I was a census worker in 1980 - actually, I was the supervisor for about two dozen enumerators so my name won't appear on any census forms - and I thoroughly enjoyed the work. You learn a lot about your community or neighborhood, and you deal with interesting people of all ages and backgrounds. The folks that worked under me understood the temporary nature of the work, but also realized how important complete coverage was. I'm recommending my college fraternity guys to apply, and, with the economy doing so well, the census folks are going to have trouble finding 800,000 workers. So, consider it! Best, Walter Jenny Jr. Edmond OK Descendant of George and Rebecca (Davis) Whiteley, John and Eliza Jane (Keeton) Whiteley, etc., of Morgan County, cousin of Keith and Dwight Whitley. _______________________________ [email protected] wrote: > Subject: > > KYMORGAN-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 5 > > Today's Topics: > #1 [KYMORGAN] Census 2000 [[email protected]] > > Administrivia: > To unsubscribe from KYMORGAN-D, send a message to > > [email protected] > > that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > > and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software > requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: [KYMORGAN] Census 2000 > Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 11:37:18 EST > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > Hi! > I just wanted to bring some information to all of you. I have just been > hired to be an enumerator (census taker) for 2000. It is a 4-6 week position > paying from $8.25 to $18.50 per hour (depending on your location.) I will be > in my own area of where I live. I will be knocking on my neighbors doors to > interview those who have not returned their Census 2000 form. I thought > this would be a wonderful thing for me to do since lately I have been so > involved in looking at old censuses from 1850 on trying to find any bit of > info I can on my ancestors and maybe one day someone will be looking at a > county census from which I participated in. If you would like to get info on > how to become involved in this project here is the phone number: > (888)325-7733 or at this website: <A > HREF="http://www.census.gov/jobs2000/www/index.html">Census 2000 Recruitment</ > A> . I looked up KY on there to find the locations for the Census Offices > and here is where they are: Ashland, Bowling Green, Corbin, Covington, > Hopkinsville, Lexington, and Louisville. For those out of stators like > myself, their is map on the website to click on your state to find the > closest offices to you. They will tell you how to get an application and > when to come in to take a basic skills test. (Very easy, mine was 28 > multiple choice questions.) After you take the test and you have passed, > someone will contact you and interview you over the phone and will tell you > then and there if you are hired or not. They will also train you as to what > questions to ask, etc. > Deanna Levito > Morgan CC

Hi! I just wanted to bring some information to all of you. I have just been hired to be an enumerator (census taker) for 2000. It is a 4-6 week position paying from $8.25 to $18.50 per hour (depending on your location.) I will be in my own area of where I live. I will be knocking on my neighbors doors to interview those who have not returned their Census 2000 form. I thought this would be a wonderful thing for me to do since lately I have been so involved in looking at old censuses from 1850 on trying to find any bit of info I can on my ancestors and maybe one day someone will be looking at a county census from which I participated in. If you would like to get info on how to become involved in this project here is the phone number: (888)325-7733 or at this website: <A HREF="http://www.census.gov/jobs2000/www/index.html">Census 2000 Recruitment</ A> . I looked up KY on there to find the locations for the Census Offices and here is where they are: Ashland, Bowling Green, Corbin, Covington, Hopkinsville, Lexington, and Louisville. For those out of stators like myself, their is map on the website to click on your state to find the closest offices to you. They will tell you how to get an application and when to come in to take a basic skills test. (Very easy, mine was 28 multiple choice questions.) After you take the test and you have passed, someone will contact you and interview you over the phone and will tell you then and there if you are hired or not. They will also train you as to what questions to ask, etc. Deanna Levito Morgan CC

Know of any superstitions your ancestors use to practice? Share them with us! Can't wait to read them! Ann Lemaster-Applegate List Owner

Hello and Happy New Year to everyone. My GM always made a cough syrup out of honey, lemon, butter and Old Grandad Whiskey. To this day I use it. In fact it is the only thing that helps my daughter, now 22 with her cough from her asthmatic attacks. She hates it though. Me, I lick the spoon. But I can't stand whiskey. I'll have to check with my Aunt I know my GM had many more home rememdies. Have a Great Day!!! Mary Ann McClain-Bolak :~)

Hello John - From what I have been told, and read, back in the "old days", a madstone was a prized possession. My grandad said everyone in the area knew if someone who lived close-by had a madstone. A madstone was a growth of some kind found in the stomach of a deer, and some say could be found in the stomach of a cow. The madstone would be soaked in milk and applied to a snake bite or "mad dog" bite to draw out the poison. That's about it, John. Best wishes... Carl Williams [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, January 04, 2000 10:27 PM Subject: Re: [KYMORGAN] Re: Old Home remedies >In a message dated 1/4/00 10:58:18 PM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] >writes: > ><< I remember when I was real young my Grandad telling about > a madstone in his family. I didn't really understand what it was at the > time, just knew it as an interesting story. When I was in high school in Lee > County, TX in the 1950's, there was a story in the local paper about a man > who had a madstone that had been passed down in his family to him. Then I > realized what my Grandad was talking about. >> > >And a "madstone" is ... ? > >John > >

Hello Peggy - I remember when I was real young my Grandad telling about a madstone in his family. I didn't really understand what it was at the time, just knew it as an interesting story. When I was in high school in Lee County, TX in the 1950's, there was a story in the local paper about a man who had a madstone that had been passed down in his family to him. Then I realized what my Grandad was talking about. Incidentally, my grandad, William Harrison Williams, came to Texas from Morgan County KY when he was a young boy, ending up Coryell County, TX. He was the son of William Letcher Williams and Narcissa Whitt. Best wishes to you... Carl Williams, in Parker Co., TX [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, January 04, 2000 10:06 AM Subject: [KYMORGAN] Re: Old Home remedies >Ann, >My grandfather Philip Henry Amyx and grandmother Mary Catherine (Fannin) >Amyx moved from Morgan County, Kentucky to Oklahoma (Indian Territory) in >1906. From family stories, he had a "madstone" he brought from Kentucky with >him. > >The stone was 2 1/2 inches in diameter, slate gray and not completely round. >The stone was used for snake bites and dog bites, etc. The stone was also >used on livestock. Story is that my grandfather traded for it from an Indian >in Kentucky. The stones are supposedly found in cow and deer stomachs. They >soaked the stone in milk before applying it to the bite. A foam-like >substance (green and yellow) would form and fall off. The procedure was >repeated until the foam-substance would quit forming. > >A member of our family still has 1/2 of the stone which was broken in two >pieces. > >Don't know if this is what you want - but thought interesting. >Peggy Walker > >

Ann, I just sent you one about kerosene for head lice, and forgot to sign my name. I'm Ginni Brown of [email protected] Thanks

We always got our heads doused with KEROSENE--For head lice, OH MY GOD--[I CAN STILL SMELL IT] Im researching [ADAMS--DALTON--OSBORNE--LAWSON---

I remember falling from a foot log into the creek with a quart jar full of milk that we had purchased from a neighbor. The jar broke and a jagged piece of glass cut deep into my arm exposing white tendons. We had little money and no insurance but my aunts used an old remedy to promote healing. They filled the wound with sugar and turpentine and bandaged it with clean cloths. I can still remember having to have the bandages changed and the wound would stick to the bandage. They used warm grease to loosen the bandage. It was a slow, painful and tedious process. The wound, however, healed in a short time with no complications. My aunts were from Morgan Co. KY. Carol Staten

In a message dated 1/4/00 10:58:18 PM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: << I remember when I was real young my Grandad telling about a madstone in his family. I didn't really understand what it was at the time, just knew it as an interesting story. When I was in high school in Lee County, TX in the 1950's, there was a story in the local paper about a man who had a madstone that had been passed down in his family to him. Then I realized what my Grandad was talking about. >> And a "madstone" is ... ? John

My mother, Ima Dee Sargent Elam born in Blairs Mills, Morgan Co. always gave us sassafras tea in the spring to thin our blood and gave us lots of sorghum molasses in the fall to thicken it for winter. For croup it was a spoon of sugar with just a touch of corn liquor. For a chest cold it was a mustard pack (you had to be careful with this one or you would get blistered skin). Vinegar was good for aching joints. She had remedies for anything that happened. As I think of others I'll sent them to you. Frank

Ann, My grandfather Philip Henry Amyx and grandmother Mary Catherine (Fannin) Amyx moved from Morgan County, Kentucky to Oklahoma (Indian Territory) in 1906. From family stories, he had a "madstone" he brought from Kentucky with him. The stone was 2 1/2 inches in diameter, slate gray and not completely round. The stone was used for snake bites and dog bites, etc. The stone was also used on livestock. Story is that my grandfather traded for it from an Indian in Kentucky. The stones are supposedly found in cow and deer stomachs. They soaked the stone in milk before applying it to the bite. A foam-like substance (green and yellow) would form and fall off. The procedure was repeated until the foam-substance would quit forming. A member of our family still has 1/2 of the stone which was broken in two pieces. Don't know if this is what you want - but thought interesting. Peggy Walker

I am curious to how many of you know remedies that your Morgan County ancestors used? If there are enough responses, I will make a page on Ann's Homeplace to list them, with each submitters name. Cant wait to start reading them. Ann

Darrell Warner, or anybody else who has access to old Bath Co newspapers: Do you have any obit record for an Amos G. Pettit who died in 1929 or his wife Anna Mae (Reed) Pettit who died in 1973? They are buried in the New Alfrey Cemetery in Rowan County, with only the years on their stones. In 1910 they were living in Hoggtown (Elliottville) in Rowan County, but their last five children were born in Bath County between 1911 and 1923. Neither of them is listed in the Kentucky Death Index, so I am thinking they may have died in another state, perhaps while residing with one of their children, and been returned to Kentucky for burial. Amos G. Pettit is one of my "mystery Pettits". I first find him in the 1900 census, age 16, as a boarder with the family of J. D. Cogswell. Since the 1890 census was destroyed, I have no record of who his parents were. The marriage record says that he was born in Morgan County, but does not mention his parents. I am hoping that his death certificate or obituary will give their names, but have been unable to locate either. For further details, see http://www.best.com/~tpettit/family/pettit/FG03/FG03_101.htm Teri Pettit

Happy New Year! A bit late, but we are traveling. Here in Oklahoma and Texas we eat black-eyed peas. I don't like them, but dutifully ate a spoonful! Bette Jo GevedonWhetstone

Hi Folks! Thanks for the wonderful responses on the New Year's tradition. Looks like kraut, blackeyed peas adn some form of cooked cabbage was had by all. We had western style BBQ ribs, cooked cabbage, homemade scalloped potatoes and cornbread lemon pie and chocolate pie for dessert. My hubby does not like cooked cabbage so I also make cole slaw every year so he can have his portion of cabbage. I guess it doesn't matter how you fix it as long as you have it. Ann

Hi Ann and you Ky. Cousins Here in Az. we had our 'Blackeyed Peas' to welcome in the new Year. Nancy On Sat, 1 Jan 2000 16:23:18 -0800 (PST) [email protected] writes:

This person celebrates New Years Day by taking his wife out to dinner in the nicest cafe in town. Does wonders for her disposition and my ego. Henry Hoover [email protected]

and good cornbread! as a Kentucken living in Texas,it is good to hear,or, read the Morgan county roots web. David J.Gillespie Killeen,Texas -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Saturday, January 01, 2000 3:38 PM Subject: Re: New Year Tradition >Happy New Year to all!. Down here in Texas - we start the New Year with >black eyed peas. >Peggy Walker >

Hi Ann - In Charleston, SC we eat collard greens. I had my annual supply at midnight. Frank