
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B.F. Vaughn served as the town clerk of Spring Prairie from 1861 through 1877. Sometime after that, most likely in 1878, B.F. and Martha and the three younger girls moved west to Sundown, MN, in the southwestern part of the state not far from South Dakota. (Oldest daughter May had married Henry P. West and moved with him to Ripon, Wisconsin.)<br />
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By the 1900 census, they had moved west again to Yakima, WA. (The history of the city of Yakima is rather interesting. According to Wikipedia: "When [Yakima was] bypassed by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Pacific_Railway" title="Northern Pacific Railway">Northern Pacific Railroad</a> in December 1884, over 100 buildings were moved with rollers and horse
teams to the nearby site of the depot. The new city was dubbed North
Yakima and was officially incorporated and named the county seat on
January 27, 1886.") The 1900 census lists B.F.'s occupation as "landlord" and indicates that his home in Yakima was a farm and was owned free.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sadie Vaughn Robertson, second daughter. She went on to have eight children of her own.</td></tr>
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B.F. died in Yakima in 1910 at the age of 81. Martha went to live with her daughter Olive, who was married to a man named James Berry; they lived in Stockton, California. Martha died in 1921 there. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Olive Vaughn Berry</td></tr>
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B.F. and Martha had several grandchildren. Birdie remained single all her life and seems to have lived in Portland, Oregon. But the other three girls were prolific: Sadie and her husband Middleton Robertson had eight children, Olive had three boys, and May had four children. <br />
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Frustratingly, I have no labeled photos of B.F. or Martha. There is one daguerreotype from the late 1850s or early 1860s in the collection that belonged to Sarah Vaughn (Otis and B.F.'s mom) of Otis seated with a mystery person. I strongly suspect that this is B.F., but I have no way to know for sure. (If it is him, wouldn't you expect him to pose with his wife and baby rather than his brother? Though if it isn't him, I can't imagine who else it might be.)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Otis (on the left) and very possibly B.F.?</td></tr>
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<br />Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04924614042874872558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6025434589879812914.post-8207259945750179252013-08-04T11:35:00.002-07:002013-08-04T12:17:25.403-07:00Otis and Fannie Vaughn's Burlington houseWe've been talking about the siblings of my grandma Genevieve's grandfather Otis a lot lately, but let's go back to <a href="http://milkandmettle.blogspot.com/2012/10/fannie-and-otis.html" target="_blank">Otis and Fannie</a> for a moment, because I had the good fortune to stop by the Burlington library one day last spring when the resident town historian was there, and he helped me track down the house that Otis built in town when they moved off the farm in 1889. (It was a little trick to find the house because Burlington renumbered its streets in the 1960s.)<br />
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I was able to go back to Burlington recently and get some pictures of the house, which is still in great shape, though it's been converted to a duplex now.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The house Otis Vaughn built in 1888-1889, on Lewis Street just off of 36 downtown.</td></tr>
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You'll remember from <a href="http://milkandmettle.blogspot.com/2012/05/origins-of-project-corinnes-scrapbooks.html" target="_blank">Corinne's scrapbook</a> that there were a few newspaper clippings regarding Otis building the house:<br />
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"1888: Mr. Otis Vaughn is hauling stone for the foundation of his new
residence to be built early next spring on his fine corner lot at the
rear of the Opera House, opposite the old 'Sawyer property' on
Washington and Dyer streets."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The stone foundation that my great-great-grandfather Otis laid in 1888.</td></tr>
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"1889: Mr. Otis Vaughn and family moved into their new house on the
corner of Washington and Dyer streets last week, and will soon be
comfortably settled in their fine, cozy home."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The house as it looked when it was first built. Note the barn behind the house and the size of the tree in front.</td></tr>
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Otis and Fannie moved into the house in 1889, though they maintained ownership of the farm in Spring Prairie at the same time. (I assume they rented it out.) In 1918, their oldest daughter Hattie lost her husband to the Spanish flu, and she and her two young daughters moved in with Otis and Fannie to the house in Burlington. Five years later, in 1922, Otis passed away. Hattie and Fannie and the two girls lived in the house together until Fannie's death in 1931. This is the house where Corinne would stay when she was a little girl visiting "Grandpa and Grandma Vaughn."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Today the barn has been torn down and there are houses close on either side. The little tree has grown much taller. </td></tr>
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Remarkably, other than a paint job, the exterior of the house looks almost identical to the way it looked when it was first built. I assume that is a testament to the craftsmanship of the house itself, which was built entirely by hand by my great-great-grandfather. The barn behind the house is gone now, and there are houses right next to the house that weren't there when it was first built (though I suspect they were built not too long afterward, judging by their age and appearance.) Though the double mailbox out front and the double addresses indicate it is being used as a duplex, you can't tell that from the outside, so the conversion was commendably unobtrusive.<br />
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It is a piece of my family's history that is still a living, contributing part of the community in Burlington, Wisconsin. I hope that someday the people who live there now will read about Otis and learn to appreciate his handiwork the way I do, 125 years later. Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04924614042874872558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6025434589879812914.post-80745466204290294312013-07-08T13:06:00.003-07:002013-07-08T13:06:53.808-07:00Phebe's paintingsSo as we have learned, the last decade or so of Phebe Harriman's life was <a href="http://milkandmettle.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-tragedy-of-rispah-and-harriman.html" target="_blank">a sad one</a>. She lost her only daughter to childbirth, then raised her grandson for six years until his father returned to take him away from her as well.<br />
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But Phebe's story is more than just this sad coda. Despite (or possibly because of) growing up isolated on a farm in rural Wisconsin during the earliest days of its settlement, Phebe grew up with an artist's eye. As an adult, she seems to have been an avid painter. When my great-aunt <a href="http://milkandmettle.blogspot.com/2012/05/origins-of-project-corinnes-scrapbooks.html" target="_blank">Corinne </a>passed away, I drove up to her house in Manitowoc to buy items from her estate and discovered she had left a list of several family heirlooms that she hoped I would take in order to keep them in the Vaughn family. Some of these heirlooms were Aunt Phebe's paintings. <br />
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The crown jewel of the collection is this oil painting of a landscape scene, possibly inspired by her travels. It measures about 12" by 18":<br />
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I absolutely love the lavender sky reflecting in the river and the serene little skiff sailing off into the distance.<br />
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Then there is this vertical landscape attributed to Phebe, which measures 12" by 24":<br />
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This one may be an earlier work; this painting displays less mastery of dimension than the first painting, as evidenced by the relatively flat rocks in the river and the way the water line cuts off rather abruptly in the distance. But the colors themselves are lovely and subtle: a peach haze in the sky, the burnt red of the leaves changing, the light reflecting on the river.<br />
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When I was looking through Corinne's things at the estate sale, I found a little painting underneath a blanket on a chair that seems to have been one of Phebe's as well. The styles are remarkably similar, and like the vertical landscape above, this smaller painting is painted directly on board. It measures 6" by 10". <br />
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And finally, the last painting I have by Phebe is a sweet little hand-painted scene on a butter paddle, which is all the more meaningful for potentially being her way of commemorating an item that was already a family heirloom in her day. (Pioneers to Wisconsin made their own butter using churns and butter paddles. It is likely that this butter paddle initially belonged to Phebe's parents, the original immigrants <a href="http://milkandmettle.blogspot.com/2012/11/oh-pioneers-sam-and-sarah_7.html" target="_blank">Sam and Sarah</a>.) The paddle itself looks hand-carved from a single piece of wood and shows signs of use prior to being painted. I am guessing it was carved by Sam and used by Sarah before Phebe painted a pastoral river scene with a church and her signature sailboat (a favorite subject for her, it appears.) The butter paddle is about 8 inches long and 4.5 inches wide at its widest part.<br />
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Looking at her paintings, I am curious whether Phebe was self-taught and painted all her life or if she took it up after losing her daughter and possibly received instruction from someone associated with the Art Institute of Chicago, which held classes in nearby Delavan in the first part of the 20th century and was responsible for the presence of a small artist's colony there during that time. Phebe passed away in 1914 at the age of 75, and may have spent the last 10 years of her life attempting to paint away her pain under the tutelage of professional artists.<br />
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Either way, I am grateful to have inherited her paintings, which seem to me to transcend the label of folk art and reveal a true artistic talent. Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04924614042874872558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6025434589879812914.post-12398666662752741412013-06-15T12:47:00.003-07:002013-06-15T12:47:50.370-07:00A milk & mettle mystery itemSpeaking of my great-great-aunt Phebe, this is a mystery that has been driving me crazy:<br />
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I inherited a burlap... something... that used to belong to her. It has her name embroidered on the seam along with "Elkhorn, Wis." -- the town she called home from 1876 until her death. The mystery item is about two feet in length and sort of half-oval or crescent shaped. It has a row of buttons across the top like you'd find on a duvet cover. But what is it?<br />
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Several people have suggested a cover for a bolster pillow. This may turn out to be the case, but that makes me wonder why she embroidered her name and city on the pillow?<br />
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Other suggestions have included: old-fashioned nursing pillow and hot water bottle holder. (The size of it makes me doubt it was a hot water bottle holder, unless they had the world's largest hot water bottle. Nursing pillow was an interesting suggestion, but Phebe only had one child, and they didn't move to Elkhorn until that child was four years old.)<br />
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So I need your help: does anyone know what this is? Is it in fact an unstuffed bolster pillow? Or is it something once essential that we no longer recognize?<br />
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<br />Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04924614042874872558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6025434589879812914.post-84324803426959233652013-05-27T08:49:00.003-07:002013-05-27T08:49:58.531-07:00Memorial Day stories: Stewart Sizemore and the Korean WarThis Memorial Day, I'm taking a break from writing about my own family's history to tell the story of one incredible veteran I had the good fortune to interview in 2006 when I worked for a local Walworth County newspaper. Stew Sizemore has one of the most incredible life stories I've ever heard. His stories from the Korean War awakened in me a fascination with that war and its sad mismanagement that is still very strong in me today. Stew is also one of the kindest and warmest people I have met. Below is the story I wrote about him in 2006, when he was included in a Wisconsin Public Television documentary about the Korean War.<br />
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Lake Geneva veteran featured in Korean War documentary</h2>
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Orig. published 11/03/06 in <i>The Beacon</i> (Walworth County)</h4>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">βIt
was the bloodiest battle I ever saw,β remembers Lake Geneva resident Stewart
Sizemore of the Battle of Taejon, fought in July 1950. It was one of the first
major battles of the Korean War and Sizemore, a 17-year-old infantryman, was
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">More
than 56 years later, the memories haunt him. βWhen we went out to Korea, we had
138 men in our company. I wandered around behind enemy lines for five days
after Taejon β¦ dodging North Korean patrols. I had a BAR (Browning Automatic
Rifle) with one round left in it. When I came out in an apple orchard five days
later, we had 12 men left in the company.β</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The
Korean War, long known as βThe Forgotten Warβ for its relative lack of exposure
with the American public, produced thousands of similarly horrific stories.
Many of these stories have never been told. As the veterans of the Korean War
age, these βforgottenβ stories are being lost forever.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Wisconsin
Public Television, in association with the Wisconsin Historical Society,
recently undertook a project to document the stories of Wisconsin residents in
the Korean War. They have produced a two-part documentary entitled <i>Wisconsin
Korean War Stories</i>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Producer
Mik Derks (<i>Wisconsin World War II Stories</i>) amassed a wide range of
interviews for the documentary, selecting veterans from different branches of
the service and all areas of the state. Due to the nature of the Korean War,
most of the interviews that made the final cut of the documentary were told by
soldiers who fought in the ground war. βMost of (the Korean War) was the ground
war,β said Derks, βso we focused on the Marines and the Army who were right
there slugging it out.β</span></span></div>
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project began three years ago after the success of the <i>Wisconsin World War
II Stories</i> series. Derks felt it was vital to collect the stories of Korean
War veterans. βThey really do feel forgotten,β he said. βPeople just didnβt pay
much attention to (the war) and the longer it went on, the less they seemed to
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Sizemore
agreed to be interviewed by Derks because of that feeling of invisibility. βI
got so sick of watching the news and they would mention WWII and they would
mention Vietnam, they mention Afghanistan, but they donβt mention the Korean
War.β</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Sizemoreβs
story is an amazing tale of survival. Born in rural Appalachian West Virginia,
his mother gave birth to three sets of twins during the Great Depression.
Unable to feed them, she sent them to live in an orphanage. When Sizemore was 5
years old, he and his siblings were adopted out as farm labor to a rural farm.
βIt was basically slave labor,β Sizemore said. βWe got one pair of shoes a
year, and we walked seven miles to school and seven miles back again every
day.β</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">To
escape a life of back-breaking labor, Sizemore ran away as a teenager and
adopted a hobo life, riding the rails and living in hobo jungles around the
country. When he was 16, he and a friend were hopping a freight train in
southern Illinois on a rainy night. Sizemore caught the train, but his friend
slipped and fell, and was pummeled under the wheels of the train. βThey carried
him out of there in a bushel basket,β he said. βAnd I decided right then I was
joining the service.β</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">When
the Korean war broke out on June 25, 1950, Sizemore was stationed in Japan. His
unit shipped out to Korea on the Fourth of July, arriving on a fishing boat.
They had no heavy artillery. Their supplies were inadequate. Many of the men in
Sizemoreβs unit were 16- and17-year-olds who had never seen battle. Their unit
saw 55 consecutive days of action before getting a one-day break.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">βYou
fight all day, and you walk all night. You have nothing to eat. Youβre eating
whatever you can find, whatever you can swipe out of the fields. You are just
totally, totally worn out. And every day, youβre losing people.β</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Sizemore
himself was injured on the Yalu River when China entered the war on the side of
the North Koreans in November of 1950. The Chinese mounted a surprise attack
with an army of more than a quarter of a million men, many of whom had trained
in the Peopleβs Liberation Army in the 1930s and 1940s.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">βI
got smashed in the face and all my teeth knocked out with Chinese rifle butts.
They blew me out of a machine gun embankment and just left me for dead. Had it
not been so cold, I wouldnβt be here. It was 20 below zero. It kept me from
bleeding to death.β</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sizemore showed me this photograph of American troops in Korea to illustrate the extreme climate they were fighting in.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">From
there, Sizemore spent three weeks in a M.A.S.H. unit. βAs soon as they got the
swelling down to where I could open my eyes, they sent me back out on the line.
My face was a mess. I didnβt have any teeth. I weighed 98 pounds and had dysentery
and malaria. But at that period in time, they would not take you off the line
as long as you were physically able to fire a weapon, thatβs how bad they
needed bodies.β</span></span></div>
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forces suffered heavy casualties throughout the first 12 months of fighting. By
November of 1950, the South Korean territory was reduced to a small patch of
land in the far southeast portion of the country only 140 miles wide, known as
the Pusan Perimeter. American forces fought hard to maintain this tiny
stronghold before the entrance of the Marines turned the tables on the
fighting.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Sizemore
fought along the Naktong Bulge in the Pusan Perimeter and up to the 38<sup>th</sup>
Parallel before rotating out of Korea in Aug. 1951. He spent three months
recovering from malaria in the United States before enlisting with the Marines
and returning to Korea for a second tour of duty. This time, his experience was
very different. The U.S. Forces were on the defensive and camped out in
bunkers, the front shifting only a few miles a day. βIt wasnβt easier, but it
was different,β he said. βYou never get used to it. War is hell, any way you
look at it.β</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Koreaβs
status as the βForgotten Warβ extends to the high price paid in casualties over
the three-year conflict. βA lot of people donβt realize how many men we lost
over there,β said Sizemore. Some estimates indicate that the American Armed Forces lost around 54,000 men
between July 1950 and July 1953, when a cease-fire was declared. (By comparison,
the Vietnam War claimed around 58,000 lives in a16-year period.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Also
forgotten was the lack of resolution surrounding the end of the Korean War. No
peace treaty was ever signed. The two countries remain technically at war to this
day, a fact that is difficult to ignore in light of recent headlines
emphasizing North Koreaβs nuclear capabilities. Though Derks had no way of
knowing at the time, the documentary he set out to record three years ago
suddenly has poignant relevance to the headlines of the day. βItβs suddenly
very topical,β he said, βwhich I hope makes people want to watch it, because
people know very little about this war.β</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Sizemore
warns that any future conflict with North Korea may be even more difficult for
American Forces than it was in 1950. βNorth Koreaβs equipment is very goodβ¦
their training is outstanding. If we ever have to go in there again, weβre
going to be in trouble.β</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">βIβm not for war, I donβt glory
war, because Iβve seen too much of it," he says.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
"</span>But I think this needs to be told, because I think there are so many
people in this country who donβt realize the price thatβs been paid.β</span></span></div>
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<br />Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04924614042874872558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6025434589879812914.post-80533297036676840712013-05-26T11:56:00.000-07:002013-05-26T12:18:03.075-07:00The tragedy of Rispah and Harriman McKinstryI've been alluding to a deep sadness that entered<a href="http://milkandmettle.blogspot.com/2013/05/phebe-and-rufus.html" target="_blank"> Phebe and Rufus</a>'s lives, but I've been finding it a difficult story to tell. They only had one child, a daughter named Rispah May. She was born when Phebe was 34. (This is a pattern I see a lot on this side of the family; women having their first child after the age of 30.) Rispah grew up in Elkhorn, and was evidently a social and intelligent girl. When she graduated from Elkhorn High School in 1890, she went on to Milwaukee to study kindergarten education, most likely at the newly opened Wisconsin State Normal School, a school for teacher training. (The Milwaukee State Normal School, now UW-Milwaukee, was an early adopter of kindergarten teacher training. According to <a href="http://www.blogger.com/Early%20Childhood%20Education%20-%20Preparation%20Of%20Teachers%20-%20Training,%20Kindergarten,%20Schools,%20and%20Children%20-%20StateUniversity.com%20http://education.stateuniversity.com/pages/1925/Early-Childhood-Education-PREPARATION-TEACHERS.html#ixzz2UQJSeaaj" target="_blank">one website</a>, in 1892 the school added a
Department of Kindergarten Education, which required two years of training. Students received a kindergarten assistant certificate after
one year and a kindergarten director diploma after two.)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rispah's graduation photo, 1890</td></tr>
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After receiving her certification, she went on to teach kindergarten for three years in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, before returning to Elkhorn to take over the kindergarten there for one year, where according to <a href="http://milkandmettle.blogspot.com/2012/05/origins-of-project-corinnes-scrapbooks.html" target="_blank">Corinne's scrapbook</a>, she was assisted by her cousin, <a href="http://milkandmettle.blogspot.com/2012/07/edna-vaughn-clark-part-1.html" target="_blank">Edna Vaughn</a>.<br />
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<li>1896: Miss Edna Vaughn is at present assisting Miss Rispah Harriman in the Kindergarten at Elkhorn.</li>
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While living in Elkhorn, it seems as though she was close with her Vaughn cousins:<br />
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<li>Date Unknown: Miss Rispah Harriman spent Thursday with <a href="http://milkandmettle.blogspot.com/2012/08/hattie-vaughn-cheeseman.html" target="_blank">Hattie Vaughn</a>.</li>
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The next year (1897), she married Byron McKinstry and moved to Harvard, Illinois, where he owned a clothing shop. Over the next ten years, they moved to Seattle, and then to Idaho, chasing the new opportunities out west.<br />
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Then, in Corinne's scrapbook, comes this sad clipping: <br />
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Sept.
1908: Sad Journey Ended: Remains of Rispah Harriman
McKinstry Brought Here; Death Calls Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. D.
Harriman at Ruhl, Idaho - she leaves infant son and husband<br />
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"Word
received here Thursday forenoon telling of the hopeless illness of
Rispah Harriman McKinstry, wife of Byron N. McKinstry and only child of
Mr. and Mrs. R.D. Harriman, was followed about two hours later by the
sad brief message telling of her death at her home near Buhl, Idaho. The
message from the anxious husband telling of his wife's illness was the
first intimation friends and parents here had that she was other than in
perfect health and spirits.<br />
<br />
Last week Tuesday, a son,
their only child, was born to Mr. and Mrs. McKinstry, and only a few
hours later, the parents joined in a brief letter to Mr. and Mrs.
Harriman, telling of their joy over the happy event. Then, when
everything seemed most propitious, the mother was taken ill suddenly,
sinking into convulsions and later into unconsciousness. In that
condition, Thursday, five hours from the time she was taken, nurses and
doctors and the bereaved husband witnessed the passing on in answer to a
summons all earthly skill could not stay. The brief note telling of the
birth of a son did not reach this city until Monday, the day set for
the funeral. The remains were brought here by Mr. McKinstry for burial,
the long journey ending Sunday night when scores of sympathizing friends
met the train and bore all that was mortal of a loving wife and daughter
and a sincerely esteemed young woman, to her girlhood home.<br />
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Rispah
May Harriman was born in LaFayette Jan. 10, 1872. She was four years
old when her parents came to live in this city [Elkhorn.] She attended
school here, graduating with her class in 1890, and took up the study of
kindergarten work in Milwaukee. After finishing her course, she taught
three years at Fond du Lac, where she successfully superintended the
work in three departments. Returning to Elkhorn, she taught in the local
school one year and Set. 8, 1897 she was married to Byron N. McKinstry.
They were residents of Harvard, Ill. during Mr. McKinstry's
proprietorship of a clothing store in that city. Later they moved to
Seattle, Wash., and it was while there that Mr. McKinstry became
interested in the new irrigation project near Buhl and purchased land.
Two years ago, they went to Idaho to live.<br />
<br />
It had been a
happy and enjoyable experience for Mrs. McKinstry. Success crowned
united efforts to establish a new home in a new land, and each seemingly
insurmountable difficulty had been made light of and overcome. Western
hospitality and neighborly kindness, never more generously forthcoming
than during the sad hours of her sickness and death, had often been
spoken of in home letters and only a few weeks ago, Mrs. McKinstry told
of plans and hopes indicating her desire to make Idaho her permanent
home. But in a far country, 'midst greener hills and sweeter valleys,
she awaits the coming of her friends.<br />
<br />
Rev. JF Taintor
of Ripon, former pastor of the Congregational church here where Mr.s
McKinstry worshiped, conducted the funeral services in the absence of
Rev. AO Stevens. The music was by a quartet composed of Mrs. FH Eames,
Mrs. PS Stewart, and Messrs. Arthur Freligh and WE Dunbar. Fuller
evidences of love and regard, manifested as they were in the outpouring
of friends and in the wealth of floral offerings, have seldom been
witnessed here. The internment was in Hazel Ridge." </blockquote>
Byron McKinstry arrived in Elkhorn with his wife's body and his newborn son, named Harriman after his wife's maiden name. Overwhelmed and full of grief, he left the baby with Rufus and Phebe when he returned to Idaho. They raised Harriman as their own for six years.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Phebe and a young Harriman McKinstry</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Harriman around age 1</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Harriman in a baptismal gown</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Harriman as a toddler</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Harriman around age 3</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A school-age Harriman after he moved back to Idaho with his father</td></tr>
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Then, when Harriman was old enough to start school, Byron McKinstry came back and claimed his son, taking him away from the grandparents who had loved and raised him in his infancy. The loss of her daughter, and then her daughter's son, was a blow from which Phebe never recovered. We know this from her obituary:<br />
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Around Aug. 9, 1914: Mrs. RD Harriman called suddenly: Expires from heart trouble Sunday morning: Was Seventy-Six Years Old and Lifelong Resident of the County -- Funeral Yesterday Afternoon<br />
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Mrs. Phebe Vaughn Harriman, wife of the late Rufus D. Harriman, and life-long resident of Walworth County, died at 9:30 o'clock Sunday morning of heart trouble. Her death was sudden, being sick less than two hours. She was taken about 7:30 and a few minutes later Mrs. Emma C. Blodgett, who occupies adjoining rooms in the Harriman house, came in to extend the usual morning greetings. Mrs. Harriman complained of severe pains across her chest, and asked Mrs. Blodgett to telephone for Dr. Geo. H. Young. Mrs. J.B. Stokes, one of the neighbors, was also summoned. Mrs. Harriman's condition continued to grow rapidly worse, and up to twenty minutes before her death, when she lapsed into unconsciousness, she suffered intensely.<br />
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Teh news of Mrs. Harriman's death spread over the city, just as people were preparing for church. It came as a great surprise tot he community for comparatively few had heard of her condition. She was a native of Walworth County, her birthplace being in Spring Prairie, and the date November 22, 1838. Her maiden name was Phebe Ann Vaughn, the daughter of Samuel Cole Vaughn and Sarah Vose Vaughn. She was one of a family of four children, but one of whom Otis L. Vaughn, of Burlington, survives. Another brother, Benjamin F. Vaughn, who was a resident of California, died a few years ago, and her only sister, Mrs. Delia B. Latham, died in 1904.<br />
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On March 31, 1864, she was married at her home in Spring Prairie to Rufus D. Harriman, then a resident of LaFayette. Mr. Harriman was engaged in farming and LaFayette continued to be their home until 1876, when they moved to Elkhorn and Mr. Harriman entered the meat business, which he followed for many years. One child, a daughter, Rispah May, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Harriman. She became the wife of Byron N. McKinstry. She died September 3, 1908. her death proved a blow, to which her parents never became reconciled. An infant son, Harriman McKinstry following the death of his mother, was taken by the grandparents and for nearly six years he received the tender care of one of the most devoted of grandmothers.<br />
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During her long residence in in Elkhorn, Mrs. Harriman had been especially active in church circles. As a member of the Congregational Church, she was among its most faithful and zealous workers, and her demise takes one whose interest and devotion was always manifest. Mrs. Harriman was always interested in the welfare of others, and always anxious to do her part in any sphere of usefulness where she could be of any service to friends or neighbors and of these shad had an especially large circle. Mr. Harriman's death occurred August 3, 1913, his wife's demise following just one year and six days later.<br />
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The funeral services were held at the house at 2:30 p.m. yesterday afternoon and were conducted by the Rev. H.A. Schuder of the Congregational Church. The services were largely attended, it being necessary to provide seating for fully one-half of the friends out on the porch and lawn. </blockquote>
But as often happens, out of grief comes beautiful art. In the next post, I'll share some of Phebe's paintings with you. Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04924614042874872558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6025434589879812914.post-75920772625866503272013-05-09T12:28:00.001-07:002013-05-09T12:28:56.495-07:00Phebe and RufusIn the last post, we met <a href="http://milkandmettle.blogspot.com/2013/04/otis-and-his-siblings.html" target="_blank">Otis's siblings</a>: Ben, Delia and Phebe. Of the siblings, I find Phebe the most compelling (her story having a
deep note of melancholy running through it), and the most perseverant, with an artist's eye and sensibility.<br />
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She was born Phebe Ann Vaughn on the farm in Spring Prairie in 1838, before Sam and Sarah had even built the frame house on the property, so she was probably born in the log cabin. She married Rufus Harriman on March 31, 1864. Rufus was the son of a Canadian logger who brought his
family to Walworth County in 1846 and eventually owned a large piece of
land here where he raised stock.<br />
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It seems likely that Rufus initially took over the operation of his father's stock farm. Then in 1876, Rufus (along with Delia's husband LeGrand Latham) became partners in a meat market in Elkhorn, (probably drawing on Rufus's extensive knowledge of quality meat from his upbringing on a stock farm). Eventually Rufus bought out his brother-in-law and became sole owner of the market.<br />
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Unfortunately, it seems that Rufus suffered from a chronic illness (possibly rheumatoid arthritis) that forced him to retire in 1883. The following newspaper clippings appear in <a href="http://milkandmettle.blogspot.com/2012/05/origins-of-project-corinnes-scrapbooks.html" target="_blank">Corinne's scrapbook</a>:<br />
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<li>Thursday, June 28, 1883: It is understood that Mr. Harriman has sold the lower meat market, business, building and all, to a new firm composed of Messrs. Hale Foster and Henry Ketchpaw. Mr. Harriman has done well by his customers, who will part from him with real regret, and but for his ancient and relentless enemy, inflammatory rheumatism, he would have done well enough for himself by remaining in the business.</li>
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<li>1883: Mr. Harriman's cigars were passed about on Saturday among some of his friends. It would not be easy to reach all of them with cigars. It was a sort of acknowledgment, as far as that simple set could go, of his grateful sentiments toward the people who, he says, have stood by him in his successful seven years career as a businsessman in Elkhorn. The business was profitable as he could wish, and it was his hard infirmity, and not his free will, that had at last made him pass it over to other hands. Could he have heard on Saturday half the kindly-spoken regret, dropped naturally and unaffectedly from the lips of friends, who sincerely wished it had so been ordered that friendly sympathy might mend his pain and release him from his wearying captivity, he would have felt some of the satisfaction that an honorable man must feel at finding that generous manhood and upright dealing do not always pass on unnoticed or unappreciated.</li>
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In 1872, four years before Rufus entered into the meat business, Phebe gave birth to their only child, a girl named Rispah May.<br />
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At the time of Rispah's birth, they were still living in LaFayette (between Elkhorn and Spring Prairie), but when Rufus went into the meat market business, they moved into Elkhorn, where they made a wide circle of friends and became pillars of the community. A clipping from 1884 recounts the incredible story of their surprise 20th anniversary party:<br />
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<li>1884: "The friends of Mr. and Mrs. R.D. Harriman chanced to remember that Monday was the twentieth anniversary of their marriage, and that it behooved them to appropriately celebrate the event. Consequently after Col. Copeland's lecture, the friends, to the number of at least a hundred and fifty [Ed. note: 150 friends in ONE town!], preceded by the band, wended their way to Mr. Harriman's commodious home on Walworth Ave, and without so much as a "by your leave," took summary possession thereof, much to the surprise of the man of the house and his estimable wife, and a merrier company seldom gathers anywhere than was there that evening. Mysterious baskets and packages indicated that a still further surprise awaited the victims, and when silence was proclaimed, and Rev. Mr. Barrett presented to Mr. and Mrs. Harriman in behalf of the friends assembled, a handsome, gold headed cane and a natty white "tile" to the former, and to the latter a beautiful set of decorated china, then they understood that the mission of the intruders was one of good will and peace. After the presentation and congratulations, requisition was made on the contents of sundry other baskets, and the company were served with a bountiful collation. Delightful music by the band, jokes and chit-chat filled in the balance of the only too short two hours, which intervened ere the commencement of another day, and about midnight the guests folded their wraps about them and not altogether silently stole away, all with one accord declaring that the evening had been well spent, and wishing Mr. and Mrs. Harriman many joyous returns of the day."</li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rufus, or as he was known around town, "Ruff"</td></tr>
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Despite Rufus's illness, he and Phebe seem to have had a full life. The following announcement appears in the scrapbook:<br />
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<li>1885: Mr. R. D. Harriman and wife; Miss Ruth Wales, Miss Jessie Wiswell, Mr. Charles Ellsworth, Mr. John Hare, Mr. Ogden T. Hubbard, and Mr. Geo. W. Wylie, left on Tuesday last, Feb.17, for New Orleans. May they have a pleasant season and a safe return.</li>
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More amazingly, I also inherited a hand-copied version of a the first part of a journal that Phebe kept on this trip to New Orleans. It appears to have been copied in Corinne's hand. I have transcribed the whole thing (in which she recounts leaving a day late in bitter cold weather, traveling to Chicago and then St. Louis) below:<br />
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Elkhorn, Wis. Feb. 16, 1885<br />
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Monday morning and mercury 26 dgs below zero. [Ed note: !!!!]<br />
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Some of the N.O. party reached the depot in advance of others and found the train was fast in a snowbank this side of Rock Island and six hours "behind time." We all went back home with our numerous satchels and lunch baskets to wait further developments.<br />
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Next morning, mercury at 20 degrees below<br />
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Ruff went "on ahead" to find out time of starting and if all were going. Telephoned down to the depot and learned the train was three hours late. It went through Monday afternoon but the trains were all so late that they could not get regulated in one day.<br />
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R.D. came back and said he would go down to the depot and for me to wait - until he sent "the bus." about nine o'clock the "bus sleigh" came and once more loaded up boxes, bundles and satchels and started - Didn't know but I was the only person going to new Orleans as there was only one passenger in the sleigh and he a stranger - Arrived at the Depot in time and found the New Orleans party all there except three (one was sick and two had changed their minds.) At nine o'clock, stepped aboard the cars and away we went for the "sunny south."<br />
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Everyone was talking about the storm - snow bound trains and cold weather. -20 below zero and snow two feet deep on the level.<br />
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Cold at the depot at WUI (Ate our first lunch dinner at WU depot) but warm int eh cars after starting for Chicago - What lots of snow between WUI and Chicago - men shoveling snow and side tracks not at all cleared. Arrived in Chicago at 2 p.m.<br />
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Staid at the Depot nearly all the time until half past eight o'clock in the evening. Very cold and some snow falling. Found the Ill. Central was blocked and the route by way of Mammoth Cave, also.<br />
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After a long consultation by then gentlemen of our party whether to wait until the road was clear (Ill. Central) or take some other route = concluded to go by way of St. Louis and Iron Mountain route. Had a splendid supper in the depot dining room and then took a "sleeper" on the Chicago Alton and St. Louis Road. The porter was so long making the beds.<br />
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Some of the gentlemen bring in word that it is snowing and blowing and that we will surely get snow bound - but we all go to bed in the sleeping car and rest very well.<br />
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Wednesday Morning<br />
Yesterday morning seems a long way off - the party all make their appearance after a while and have fun and laughter over the adventure of one of our young ladies. She was awakened in the night by the porter "tenderly putting her foot in bed and tucking it up carefully." She thought her foot must have hung over in the hall and he ran against it.<br />
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We had lots of fun and free passageway which we used all we wished to. In fact, we were so long fixing our bangs and bustles that one lady ($) (flounced and frizzled more than all our party put together) said to this same young lady, "I guess your party never has traveled before." !!<br />
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'Oh,' was the answer. 'We have traveled a few miles. One of our party has only spent a year in Europe and four in South America.'<br />
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When we came to look around outside our car, we found we had left the deep snow and storm behind us in the night - There was only a few inches of snow and we had reached the river which was open covered with cakes of ice floating downstream - saw two large steamers fastened to the river side - Not nice looking farm houses along here at all. The county look like Sugar Creek - sandy light soil - hedges along the R.R. track. This is Ill. but not the prairie land part.<br />
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After riding about two hours, we saw a low dark cloud in the southwest which some tell us is the smoke cloud above St. Louis which is always hanging there. We come to the St. Louis bridge across the Mississippi (which we have tickets for separate from the R.R. ticket - and has been such a bother.) An immense iron bridge three-fourths of a mile long - Iron trustle work looking large and black, reaching from the river bottom up to the track, a gieldy distance and up above our heads.</blockquote>
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This bridge is the pride of St. Louis and well it might be - but - the Blair bridge across the Missouri is more of a marvel because so much longer and seemingly nothing to fasten to. At St. Louis, the bridge runs into the bluff and looks so strong from the grip it has on teh bluff. At Blair, the river bottom descends so gradual without trees or bluffs that the bridge seems to rise in the air - and rest on the foundations. Missouri river is rather narrow but rapid, deep and ugly-looking. The river bottom proper where the river is likely to make a new channel in any storm is covered with white glistening sand that lies in huge drifts like dirty snow drifts.<br />
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The bridge is so high above that to look down without fear requires strong nerves and the bridge is so long that when one finds the bridge gradually getting back to terra firma, a feeling of relief is experienced.<br />
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We go from the St. Louis bridge into the tunnel which is seemingly a long one - We were thankful to reach the Depot and change our hot, close sleeping car for a day car. We were told while crossing the bridge that we would barely catch the Columbus train - and on stepping out of our car there was the train waiting and I do not know ho many other trains waiting, too. All was bustle, noise and confusion. We are hustled along "without ceremony" between two long trains, and when we reach the right car, the man who has done all the piloting (he almost went on the run and would turn his head at every step and shout, "Right this way gentlemen for Columbus! Right this way!") would not let one of us get on the train until he saw every ticket. That is, he would look at the one ticket and almost shove the owner up the steps and stop the next one until he had seen the ticket.<br />
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I guess he knew his business.<br />
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We expected Mrs. Frazier to go with us as far as Fredrickstown, but that man sent her on another train. We were sorry to lose her company.<br />
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We saw but little of St. Louis - and what we saw was very dirty - three or four inches of snow and that was almost black from coal dust.<br />
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We were hurried so that we had no time or chance to get a warm breakfast, so we get such seats as we can in the crowded car and take out our lunch and eat to satisfy our hunger without any tea or coffee.<br />
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After packing away our lunch, the nxt thing in order is to take a view of the country.<br />
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Nearly ten o'clock and the car is very warm. Take off our cloaks and leave them in our seats and as the cars are making quite a long stop for taking in coal, three of us get off the train onto a long platform and promenade up and down.<br />
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No depot here, but the US Arsenal is and we saw some of the blue-coated soldiers around on the hill at our left while the river is at the right (or east) of us - we are about six miles south of St. Louis and even here the M- River is changed very much from the same river at St. Paul, so much broader and deeper-looking.<br />
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How odd it looks to see the round cubes of ice covered with snow floating on the blue-green water (the color of Lake Michigan) and all moving downstream looking so different our small lakes whose waters are still.<br />
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Such a bright, warm day - not noon yet and yet the sun is thawing the snow a little. Does not seem to me that we left Elkhorn yesterday morning with the thermometer pointing to 20 degrees below zero. (I have since learned that it was thawing in Elkhorn that Wed. noon.)<br />
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It is not always thought best to ride in the last car but we were glad we had that privilege for we could see so much more of the country. We found rough country nearly all the way through Missouri. The soil looks poor and clay-ey or sandy. Houses in the country from the stations are log houses and poor small ones at that. No barns or haystacks and only once in a while do we see any stock - Sometimes one poor small calf or two and once in a while a pig or two - nothing to be seen of what they live upon, only the corn stalks few and small and only small patches of cultivated land to be seen.<br />
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The country is rough with the hills covered with scraggy timber and the soil almost red in color - I suppose I saw Iron Mountain but could tell as I saw so many peaks of bald-headed hills.<br />
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The conductor told me which way to look for it, but I would not confess I could not tell whether I saw it or not - It was surprising to see how far south the snow lasted with the ground just barely covered or not quite. After passing Vineland we...</blockquote>
Sadly, the copy cuts off here, and Corinne includes a note: "This was as far as she wrote, although I'm sure there was another copy of this which took the reader all the way to New Orleans, but right now I can't find that."<br />
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These were the good years for Phebe. Twenty years later, a deep note of sadness would enter her life from which she would never fully recover. More on that in the next post. <br />
<br />Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04924614042874872558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6025434589879812914.post-38039865673084300922013-04-23T09:13:00.001-07:002013-04-23T09:13:20.952-07:00Otis and his siblingsSo, let's recap a little:<br />
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My grandma <a href="http://milkandmettle.blogspot.com/2012/04/beginnings.html" target="_blank">Genevieve</a>'s grandparents were <a href="http://milkandmettle.blogspot.com/2012/10/fannie-and-otis.html" target="_blank">Otis and Fannie Vaughn</a>. Otis's parents were some of the original settlers of Walworth County, coming here in 1837, just one year after the land became available to white men <br />
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Otis and his siblings went on to be fixtures of Walworth County in the years as it transitioned from wilderness in the Northwest Territory to a rural pastiche of prosperous, orderly villages. In their lifetimes, they saw some of the biggest changes the modern world would bring: electricity, automobiles, industrialization. They started life in log cabins or westward wagon trains and ended up in comfortable houses on paved streets in fully formed towns that would have been unimaginable in these locations at the start of their lives.<br />
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Otis was one of five children (a sixth son, Melvin, died in infancy.)
His sister Abbie only lived to be 14; we don't know which childhood
illness claimed her life, but sadly this was not an uncommon story in
the days before vaccines and antibiotics. His oldest sibling, a brother
named Benjamin, was significantly older than Otis; 13 years separated them.
Though Ben initially married and had children in Walworth County, he
eventually moved his family out to the west coast. (More on Ben and his
wife Martha to come in a later post.)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Phebe and Otis, around 1844</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Phebe and possibly Abbie, around 1848</td></tr>
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It seems that
throughout his life, Otis was closest with his two sisters, Delia and
Phebe. Delia was eight years older than Otis, and Phebe was only four
years older than he was.The three of them lived in Walworth County all
their lives; Delia and Phebe ended up living closer to Elkhorn, and Otis
eventually moved into Burlington, but they visited each other often and
from the newspaper clippings, we know that their families often
traveled together.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Phebe poses alone a few years later</td></tr>
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The sisters lived in Elkhorn because they both married men from that city. Phebe married Rufus Harriman; Delia married LeGrand Latham.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />Delia (back left) and Phebe pose with their husbands. (The couples were arranged diagonally; Rufus is on the left in front.)</td></tr>
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In posts to come, I'll delve a little deeper into the lives of Otis's siblings and their families, starting with Rufus and Phebe. In the treasure trove of family history and photographs that I inherited when <a href="http://milkandmettle.blogspot.com/2012/05/origins-of-project-corinnes-scrapbooks.html" target="_blank">Corinne</a> passed away, Phebe has the most prominent representation in the collection, (after Otis and Fannie, of course.) It's likely this is related to the sad story of their estranged grandson and heir. With no one to leave her family heirlooms to, perhaps Phebe gave them to her brother's children instead.<br />
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But that is a story for next time.Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04924614042874872558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6025434589879812914.post-18082373073730325502013-04-19T11:57:00.002-07:002013-04-19T11:57:51.978-07:00Recipes: Quick Coffee Cake<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Most of the recipes from Genevieve's recipe box that I have posted in the past have been posted "blind" -- meaning I haven't had the ingredients or the cooking confidence to attempt them. But this Quick Coffee Cake was easy enough that I decided to give it a try.<br />
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<h2>
Quick Coffee Cake</h2>
1 egg<br />
1/2 c. sugar<br />
1/2 c. milk<br />
1 c. flour<br />
2 tbsp. shortening<br />
1/2 teas. salt<br />
2 teas. baking powder<br />
1/2 teas. vanilla<br />
<br />
Topping<br />
1/4 c. brown sugar<br />
1 teas. cinnamon<br />
1 tbsp. flour<br />
1 tbsp. melted butter<br />
<br />
Beat egg. Add sugar, then milk. Alternating with flour, salt and baking powder. Add melted shortening and vanilla. Baked in greased 8" cake pan for 25 mins. at 350-375.<br />
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Sprinkle the topping on cake before baking OR just plain with cinnamon and sugar is good - this after it's baked.<br />
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Note: I didn't have an 8" cake pan so I used a bread pan instead. Also, I used vegetable shortening when I'm guessing Genevieve would have used lard. And I used skim milk, which Genevieve would never have had in her house. But despite that, I am happy to report that the coffee cake is delicious! Cinnamon-y, buttery, and just all around good. And so easy to make!<br />
<br />Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04924614042874872558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6025434589879812914.post-88645131768255724872013-04-17T14:32:00.000-07:002013-04-17T14:32:07.439-07:00Nourishing Notes tea towelI found this great kitchen towel at the Dose Market in Chicago a couple of months ago, and just have to share it with you.<br />
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It's by a company called <a href="http://www.nourishingnotes.com/" target="_blank">Nourshing Notes</a>, and they have a bunch of other great, old-timey greeting cards, kitchen linens and such. Check it out!<br />
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And of course, preserve your family recipes. I will continue to share recipes from my grandma's recipe box and hope to have some new content up soon! Stay tuned... <br />
<br />Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04924614042874872558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6025434589879812914.post-10661215842008525972012-12-25T08:56:00.002-08:002012-12-25T08:56:51.939-08:00Genevieve's Bon-bon CookiesIf you're looking for a last-minute cookie recipe to take to a holiday party, why not try my grandma <a href="http://milkandmettle.blogspot.com/2012/04/beginnings.html" target="_blank">Genevieve</a>'s bon-bon cookies? (Which are really sugar cookies with powdered or colored sugar.) Merry Christmas, everyone!<br />
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<h2>
Genevieve's Bon-bon Cookies</h2>
<br />
1 cup butter, room temperature<br />
1/4 teaspoon vanilla or almond extract<br />
1/3 cup powdered sugar<br />
3/4 cup sifted corn starch<br />
1 cup plus 2 tablespoons flour<br />
<br />
Mix butter and vanilla or almond extract. Mix powdered sugar and cornstarch, add to butter mixture. Add flour. Chill several hours. Roll the dough in balls and bake at 350F about 10 mins. While warm, roll in powdered sugar (or roll in colored sugar prior to baking.)<br />
<br />Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04924614042874872558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6025434589879812914.post-60334138763630500542012-12-24T09:11:00.001-08:002012-12-24T09:11:05.131-08:00Recipes: Old-fashioned DumplingsI really believe that no one does Christmas better than Germans. Their neat, picturesque villages are the perfect Christmas villages, and Germans in Rhineland were the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_tree" target="_blank">first ones to cut down evergreens</a> and bring them in the house to decorate. Not to mention, all of their delicious, rich foods -- mulled wine, wursts, strudels, schnitzels... But something about winter and Christmas always makes me crave dumplings in particular. So, from Genevieve's recipe box, here are:<br />
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</h2>
<h2>
Dumplings (Old-Fashioned Solid Kind)</h2>
<br />
1 cup flour<br />
2 teaspoons baking powder<br />
1/4 teaspoon salt<br />
1 egg<br />
1/2 cup milk<br />
little sugar<br />
<br />
Sift flour, baking powder and salt together. Mix all ingredients. Put in chicken or beef broth. Cook covered, about 12 minutes.<br />
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*This recipe is a little scant on the instructions, so if anyone has suggestions/clarifications, please leave them in the comments!Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04924614042874872558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6025434589879812914.post-89317603911514779362012-12-23T09:13:00.001-08:002012-12-23T09:13:37.228-08:00Recipes: Fruitcake, Larkin 1870Although they've been out of fashion for years, fruitcakes were once considered a sinful treat, especially for those who lived in climates where fruit was hard to come by in the winter. During the reign of Queen Victoria, they were de rigeur in the finest drawing rooms at teatime, and the tradition extended to America as well. In Truman Capote's "<a href="http://books.google.com/books/about/A_Christmas_Memory.html?id=oj7hBHFotHUC" target="_blank">A Christmas Memory</a>" (one of my favorite of his short stories), he recounts with sweet childhood innocence the tradition of making fruitcakes with his simpatico great aunt and how they saved up their pennies all year to be able to buy the precious ingredients that would go into the fruitcake.<br />
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Here then is a recipe for fruitcake from Genevieve's recipe box, attributed to "Larkin, 1870."<br />
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</h2>
<h2>
Fruitcake, Larkin 1870</h2>
<br />
2 1/2 C. apple sauce<br />
4 teaspoons baking soda<br />
1/2 C. butter<br />
4 C. flour<br />
1 teaspoon cinnamon<br />
1 lb. mixed fruit<br />
1/4 lb. candied cherries<br />
1 lb. raisins<br />
1 C. nuts<br />
1 lb. dates, cut up<br />
1/2 lb. dried apricots<br />
1 small package of figs<br />
Candied pineapple <br />
<br />
Heat apple sauce and then add baking soda, sugar and shortening. Then add flour, salt and spices.<br />
<br />
Put fruit in large pan and add 1 C. of flour; mix well. Add to cake mixture a little at a time; mix well. Fill greased, lined pans 1/2 full of mixture and decorate tops with nuts, cherries and candied pineapple. Bake at 300F about 1-1/2 hours or until done.<br />
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And while we're on the subject of fruitcake, it just isn't Christmas until I've heard this song:<br />
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Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04924614042874872558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6025434589879812914.post-53092842287144542902012-12-22T09:56:00.001-08:002012-12-22T10:01:20.193-08:00Lily Haxworth Wallace's Gingerbread Waffles with Marshmallow SauceGenevieve's recipe box is a beautiful mess - full of handwritten notes, recipes clipped from the back of boxes and newspaper clippings she thought looked interesting. The following recipe was taken from one of those newspaper clippings, which went into great detail on how to "break in your new waffle iron."<br />
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<h2>
Gingerbread Waffles with Marshmallow Sauce</h2>
<h3>
by Lily Haxworth Wallace, Homemaking Editor </h3>
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1/2 cup shortening<br />
2/3 cup brown sugar<br />
2 eggs<br />
1/2 cup molasses<br />
2/3 cup <a href="http://www.ehow.com/how_4907490_make-sour-milk.html" target="_blank">sour milk</a><br />
1 teaspoon baking powder<br />
2 cups flour<br />
1 scant teaspoon baking soda<br />
1 teaspoon ground ginger<br />
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon<br />
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves<br />
Whipped cream<br />
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Cream shortening and sugar, add the beaten eggs, molasses and milk, then the dry ingredients sifted together twice. Beat just until smooth and bake as directed*, putting the waffles together with whipped cream at moment of serving. These waffles are particularly good served with a marshmallow sauce made by boiling together one cup sugar and one-third cup water to the thread stage (230 degrees F), pouring this sirup over twenty marshmallows which have been melted in the upper part of a double boiler with three tablespoons light cream, and flavoring with vanilla, orange, or any preferred extract, using one teaspoon to the above quantities. Serves four. <br />
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*By the directions of your specific waffle iron, I assume.<br />
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<br />Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04924614042874872558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6025434589879812914.post-92075304329456482782012-11-21T10:09:00.001-08:002012-11-22T07:54:54.961-08:00Wilma's Apple CrispFor our final vintage Thanksgiving recipe this year, how about making Wilma's Apple Crisp? (As usual, I have no idea who Wilma is, but this recipe is neatly typed and organized, which leads me to believe that Wilma was probably a very fastidious person.)<br />
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<h2>
Wilma's Apple Crisp</h2>
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Sift together:<br />
3/4C. sugar<br />
1/3C. flour<br />
1 teaspoon baking powder<br />
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Add:<br />
1 egg beaten<br />
1 tsp. vanilla<br />
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Mix well.<br />
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Add:<br />
1-1/2 cups pared and diced apples<br />
1/2C. nuts<br />
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Bake in a 9" pie pan at 350F for 30 minutes. Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04924614042874872558noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6025434589879812914.post-42746082775538971952012-11-21T09:58:00.001-08:002012-11-21T10:09:33.593-08:00String Bean CasseroleAnother vintage recipe, this time for the ever popular String Bean Casserole. As usual, this recipe follows the haphazard layout of most of the recipes in this box, as if Genevieve was just taking loose notes and didn't really require anything to be written down. The idea seems to be to layer butter and garlic, then beans, then mushrooms, then cream sauce (including melted cheese), then bread crumbs and bake it all, but that's just a guess on my part.<br />
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<h2>
String Bean Casserole</h2>
1 can cut string beans<br />
Cream Sauce (see below)<br />
1/4lb. American cheese<br />
1 can mushroom pieces<br />
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Drain beans. Pour above over butter, garlic. Crumbs on top. Bake at 300F for 30-60 minutes.<br />
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<b>Cream sauce:</b><br />
<br />
Butter<br />
2 tablespoons flour<br />
2 cups milk<br />
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Cut cheese up and stir until melted.<br />
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If doubled, 3 cups of milk is plenty Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04924614042874872558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6025434589879812914.post-19207795962510523422012-11-21T09:37:00.000-08:002012-11-21T10:09:14.439-08:00Pauline Johnejack's Dressing for FowlIn honor of Thanksgiving, how about a vintage dressing recipe from my grandma Genevieve's recipe box? This one is attributed to someone named Pauline Johnejack.<br />
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<h2>
Pauline Johnejack's Dressing for Fowl </h2>
1 1/2 boxes of Kellogg's Croettes Cubes* (for a 12-lb turkey and casserole)<br />
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Brown an onion (diced? -ed.) + chopped celery in butter or margarine. Brown about 1lb. of ground beef. Add a can of mushroom pieces. Add [Croutettes] cubes prepared according to directions on box. Use bouillon cubes in moisture.<br />
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Geneveive has a note here that reads, "I bake 12lb. turkey at 325F for about 7 hours."<br />
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<b>For small casserole:</b><br />
<br />
Kellog's Croettes, 3/4 box.<br />
Brown small amount of onion + celery + 1/4lb. of ground beef.<br />
Add 4oz. can of mushroom pieces.<br />
Add cubes as direction on box, use bouillon cubes in hot water and use juice from mushrooms.<br />
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*It appears that what Genevieve referred to as "Kellogg's Croettes" were actually Kellogg's Croutettes, and it was a box bread stuffing that was discontinued in 2010. (There is still a loyal fan base out there that would love to see Kellogg's bring them back, however. They even have a "Bring back Kellogg's herbed croutons/stuffing mix" Facebook page.) There's a video <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnP2Wnh0qKA" target="_blank">here </a>where a woman named Jane attempts to recreate Kellogg's Croutettes stuffing, so if you're feeling particularly adventurous, give it a try. Otherwise, I assume any other box stuffing can be substituted.Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04924614042874872558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6025434589879812914.post-22092612075395936752012-11-07T19:04:00.003-08:002012-11-07T19:15:04.980-08:00Oh, pioneers: Sam and Sarah<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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When I started this genealogy project over a year ago, I was driven (some have used the word obsessed, but I prefer to think of it as a passionate hobby) by a desire to meet my ancestors. But in the hierarchy of ancestors, not all are created equally. And the ancestors I was most eager to meet were my pioneer ancestors; the first people to leave the east and come to this beautiful place I now love so much: Wisconsin.</div>
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I'm fascinated by pioneers in
general. People lived hard lives back then, and to find yourself in the middle
of your life, packing up everything you owned that you could carry, cutting
ties with everything and everyone you had ever known outside your immediate
family, probably never to see them again, and traveling by covered wagon at a
rate of 15 miles a day is a life that I cannot fully fathom.</div>
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They had to be unbelievably courageous to set out for
unsettled areas with little knowledge of what lay beyond the scope of their
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west to meet their imminent doom. They had to be a little desperate in their
current situations to make that decision in the first place. They had to be
optimistic enough to believe that a much better life was just over the Adirondacks.
And they had to be just a little crazy, I think. The fact that I am descended
from people like that never fails to astonish me. So initially, I had intended
to research my family history just far enough back that I could meet my pioneer
ancestors. In the case of the Vaughns, that meant researching back to Otis's
parents, Sam and Sarah.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sarah Hart Mills Vose Vaughn</td></tr>
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Sarah Hart Mills Vose was born August 18, 1797 in
Bridgewater, Vermont. Her father was a colonial patriot who had served briefly
in Col. Moss Kelley's regiment in Rhode Island during the Revolutionary War.
Her mother descended from the same Ingalls family that would eventually produce
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Sarah was my great-great-great-grandmother. She was five
years older than Samuel Cole Vaughn, my great-great-great-grandfather. (When I
imagine them courting, I envision that there were a lot of conversations that
were the early 19th Century equivalent of, "Oh my god, you were barely in
high school when Smash Mouth's Walkin' on the Sun was popular? I was in COLLEGE!
Now I feel ancient!" Or, "I can't believe you weren't even alive when
the Challenger exploded! It scarred me in kindergarten, and you weren't even
born yet!") Did her friends tease her for being the early 19C equivalent
of a cougar, a cradle-robber, an older woman? Did Sam and Sarah fall in love or
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Sarah had her first child at 31, her last at 44. This is a
pattern I see repeatedly on this side of my family -- delayed childbearing in
an age when most people had their children much younger. Though her pregnancies
would all be considered "high-risk" by today's standards, she only
lost one baby in infancy, the unlucky Melvin. He was her second child; she had
him when she was 34. But she went on to have four more healthy children.
(Though fourth child Abbie would die at 14, her cause of death now lost to
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Samuel Cole Vaughn was also born in Bridgewater, Vermont.
His father died when he was 9 years old and his mother when he was 18, making
him the de facto parent to his eight-years-younger brother David. When David
was 17, Sam and Sarah and David moved to Carver, Massachusetts, where Sam and David
trained as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joiner">joiners</a>; Sam
remained an expert carpenter all his life and passed the skills down to his
sons as well. He was also a farmer, at a time when it was notoriously difficult
to be a farmer in the east. The soil is bad, the land is steep and rocky and
hard to till, the growing season is short, and there were too many people
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When Sarah was 31, they were still living in Massachusetts
and their first child Benjamin came along. Sometime between Ben's birth and
Melvin's two years later, they headed west, to Michigan. Melvin came into the
world in Tecumseh, Michigan (and sadly departed again just as quickly.) Delia
was born in 1833, and they were still in Tecumseh (which is about 40 miles
southwest of Ann Arbor and had only existed since 1824.) In 1835, Abbie was
born in Franklin, Michigan. At that point, for reasons unknown, they had moved
70 miles north and were now northwest of Detroit. But that move didn't last
long -- within about a year they'd be moving again.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sarah, a little later in life</td></tr>
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They were in Franklin, Michigan during the winter of
1836-1837. It was an incredibly brutal one, possibly the worst Midwestern
winter in modern history. On Dec. 20, 1836, an exceptional cold front moved
with hurricane-force winds across the plains and the Upper Midwest and by <a href="http://www.islandnet.com/%7Esee/weather/events/ilsuddenchange.htm">some
accounts</a>, temperatures dropped 60 degrees in a matter of minutes, from 40F to
-20F. Wild animals, livestock and unprepared humans froze to death in a matter
of hours. In Illinois, two men crossing a prairie became disoriented by the
storm and got lost. One killed his horse and climbed into the carcass to keep
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In Spring Prairie, Wisconsin, (where - spoiler alert - Sam
and Sarah would end up in March of 1837), the event was remembered as "the
four terrible cold days." Another early Walworth County settler, S.A.
Dwinnell, arrived in November of 1836. His account of that winter appears in a
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The pioneers of Wisconsin must ever remember the 20th of
December, for one of the most sudden changes to severe cold ever experienced in
our history. It had rained all day upon some fifteen inches of snow. Early in
the evening, the wind veered to the northwest and the temperature ran down at a
rapid rate. Having no thermometer, I can form no certain estimate of the
intensity of the cold. It soon became unendurable in our cabin, and, building a
large fire and hanging up blankets before it, I saw down in front of them to
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It was so terribly cold that, had a person been caught four
or five miles from a house, he must have perished. Fortunately, few were thus
exposed. James Van Slyke, with his hired man, were on their way from Belvidere,
Ill., to his house, at the head of Geneva Lake, with a drove of hogs. They had
reached Big Foot Prairie, three miles from home, when the change came. They
soon left their drove and started at a rapid rate for their house. Van Slyke
succeeded in the undertaking, but his boots were so loaded with ice that it
took a teakettle full of boiling water to thaw it off, as his wife afterward
told me.</div>
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A mile from home, the hired man, named Disbro, fell,
exhausted and overcome with the intensity of the cold. He must have perished
had not a man, providentially at the house, started out at once and brought him
in. As it was, his feet were so frozen that he lost several of his toes, which
Mrs. Van Slyke amputated with her shears, having made unsuccessful efforts to
obtain a surgeon to do it. All the hogs, except two, froze to death that night.</div>
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From other Wisconsin and Minnesota reports, we can deduce
that the weather hovered between -30F and -20F during that time, after which it
probably warmed up to about 0F and started snowing relentlessly. </div>
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Mr. Dwinnell was entirely alone in his cabin during the four
terrible cold days of the last of December, and had hard work to keep himself
alive. He says, βIt soon became unendurable in our cabin, and building a large
fire and hanging up blankets before it, I sat down in front of them to keep
from freezing.β Notwithstanding the cold and the deep snow, Mr.
Dwinnell got so thoroughly lonesome that on the 20th day of January he
started on a journey of forty-five miles to have a visit with some friends in
Belvidere, Ill., then a little hamlet of six families. </div>
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In other words, for an entire month Dwinnell sat alone in a
bitterly cold log cabin struggling not to freeze to death, having no contact
with any other human beings, until it became necessary to risk his life with a
45-mile journey on horseback in the cold and snow just so that he would not
lose his mind. Pioneers had to be the toughest kind of people to survive.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sam, posing with the tools of his carpentry trade</td></tr>
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We don't know what that bitterly cold winter was like for
Sam and Sarah, 8-year-old Ben, 3-year-old Delia and 1-year-old Abbie in
Michigan. It is likely that they considered themselves lucky to have survived
it. And in the spring of 1837, a now 40-year-old Sarah packed up her
three young children and what she could of her home and traveled again, most
likely by covered wagon, even deeper into what was then the Northwest
Territory, which had until very recently been occupied by Potawatami Indians.
Sam's sister Mary, her husband Isaiah Dike and their two young sons came as
well, most likely from Ohio. Together, they settled in Walworth County, at the
same small settlement at which Dwinnell had arrived just months
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We don't know exactly what Spring Prairie would have looked
like when Sam and Sarah arrived in March of 1837. Dwinnell later claimed that
the spring was so slow in arriving that year that the trees did not bud until
June, so it's likely they found a very wintry landscape. And the demographics
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On the morning of the 16th of November, 1836, I took the
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Hawk</a>, at Belvidere (IL), at the point where, four years before, he sunk his
canoes in the mouth of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piscasaw_Creek">Piskasaw</a>,
and, with his army, took the land. His encampments were still visible every six
or eight miles, as I proceeded northward to Big Foot Prairie, where I entered
Wisconsin, at 4 oβclock p.m. The day was cloudy, cold and cheerless; the
temperature at the freezing point; the streams swollen by recent rains, and
unabridged. Several times I was obliged to wade from four to six rods. As night
set in, snow fell plentifully. Big Foot Lake (Geneva Lake -ed.) was in view at
my left. At seven oβclock evening, I reached the βOutlet of Big Foot,β near
Geneva (Lake Geneva - ed.), having traveled thirty-five miles without seeing a
human dwelling. The settlement consisted of five families, living in rude log
cabins, without floors, chimneys or chambers, the roofs covered with shakes,
and hardly a nail used in the construction of their dwellings. There were then
twenty-seven families in what is now the county of Walworth, and all but four
in the eastern half of it; all living in log cabins. All of them had come in
since Spring, and had put under cultivation about 80 acres. I settled on Spring
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Dwinnell actually settled in what would come to be known as LaFayette,
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any shelter was provided for them, either camping in their wagons, or remaining
at the house of some βneighbor,β three or four miles away perhaps, while the
logs were prepared for the little cabin, where one room should serve for
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The hardships of getting there and getting established were
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I found the place to be unsurpassed for beauty and
fertility. It was one mile in width by four in length, with a gently undulating
surface, surrounded on all sides by beautiful groves of timber. Upon one side
were several hundred acres of heavy timber, consisting of oak, ash, basswood,
butternut and maple, in which was a large sugar-bush, which had been the annual
resort of the Indians for making sugar. Their wigwams, sap-trough and boiling
kettles had been left β evidently for future use β a pleasure which they were <a href="http://www.bigfoot.k12.wi.us/bf50/Chief%20Big%20Foot.htm">never again to
enjoy</a>. In the groves surrounding the prairie were springs of the purest
water, from which flowed streams in all directions β one of which was
sufficiently large to the turn the machinery of a flouring mill, shortly
afterwards erected a short distance from its source.</div>
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Samuel C. Vaughn laid a claim just north of the modern-day
intersection of Spring Prairie Road and Hargraves Road, and built a small log
cabin on the property. Sam must have been crazy for apples, because in addition
to everything else they must have packed into that covered wagon with them, he
brought two dozen grafted apple trees from Michigan and planted them almost as
soon as he arrived. Those trees bore the first apples ever grown in Walworth
County, which must have made theirs a popular cabin to visit come fall.</div>
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</xml><![endif]--> The five of them (and soon, six of them) lived in that
one-room log cabin for 2 1/2 years, until the fall of 1839, when Sam built a
frame house on the property. In 1838, Sam's brother David, with his wife and
two young sons, had come to Spring Prairie as well, and once the frame house
was finished, Sam gave the log cabin to David and his family. However just a
few months later in December of 1839, the log cabin caught fire and burned to
the ground. Miraculously, David and his wife Rebecca, for no logical reason at
all, had woken up their boys and taken them along that night to visit Sam and
Sarah in the new house, so no one was hurt. But the destruction of Sam's log
cabin is credited as the first fire in Walworth County. (Lots more on David and
Rebecca Vaughn in a future post.)</div>
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In November of 1838, Sarah gave birth to Phebe, presumably
in the log cabin; Sam and Sarah were now parents to four surviving children.
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The Vaughn family was now complete and had found their place
in the great Northwestern territory. Otis was seven years old before Wisconsin
was admitted as the 30th state in the union. He would call it home his whole
life. Sam and Sarah, after a lifetime of restlessness, of moving from Vermont
to Massachusetts to two different towns in Michigan, had finally found a place
that made them say, "I love it here; let's never leave." And they
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Sam passed away in 1868. He is buried in Hickory Grove cemetery in Spring Prairie. Sarah continued living on the farm with Otis and Fannie until her death in 1884. She is buried next to her husband.</div>
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<i>*Note: All of the quotes and information about the early settlement of Walworth County in this post come from two sources: Albert Clayton Beckwith's <a href="http://books.google.com/books/about/History_of_Walworth_County_Wisconsin.html?id=jEIVAAAAYAAJ" target="_blank">History of Walworth County, Wis</a>., published in 1912; and the indispensable <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=5QMrAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=walworth+county+history&hl=en&sa=X&ei=xx-bUJL4NoGMygHU-4C4CA&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=walworth%20county%20history&f=false" target="_blank">History of </a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6025434589879812914" target="_blank">Walworth County, Wis.</a>, published in 1882 by the Chicago Western Historical Society.</i></div>
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Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04924614042874872558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6025434589879812914.post-11013546447193052132012-11-02T14:38:00.000-07:002012-11-02T14:38:46.792-07:00Otis's furnitureWhen I was growing up, I spent every Saturday night sleeping over at <a href="http://milkandmettle.blogspot.com/2012/04/beginnings.html" target="_blank">Genevieve</a>'s house. It was the same tiny house she and my grandfather built when they got married, a two-bedroom cottage of about 700 square feet (I'd be guessing) that they built for something like $2000 around 1940.<br />
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The table that we ate our meals at in that tiny house was a functional drop-leaf table that she positioned against a wall in between the couch and the back door. The space was so small that she almost never pulled up either side of the table, so I always thought it was just a small, rectangular table. She would occasionally tell me that my great-great-grandfather had "carved" the table (that was the word she used) from cherry trees in his yard. This always stuck with me, maybe because she so rarely spoke of her family.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The table that Otis carved from cherry trees on his farm and gave as a wedding gift to Ora and Clarence.</td></tr>
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When Genevieve passed away, it was very important to her that certain things be passed down to me, her recipe box and that table among them. I was shocked to discover how well-crafted the table was, and to learn that there were several leaves that came with it; if they are all inserted, you could easily serve dinner for 12 around it.<br />
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It turns out that <a href="http://milkandmettle.blogspot.com/2012/10/fannie-and-otis.html" target="_blank">Otis </a>(Genevieve's grandfather) was quite a master carpenter. He learned the trade from his father Sam (much more on him in the next post.) The table is actually one of three identical tables that Otis made -- he gave one to each of his daughters as their wedding gift. Genevieve ended up with <a href="http://milkandmettle.blogspot.com/2012/06/ora-and-clarence.html" target="_blank">Ora</a>'s table, and <a href="http://milkandmettle.blogspot.com/2012/05/origins-of-project-corinnes-scrapbooks.html" target="_blank">Corinne </a>ended up with <a href="http://milkandmettle.blogspot.com/2012/07/edna-vaughn-clark-part-1.html" target="_blank">Edna</a>'s table. I now have both of those.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Otis Vaughn, carpenter extraodinaire</td></tr>
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When Corinne passed away, she left a list of items in her house that she believed to be Vaughn heirlooms. I bought all of them from her estate to ensure they stayed in the family. So I am now the proud owner of several pieces of furniture that I can say with loving pride were handmade by my great-great-grandfather Otis: the two dining tables, eight chairs that he made to go with those dining tables, a nightstand or work table, and four rope-seat chairs that are incredible because the seats are made of tightly woven rope and have lasted incredibly well, considering they are probably about 130 years old.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The nightstand or work table (not sure which) that Otis made</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The rope-seat chairs made by Otis. There are only three of them, which means he could have made them for Edna sometime after Corinne was born. Corinne was an only child and almost everything in her house came in sets of three instead of four.</td></tr>
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Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04924614042874872558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6025434589879812914.post-58651072255312835862012-10-30T15:19:00.001-07:002012-11-03T09:46:55.925-07:00Recipes: Potato-chip cookiesThere's no attribution on this recipe card, but whoever invented these sounds like a genius to me.<br />
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Potato-chip cookies</h2>
Cream together 1 cup butter and 1/2 c. sugar till fluffy. Add one egg yolk. Cream again. Add 1 1/2 c. flour, 3/4 c. crushed potato chips and 1/2 c. of nuts. Drop from teaspoon, bake 12-15 minutes.<br />
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UPDATE: I finally made these, and it turns out that they taste a lot like Scandinavian butter cookies, just a little potato chip-ier. A word to the wise: bake them in an oven that is no more than 350F; they burn easily. Not being a a fan of nuts, I omitted them and increased the potato chips to 1 c. (I also might recommend reducing the flour slightly) When they had cooled, I dipped each cookie in fondue chocolate to finish them off. They'd be good for a Christmas cookie sampler!Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04924614042874872558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6025434589879812914.post-4317511780681079882012-10-20T09:14:00.000-07:002014-02-16T11:46:46.361-08:00Fannie and OtisOkay, so you've met my grandma <a href="http://milkandmettle.blogspot.com/2012/04/beginnings.html" target="_blank">Genevieve</a>, Genevieve's mother <a href="http://milkandmettle.blogspot.com/2012/06/ora-and-clarence.html" target="_blank">Ora</a>, and Ora's two sisters <a href="http://milkandmettle.blogspot.com/2012/07/edna-vaughn-clark-part-1.html" target="_blank">Edna</a> and <a href="http://milkandmettle.blogspot.com/2012/08/hattie-vaughn-cheeseman.html" target="_blank">Hattie</a>. And you know I am lucky to have lots of photos and clippings of all of these people thanks to a treasure trove of family history that I believe Edna compiled in the 1930s, and I believe she was inspired to do so after the death of her mother. So the collection that inspired this blog, that inspired me to learn about my family in the first place, that inspired this passionate new hobby that has consumed my life for the past year, began as a loving memorial to Ora, Edna and Hattie's parents: Fannie and Otis Vaughn.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Portraits of Otis and Fannie Vaughn, painted from photographs in my collection</td></tr>
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So who were Fannie and Otis Vaughn?<br />
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Well, let's start with Fannie. Frances Ann Vaughn was born on April 11, 1847 in Lincolnshire, England. She was named after her grandmother, Frances Brittain, and she was the third of five children born to William and Elizabeth Sutton (Betsey) Brittain. She had a brother named John and a sister named Hannah (both of whom were older) and two younger brothers: William and Samuel. Around 1855, when her youngest brother was only about a year old, and Fannie herself was only 8, the family moved from England to Wisconsin, and they settled in Honey Creek, just a few miles away from Spring Prairie.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fannie as a young woman</td></tr>
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As I continue to go through the stories of my family, I am alternately awed by and in disbelief of a family's willingness to sell everything they owned except for what they could carry, and board a ship for a journey of several weeks across an ocean with very young children, only to face a long overland journey or a smaller boat trip to end up in the middle of the United States, a place they had never seen even in photographs before. It speaks to the quality of their character, and their sense of hopelessness in their home country. And I can't help but think, every time I read about a journey like this, that they must have had no idea exactly what they were getting into.<br />
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So, in the case of Fannie's family, why Wisconsin? Well, they came here because Fannie's uncle, Samuel Brittain, had come to America 20 years earlier, in 1834. After living in upstate New York, then Michigan (with short stops in Chicago and Milwaukee as well,) he finally landed in Walworth County in about 1837-1838. He was one of the earliest settlers of the county, which was only settled by white men for the first time in 1836 (more on that later.) He established a farm of 80 acres in Honey Creek and stayed there all his life. Two years later in 1839, his brother M.R. moved to Honey Creek as well. In 1855, their brother William brought his family, including Fannie, and so <strike>the Brittain family of Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire, England was fully transplanted to Honey Creek, Wisconsin, it seems. </strike>(Though I'm having trouble finding records, so it's possible they had other siblings in England who did not emigrate and I just haven't found them yet.)<br />
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At the same time that Fannie's uncle Samuel was settling in Honey Creek, Otis Vaughn's parents, Samuel C. Vaughn and Sarah H.M. Vose Vaughn, were establishing a farmstead in the fledgling village of Spring Prairie just a mile or two away. They came in the spring of 1837 with three children and had two more once they had moved here; Otis, the youngest, was born on March 29, 1841 in Spring Prairie. (One of the five children, a girl named Abbie, would die as a teenager. Lots more on Sam and Sarah, and Otis's early life, to come in a later post.)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Otis as a young man</td></tr>
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Though I don't know exactly how Otis and Fannie met, it's safe to assume that since it was such a small community and they lived just a few miles from one another that Otis knew Fannie's uncles and probably met Fannie shortly after her arrival in the county. On December 6, 1864, when Fannie was just 17 years old, Otis Vaughn and Fannie Brittain were married in Spring Prairie. (The date is striking to me for taking place during the Civil War. There is a family rumor that Otis took advantage of the fact that you could <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrollment_Act" target="_blank">pay someone to take your place in the Union army</a>, probably because his aging father had already turned over most of the farming duties to Otis, and to lose the de facto head of the farmstead would have been a great hardship on the family.) Otis's father died just a few years later in 1868, leaving farmstead to Otis and Fannie. Otis's mother Sarah continued to live with them as well.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Otis and Fannie's wedding portrait, difficult to scan because of the daguerrotype case it's in</td></tr>
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Otis and Fannie had their first child in 1870, a daughter they named Julia Augusta, but sadly she survived less than a year. (Her early death is a reminder of the tragic toll childhood diseases used to take on families in the days before vaccines were available.) In 1873, Hattie was born. Edna came in 1877 and Ora in 1884; there was an 11-year age difference between Hattie and Ora.<br />
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The scrapbook is overflowing with tales of Otis and Fannie's life, so much so that I feel like I know them. The picture of their life together that is painted by these news items is that of a very full life, one full of social events, community service, travel, close friendships and love and responsibility for family near and far.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fannie, in the photo the portrait is drawn from</td></tr>
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Here are some of the news items:<br />
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"MARRIED: At Burlington, December 6th, 1864, by Rev. S.H. Batteau, Mr. Otis E. Vaughn, of Spring Prairie, and Miss Fannie Brittain, of Honey Creek."<br />
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"(Date unknown): The ice cream social on the lawn of Otis Vaughn Wednesday evening was largely attended. The Young Ladies' Guild netted a good sum from the sale of cream."<br />
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"(Date unknown): Otis Vaughn, of this city; G.A.Palmer, of Vienna; and E.F. Buttles, of Waterford, are the jurors from this neighborhood who will serve for the May term of the United States circuit court in Milwaukee."<br />
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"(Date unknown) From the Elkhorn Blade: Otis Vaughn and family, of Burlington, Peter Howard and wife and L.G. Latham and wife (Otis's sister Delia - Ed.), journeyed northward on Saturday afternoon until they came to Idlewild at Lake Lauderdale, where a week will be spent in pleasure and resting. 'Dad' will keep the larder well supplied with fish."<br />
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"(Date unknown) Mr. Otis Vaughn finds his family increased by one -- a very small one."<br />
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"(Date unknown, but sometime between 1877 and 1884) Mr. O.E. Vaughn of Spring Prairie, accompanied by his wife and two daughters (Ora wasn't born yet - Ed.), Mrs. Chas. Loomis, of this place (Fannie's sister Hannah), and Miss Noble, of Rochester, took their departure yesterday forenoon for Jewell County, Kansas, where they will remain three or four weeks, visiting friends and relatives. They go via. Freeport and Rock Island, and will arrive at their destination this afternoon. We wish them a pleasant journey and a safe return." (The relatives they are going to visit here are Fannie's brother William and his family, who had moved to Kansas after the Civil War.)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fannie a little later in life</td></tr>
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"(Date unknown) O.E. Vaughn has been repairing his barn, house and other buildings this summer, not having anything else to do, and he now has them fixed up in good shape. He thinks he would not like a job of tearing off plastering that lasted the year round."<br />
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"1884: Mr. and Mrs. O.E. Vaughn of Spring Prairie, celebrated the twentieth anniversary of their wedding, or China wedding, on Monday evening of last week, which proved a very enjoyable occasion from first to last. There was a very large attendance of friends, and neighbors, and a few from this village, and the bride and groom of twenty years ago were made the recipients of many fine presents of China ware."<br />
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"(Date unknown) Mr. and Mrs. Otis Vaughn, of Spring Prairie, returned to this village over the Central Railway last Wednesday morning after an extended trip to Canada and the East, having been absent two weeks. They visited relatives near Toronto, Canada, and attended an agricultural Fair at Toronto, which Mr. Vaughn says, compares very favorably with our fairs. He says the horses on exhibition were the finest he ever saw. The people are slow, but exceedingly polite. They stopped at Niagara Falls long enough to view the wonderful scenery of this gigantic cataract."<br />
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"(Date unknown) Mrs. Otis Vaughn and little daughter of Spring Prairie visited relatives and friends in Elkhorn last week."<br />
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"(Date unknown) Otis Vaughn and Main Hubbard filled their ice houses early last week and just in time too, it seems."<br />
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"(Date unknown) O.E. Vaughn has sold his trotting horse, "Black Prince."<br />
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"(Date unknown) Mr. O.E. Vaughn of Spring Prairie exchanged greetings with the [Elkhorn] Independent on Friday last."<br />
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"(Date unknown) Mr. Otis Vaughn and family, of Spring Prairie, moved into the village yesterday and today will make Burlington their permanent home. They now occupy the P.H. Cunningham house on the East side of the Fox River, but early next spring, Mr. Vaughn will build a fine residence on his lots on the corner of Washington and Dyer streets, at the rear of the Opera House.<br />
We welcome Mr. Vaughn and family as citizens of Burlington and hope their home in our midst may be pleasant and long continued."<br />
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"1888: Mr. Otis Vaughn is hauling stone for the foundation of his new residence to be built early next spring on his fine corner lot at the rear of the Opera House, opposite the old 'Sawyer property' on Washington and Dyer streets."<br />
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"1889: Mr. Otis Vaughn and family moved into their new house on the corner of Washington and Dyer streets last week, and will soon be comfortably settled in their fine, cozy home."<br />
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"(Date unknown) Mr. Otis Vaughn is making wagons in the shop formerly occupied by Geo. Stohr, deceased. Mr. Vaughn is a thorough mechanic."<br />
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"(Date unknown) Mrs. Harriman and Mrs. Latham, of Elkhorn, made their brother, Mr. Otis Vaughn and family in this village, a pleasant visit last Friday, returning to the quiet village of Elkhorn in the evening after a days' pleasure viewing the sights of this bustling city. They thought our new Court House and electric lights were very fine. They don't see such modern improvements in the smaller villages."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fannie in later years</td></tr>
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"(Date unknown) About sixty were present at a progressive euchre party given by Mr. and Mrs. Joe Vaughn (Otis's first cousin and his wife - Ed.) Tuesday evening. Mr. Chas. Peck and Mrs. Hettie Hicks carried off head prizes, and the booby prizes were won by Herman Harris and Mrs. Otis Vaughn. All reported a very pleasant time."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fannie and Otis and a dog</td></tr>
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"(Date unknown) Mr. and Mrs. Otis Vaughn visited relatives in Elkhorn last Wednesday evening and a portion of Thursday, returning to their home in this village last Thursday afternoon."<br />
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"(Date unknown) Otis Vaughn and family visited at W. Merrick's Sunday."<br />
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"(Date unknown) Otis Vaughn is in Milwaukee this week doing duty as a juror in the U.S. District Court."<br />
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"1905: There isn't a happier man in town than Otis Vaughn. the cause of it is that he wears the title of grandpa since Saturday, Jan. 7, 1905, when a bright baby girl arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J.J. Cheeseman (Hattie - Ed.) in Chicago."<br />
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"1917: A little son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Potter (Ora - Ed.) at their home in the town of LaFayette on Friday, Dec. 28th, 1917. It is needless to say that Grandpa and Grandma Vaughn are pleased over their first grandson."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fannie (second row, far right) and Otis (third row, third from right I
believe) pose with several other people in 1917, at
the celebration of the 50th wedding anniversary of William W. (Billy)
Vaughn and his wife Mary Clark Vaughn.</td></tr>
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"1921: Otis Vaughn has received notice of the death of his brother Benjamin's widow, Martha Vaughn, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Olive Berry, at Stockton, Calif., on November 29, 1921. She was born July 4, 1838, and was a sister of Sumner Vaughn, of Honey Creek. The family formerly lived at Spring Prairie, moving to Minnesota and later to the Pacific Coast. Her ashes were buried beside those of her husband at Yakima, Wash." (Lots more Otis's siblings and the confounding relationship between Ben and Martha Vaughn to come in a later post.)<br />
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Otis passed away in 1923. This court notice appears shortly thereafter: "Waller & Ruzicka, Attorneys, County Court, Racine County, In probate: In the matter of the last will of Otis E. Vaughn, deceased. Notice is hereby given, that at a special term of the country court to be held in and for the said county at the court house in the city of Racine in said county on the third Tuesday, being the 15th day of January, A.D. 1924, at the opening of court on that day the following matter will be heard and considered: The application of Fannie A. Vaughn, executrix of the will of Otis E. Vaughn deceased, late of Burlington in said county for the examination and allowance of her final account, and for the assignment of the residue of the estate of said deceased to such persons as are by law entitled thereto; and that the court find and determine whom the real estate owned by said deceased vested upon the death of said deceased, and for the determination and adjudication of the inheritance tax if any, payable in said estate. Dated December 18, A.D. 1923, By the court: Walter C. Palmer, County Judge."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fannie as a widow, in front of the house at 602 Lewis St. in Burlington</td></tr>
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Three years later, Fannie's sister Hannah died. "1926: Funeral services were held at the home of Mrs. Otis Vaughn on Lewis St. last Friday afternoon for Mrs. Charles Loomis, one of the well known matrons of this vicinity, who died the previous Wednesday, July 21, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. S.W. Hollister, at Oshkosh.<br />
Hannah Brittain was born in Lincolnshire, England, July 16, 1843. When a girl she came to America with her parents who settled near Honey Creek. In 1865 she was united in marriage with Mr. Loomis, and they settled on a farm south of the city where they lived until twenty-five years ago when they moved into Burlington. Mr. Loomis died in 1913 and for the past few years, Mrs. Loomis has spent the winters with her daughter, Mrs. S.W. Hollister*, at Oshkosh. One sister, Mrs. Otis Vaughn, and one brother, John Brittain, of Wasco, Calif., besides the daughter survive. Also one grandchild, Miss Edith Hollister."<br />
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Fannie died in 1931. Presumably her daughter Hattie was still living with her in the house in Burlington after moving back due to the untimely death of Hattie's husband in 1918. Fannie and Otis are both buried in the Hickory Grove Cemetery in Spring Prairie.<br />
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Long after they were gone, Otis and Fannie occupied a place of high esteem in the hearts of their family. In her letters, Corinne often spoke fondly of "Grandma and Grandpa Vaughn," -- it was clear that even in her 90s, she still felt the sun rose and set by them. And it was because of Corinne's annual summer trips to Burlington to visit Otis and Fannie that she and Genevieve were as close as they were.<br />
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Of all of the ancestors I have had the good fortune to "meet" through the process of researching my family history in Walworth County, Otis and Fannie are the ones I feel most connected to, and the most compelled by. They lived during such a pivotal part of Wisconsin history; Otis was born here seven years before Wisconsin was even admitted to the United States. (It was the 30th state to be admitted.) They watched Wisconsin develop from infancy through the Progressive era of the 1920s. Their lives were typical of the lives being lived all over the state -- small farming giving way to life in small cities as the state became more urbanized toward the end of the 19th century. They were members of the generation that transitioned Wisconsin from wilderness to organized community.<br />
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Their lives undoubtedly involved a lot of hard work, but they also seem to have taken much pleasure from their rich friendships within their extended families and their close-knit farm community. They appear to have lived full, rich lives and had a great effect on everyone who knew them. And really, what more could any of us hope for from our lives? <br />
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<i>*An interesting sidenote: When she was a child, Hannah Brittain Loomis' daughter Lottie (the Mrs. S.W. Hollister mentioned here) looked eerily like me as a child. More to come on that in a future post.</i><br />
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Update (2/16/14): I have tracked down more records from Lincolnshire and I now know that Samuel, William and Deacon Brittain were actually the three youngest of the Brittain family of Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire. They had five older siblings: Richard, John, Thomas Caswell, Robert and Mary, all of whom presumably remained in England. Their parents, John Brittain and Frances Caswell (or Casswell) were married on 11/25/1802 in Horbling, Lincolnshire.<br />
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