Cora Culp
The photo above was purchased by U.S. Legacies in Huntingburg, Indiana. The following comments are written on the back. Cora Matlieny Culp B July 18, 1867. Property of Lucille Randolph, RR 2 Oblong, IL 62449.
We are looking for relatives of Cora Culp so that we can return this photo to her family. We would also like to let our readers know that we gladly accept donations of old photographs that have been separated from the family. We are especially interested in any photographs containing the last or full name of the people, or photographs of old buildings as long as the name of the town and building is included.
Need Cooking Instructions
From Suellen Anderson
I was looking thru the recipes and discovered several of them have no directions.
I understand that some are self explanatory but I’ve no idea how to make Cheesemeat Lasange (which, by the way, is listed twice) without knowing how long to bake or how hot to make my fire or oven. Also, I wanted to make the Coconut Custard but there is nothing but the ingredient list.
Cooking Instructions Reply
Thank you for sharing your request. Unfortunately, many of the real old recipes did not offer instructions on how to make the dishes. Normally, we try, or experiment, with a variety of dishes each month, as time permits.
On the custard recipe, we have not tried that particular one, however we do have two procedures that can be used for custards.
#1: For a stirred custard:
Combine ingredients (except vanilla if required) and cook in double boiler, placing top pan over but not touching the boiling water. Stir constantly. When custard coats metal spoon, remove mixture from heat and place at once in cold water. Stir one or two minutes. If vanilla is called for, you should add it at this at this time, then refrigerate custard.
#2: For baked custard:
Mix ingredients and place them into custard cups. Place cups in shallow pan on oven rack. Pour 1 inch of hot water into pan and bake at 325 for 40 to 45 minutes or until knife inserted off center comes out clean. Serve warm or chilled.
Lasagna
On the Lasagna recipe, we checked with several of our volunteers and could not find a recipe on our sites for Cheesemeat Lasagne. Since we maintain over 30 websites, some information tends to get lost at times, so if you could send us the link where you found it, we would appreciate it.
In the meantime, we are sending you an example of instructions for another lasagna recipe.
Brown meat slowly. Spoon off excess fat.
Add spices, and tomato products as called for in your recipe, combined with 1 cup water.
Simmer, covered for 15 minutes, stir often with wooden spoon.
Cook noodles in boiling salted water till tender. Drain and rinse.
Beat eggs if called for and add remaining ingredients EXCEPT mozzarella cheese, Ricotta and cottage cheese if called for.
Layer half the noodles in baking dish.
Spread with half the Ricotta or cottage cheese, half the Mozzarella cheese and half the meat sauce.
Repeat and bake at 375 for 30 minutes.
We hope this helps and that you have fun experimenting in the kitchen.
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Pedal Car
From Harvey Wike
I talk up your magazine to everyone I get a chance to meet. Remember that picture you printed in U.S. Legacies magazine one month of Ruth Leeper riding the small pedal car and I wrote I had pictures of others riding the same car? Well, here they are. I am one of them and my sister Myra is the other.
I am also sending you a picture of my brother, Bill Wike, and his wife Kim that was taken when they were younger.
I feel that most people are so wrapped up in themselves and their ways, they couldn’t care less about the future of their children or grandchildren. I feel I can’t give enough of myself. I put jigsaw puzzles together and give them away to friends after I mount them. I also grow different kinds of fruit trees and once they are doing well, I give them to friends. If I am not doing something for someone else, I feel as if I am not doing anything.
On the right is a picture of a jigsaw puzzle mounted on a stand of the Statue of Liberty and the Twin Towers. The picture below is what it looked like after I painted it and put Red, White and Blue Christmas lights around it.
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Before Refrigeration
From Thomas Knapp
I would like to know if any of your readers can help educate me? Prior to refrigeration and ice boxes, I would like to know how families stored and kept meat after it was butchered? If anyone heard their parents or grandparents talk about storing meat without using ice, please let me know.
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Moms Final Christmas Gift
From Mrs. Pauline (Polly) Mazariegos
Here is a photograph of Myra Riley nee Wike, [center] daughter Anna Hogan [left] and granddaughter Renee [right] in front of Myra’s Christmas tree, at 25 E. Water St., Gettysburg, PA. Myra is wearing a Christmas gift of a sweat shirt with all her children’s names on each apple attached to the family tree. They are: Shirley, Polly, Elizabeth, Andrew, and Barbara. This photo was taken Christmas 2001, the last Christmas that Myra was with us.
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John Honigfort
From Jean Nickell
Can you tell me if you did an article on John Honigfort of Chesterfield, Missouri, probably in an issue in the first 6 months of 2000? He was my great uncle and passed away July 2000, shortly after his 100th birthday.
I was told there was an article done in The Centenarian and was hoping this was it. I haven’t been able to find much information on this magazine.
Any information you could provide would be helpful. If you do in fact have this article, I would be interested in ordering the back issue.
John Honigfort Reply
From David Miller
Thank you for contacting U.S. Legacies. We checked our archives and could not find any article mentioning the name Honigfort. However, we do have several writers from Missouri and have sent a copy of your letter to them, in order to see if they will be able to find any information and/or an article written about him anywhere in Missouri. We are also asking our readers to see if they can find any information that will be able to help you.
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David Spangler 
From Shirley Glory
Here is a photo of David Spangler holding me, Shirley Wagaman. Charles Wike is standing on the left. This photo was taken at the Wike farm house in Fredricksburg, PA, in the 1940s.
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Sharpening Straight Razors
Continued from the Nov 04 issue.
From Chalet Bill
We used single or double edged blades much like today. Barbers run the razor across that leather strap to do the final sharpening of the blade. Many tools used to be finished sharpening by using a leather strap.
The Brits sold a razor on a case which has a stone on one side and a leather pad on the other side. The blade was very much like a small straight razor blade only the length of a disposable blade. Some of our men had them during the war and after I was discharged I bought one and used it for a time.
Straight Razors
From AHenry4627
I have sharpened many razor blades on the inside of a drinking glass.
Straight Razors
From Doc Ellis
I ONLY REMEMBER THE STRAIGHT RAZOR PERIPHERALLY....my dad used one...and of course it had a RAZOR STRAP...and THAT my backside and I remember well...cause when I stepped out of line as a lad he used it to straighten me out...
Straight Razors
To Doc EllisFrom Glenn
My father used one [a razor strap] the same way. My brother burned it and told folks I did it.
Straight Razors
From Pkcsr25
I remember Daddy Hal’s hired hand. He was paid 50 cents a day plus room and board. A package of razor blades were 10 cents. He wore no gloves and his hands were like leather.
I have seen him sharpen a single edge razor blade on the heel of his hand. This was in the mid 1930s.
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Four Generations
From Ruthann Wike nee Held
This 1914 photo below contains 4 generations including my great-great-grandmother Caroline Wilhelmina\Minnie Druelshel nee Cramm 1842-1935, my great-grandmother Louisa Foertsch nee Druelshel 1866-?,my grandmother Nellie Held nee Foertsch 1890-1979 and my father Harold Oscar Held 1914-2000.
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About the November 2004 Issue.
From Sgt. William Wike
Today I received my copy of U.S. Legacies. I enjoyed the article Polly Mazariegos sent in on her Aunt Betty and Uncle John, and the pictures of Granddad Feaster and the one from Shirley Glory of Myra, Merle and Betty.
On page 13, someone is looking for an Alaska Command Patch. I am getting ready to order some items and will order an Alaska Command Patch. When I receive it, I will send it to you. You can forward it to him, or you can give me his address and I can send it to him.
This photo was taken at Fort Dix, New Jersey, in June 2000 during their ceremony to mark the 50th anniversary of the start of the Korean War. I was transported in an ambulance just like this one, from the 24th Infantry Division clearance station to MASH in mid November 1950.
I very much enjoyed reading the information on Elias Wike. On page 22, of the November 2004 issue, someone missed a typing error in the date: The muster rolls for Company E. PA Vol, list Elias Wike as mustered in May 27, 1961. It should be May 27, 1861.
A note on the listing of names of Elias K. Wike’s 4 children. In the 1880 census records for Cornwall, PA, three of the 4 show the middle name as the first name. Gilbert is listed in the census records as a son, age 13. But his grave marker lists his name as Wilson Gilbert. Thomas F. is listed as a son, age 8. But the social security application for my father Charles Wike lists his dad’s name as Franklin Thomas.
Jane Bertha is listed as a daughter, age 22. Yet, we knew her as Dad’s Aunt Bertha. She lived in Chicago with her son George, who we knew as Cousin George. Her married name was Wolfson.
In 1947, my sister Myra and I went to Chicago, to visit Aunt Bertha and Cousin George.
My wife, Kim and I also visited them in 1959, when I brought my wife from Korea. We flew into Travis Air Force Base, California. Took a bus down to Riverside, to visit my older brother, Franklin T. Wike, Sr., and his second wife, and family. We flew from Riverside to Chicago, and stopped over to visit Aunt Bertha and Cousin George. Then we took a bus to Harrisburg, PA, and my younger brother Harvey Wike and his wife Mary came and took us home. Our younger sister, Louis Bertha Wike, was named after Aunt Bertha.
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Wartime Memories
Photo from 1944
From Doc Ellis
I guess its dumb to send this, but I keep finding stuff stored for years in an old trunk in back of the closet.
In the attached photo I was a 19-year-old staff sergeant and NCOIC of the communications for the 877th Signal Service Co., 9th AF at Rheims-Courcy Airdrome outside Rheims, France in 1944. I’m in front of the 8775H signal Sercice Co. Communications Section/Cryptographic/Message Center.
I’m told the old LaFayette Escadrille was based there in World War I.
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Old Uniform
From Gary Packer
I recently bought on EBay a 1951 dated US Army Jacket which had the 1948 style rank badges for a S/Sgt on each sleeve. However, on top of left sleeve is a Vets of Foreign Wars badge but I can feel under it a smaller Division or District badge. Can any one in the room let me know who in the VFW would wear a shirt with this combination of badges on it? On the collar points the material has been partly worn away by what appears to have been set of 2nd LTs bars, so the shirt may have been worn by an Officer who kept it and wore it when on VFW duties.
I thank in advance for any help the room friends can give me on this.
Old Uniform
From Milt Long
Gary, the VFW and the Legion have firing squads and color guards for military funerals and parades. My guess is that the shirt was changed to the VFW use. If the honor guard has federal status, they have ways of getting uniforms for their men. But they wouldn’t have a VFW patch on them. That’s my guess.
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General Patton
From Tony Parsfield
Could you tell me what became of General George S. Patton after the war? Many thanks.
General Patton
From Milt Long
I was in the 3Rd. Army of Occupation which was under the general. I was good friends with his driver, Woody Woodring, Patton’s driver after the war.
General Patton’s final days, makes good reading. I suggest that they read, The Last Days of Patton by Ladislas Farago.
The American zone of occupation was split into two sections. 7th Army took the western section and the 3rd. Army took the eastern section.
May 10th, General Eisenhower was appointed the head of USFET and the AMERICAN ZONE OF OCCUPATION.
May 16th, Patton was sent to the states on a War Bond Drive and was able to receive a hero’s welcome.
He returned to Europe to be the Military Governor of Bavaria. The problem of getting qualified help that had not been a Nazi Party Member, got him into trouble with Ike.
October 7th, he was removed as the head of the 3rd. Army and was assigned to the 15th Army, a unit that was going to write the history of the war.
November 11th, he had a big birthday party with members of this old staff and military friends.
December 14th, was the day he was scheduled to return to the states.
December 9th, was the day he had his fatal accident.
December 21st, he died in his sleep.
PASSING COMMENT:
General Patton never liked the job of post war duties. He wanted to go and fight the Japs. This wasn’t going to happen. Patton was 60 years old on November 11th, and considered to old for a position he might want.
If I can be of any further help, please advise.
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Germany 1945
From Chalet Bill
I found this old photo of Lt Sherman and myself along with one of the local girls (good looking but very cold attitude) we met in Germany. This was taken after we left Cologne. I am holding a bottle of cognac that we had liberated (by the gallon) from a distillery. Sherman was not all correct, there were some lighter moments. By the way, that’s not a hole in my helmet and it does not match the holes in my head. Its just a blemish on the photo. (I think.)
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U S Legacies Magazine December 2004
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