One of the precious treasures that I found in my mother’s house that was sitting in a cupboard just where she left it was Mom’s favorite go-to cookbook. You can tell the recipes that she used by how dirty the pages are. It is the 1944 edition of the American Woman’s Cook Book. The page for her chocolate chip cookie recipe is falling out of the book. That is the recipe for the cookies that she baked and took to all the family events when we used to get together with her brothers and sisters and our cousins. The other dirtiest page is her cherry pie recipe. We had two cherry trees beside the house and every summer, we picked the cherries that we could rescue from the birds eating them or the neighbor boys playing basketball who picked them as they played. I remember helping Mom pit those cherries at the kitchen table with their juice staining my t-shirts. There is also an addendum to the cookbook titled Wartime Cookery on how to cook with the shortages and rationing during World War II. Those were the days when civilians were encouraged to grow their own victory gardens for food. One section is a how-to on using honey as a substitute for sugar for making desserts and canning their own jams and jellies.
I have photographed a few samples of handwritten recipes that I have collected and included here—my Mom’s peach pie, Aunt Marge’s Nut Roll, and Aunt Donna’s Strawberry Scones. All good memories to be preserved.
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This biography of our 8th great grandfather, Obadiah Holmes, showed up in my timeline today. He was whipped 30 times by the Puritans for his religious beliefs. His accusers couldn’t silence his preaching while he was being whipped. He moved to the more liberal colony of Rhode Island as a Baptist minister.
https://landmarkevents.org/the-death-of-obadiah-holmes-1682/?fbclid=IwAR31TqKLCWL9a0z0nfoXLJmuCAZQKGpphaqzc1KGYl5kO9F0E1DCfpyDkLM ELIGH DUNN, CIVIL WAR VETERAN
Eligh Dunn (24 Jan 1821 – 27 Jul 1901) is a third great granduncle to my generation of cousins. He lived his whole life, except for the war years, in Fermanagh Township, Juniata County, Pennsylvania. His parents were James Alexander Dunn (1789 – 1868) and his first wife Mary Webster (1792 – 1830). His father was married 3 or 4 times and had as many as 15 children. Eligh married Martha Jane VanOrmer on June 30, 1845, and raised a family of 10 children. JOINS THE UNION ARMY On February 29, 1864, Eligh enlisted as a private in the Union Army and was assigned to Pennsylvania’s 184th Infantry Regiment, Company F, under the command of Colonel John Hubler Stover. He was a teacher at the time. It was organized at Harrisburg and ordered to join the Army of the Potomac in the field. They reported on May 28, 1864. This unit saw action through the remaining two years of the war in Virginia, including battles in Petersburg, Cold Harbor, Hatcher’s Run, and Appomattox. In fact, they were in Appomattox at the time of Robert E. Lee’s surrender to Ulysses S, Grant on April 9, 1865. A description of the last battle: “On the 28th of March, it broke camp, and on the 1st of April, took positions in line of battle in front of the enemy. On the 2nd of June, in common with nearly the entire army, it moved to the assault, breaking the enemy lines, and capturing his works with but a small loss. It then moved with the corps in pursuit and skirmished as it went, until it reached Appomattox Court House where the rebel army surrendered.” It marched to Washington where it participated in the grand review of the armies with 80,000 men on May 23-24, 1865, just a month after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. President Andrew Johnson was in attendance. They were finally mustered out on July 14, 1865. The regiment lost a total 235 men during service, 3 officers and 110 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded. 122 enlisted men died of disease. Some of the captured during battles were sent to Andersonville, the rebel prison of war camp, in Georgia, where most died. One man was executed for desertion. OBITUARY Eligh lived until 1901 and ran a successful business until his death at 80 after a career as a teacher. Note that the obituary does not mention his time in the army. “Son of James and Mary (Webster) Dunn. Husband of Martha Jane (Van Ormer) Dunn. His first name of Eligh from the PA death certificate of his daughter, Sarah Ann "Sallie" Dunn Switzer FAG# 133020507, and his nickname of Eli and info on his parents from his entry in the Pennsylvania Gravestones website. ====================== Eli Dunn, of Fermanagh Township. On Saturday afternoon on July 27, 1901, at his home in Fermanagh Township, along the pike, about half a mile north of town, occurred the death of Eli Dunn, the senior member of the firm of E. Dunn & Co., proprietors and operators of Cuba Mill, one of the oldest and greatly respected and influential citizen in his home locality. He was aged 80 years, 1 month and 3 days. Funeral services were held at his late home Monday afternoon, his pastor, Rev. W. H. Fahs, of the Mifflintown Lutheran church officiating. After the conclusion of the house services and permitting all who desired to look upon the familiar face of the dead, the casket was closed and removed to the hearse and conveyed to the beautiful city of the dead, the Presbyterian cemetery, at the north edge of town, overlooking the Juniata river, adjoining whose banks the deceased had lived since the winter of 1870, and whose many freshets and floods since that time he has witnessed, followed thither by a long procession of mourning relatives and sympathizing neighbors and friends, where all that was mortal of good and true Eli Dunn was consigned to the earth whence it came "to sleep the sleep that knows no awakening until the resurrection mora, while his spirit had gone to the blissful keeping of the God who gave it." Up until recently Mr. Dunn seemed to in excellent health, at least that would be the conclusion of an every day observer; but still he has been on the decline for a couple of years. About that length of time ago he fell down a stairway at Cuba Mill, and from the time of the accident frequently complained of not feeling as sound previously. About six weeks or two months ago he was taken suddenly and alarmingly ill while on his way from the mill, suffering from an attack of the heart which also involved the brain, and then it was thought it would be his final illness; but he rallied and gained strength rapidly and was able to be up and around in a few days and had been making trips to and overseeing the business at his mill on nice days. On Saturday morning, shortly after eating his breakfast, and just when he was about to start for the mill, he was again taken ill, effecting him in about the same way as the previous recent attack. he almost immediately became unconscious, and remained in that condition up until the time of his death, about 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Eli Dunn was born in what is now Fayette township, Juniata county, then Mifflin county, on June 24th, 1821. He was a son of James and Mary (Webster) Dunn. His father was married four times and they had a family of nine children. The subject of this sketch was the last surviving member of the first marriage. A half brother Jonas, one of three children of the second marriage, survives. In his early days, Mr. Dunn attended the public schools of Fayette township and at an early age of eighteen began teaching. He taught twenty-one winter terms. In 1843 he started to read medicine, but shortly afterwards abandoned it and resumed teaching. During the vacation months, he worked at carpentry. During his residence in Fayette township he was elected to and faithfully and satisfactorily filled a number of the township offices. In politics Mr. Dunn was a Democrat, and in 1869 he received the nomination of his party for Register and Recorder, and was elected at the general election that fall. After being inducted into office, in January, 1870, he bought the piece of land on which the house in which he died stands, first putting up a small building and later a commodious residence, and lived there from that time until his death. He was twice elected Justice of the Peace in Fermanagh. In 1889 he purchased the Cuba Mill property, and with his son, Ellsworth, has successfully operated the same, within the past several years putting in the roller process, known as the gyrator system, and they enjoyed a large patronage. The firm recently purchased what has been of late years known as the "Elder farm", but which was originally part of the "Cuba Mills tract", and had already greatly improved the property. Mr. Dunn was married in 1845 to Martha Jane, daughter of Samuel and Keziah Van Ormer, of Fayette township, who survives him. To this union were born nine children, as follows: Josephine, married to B. F. Long; Mary K., married to Clinton Singer; Martha J., married to William Shively; James N., deceased; Sallie, widow of William Switzer; Robert, deceased; Ellsworth; Margaret, married to S. J. Moyer; and William, all of whom reside in this county except Mrs. Moyer, who lives in Altoona, Pa. Mr. Dunn was a member of the Lutheran Church. The deceased was a reliable, obliging, and sub- [unreadable line of print]{end of obituary article} {title and top of article unreadable} -arable citizen, Eli Dunn, senior member of the firm of E. Dunn & Co., who conducts the Cuba mills, about one mile north of this place, died Saturday. His death was a shock to this and surrounding communities.” Information from his obituary supplied by FAG contributor Mark Warner (#48079948) on Sept. 9, 2015. |
Bonnie EastonHi! I am a Jones cousin, daughter of Evelyn Jones Easton. Since retiring as a reference librarian after 20 years, I have become a genealogy addict. Our ancestors want to tell us their stories.
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