American Legacies, LLC

Copyright November 11, 2001 by Marion C. Hoffman

This story began in early December 1944, during WWII in England while flying with the 8th Air Force, 91st Bomb Group, 323rd Squadron and ended on June 14, 1945, when I arrived home in Indiana.

With the Christmas holiday season nearing I wanted to send a photo home to my family as a Christmas present, convincing them of my well-being while flying combat missions. It was at a photo shop in Royston, England where this story began.

From Doc Ellis

I served, consecutively (and erratically), in the USArmy Air Force (1942-45), the USArmy (1946-50) and the USAir Force (1950-65) and retired then as a master sergeant...but in ALL that time, I never saw a day of combat and that includes my three years during World War II, two of those years overseas in the ETO.

12 troopers behind each guy IN combat at "the front”

From Milton Long

General Patton 

We have purchased a replica of General Patton's pistol as a gift for a Patton admirer.

Question---Did General Patton ever shoot anyone?  If anyone knows, please respond asap.  

Tom Hartline

Reply from Nomad2261

Submitted by Connie Sychowski

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Giving Thanks

Connie Sychowski

Editor Genealogy Corner

Isn’t that what this season is all about? Yes, some would say, its all about the FOOD. I am truly sorry for anyone who feels this way as they are really missing out on the many blessings of life.

Following is an excerpt from the book titled, The Silly Buggers

by Bill Hawksford.

Andy Riley, Jr helping mother Myra Riley with Turkey dinner in the kitchen. Notice snowing outside.

Author Polly Mazariegos

By Heather Hartley

Bud Mathewson’s personal philosophy is to try to brush on every part of life - a motto which has led to achievement not only in his own life, but also in the lives of others.

By: Joe Mayfield

Happy Thanksgiving to each of you. This Thanksgiving, I encourage you to remember the people that have made an impact on your life, be it by good deeds, or through love and faith, have over come adversity.

William Bill Crawford certainly was an unimpressive figure, one you could easily overlook during a hectic day at the U.S. Air Force Academy. Mr. Crawford, as most of us referred to him back in the late 1970s, was our squadron janitor.

(Carom or Carrom men used in an indoor board game.) 

By Charles Chuck Blakeslee.   

By J. Bruce Langley

From Doc Ellis

REALLY FOLKS, I don’t know if its anchors away or anchors aweigh, but what I’m really curious about is: How many of us WWII guys who served overseas remember the name of the ship that carried us at sea to the great adventure or the dates of arrival and departure to wherever?

Author Unknown

The woman known as "Axis Sally" was actually Mildred Gillars -- born in Portland, Maine in 1900. She was an aspiring actress who ended up in Greenwich Village in the late twenties, hoping to crash the stage. When she failed to do so, she picked up again and moved to Europe to pursue a political attache with whom she'd had a casual affair. By 1934, she had settled in Berlin, where she eked out a living as a translator and dabbled at bit parts in German films.

Thoughts

A closed mouth gathers no feet.

It's not the pace of life that concerns me, it's the sudden stop at the end.

The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.

It's hard to make a comeback when you haven't been anywhere.

Living on Earth is expensive, but it does include a free trip around the sun.

Contributed by Various Authors

Apple Crisp

Legacy of Faye Gray

1 can apple pie filling (any other type pie filling can be used)

1 box yellow cake mix

1 stick margarine

Directions:

Pour pie filling in 9x12 baking dish.

Sprinkle 1 box dry cake mix over pie filling.

Melt 1 stick of margarine, drizzle over cake mix,

Continued from 11/13/22

CHAPTER VIII

Recollections

By Grace Thompson

Continued from 11/12/22

CHAPTER VII

Churches and Schools

By Grace Thompson

Continued from 11/11/22

CHAPTER V

Craftsmen of Canton

By Grace Thompson

John S. Harned Sr. was born in Virginia in 1812, and began teaching school in Washington county at the age of 17 years. He surveyed the town of Canton, using a grapevine as a rule.

Continued from 10/27/22

CHAPTER III

Later Days—Women’s Work

By FERN McCOSKEY STEWART

A Typical Thanksgiving Day

For Mack Braziel and family 50 years ago

We would plan and look forward to Thanksgiving Day for a week or two.

On Thanksgiving Day, we got up early and headed out to some of our families house. Sometimes we went to our parents, sometimes to Viola’s sisters or to the home of Viola and myself.

By: GayLynn Allen

Gardner, Kansas

Irene Elizabeth Wyrick was born November 22, 1929. She had 2 sisters and 2 brothers. Life as she knew it then was a thrill, later she would realize it was of desperate times.

Contributed by: Carol Avro

This article was sent in by a reader. What a great tribute to her Grandmother. She did not send in her Grandmothers name. Her memories are from the 1950s.

A house is a house unless its your Grandmas house then its special.

I know because I have childhood memories of my Grandmas special house in a German neighborhood now known as Wrigleyville, two blocks from Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs.

BABIES

The early 1900s watched families grow whether you lived on a rural farm or in the ethnic neighborhoods of booming cities. Brothers and sisters often paint different pictures of the same family events. Birth order and whether male or female sex determined the responsibilities in the family.
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By Jennifer Thompson

Early History of Canton

Prepared by Members of the Canton Home Economics Club

Copyright 1938. The Republican-Leader.

CHAPTER I

Settlement

By ARTIE MORRIS CAUBLE

Canton was once a prosperous business village, situated four miles northeast of Salem.

Author: Howard A. Ellis

I can’t help wondering if any of your readers remember this ship which meant so much to those of us who sailed aboard her to various ports in war theaters. The former S.S. Manhattan in 1941 shortly after her conversion to U.S.S. Wakefield (AP21) and service as a World War II Troopship voyaging from USA to Great Britain and back.

Ann Margaret and Her Gentlemen!

Submitted by Dr Jim Kirby

Richard, (my husband), never really talked a lot about his time in Viet Nam other than he had been shot by a sniper. However, he had a rather grainy, 8 x 10 black and white photo he had taken at a USO show of Ann Margaret with Bob Hope in the background. That was one of his treasures.

By: Joe Mayfield

Country people know how to wave when they see someone driving toward them, or if they see a friend on a tractor plowing, there are certain ways to go about doing the right thing, in fulfilling your obligation to wave.