Treasure Chest Thursday - Coulter Sisters Company

I recently found this picture of my dad's mother, Bess Coulter Post.  I have many pictures of her and don't remember ever having seen this one before.  It was in a stack of items 'to be dealt with' that had to do with my Coulter and Post family.  It's a professionally taken photo but I'm pretty sure it's a copy and not the original.  If you look on towards the bottom, third, right hand side of the photo you can see where something had been printed and is now cut off (maybe the photographers name or the photo studio?).  On the back is written

Bess Coulter

Rich Western Co

Coulter Sisters Co

(note: yes, the 2nd line is crossed off). Also on one side (on back but at top of photograph) is written Aunt Bess.  At the bottom is a label which says:

Bess Coulter-Post

Daughter of William D & Lucy Hays-Coulter

The top back "Aunt Bess" (written in red) tells me that someone had this besides my parents (who gave me all the other pictures I have).  Several years ago I met some cousins who were the children of  Bess' sister Harriet Coulter.  I must have received this picture from them....but how it got lost for all these years is beyond me.  It's now scanned and on a flash drive with other pictures of Bess, and the original (to me) will go with all other pictures of Bess (to be handed down to my niece upon my death).

Mary Post Warren

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Wordless Wednesday - Bess Coulter Post

 

 This picture of my paternal grandmother was probably taken in the 1920s.  My grandfather was affiliated with the circus and although they were divorced in 1913-1914 they continued theirs was an off/on relationship for many years after.

The diamond ring on her left had is a one and a half carat stone and was in it's original setting.  I had it 'broken down' and reset, the setting was used for an amethyst stone which I gave my daughter on her  birthday one year.  The stone was reset into another setting and sits in a safe deposit box. 

Mary Post Warren

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52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy and History - Clothes

Our challenge for this week:  Clothes - What types of clothes did you wear as a child? What was “in fashion” and did your style compare?

I went to private schools...so there were no if, ands, or buts about what we wore...it was all picked out for us.  Everyone wore the same thing, bought from the same place.  Boys wore dark blue corduroy pants with a white shirt and leather-type shoes, girls wore the same uniform that all the other girls wore - sometimes it differed year by year.  I can remember wearing all matching uniforms with saddle shoes, and then there's this picture of me in a jumper style uniform.  I use to hate all being clones - but I bet it made it a lot easier on the moms not to have their kids arguing with them every morning about what to wear and not wear.

In high school we wore dark skirts and white blouses....stitch down pleated, pleated, fuller skirts but not straight....and lace up shoes but NO patent leather shoes...anyone want to guess why? (don't any family give it away).  My mom made my skirts and blouses.

When we went to church on Sunday we dressed up.  A covering on our head was required by our church so hats were everywhere...I remember wearing gloves too.  Don't remember what we wore to play in....probably something easy like pedal pushers and a blouse.  I don't remember ever wearing jeans...maybe we did though, but they'd have been hard for mom to make so I doubt it.

Mary Post Warren

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Family Recipe Friday: Margaret's Barbeque Sauce

My mother's recipe for barbeque sauce

with some ideas of what to do with the sauce. 

Mom was a great cook.

Mary Post Warren

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Treasure Thursday Twins

1935 Hubs and his sister

Aren't they beautiful!

Mary Post Warren

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Family Recipe Friday: Janet's Russian Fluff

In keeping with the current generation and those to follow I add a recipe of my niece's.  Easy and simple and waiting to be passed down to her descendants by her children!

Mary Post Warren

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Family Recipe Friday: Biscuit Mix Cookies

From my mother's (Margaret Troyer Post) recipe box.  I've never made these cookies but the recipe looks fairly easy.  I'm not sure if I even remember having these when I was smaller - but then my memory is not so good.  My mom was a GREAT cook and I loved everything she made.

Mary Post Warren

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Wordless Wedneday (Almost)

Engel, Christian and daughter Alice (about 1909)

Christian Engel was the hubs grandfather and my mother-in-law's father.  Alice was one of 4 daughters and 1 son born to Christian and Edith (Gibson) Engel.  Alice Clare Engel born January 25, 1906, died September 11, 2000; Christian Engel born May 28, 1847, died January 18, 1932.

Mary Post Warren

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Family Recipe Friday: Baked Fish

This was a recipe from my mom's collection of recipes.  According to her diaries, when my family lived in Los Angeles my dad and a friend would go to the beach and fish every couple of weeks...whatever they caught was brought home for dinner.  Being Roman Catholic, we had fish for dinner every Friday night. Today my fishes of choice are Salmon, Tilipia, and Trout....I'd prefer it all grown in the U.S.A...but know that is not always possible to find....

I do use my 'white' meat fish with the tilipia and trout and then use the recipe below.  It's pretty yummy:

 

Instead of white wine I will use a marinade and the rest of the direcions.  I serve the fish with Brown rice and green veggies!

I fix Salmon once a week too - I LOVE SALMON - and it's almost aways grown on the west cost of the western states.  I will marinate in Balsamanic Vingerette Dressing for an hour or so and then pop in the oven.  Serve with Salad and a potato it's so yummy!  and so easy to make!

Mary Post Warren

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Those Places Thursday: In A Country Churchyard

The year was 1975, and we were south of Anadarko, Oklahoma (18 miles west of Chickasha) on a fall foliage tour. I noticed a church steeple rising up out of the red, gold and green foliage.

As we bumped down the hill, on a narrow rutted road, I had no idea of the historical significance, of the well kept, old church-school house we would find there.

Note: Anadarko is deep in what was once Indian Territory, and  now has the tourist attraction called, "Indian City".

Poem written by and used with permission of the hubs cousin Carl Stanislaus

Photo taken by and used with permission of hub's cousin, Carl Stanislaus

Mary Post Warren

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Follow-up on Goals/Resolutions - May

My May update on my 2011 goals/resolutions....I've kind of evened out the reading vs. genealogy work and am making progress on both.

My goals for the year and their current status:

    1. Read 5 chapters of the Bible daily - ON TRACK: Finished Psalms....starting Proverbs today

   2.  Read 2 books a month - ON TRACK: This month I read "Homespun Bride" by Jillian Hart and  "Daughter of Joy" by Kathleen Morgan.  Both are historical fiction.  I'm also working my way through Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility"...it's a slower read than the others, thus taking me a little more time. 

Other books I have read thus far this year:

•   O. Henry's "The Gift of the Magi"   (January) 
•   Frances Hodgson Burnett's "The Secret Garden" (January)  
•   Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre"  (February) 
•   L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery's "Anne of Green Gables"(February) 
•   Mindy Starns Clark and Leslie Gould's "The Amish Midwife" (March)
•   Thomas Paine's "Common Sense"   (March)
•   Leslie Gould's "Garden of Dreams"  (March)
•   Patricia Davids' "Katie's Redemption"  (March)
•   Cindy Woodsmall's "The Hope of Refuge" (March)
•  Tracie Peterson's "A Dream to Call My Own" (March)
•  Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" (March)

   3.  Volunteer in the school library - ON TRACK 

   4.  Research family info and blog a minimum of 3 days a week  -  NOT ON TRACK

• I recently connected with the hub's cousin Carl (his mother and the hub's mother were sisters) who has been sending me much information on their side of the family.  He has traced ancestors back to their arrival on the Mayflower and before.  I will be sharing much of this information in the near future, be sure to keep an eye open for some good reading.  He's also written many short stories and poems that I will be sharing.
• I did get done more than my quota of 3 blogs a week this month.

   5.  Attend a genealogy convention - ON TRACK

• went to AZ Family History Expo in Mesa AZ a few weeks ago.
• Trying to squeeze in an online classes.

   6.  Get my zucchini to grow this year (last year I got none) - ON TRACK - praying my zucchini and other squashes planted earlier this year will sprout! Also doing a lot of watering to keep them moist during this hot weather.

   7.  More canning and freezing of fresh fruits and veggies (either grown by me or given to us by neighbor)
No canning or freezing in April - but had a promise today from a neighbor of some zucchini (she said she'd give it to me tomorrow).  If I can't get my own to grow, I'll get it from others!

   8.  Walk more - NOT ON TRACK - although I did walk a few times this past month to and from school/work.

Pray for my sis-in-law (hubs older sis) who has terminal cancer, diagnosed a couple months ago.  Prayers also for my brother-in-law (sister's husband) who has undiagnosed medical problems.

Mary Post Warren

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Family Recipe Friday: Margaret Post's Apple Pie

My mother's recipe for Apple Pie....this recipe looks too easy to believe!  I've never made it as the recipe has been in the hands of my sister since our parent's death.  Mom was an excellent cook.  I'll be buying some Granny Smith apples at the grocery store soon!  Margaret Troyer Post was the daughter of Elmer and Mary (Motzko) Troyer, the grand-daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Schrock) Troyer and Philipp and Maria (Fietzek) Motzko, and the great-grand-daughter of Yost and Martha (Plank) Schrock, John and Elizabeth (Yoder) Troyer, Franz and Francesca (Piechota) Moczko, and Martin and Catherina (Dyga) Fietzek

Mary Post Warren

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Family Recipe Friday: Mrs. Troyer's Brown Sugar Cookies

One of my Great-Grandmother Elizabeth (Schrock) Troyer's recipes.  This is an awesome way to use up that brown sugar that always turns hard on you and then is not useable. I can't even begin to count the number of half full boxes of brown sugar I've had to just toss.  Plus they are very easy to make.

Mary Post Warren

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Wordless Wednesday: Hood Ornament

I'm sure he's up there thinking 'how come dinner hasn't been started yet? I'm hungry!'

Mary Post Warren

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Memories - The Laundry

It was a Monday morning...it had been raining all weekend and the weather man  said there was no sign of a let up before the end of the week.  We had a house full of teenagers and they needed clean clothes to wear.  I had done the laundry over the weekend with the hopes the rain would let up long enough for them to dry on the clothes line, the dryer was broken.  Alas, that was not to happen.

The hubs worked graveyard shift and was expected home shortly after I left for work so I left a note for him - "please take these clothes to the laundromat and dry them"....I set the note and the clothes on top of the counter.  No problem, I figure.

I came home..the hubs was all grins..."yep", he said, looking proud as a peacock - "got the clothes dried, folded, and put away".  I was happy...more than I expected.

BUT........there was a problem - hubs had NOT taken the basket of clean clothes that was sitting on the counter by the note, he had picked up another basket that was sitting on the floor and still needed to be washed!  The result - since there was no figuring out which clothes in the dressers were clean or dirty - we wore a lot of dirty clothes for that week!

 

Mary Post Warren

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Mystery Monday: Old Dunkard Church

 I found the below postcard in the book I purchased from e-bay "Descendants of Jacob Hochstetler" by Harvey Hostetler.

I find the hole punches  around the postcard.  I wonder why this was done?

Down the left hand side of the postcard it reads:

"Raphael Tuck & Sons' Series No.#2575 "Antietam Battlefield Md.

"PUBLISHERS TO THEIR MAJESTIES THE KING AND QUEEN"

Photochromed in Saxony

   THE OLD DUNKARD CHURCH is about one mile from Sharpsburg on Hagerstown Pike.  It was built by the German Baptist in 1853, and used by them as a regular place of worship. Some of the most severe fighting of the Battle of Antietam occurred about here, and after the battle, the church was used as a hospital and embalming station. During the battle the bible was taken by a New York soldier, and after an absence of 41 years was returned and is now occupying its old place on the pulpit.

The Battle of Antietam - click on link to read tons of information on this battle during the Civil War.

Know anything about this postcard or the Hochstetler/Hostetler families? Please contact me using the e-mail address to the right under my picture.

Mary Post Warren

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Happy Birthday to My Father-in-Law



Today would have been my father-in-law's 106th birthday.  I only knew him a little over a year when he passed away in 1966.  He was born July 16, 1905 in Louisville Kentucky to Archie and Emma Warren.  He died July 16, 1965.

I didn't know my father-in-law very well...he died a couple of months after the picture was taken with our first son.  That's how I remember him.  I remember the time I drove our car from Laguna Beach to Long Beach by myself - with a small baby, he thought the hubs was terrible for letting me do such a thing. Women's lib was yet to come!!





Mary Post Warren

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Family Recipe Friday: Mrs.Troyer's Chocolate Loaf Cake

Joseph and Elizabeth (Schrock) Troyer were my great-grandparents on my mother's side, through her father Elmer Troyer.  Joseph and Elizabeth had five children - William Franklin, Ella May, Jesse Edward (died as infant of 2 months), Elmer David, and Edith Magaline (aka Edie).  She was the third child of Yost and Martha (Plank) Schrock.

My mother had several of  "Mrs. Troyer's" recipes...all of these recipes were very simple, of course made from scratch, recipes.  Today I share with you her recipe for:

"Mrs. Troyer's" Chocolate Loaf Cake



1 cup sugar - 2 cups flour - 1/4 cup cocoa - sift together

4 Tables(poon) melted shortening

1 cup sour milk (to sour- 2 Tables(poon) vinegar or lemon juice in cup of milk)
Vanilla
     Beat well.
1 teas(poon) in 2 or 3 teas(poons) hot water
     DO NOT BEAT AFTER ADDING SODA
350 Deg(ree) for 1 hour 20 to 30 min(utes)

Mary Post Warren

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Thursday Treasure - Our First Car

August 1964 Us with our 1964 Dodge Dart

A week before we got married  hubs and I broke off the engagement....long story, not needed to be shared here.  Anyway, to help mend his broken heart he took the rings back, got the money back, and immediately went to the car dealership and put the money down on this brand new beauty! (NOT me, but the car)  A couple days later we were back together and then off to Las Vegas to get married. The funny part about it is the lady at the jewelry store where he purchased and returned my rings had set the rings aside seeming to know he would be back.  Hubs dad loaned him to $$$ to get the rings out of hock. 

The purchase amount on the car was as much as a down payment is now....$2,700.  Amazing - and it was just yesterday that cars were that cheap.

Mary Post Warren

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Wordless Wednesday: Goat Cart



Hub's cousin Carl's wife's (Margie) friend - Birdie Woodruff (deceased)



 

Mary Post Warren

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