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Posted on 12/01/2006 12:55:15 PM PST by ecurbh
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!
O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.
O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.
O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!
Never give intelligence to a toaster!
And he might get it, too ... I can be persistent.
You know, I actually have some spam spread in our 72 hour kit...
I could go for a sammich...
I took Sunday off...
We had a Lighting McQueen at ours also.
1st place Favorite Car.
Spiderboy has not shown much interest in building stuff like this. Model cars and planes are OK if quickly assembled. Gotta see about this.
Bittygirl OTOH is very interested in stuff. We'll see how that works.
You did *not* just say that. I'm eating my lunch, 2J!
I like Spam! I own shares in the company!
I'd like to sell them off though and buy something else...just don't know how.
I did a quick search and found two cemeteries in the Jennings area. Is Bethany Cemetery the one you found? Between Highways 412 and 64?
You can contact the county clerk's office and ask them who owns or manages that cemetery. In rural areas, quite often a family would donate a few acres of their land for a cemetery; the donor's descendants may have the cemetery map, or know where it is.
While you're at it, get the names of the local morticians, especially those that have been around a while. Make sure you ask about any funeral homes that have closed down. Funeral homes are usually family-run; even if the elders have died and the funeral home has been shut down, there may still be records.
And don't neglect the funeral homes that seem to cater to different ethnic groups. My mother's triplet sister, who was still-born, was buried by a Hispanic funeral home in San Antonio.
I've had great luck with getting information out of funeral homes, and from old retired funeral directors. They love to talk about the old days.
And check with any old preachers in the area ... many of them kept detailed records of the people they married, baptized, and buried.
Maybe you and the jedis should get into genealogy ... it's a great way to learn history!
"What I can't understand is my folks takin' it! Like Ma! I seen her nearly beat a peddler to death with a live chicken. She aimed to go for him with an ax she had in the other hand but she got mixed up and forgot which hand was which and when she got through with that peddler all she had left was two chicken legs."
I don't remember the name of it, though I could drive right to it.
Hmmm...it would be nice to find out where they're exactly buried. I intend to put markers out there eventually anyways. Steve knows if anything should (God forbid) happen to me, he's to bury me there.
Check here for all the cemeteries that have been walked in Pawnee County.
Jennings Cemetery. That's it. I found a map to it and that is right where it is. I remember you go half-way through town a bit, turn left and then right at the first section intersection. The cemetery is on the left.
The first time I went, it was in real bad repair. The second time it was really fixed up...someone was keeping it up.
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=148929
Next time you're out that way, stop in and visit at the city clerk ... bet there's a wealth of information to be had on that cemetery.
We did that...talked to someone at City Hall. That's how we found out the stuff burned up.
:-(
All this happened so very long ago...just after the turn of the century. My grandmother was just twelve, she was 42 when she had my mom. She died when she was 86 years old...about 25 years ago.
My mom has traced our roots back to the 1500s...we've visited many a grave. But we can't find these. The townsfolk literally went into the house and dispersed the property amongst themselves, along with the kids. Can you imagine?
An uncle eventually came and got several of the kids, but one couple had taken the baby and left town.
We know this is the right cemetery, my uncle took my mom years ago (he's been dead many years too) and showed it to her, so when I took her she recognized it. But if they ever had markers, they were likely wood and long gone now. And I'm sure they were just buried in wooden boxes. Likely someone else is buried over them.
Not necessarily. Funeral homes are real persnickety about that.
I'd chat up the morticians, if I were you. Start with Palmer & Marler Funeral Home. They may have records going back to 1898, and I'll bet they have plenty of records concerning that cemetery, even if the current owners have only been there since 1989.
Genealogy is fun!
Do the Great FReeper NW settlers have any experiences here:
http://www.king5.com/topstories/stories/NW_021907WABmysterydustLJ.15d99c83.html
My grandfather's grandfather was the baby of a largish family. They had just barely moved to town when the house caught fire. A neighbor managed to get the baby out but the whole rest of the family died. Nobody knew who they were or where they'd come from. No relatives ever came to look. This was in 1800s Maryland, not exactly wilderness, but none of the local county seats had any idea who the family might have been...
mmmmm...sammich...
I had to exchange our Peanut Butter today. All the store had was Jif.
~sigh~
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