American Legacies Organization, Inc.

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 Mark 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.

Contributed By Gladys Marie Short Vogt

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.

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.