American Legacies Organization, Inc.

In 1942 a young John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) entered the United States Navy eager to see action in World War II.

Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987), playwright, diplomat, wife of Time-Life, Inc., publisher Henry Robinson Luce (1898-1967), and a Republican member of the House of Representatives from Connecticut, knew the Kennedy family well. She sent the young naval officer a good luck coin that had originally belonged to her mother. Kennedy thanked Luce for her thoughtfulness and promised to clip the coin to his military identification tags.

One of the military innovations of World War I was the emergence of the armored tank. George S. Patton, Jr. (1885-1945), was the first American officer assigned to the fledgling United States Tank Corps in 1917.

He continued to champion the tank in the interwar years when the money-short army largely neglected the corps.

Fredrick Elder Gudger

b. Oct 25, 1924 in VA.

d. Feb 10, 1998 in Birdseye, Dubois County, IN

SS# 404-32-9765

m. Audry Alene Smith, 1944 in Pineville, Bell County, KY.

b. Feb 21, 1927

Parents of Fredrick Elder Gudger:

Fred Gudger and Magie May Howard

Fred Gudger

b. Jan 11, 1898

d. March 26, 1988 buried Pineville Cem, Pineville, Bell County, KY

SS# 406-01-0245 issued KY

Old Recipes

Legacy of: Lizzie Fink Hostetter nee Long
from S. Annville, PA
born 1881

Ice Box Cake
1 pt double cream
4 square chocolate
4 table spoon sugar
4 eggs
4 table spoon water
1/2 lb lady fingers
Melt chocolate in double boiler
add water and mix well
Mix egg yokes and sugar and add hot chocolate and heat well
add beaten egg whites

by George G. King

Spanish-American War

was declared by Congress on April 25, 1898.

This is a collection of letters written home by George King, an American soldier who served in the Puerto Rican campaign during the Spanish-American War. At the outbreak of the War, King volunteered in the Sixth Regiment of Infantry formed in Concord, Massachusetts.

by Linnea Travis Miller

Genealogy The science or study of family descent

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A Timeline of WWII, one of the most devastating conflicts in world history

Old Recipes

________________________

Legacy of: Lizzie Fink Hostetter nee Long
from South Annville, PA
born 1881

Salt Beans
boil till about half soft
then salt like pickles

Directions: soak 2 days before you boil them

 By Franklin T. Wike

I don’t know how old most people are when they become interested in Genealogy,

but I started my family searching when I was in my early 20’s. I think that part of my

interest was because my parents were divorced and I didn’t know anything about my

father, Franklin T. Wike, or his side of the family. However on my mother’s side, Verna

M. Hostetter, I was lucky because my local library had a book with the listing of the first

 Civil War Memories

of

John Herbert Claiborne, 1828-1905.