Picture, from left to right: Chris Smith, Carrie Smith nee Hasenmyer holding John Held, Harold Held, Alice De Luca nee Held standing in rocker, Ida Parker nee Hasenmyer supporting Alice, and Fred Parker. Magdelina Hasenmyer nee Kebortz is sitting in the rocker.
I Think That Is Just Alright!
From Helen Held
The picture above was taken by Helen Held nee Parker, daughter of Fred and Ida Parker, was taken just outside Newtonville, Indiana, where she was raised. The picture was probably taken on a Sunday afternoon after the family had gathered for lunch after church around 1946.
Chris and Carrie were Helen’s aunt and uncle and lived close to Helen and her husband Harold near Grandview, Indiana. When Harold needed advice he would visit Uncle Chrissy. Any time he would contemplate a new venture or large purchase, Harold would talk it over with Uncle Chris. No matter what the question or idea was, the answer would be, “I think that would be alright. “
Even after Uncle Chrissy died, Harold would drive any new vehicle or implement past Uncle Chrissy’s grave, just to show him what he had bought. And always knew that whatever it was, Uncle Chris would still be saying, “I think that is just alright!”
New Reader
From Dale Castle
This is the first time I have read your magazine and thought it was excellent. I hope to write another story for you before long.
Cullman, Alabama
From Patsy Williams
I am looking for six articles that were written on Ovell Kent who was raised in the orphanage in Cullman, which was known at the time as the Oddfellows home. I was at her viewing tonight at the funeral home and saw the articles.
They started in April from the time she entered the orphanage until she let. If anyone can help it would be appreciated. You see my mom was raised there also and her and Ms. Kent were like sisters. My mom is 92 and it would mean a lot to her if I could find the articles and get them for her.
Winter of 1942
From Harvey Wike
Back in Pennsylvania, during the winter of 42 we were snowed in for three full weeks. We had to walk three miles with onion sacks to the nearest town to buy groceries, then carry them home. Mother always baked our bread.
Dad always had Model A Ford’s with spoke wheels. We would wrap log chains in the spokes and drive cross country in the winter time. We would never get stuck.
At one time he even used the Model A and pulled a two bottom John Deere plow to plow our fields instead of a tractor. In the snow drifts, all of us neighborhood kids would dig forts in the snow, as it was that deep.
Old Photographs
From Donald Fortieer
I would like to use some of your photographs to be sold at craft fairs. How do I go about this?
Response
Thank you for letting us know you would like to share some of our photographs. We are happy to share our images with historians that would like to use them for educational purposes and with family members, however we do not allow the images to be sold or used for commercial financial gains.
Sara Wike
From Linda Clark
I had been promising everyone pictures of my husband Bill Clark’s mom, Sara (Sallie) Wike Clark, so I finally hauled out a couple old albums and took some pictures out. I sent some to Bill’s cousin, Harvey Wike, last week and will send some to his other cousin, Bill Wike, next week. They are real old pictures.
Does anyone remember her? Everyone called her Aunt Sallie. She was a sister to Charles Wike
The top photograph was taken around 1970 in front of Sara Clark’s house on Lafayette St. in Lebanon, PA.
The second photo is me, Linda Clark, my husband Bill Clark and his mother, Sara Wike Clark
Response to Photo of Sara Wike Clark
From Franklin T. Wike, Jr.
Hi Linda, Thanks for the great photographs. The family tree on our website, has a Sarah C. Wike, born in 1898, that was a sister to my grandfather, Charles Wike. However, we do not have any information listed as to who she married, when and where she got married, when/where she died and how many children she has. If you or your husband could pass that information along to us, we would really appreciate it.
We would also like to get any information we can on her husband’s parents, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, etc. If you do not already have one of our family tree charts that you can use for recording this information, please let us know and we will send one to you.
Genealogy on Max Heller, Martha Tetzlaff Heller
From PS Baker
I stumbled upon your website by accident while looking for any information on my grandparents, Max Heller, Martha Tetzlaff Heller both originally of Germany, and then Ohio, and my moms childhood friends from Ohio, and just had to stop and read some of the stories and comments posted. Some neat stuff.
I come from a family of German ancestry and though they came to America in the early 1900s I am not finding much information.
What I have found on an uncle has many references to the reserve and secretiveness of his life and some of the same references to my grandfather so I think it very interesting that some families know so much and some not much at all. Needless to say my family was not very good in the recording of family information and stories.
Now I wonder why. I think I was born with a natural tendency to be curious about my families history?
History and genealogy interest me a lot and I know so little about my own ancestors. What a puzzle our ancestry can be. Thanks for the site - I will read again in the future.
Heavenly Hash
From Anita Caughell
Hi! I am trying to locate a recipe for Heavenly Hash...my aunt’s recipe included cream cheese and Miracle Whip....she made it often during the 1960s with fruit cocktail and pineapple. All the recipes that I find lately use cottage cheese and frozen whip. Any help would be appreciated.
Alabama Chapter
From William H. Wike
Congratulations on your trip to Alabama. I wish you swift progress on your projects. I will enclose a check to help get the computer. If you are open to suggestions, I would like to suggest a Chapter in Brown Mills. You could hold the presentation in the Burlington County Campus in New Lisbon. You could utilize the community center here in Country Lakes, which would be nice for me to possibly get involved, and get some help on my projects.
I am finally getting started on my article concerning my trip to D.C., 26-30, May, 2004, for the dedication of the WWII Memorial. As one of Eleven family/relatives that served during WW II, I attended on behalf of the Nine who are deceased.
My brother-in-law Merle Wagaman, one of the deceased, is buried at the Military Cemetery in Luxembourg. While working on the page, I recalled that my sister Myra Wagaman and her daughter Polly made a trip to Germany and made a trip to Luxembourg to visit his grave. So, I wrote to my niece, Shirley Glory, to see if she had the information on the plot where his grave is located. She not only gave me the information on the plot, row and grave number, she also sent a picture of the grave marker and a picture of her at her father’s grave.
We Were Family
From Doc Ellis
It’s really important to me that our veterans of any war remain in the minds of Americans they served AND you honor us by helping preserve the history of it. I’m told the veterans of WW2 are passing on at an average of 3,000 a year so I KNOW my numbers coming up one of these days, but what the heck, its been a good life.
From the old 877th, to my knowledge, there may be only one other of us still around, the officer who was my officer-in-charge, 2dLt. Charles R. (Bob) Cross. We internetted a few years ago and in matching notes found neither of us has been able to locate any other survivors.
We were a great bunch of guys and while I’m in no hurry to do so, I look forward to that eventual reunion because they were essential to the best part of my life, a G.I. doing it for America...we were family.
Published in U S Legacies Magazine July 2005
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