The Old Folks Home

[ronott1]

Really cool except for the scalp part

That part sounds like something my relatives would tell people! The article said it was un proven LOL!

 

[chickadoodles]

Very cool Ron.

I have a story that was written in the Holton, Ks. news paper about some of my Bateman's that made the trek to Canada from Ireland and then across the country where they entered the US in Minnesota to Kansas.
My gr. gr. Aunt sewed several hems in her under-skirt and sewed the family gold into her slip and wore it from Canada to Kansas. And my 3rd great grandmother passed away from some illness in Iowa and was buried along the trail. When they made it to Holton Kansas her husband Matthew Smith went into Leavenworth, Ks for business and never returned home. I found burial receipts dated Aug 1859. Just a few months after his wife Jane Bateman Smith died in Iowa. They left 4 children orphans to be passed around the family and finally raised by Jane's brother Chas Bateman.

I have searched high and low for a reason for Matthew Smith's death.
But that was during the time of the Quantrail's Raiders and lot's of gun slinger's so who knows what happened.

 

[chickadoodles]

Ron you have a very nice looking family.

 

[ronott1]

Very cool Ron.

I have a story that was written in the Holton, Ks. news paper about some of my Bateman's that made the trek to Canada from Ireland and then across the country where they entered the US in Minnesota to Kansas.
My gr. gr. Aunt sewed several hems in her under-skirt and sewed the family gold into her slip and wore it from Canada to Kansas. And my 3rd great grandmother passed away from some illness in Iowa and was buried along the trail. When they made it to Holton Kansas her husband Matthew Smith went into Leavenworth, Ks for business and never returned home. I found burial receipts dated Aug 1859. Just a few months after his wife Jane Bateman Smith died in Iowa. They left 4 children orphans to be passed around the family and finally raised by Jane's brother Chas Bateman.

I have searched high and low for a reason for Matthew Smith's death.
But that was during the time of the Quantrail's Raiders and lot's of gun slinger's so who knows what happened.

It was 1859 so it could have been an illness like TB.

I just found a link to an influenza epidemic from 1857 to 1859

http://www.familytree.com/research/know-the-epidemics-that-might-have-affected-your-ancestors/

 

[ronott1]

Ron you have a very nice looking family.

Thanks!

It amazes me that they are mine too.

 

[chickisoup]

It is actually German's Chocolate cake, created by an American with the last name of German. The chocolate used is called sweet chocolate. It is an American desert and they would not know what you were talking about if you looked for it over there.

We had this come up as a Trivia question at a work party.

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Sorry Ron, you kind of lost me. I didn't mean cake, I meant German chocolate, as in chocolate bars, etc. When I was still working in r&d and tech at a college my programmer was a German national and when she would go home to visit she would always bring me back some. That was before the good European chocolate was really available in this country. (This was so long ago that I gave her a $20 bill once and she came back with practically a suitcase full! ) Unfortunately the real stuff is still kind of hard to find as they have started "Americanizing" some of it I guess to make it more appealing to the US market (aka adding more sugar).

 

[ronott1]

Sorry Ron, you kind of lost me. I didn't mean cake, I meant German chocolate, as in chocolate bars, etc. When I was still working in r&d and tech at a college my programmer was a German national and when she would go home to visit she would always bring me back some. That was before the good European chocolate was really available in this country. (This was so long ago that I gave her a $20 bill once and she came back with practically a suitcase full! ) Unfortunately the real stuff is still kind of hard to find as they have started "Americanizing" some of it I guess to make it more appealing to the US market (aka adding more sugar).

I See!

I thought you were talking about German's Sweet Chocolate baking bar. The came up with the cake recipe to sell the baking bars.

Europeans do not like dark chocolate so it is usually has more sugar in it

 

[drumstick diva]

Yum, I don't like dark chocolate anyway

 

[ronott1]

Yum, I don't like dark chocolate anyway

I am with you on the Dark Chocolate. Over 60% is too dark for me.

Make good chocolate chop cookies though. I don't like it plain.

Good Milk chocolate is my favorite and the European brands are best

 

[MrsMistyReal]

White chocolate/ how did I get here sorry