In Memory of Her Veterans

FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR "Seven Years War" (1754-1763)

REVOLUTIONARY WAR (1775-1783)

FLETCHER, William (1750-1792) served under George Rogers Clark, DAR#:A209074

GRIFFIN, Richard (1735 -1824), Montgomery County, KY DAR marker on Montgomery Co, KY courthouse

TODD, Peter (1756-1841) North Carolina under Captain Robert Moore. DAR No. #A114383

WAR OF 1812 (1812-1815)

BLACKHAWK WAR (1832)

MEXICAN WAR (1846-1848)

BORDER WAR/CIVIL WAR (1854 to 1865 in KS/MO.)

BOONE, Robert E. (1848-1865) Co. G, 5th Missouri Cavalry, CSA, Private. POW-Camp Morton, Indianapolis, IN  

BOONE , Samuel (1817-1871) Co. G., 5th Regiment, MO Cavalry, CSA, Private

O'NEAL, Philander H (1850-1920) 2nd Regiment, Illinois Cavalry, Company M.A. (Union). 
RIDDLE, Dr. Hamilton Rush (1841-1926), Co. B, 130th Illinois Volunteer Infantry. POW-Camp Ford, Tyler, TX

SCOTT, Jasper  (1843-1863) Co. E, 3rd Missouri Cavalry, CSA, Private

WHITE, Martin (1802-1862) Field & Staff, 3rd Cavalry, 8th Division, Lieutenant Colonel, Elected 7/30/61, Born in KY, Residence: Bates County, MO, Age 58, Resigned 8/20/61

WORLD WAR I (1914-1918)

ULLOM, Benjamin Franklin (1895-1965) 

WORLD WAR II (1939-1945)

HANSEN, Glen E. (1915-2008), Field Artillery, Battle of the Bulge; USO chairman

O'NEAL, Nelson B. (1920-1947) 

O'NEAL, Willie (1919-1995) US Army

KOREAN WAR (1950-1953)

O'NEAL, Robert (1927-1989) USAF, Master Sargent

O'NEAL, Willie (1919-1995) US Army

ULLOM, Benjamin F., Jr. (1934-1997) USAF

ULLOM, Melvin (1936-2014) USMC

VIETNAM WAR (1955-1975)

ULLOM, Melvin (1936-2014) USAF, Tech Sargent

UNKNOWN 

BERRY, Benjamin Franklin (1841-1904) info based on his obituary "an old soldier"

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PEACE TIME SERVICE:

O'NEAL, Charles (1931-1969)

THORNHILL, Neva D. (O'Neal) (1927-2016) USAF, flight nurse 

ULLOM, Laurence (1897-1961) Medical Honorable Discharge 

Researched by Dolores J. Rush, Updated: 9/29/2019

Fabric Records

Many ladies got together in quilting bee parties to catch up on the news of the neighborhood while they stitched a quilt top with batting and a backing together. Sometimes the quilts were for the hostess' home or as a gift for a bride and groom, an upcoming baby shower, or as a commemorative memory quilt for a pastor leaving for new fields or somebody moving away. Sometimes the ladies would embroider their signature and the date on a solid  square and sew it into a patterned patchwork block to be donated to a group project and sewn together with others' blocks to make a signature friendship quilt.

 

My mother dug around in her stash of keepsakes awhile back and found this signed bath towel.  She received it at a baby shower the ladies at church gave her when I was about to make my  appearance. While not paper, it is an embroidered record of members of mom's church at the time, some of whom have passed on to their reward in heaven such as Edna Thimes. 

I was able to decipher most of the names embroidered on the towel and they are: Bonnie Alt, Mrs. Alt, Dorothy E., Amy Fagan, Lucille Harvey, Sarah Hite, Mrs. Leicht, Bertie Loomis, Mary Rapsilber, Frances Olson, Kathleen Sager, Edna Thimes, & Jan Tins. They were the Women of the Church of God (Anderson, IN) who attended the First Church of God in Kansas City, Wyandotte County, Kansas during the 1950's. 

The purpose of this article is to tell you about FAN research. I search for the FAN's of my ancestors. FAN's are friends, associates and neighbors, so I research not only my ancestors, but also their FAN's, hoping to connect the dots (primary doc'uments) between them. You can find FAN's everywhere -- in autograph books and school yearbooks, in census records (look at the people above and below your ancestors' as the people were often neighbors), in their church fundraising cookbook, membership roster, minutes, and telephone directory, from signed greeting cards and postcards,  in history books that mention Old Settlers Club and other social groups like that, sometimes in land records if remaining neighbors purchased their land, lockets containing hair,  paintings or photographs, in letters, or  marriage records, in newspaper articles such as auction ads or who visited whom, on cross-stitched samplers to signed quilts, scrapbooks, and towels.  Hope your ancestors saved such mementoes of their FAN's, because they now become your treasured heirlooms of their friends, associates, and neighbors. Any record, fabric or paper, helps construct your ancestor's story. 

More to Read: 

1. Family Crafting
2. Edna Thimes' biography

3. Quilting in America

4. Antique Quilt History

Written by Dolores J. Rush, Updated: 10/25/2019

Her Relatives' Recipes

From: Wilma Green (O'NEAL) CANADAY

Zucchini Squash Relish

10 cup ground zucchini squash

8 large onions

4 green peppers

4 red peppers

4 tablespoon salt.

Grind above ingredients and let stand overnight. Drain and wash twice.

Add:

2 ¼ cup vinegar

2 ½ cup sugar

1 tablespoon mustard seed

1 tablespoon celery seed

½ teaspoon black pepper

1 tablespoon cornstarch

½ teaspoon green food coloring

1 tablespoon turmeric

Mix all ingredients together and bring to boil on top of stove. Boil 10 minutes. Can while hot. Makes 6 quarts. ~ Recipe published in Country Cookin’. WCOG (Women of the Church of God), Pleasant Prairie Church of God, Satanta, KS. Cookbook Publishers, Olathe, KS; 1986, p. 6.

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From: Mabel May (ULLOM) GRIFFITH

Jellyroll Cake

4 eggs well beaten

2 tablespoons sweet milk

1 cup sugar

2 teaspoon baking powder sifted into 1 scant cup of flour

Flavor with lemon

Bake in moderate over until done, take out, turn pan upside down on bread towel, spread with jelly and roll-up.

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From: Lily Marie (LARUE) RANKIN HALL

Date Bars

1 stick butter

1 cup sugar

2 eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla

½ cup flour

¼ teaspoon baking powder

1 1/2 package dates, chopped

½ cup nuts

Cream together butter & sugar. Add eggs, vanilla. Beat well. Sift flour and baking powder together. Add to mixture. Stir in dates & nuts. Bake 30 minutes, 375 degree F. oven.

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From: Belinda “Linna” (ULLOM) KARSTEDT and Hannah (ULLOM) WARNER.

Soft Gingerbread

Put all in bowl & beat good together.

1 egg

½ cup sugar

½ cup shortening (bacon fat is good)

½ cup good New Orleans Molasses

Sift these next ingredients together then add to the first mixture.

1 ¾ cup flour

1 teaspoon each of ginger & cinnamon, sifted together with

A pinch of salt

Add these next:.

¾ cup boiling water

1 teaspoon soda

Beat in last. Bake in moderate oven, very light and good.

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I received this recipe for the cream cheese mints from my paternal Aunt as she had made mints for her parent’s 50th Wedding Anniversary celebration (1st row, rose on right) when I was preparing for my wedding. I made the heart-shaped mints. I obtained the rubber molds from a kitchen specialty shop. Anybody remember Function Junction? These rubber molds (or silicone molds) are very flexible, unlike the stiff clear plastic sheet candy molds found in hobby stores now. You can obtain them online at Sugar Craft (search engine: type in "crème cheese mint molds").

Since then I’ve made mints for other family events. The two on either side, 2nd row, are Christmas peppermint molds and in the back center are baby shoes. Wouldn’t these mints be cool for a tea-in-the-garden party too?

Cream Cheese Mints

Makes approximately 100 mints.

Make two per guest.

1 (2 lb.) package powdered sugar

1 (8 oz.) package cream cheese

1 teaspoon mint flavoring

Dash cake frosting paste food color

Mix and knead all ingredients like dough. Butter your fingers & rubber candy molds. Roll candy dough the size of marbles and press into mold. Tidy up bottom of candy & unmold. Put on wax paper to dry. Can be frozen ahead of time.

Since these mints are relatively soft in nature, they can be easily mashed with rough handling. To serve, place one layer of mints on a paper-doily covered glass, china, or silver platter or tray on the cake table. Looks very pretty and are so yummy to eat!

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From: Deliah E. (BAILEY) LARUE

Dumplings

2 eggs

2/3 cup milk

2 tablespoons milk

2 tablespoons melted oleo

2 cups flour

2 ½ teaspoons baking powder

¾ teaspoon salt

1 tablespoon sugar

Drop by tablespoon in hot broth. Cover and cook 10 minutes or more until done.

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Recipes from Gladys Esther (WHITE) O'NEAL

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From: Eunice Lavon (O'NEAL) ROBERTSON

Broccoli Casserole

1 package chopped broccoli

1 can cream corn

2 eggs, beaten

2 tablespoons melted butter

Dash of tabasco sauce

Mix all above ingredients together. Pour into a buttered casserole dish. Cover with ½ cup buttered cracker or bread crumbs. Bake 1 hour at 350 degree oven. ~ Recipe published in Country Cookin’. WCOG (Women of the Church of God), Pleasant Prairie Church of God, Satanta, KS. Cookbook Publishers, Olathe, KS; 1986, p. 22

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From: Mrs. James E. “Jessie” ULLOM

Oatmeal Cookies

½ cup shortening

1 cup brown sugar

1 ½ cup flour

2/3 teaspoon soda

½ teaspoon cloves

1 teaspoon cinnamon

½ teaspoon salt

1 ½ cup oatmeal

2/3 cup raisins

2 eggs

4 tablespoon milk

Cream shortening until light and creamy. Add sugar slowly working it into the shortening. Sift the flour twice then measure lightly. Do not pack. Then sift flour, soda, salt, cloves and cinnamon. Add oatmeal and mix well. Add raisins which have been finely chopped. Add chopped nuts if desired. ½ to ¾ pecan nuts. Also dates may be used. Beat one egg well. Add milk. Alternate the milk and egg & dry ingredients beating well between additions.

Mixture should be a fairly stiff drop batter. Drop by teaspoons into a greased pan 1 ½ inch apart. Bake in moderate oven 350 degree F. to 400 degree F. until lightly browned and cookie springs back in shape when lightly pressed.

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From: Maurine Hester (LARUE) ULLOM

Birthday Cake

2 cup sifted pastry flour

½ teaspoon Arm & Hammer soda

1 teaspoon cream of tartar

¼ teaspoon salt

½ cup butter or other shortening

1 cup sugar

3 eggs yolks, beaten until thick

2/3 cup milk

3 egg whites, stiffly beaten

1 teaspoon vanilla

Sift flour once, measure, add baking soda, cream of tartar & salt and sift together 3 times. Work butter with spoon until creamy, add sugar gradually, beating after each addition until light and fluffy. Add egg yolks, blend well, add flour, alternately with milk, a small amount at a time, beating until smooth. Add vanilla. Fold in egg whites. Bake layers in moderate oven 350 degrees F. for 25 minutes.

Soft Chocolate Frosting =

1 cup confectioners sugar

1 egg slightly beaten

dash of salt

½ teaspoon vanilla

2 squares of unsweetened chocolate

Add sugar to egg. Beat until smooth. Add salt & chocolate. Add vanilla. Cool before spreading.

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From: Maurine Hester (LARUE) ULLOM

Easy Corn Pudding

2 cups of fresh corn (cut off the cob)

2 teaspoons sugar

1 ½ teaspoons salt

1/8 teaspoon pepper

3 eggs slightly beaten

2 tablespoons butter

2 cups milk

Combine corn, sugar, salt & pepper. Add eggs and mix. Add butter to milk. Heat until butter is melted. Blend the milk with the corn and eggs. Put in a baking dish. Bake at 325 degree oven for 1 hour or until knife comes out clean.

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Recipes of Tacy Emma (BERRY) ULLOM

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From: Mildred Marie Ruth (CARTWRIGHT) WHITE

Applesauce Cake

2 cup sifted cake flour

½ teaspoon cloves

1/8 teaspoon nutmeg

½ teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon soda

2 well beaten eggs

1 cup nutmeats

1 teaspoon cinnamon

½ teaspoon allspice

½ cup shortening

1 cup brown sugar

1 cup applesauce

1 cup raisins

½ cup unsifted all-purpose flour.

Sift dry ingredients 3 times. Cream sugar and shortening. Add eggs and soda and applesauce mixed together. Stir in dry ingredients, raisins, and nuts. Beat mixture thoroughly. Bake in loaf pan in moderated oven for 45 minutes.

Icing:

1 cup brown sugar

About ½ cup thick sour cream.

Cook together. Then beat until creamy. Spread over cake. ~ Recipe published in Country Cookin’. WCOG (Women of the Church of God), Pleasant Prairie Church of God, Satanta, KS. Cookbook Publishers, Olathe, KS; 1986, p. 94.

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More to Read:

Cookbooks

Compiled by Dolores J. Rush. Updated: 10/6/2019.