Molasses is made from sorghum stalks....I reckon syrup is made from sugar cane. IT grows from cuttings, according to what I read...Sorghum grows from little round seed. TN is too cold for cane to grow. There was no choice in putting kids to work...it was work or starve. We were a large family, but a young family, so we had to work. Our folks both came from big farming families and we were treated like they'd been treated growing up. Jeannie T ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 23:54:19 -0700 "Jen LaBonte" <AZJen@npgcable.com> writes: > Jeannie T., So Sorghum is basically syrup? I have heard of it before, but this is the first time I have ever heard of how it was made. ____________________________________________________________ Hate Carrying Pet Food? Now you don't have to! Pet sites deliver to your door for free! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4cce4d2bd27005bd0am06duc

We kids used to make onion, molasses and biscuit sandwiches. Mama said she doesn't know where we came up with that idea...Country butter and sorghum on a fluffy homemade biscuit IS good.! Jeannie T ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 23:35:07 -0700 Roses <roses4831@msn.com> writes: > > My sister said HER husband, for his school lunch, would take biscuits filled with molasses. I guess if that was all you could afford that tasted pretty good.... Emma > ____________________________________________________________ Hate Carrying Pet Food? Join the PetFlow auto-delivery service and save 25% It's free to join! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4cce4d2bc83f55bd09m06duc

Yes, you are right. Since syrup is made from sugar, one would have to get the sugar from sugar cane. I have seen sugar cane growing in Hawaii & in other warm..year around places. You were lucky that you were a young, large family. My husband had 11 brothers & sisters. His Mother died at the age of 39 with baby #12. She wanted a Baker's Dozens, but never made it. The 12th baby was stillborn. I was curious about the name, etc. b/c no one knew if the family had named the child. I don't think they could afford to have a funeral for it, so they may have taken "him" straight from the hospital to a mortuary. I finally located the baby by finding the funeral home & they had record of where they had taken the child to bury "him". "He" was buried in "Babyland" & since he had no stone, the bushes had grown over his gravesite. I talked to the caretaker & all his book showed was "Baby Boy LaBonte" & there was no name. Most of my husband's family had to work. They raised their own hens & turkeys. They also had a good size garden. Paul, my husband, b/c he was the oldest boy, he started working in Junior High & he worked 2 jobs all through those 2 yrs. Later after his Mother passed away, he started working in a local grocery story. Around 5-6 yrs after his Mother passed, his Father passed. Paul was in charge of finding homes for all the kids who needed family. I won't go into it all...but he was able to put all the kids with their relatives. His two older sisters had started to work years before & they worked in Chicago in the factory where their Father worked. Rosie, b/c she was the oldest, was asked to stop school so she could go to work. Then about 8 months later, Angie said she wanted to stop school too. Rosie was very upset b/c she had wanted to go to school to become a nurse. Well, since she had stopped High School for 8 months, she didn't want to go back b/c she said she had been out too long. The rest of the children did get an education..except for Peg, who I think got married at a fairly early age. Well, that's enough of family for now. ~Jen in AZ ----- Original Message ----- From: <askgranny@juno.com> To: <southern-chat@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2010 10:09 PM Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Making sorghum molasses.... > Molasses is made from sorghum stalks....I reckon syrup is made from sugar > cane. IT grows from cuttings, according to what I read...Sorghum grows > from little round seed. TN is too cold for cane to grow. > > There was no choice in putting kids to work...it was work or starve. We > were a large family, but a young family, so we had to work. Our folks > both came from big farming families and we were treated like they'd been > treated growing up. Jeannie T > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 23:54:19 -0700 "Jen LaBonte" <AZJen@npgcable.com> > writes: >> Jeannie T., So Sorghum is basically syrup? I have heard of it before, > but this is the first time I have ever heard of how it was made. > ____________________________________________________________ > Hate Carrying Pet Food? > Now you don't have to! Pet sites deliver to your door for free! > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4cce4d2bd27005bd0am06duc > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

My older sister talked about buying the school books. Mom and Dad moved to Louisiana for a while, and she said they furnished the school books so she benefitted from that. Then, they moved back to Arkansas and you had to buy your own school books. They couldn't afford to buy the books so my other sister was the loser. The second sister has always said that she didn't get the education that the older one got. I think she only went to like 4th or 5th grade. She didn't like to write letters, said her spelling wasn't that good. Emma > To: southern-chat@rootsweb.com > Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 00:12:44 -0500 > From: askgranny@juno.com > Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Making sorghum molasses.... > > When Mom was a teenager the young people would go to a nearby town and > pick strawberries big time. They stayed in a barracks type house and > stayed till the berries were gone. Money was used to buy their school > clothes and books...Yes, back then you had to buy school books...Bad part > of the good old days......Jeannie T > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Anna about 6 months ago I had shingles. I thought about getting the shot..but it was too expensive for our budget. We checked & it wasn't covered by Medicare. If I had gotten it, it would have cost me $250 out of my own pocket. From what I understand, the shot doesn't eliminate you from getting shingles again. Shingles are in the chicken pox family & we all carry this in our systems, as I'm sure you know by now. ~Jen in AZ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anna Marie Rahfeldt" <shorty6337@hotmail.com> To: <southern-chat@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 12:50 PM Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Chicken pox remedy > > I had shingles 2 years ago-after they went away my husband and I got the > shot. Man did they ever itch - the doc gave me medication. I pray that I > won't get it again-I think thatyou can get it over and over again. > > Blessings, > > > Anna Marie > >> To: SOUTHERN-CHAT-L@rootsweb.com >> Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 02:00:18 -0500 >> From: askgranny@juno.com >> Subject: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Chicken pox remedy >> >> I had a nice talk with my youngest sister who lives in Salem, >> IL..today...whiled away the afternoon hours while watching rain streak >> the windows...She asked if she'd had chicken pox when she was real >> young...trying to make up her mind whether or not to get the Shingles >> vaccine thingee. So I was glad to fill her in on it. >> >> ..One time Dad's folks came to visit and my little sister Jan had >> problems with chicken Pox....I remember Mammy taking her hand and leading >> her out to the hen house....One of us' ruffians' was directed to go in >> there and scare the chickens so they would fly out over her head....Don't >> know what this was supposed to do for the CHICKEN pox, but she survived >> with no bad effects....Think she wasn't breaking out good. Jeannie T >> ____________________________________________________________ >> Globe Life Insurance >> $1* Buys $50,000 Life Insurance. Adults or Children. No Medical Exam. >> http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4cc7ce194a7584dcb2m06duc >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Emma, It's good to hear a parent say that their child or children has done work such as your daughter did. I really do think that people would be better off today if they had done a bit of "work" while they were young. That's too bad that you daughter was unable to pick strawberries...especially, since she enjoyed doing it. ~J ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roses" <roses4831@msn.com> To: "southern-chat" <southern-chat@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2010 6:58 AM Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Making sorghum molasses.... > > My daughter picked strawberries when she was in Jr High School and it > didn't hurt her. But, Oregon decided no kids under 12 yrs old could be in > the fields working and that curtailed a lot of the families from going to > the fields. About that time, we moved to Central Oregon so she couldn't > pick any more. She still talks about working in the fields. > Emma > >> From: AZJen@npgcable.com >> To: southern-chat@rootsweb.com >> Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 23:54:19 -0700 >> Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Making sorghum molasses.... >> >> Jeannie T., >> >> So Sorghum is basically syrup? I have heard of it before, but this is the >> first time I have ever heard of how it was made. That's very interesting. >> In many of your past stories you always seem to mention how the children >> were involved in the growing or picking of crops. Today I don't think >> children would know the first thing when it came to doing what children >> have >> done in the past. It certainly made a child more appreciative of what >> they >> had. Nowadays, it's handed to them & they just expect things. To me, by >> doing all these things, they were stronger individuals when they grew up. >> >> ~Jen in AZ >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: <askgranny@juno.com> >> To: <SOUTHERN-CHAT-L@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2010 10:30 PM >> Subject: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Making sorghum molasses.... >> >> >> > >> > This nippy Fall weather reminds me of the good old days when times were >> > hard. >> > When I was growing up folks didn't have a sorghum cooking apparatus, >> > but >> > one traveled around and would set up at one farm or another..You hauled >> > your sorghum to the Mill.....I suppose the farms owner got a small >> > portion of the sorghum...and probably got to run his through first. >> > Wood >> > supplied the heat but I don't know who supplied that. >> > >> > We grew the sorghum like corn, and in the fall cut it down after the >> > men >> > had gone through each row and knocked off all the leaves with a sort of >> > wooden sword. . Then they went back through and cut it all down with a >> > blade on a long handle.....Then it was piled up at the side. I can >> > eremember cutting off sorghum heads when I was real little..maybe 7 >> > years >> > old. It was SO cold I was crying...remember cutting nicks out of my >> > knees >> > with the big Butcher knife Daddy made from a saw blade. >> > >> > The sorghum was loaded onto a wagon ..all straight and nice, and hauled >> > away....We took some of the seed heads to the house to feed the >> > chickens, >> > but I don't remember Daddy saving all the heads for winter. A mule >> > pulled >> > the long handle{sweep } that was attached to the crusher, and an >> > elderly >> > man sat up under that long sweep and fed the cane into the crusher .The >> > juice came out one side and crushed stalks came out the other..Bagasse, >> > I >> > think they call it. The juice is poured into a big flat pan that has a >> > fir burning under it. Men stir the syrup as it cooks till it get >> > thick...Once Daddy was helping a neighbor make up sorghum and he >> > brought >> > home a quart jar of the golden foam that they had skimmed off..... >> > >> > That pan they cook the syrup in has always fascinated me...They keep on >> > adding fresh syrup to it on one end , and it is stirred, stirred , >> > stirred! The heat from the fires burning under it and the men's paddles >> > causes the liquid to thicken and is moved from one end of the 'pan' to >> > another. It is then drained out into glass jugs or jars and sold or >> > used in the home kitchen as ' Long sweetnin'... >> > >> > On cold winter mornings the delicious thick syrup flowed slowwwllllyyy >> > over >> > the rim of the syrup jar ..It had beautiful amber bubbles in it and >> > they >> > would >> > stretch out like a rubber balloon. Folks said kids were as slow as >> > Sorghum molasses... Sure tasted good when we mixed molasses and butter >> > on >> > our plate, and sopped it up with one of Mama's big flaky >> > biscuits...Jeannie T >> > >> > >> > . >> > ____________________________________________________________ >> > Hate Carrying Pet Food? >> > Now you don't have to! 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My daughter picked strawberries when she was in Jr High School and it didn't hurt her. But, Oregon decided no kids under 12 yrs old could be in the fields working and that curtailed a lot of the families from going to the fields. About that time, we moved to Central Oregon so she couldn't pick any more. She still talks about working in the fields. Emma > From: AZJen@npgcable.com > To: southern-chat@rootsweb.com > Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 23:54:19 -0700 > Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Making sorghum molasses.... > > Jeannie T., > > So Sorghum is basically syrup? I have heard of it before, but this is the > first time I have ever heard of how it was made. That's very interesting. > In many of your past stories you always seem to mention how the children > were involved in the growing or picking of crops. Today I don't think > children would know the first thing when it came to doing what children have > done in the past. It certainly made a child more appreciative of what they > had. Nowadays, it's handed to them & they just expect things. To me, by > doing all these things, they were stronger individuals when they grew up. > > ~Jen in AZ > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <askgranny@juno.com> > To: <SOUTHERN-CHAT-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2010 10:30 PM > Subject: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Making sorghum molasses.... > > > > > > This nippy Fall weather reminds me of the good old days when times were > > hard. > > When I was growing up folks didn't have a sorghum cooking apparatus, but > > one traveled around and would set up at one farm or another..You hauled > > your sorghum to the Mill.....I suppose the farms owner got a small > > portion of the sorghum...and probably got to run his through first. Wood > > supplied the heat but I don't know who supplied that. > > > > We grew the sorghum like corn, and in the fall cut it down after the men > > had gone through each row and knocked off all the leaves with a sort of > > wooden sword. . Then they went back through and cut it all down with a > > blade on a long handle.....Then it was piled up at the side. I can > > eremember cutting off sorghum heads when I was real little..maybe 7 years > > old. It was SO cold I was crying...remember cutting nicks out of my knees > > with the big Butcher knife Daddy made from a saw blade. > > > > The sorghum was loaded onto a wagon ..all straight and nice, and hauled > > away....We took some of the seed heads to the house to feed the chickens, > > but I don't remember Daddy saving all the heads for winter. A mule pulled > > the long handle{sweep } that was attached to the crusher, and an elderly > > man sat up under that long sweep and fed the cane into the crusher .The > > juice came out one side and crushed stalks came out the other..Bagasse, I > > think they call it. The juice is poured into a big flat pan that has a > > fir burning under it. Men stir the syrup as it cooks till it get > > thick...Once Daddy was helping a neighbor make up sorghum and he brought > > home a quart jar of the golden foam that they had skimmed off..... > > > > That pan they cook the syrup in has always fascinated me...They keep on > > adding fresh syrup to it on one end , and it is stirred, stirred , > > stirred! The heat from the fires burning under it and the men's paddles > > causes the liquid to thicken and is moved from one end of the 'pan' to > > another. It is then drained out into glass jugs or jars and sold or > > used in the home kitchen as ' Long sweetnin'... > > > > On cold winter mornings the delicious thick syrup flowed slowwwllllyyy > > over > > the rim of the syrup jar ..It had beautiful amber bubbles in it and they > > would > > stretch out like a rubber balloon. Folks said kids were as slow as > > Sorghum molasses... Sure tasted good when we mixed molasses and butter on > > our plate, and sopped it up with one of Mama's big flaky > > biscuits...Jeannie T > > > > > > . > > ____________________________________________________________ > > Hate Carrying Pet Food? > > Now you don't have to! Pet sites deliver to your door for free! > > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4cccfed76d89e595c3m06duc > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

This nippy Fall weather reminds me of the good old days when times were hard. When I was growing up folks didn't have a sorghum cooking apparatus, but one traveled around and would set up at one farm or another..You hauled your sorghum to the Mill.....I suppose the farms owner got a small portion of the sorghum...and probably got to run his through first. Wood supplied the heat but I don't know who supplied that. We grew the sorghum like corn, and in the fall cut it down after the men had gone through each row and knocked off all the leaves with a sort of wooden sword. . Then they went back through and cut it all down with a blade on a long handle.....Then it was piled up at the side. I can eremember cutting off sorghum heads when I was real little..maybe 7 years old. It was SO cold I was crying...remember cutting nicks out of my knees with the big Butcher knife Daddy made from a saw blade. The sorghum was loaded onto a wagon ..all straight and nice, and hauled away....We took some of the seed heads to the house to feed the chickens, but I don't remember Daddy saving all the heads for winter. A mule pulled the long handle{sweep } that was attached to the crusher, and an elderly man sat up under that long sweep and fed the cane into the crusher .The juice came out one side and crushed stalks came out the other..Bagasse, I think they call it. The juice is poured into a big flat pan that has a fir burning under it. Men stir the syrup as it cooks till it get thick...Once Daddy was helping a neighbor make up sorghum and he brought home a quart jar of the golden foam that they had skimmed off..... That pan they cook the syrup in has always fascinated me...They keep on adding fresh syrup to it on one end , and it is stirred, stirred , stirred! The heat from the fires burning under it and the men's paddles causes the liquid to thicken and is moved from one end of the 'pan' to another. It is then drained out into glass jugs or jars and sold or used in the home kitchen as ' Long sweetnin'... On cold winter mornings the delicious thick syrup flowed slowwwllllyyy over the rim of the syrup jar ..It had beautiful amber bubbles in it and they would stretch out like a rubber balloon. Folks said kids were as slow as Sorghum molasses... Sure tasted good when we mixed molasses and butter on our plate, and sopped it up with one of Mama's big flaky biscuits...Jeannie T . ____________________________________________________________ Hate Carrying Pet Food? Now you don't have to! Pet sites deliver to your door for free! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4cccfed76d89e595c3m06duc

Jeannie T., So Sorghum is basically syrup? I have heard of it before, but this is the first time I have ever heard of how it was made. That's very interesting. In many of your past stories you always seem to mention how the children were involved in the growing or picking of crops. Today I don't think children would know the first thing when it came to doing what children have done in the past. It certainly made a child more appreciative of what they had. Nowadays, it's handed to them & they just expect things. To me, by doing all these things, they were stronger individuals when they grew up. ~Jen in AZ ----- Original Message ----- From: <askgranny@juno.com> To: <SOUTHERN-CHAT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2010 10:30 PM Subject: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Making sorghum molasses.... > > This nippy Fall weather reminds me of the good old days when times were > hard. > When I was growing up folks didn't have a sorghum cooking apparatus, but > one traveled around and would set up at one farm or another..You hauled > your sorghum to the Mill.....I suppose the farms owner got a small > portion of the sorghum...and probably got to run his through first. Wood > supplied the heat but I don't know who supplied that. > > We grew the sorghum like corn, and in the fall cut it down after the men > had gone through each row and knocked off all the leaves with a sort of > wooden sword. . Then they went back through and cut it all down with a > blade on a long handle.....Then it was piled up at the side. I can > eremember cutting off sorghum heads when I was real little..maybe 7 years > old. It was SO cold I was crying...remember cutting nicks out of my knees > with the big Butcher knife Daddy made from a saw blade. > > The sorghum was loaded onto a wagon ..all straight and nice, and hauled > away....We took some of the seed heads to the house to feed the chickens, > but I don't remember Daddy saving all the heads for winter. A mule pulled > the long handle{sweep } that was attached to the crusher, and an elderly > man sat up under that long sweep and fed the cane into the crusher .The > juice came out one side and crushed stalks came out the other..Bagasse, I > think they call it. The juice is poured into a big flat pan that has a > fir burning under it. Men stir the syrup as it cooks till it get > thick...Once Daddy was helping a neighbor make up sorghum and he brought > home a quart jar of the golden foam that they had skimmed off..... > > That pan they cook the syrup in has always fascinated me...They keep on > adding fresh syrup to it on one end , and it is stirred, stirred , > stirred! The heat from the fires burning under it and the men's paddles > causes the liquid to thicken and is moved from one end of the 'pan' to > another. It is then drained out into glass jugs or jars and sold or > used in the home kitchen as ' Long sweetnin'... > > On cold winter mornings the delicious thick syrup flowed slowwwllllyyy > over > the rim of the syrup jar ..It had beautiful amber bubbles in it and they > would > stretch out like a rubber balloon. Folks said kids were as slow as > Sorghum molasses... Sure tasted good when we mixed molasses and butter on > our plate, and sopped it up with one of Mama's big flaky > biscuits...Jeannie T > > > . > ____________________________________________________________ > Hate Carrying Pet Food? > Now you don't have to! Pet sites deliver to your door for free! > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4cccfed76d89e595c3m06duc > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

My aiater asID HER husband, for his school lunch, would take biscuits filled with molasses. I guess if that was all you could afford that tasted pretty good. Emma > To: SOUTHERN-CHAT-L@rootsweb.com > Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 00:30:58 -0500 > From: askgranny@juno.com > Subject: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Making sorghum molasses.... > > > This nippy Fall weather reminds me of the good old days when times were > hard. > When I was growing up folks didn't have a sorghum cooking apparatus, but > one traveled around and would set up at one farm or another..You hauled > your sorghum to the Mill.....I suppose the farms owner got a small > portion of the sorghum...and probably got to run his through first. Wood > supplied the heat but I don't know who supplied that. > > We grew the sorghum like corn, and in the fall cut it down after the men > had gone through each row and knocked off all the leaves with a sort of > wooden sword. . Then they went back through and cut it all down with a > blade on a long handle.....Then it was piled up at the side. I can > eremember cutting off sorghum heads when I was real little..maybe 7 years > old. It was SO cold I was crying...remember cutting nicks out of my knees > with the big Butcher knife Daddy made from a saw blade. > > The sorghum was loaded onto a wagon ..all straight and nice, and hauled > away....We took some of the seed heads to the house to feed the chickens, > but I don't remember Daddy saving all the heads for winter. A mule pulled > the long handle{sweep } that was attached to the crusher, and an elderly > man sat up under that long sweep and fed the cane into the crusher .The > juice came out one side and crushed stalks came out the other..Bagasse, I > think they call it. The juice is poured into a big flat pan that has a > fir burning under it. Men stir the syrup as it cooks till it get > thick...Once Daddy was helping a neighbor make up sorghum and he brought > home a quart jar of the golden foam that they had skimmed off..... > > That pan they cook the syrup in has always fascinated me...They keep on > adding fresh syrup to it on one end , and it is stirred, stirred , > stirred! The heat from the fires burning under it and the men's paddles > causes the liquid to thicken and is moved from one end of the 'pan' to > another. It is then drained out into glass jugs or jars and sold or > used in the home kitchen as ' Long sweetnin'... > > On cold winter mornings the delicious thick syrup flowed slowwwllllyyy > over > the rim of the syrup jar ..It had beautiful amber bubbles in it and they > would > stretch out like a rubber balloon. Folks said kids were as slow as > Sorghum molasses... Sure tasted good when we mixed molasses and butter on > our plate, and sopped it up with one of Mama's big flaky > biscuits...Jeannie T > > > . > ____________________________________________________________ > Hate Carrying Pet Food? > Now you don't have to! Pet sites deliver to your door for free! > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4cccfed76d89e595c3m06duc > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

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I had shingles 2 years ago-after they went away my husband and I got the shot. Man did they ever itch - the doc gave me medication. I pray that I won't get it again-I think thatyou can get it over and over again. Blessings, Anna Marie > To: SOUTHERN-CHAT-L@rootsweb.com > Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 02:00:18 -0500 > From: askgranny@juno.com > Subject: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Chicken pox remedy > > I had a nice talk with my youngest sister who lives in Salem, > IL..today...whiled away the afternoon hours while watching rain streak > the windows...She asked if she'd had chicken pox when she was real > young...trying to make up her mind whether or not to get the Shingles > vaccine thingee. So I was glad to fill her in on it. > > ..One time Dad's folks came to visit and my little sister Jan had > problems with chicken Pox....I remember Mammy taking her hand and leading > her out to the hen house....One of us' ruffians' was directed to go in > there and scare the chickens so they would fly out over her head....Don't > know what this was supposed to do for the CHICKEN pox, but she survived > with no bad effects....Think she wasn't breaking out good. Jeannie T > ____________________________________________________________ > Globe Life Insurance > $1* Buys $50,000 Life Insurance. Adults or Children. No Medical Exam. > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4cc7ce194a7584dcb2m06duc > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Sixth try!! snarl...... ----- Original Message ----- From: askgranny@juno.com To: SOUTHERN-CHAT-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 3:00:18 AM Subject: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Chicken pox remedy I had a nice talk with my youngest sister who lives in Salem, IL..today...whiled away the afternoon hours while watching rain streak the windows...She asked if she'd had chicken pox when she was real young...trying to make up her mind whether or not to get the Shingles vaccine thingee. So I was glad to fill her in on it. ..One time Dad's folks came to visit and my little sister Jan had problems with chicken Pox....I remember Mammy taking her hand and leading her out to the hen house....One of us' ruffians' was directed to go in there and scare the chickens so they would fly out over her head....Don't know what this was supposed to do for the CHICKEN pox, but she survived with no bad effects....Think she wasn't breaking out good. Jeannie T ____________________________________________________________ Globe Life Insurance $1* Buys $50,000 Life Insurance. Adults or Children. No Medical Exam. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4cc7ce194a7584dcb2m06duc ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I've been trying to respond to this message and this is my FIFTH try...have no idea what is the problem but obviously there is one.... gheeshe!! ~~~* O ----- Original Message ----- From: askgranny@juno.com To: SOUTHERN-CHAT-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 2:57:53 AM Subject: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Why, it's raining ! Yep, the dusty ground and bone dry plants are enjoying themselves tonight.....Dead leaves flutter on dogwood trees, and I wonder if they will fall off or stay there till Spring and the new leaves push them off . Hubby had a Dr's appointment this morning, but a sore throat convinced me I needed to stay home...Reading the paper while sipping on a big mug of Oolong tea...can't get much better than that on a gloomy day. Phone rings....Hubby wants me to come get him at the car shop...had to take the car in because the air conditioner wasn't working right. Stands to reason...he just spent about $800.00 getting it completely done. Since I was on that side of town I told him we'd stop by the Kroger...Ok...Headed out the door later and it was just pouring down rain..blowing....By the time we got in the car we were wet...Cleared my throat....Uh oh...Got home, the answering machine light blinked out a message from the garage...come get your car. it was a loose wire. Groannn...Changed clothes...went back out in the drizzling rain....By the time we got there it was raining hard again...groan... Decided to vote early...walk in the rain to the early voting place. Seemed like too much trouble to dig the 2 umbrellas out..Already damp...I mentioned the rain and the clerk said it had been so long since we got rain we couldn't get used to it. I told her it was all coming back to me.....I AM thankful for the gentle rain over a two day period...at least 2 inches, and VERY thankful the bad storms that raked the state passed us by. Jeannie T ____________________________________________________________ Globe Life Insurance $1* Buys $50,000 Life Insurance. Adults or Children. No Medical Exam. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4cc7cd9fa3b574dcaam06duc ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I've never heard that being scared by chickenss would bring out the chickenpox. This is a new one one me. I had the chickenpox the second week of my Sophomore year in Hi School. I went one week then was out the next two weeks with chickenpox. I wasn't sick but was ssure broke out. Emma > To: SOUTHERN-CHAT-L@rootsweb.com > Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 02:00:18 -0500 > From: askgranny@juno.com > Subject: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Chicken pox remedy > > I had a nice talk with my youngest sister who lives in Salem, > IL..today...whiled away the afternoon hours while watching rain streak > the windows...She asked if she'd had chicken pox when she was real > young...trying to make up her mind whether or not to get the Shingles > vaccine thingee. So I was glad to fill her in on it. > > ..One time Dad's folks came to visit and my little sister Jan had > problems with chicken Pox....I remember Mammy taking her hand and leading > her out to the hen house....One of us' ruffians' was directed to go in > there and scare the chickens so they would fly out over her head....Don't > know what this was supposed to do for the CHICKEN pox, but she survived > with no bad effects....Think she wasn't breaking out good. Jeannie T > ____________________________________________________________ > Globe Life Insurance > $1* Buys $50,000 Life Insurance. Adults or Children. No Medical Exam. > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4cc7ce194a7584dcb2m06duc > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I had a nice talk with my youngest sister who lives in Salem, IL..today...whiled away the afternoon hours while watching rain streak the windows...She asked if she'd had chicken pox when she was real young...trying to make up her mind whether or not to get the Shingles vaccine thingee. So I was glad to fill her in on it. ..One time Dad's folks came to visit and my little sister Jan had problems with chicken Pox....I remember Mammy taking her hand and leading her out to the hen house....One of us' ruffians' was directed to go in there and scare the chickens so they would fly out over her head....Don't know what this was supposed to do for the CHICKEN pox, but she survived with no bad effects....Think she wasn't breaking out good. Jeannie T ____________________________________________________________ Globe Life Insurance $1* Buys $50,000 Life Insurance. Adults or Children. No Medical Exam. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4cc7ce194a7584dcb2m06duc

Yep, the dusty ground and bone dry plants are enjoying themselves tonight.....Dead leaves flutter on dogwood trees, and I wonder if they will fall off or stay there till Spring and the new leaves push them off . Hubby had a Dr's appointment this morning, but a sore throat convinced me I needed to stay home...Reading the paper while sipping on a big mug of Oolong tea...can't get much better than that on a gloomy day. Phone rings....Hubby wants me to come get him at the car shop...had to take the car in because the air conditioner wasn't working right. Stands to reason...he just spent about $800.00 getting it completely done. Since I was on that side of town I told him we'd stop by the Kroger...Ok...Headed out the door later and it was just pouring down rain..blowing....By the time we got in the car we were wet...Cleared my throat....Uh oh...Got home, the answering machine light blinked out a message from the garage...come get your car. it was a loose wire. Groannn...Changed clothes...went back out in the drizzling rain....By the time we got there it was raining hard again...groan... Decided to vote early...walk in the rain to the early voting place. Seemed like too much trouble to dig the 2 umbrellas out..Already damp...I mentioned the rain and the clerk said it had been so long since we got rain we couldn't get used to it. I told her it was all coming back to me.....I AM thankful for the gentle rain over a two day period...at least 2 inches, and VERY thankful the bad storms that raked the state passed us by. Jeannie T ____________________________________________________________ Globe Life Insurance $1* Buys $50,000 Life Insurance. Adults or Children. No Medical Exam. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4cc7cd9fa3b574dcaam06duc

Maureen, I have a Baroness Margaret Seot n who married a Baron Claude Hamilton from Paisley, Scotland. Check Ancestry.com an Google, you might find something. My eyes are acting up again. Best to you. Belle ----- Original Message ----- From: Maureen Gallagher To: MEMORY_LANE Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 6:15 PM Subject: Re: [MEMORY_LANE] Re: Stories / Belle The other name is Seton, Sinclair and Stewart. ----- Original Message ----- From: Maureen Gallagher To: MEMORY_LANE@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 8:04 PM Subject: Re: [MEMORY_LANE] Re: Stories / Belle Yes, I seen the movie. You've been to Roslyn Chapel? Wow! that's my husband's dream to go there. We have a very hard time tracing back any farther than his greatgrandparents on either side since both are native and the trail goes cold. He thinks his ancestor may be William or Henry Sinclair. Do you have any of the Sinclair ancestry figured out? Maureen ----- Original Message ----- From: Belle Shepherd To: MEMORY_LANE@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 6:40 PM Subject: Re: [MEMORY_LANE] Re: Stories / Belle Maureen, The grand fathers and uncles on both sides of my family were Masons. The grands were buried with all the ceremony and rites from their Lodges. They have marble slabs over their graves with the Masonic Emblem carved into them. Several uncles were Shriners. Roslyn Chapel was built by a William de Clare who is buried there, it is a beautil place. My lines go back to him, also some Sinclairs. There are so many names to check out. Did you see The de Vinci Code movie? Belle ----- Original Message ----- From: Maureen Gallagher To: MEMORY_LANE@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 6:36 AM Subject: Re: [MEMORY_LANE] Re: Stories / Belle My Gallaghers came from Donegal and Meany's from Kilkenny. And my husband whose both parents are native has Scottish ancestry on his father's side. Sinclair, some generations back Sinclair came over from Scotland most likely to work with the Hudson's Bay fur trade and had a child with a native woman, and the ancestry remained native down the line. My husband's read up on everything Scottish including Robert the Bruce, the Free Masons, The Templars, Roslynn Chapel and is very interested in reading about the 3 'royal' families, The Stewarts, Sinclairs and the last which escapes me now. Maureen __._,_.___ Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe __,_._,___

-No, I haven't been to Roslyn but a cousin has been and has some great pictures I don't have much on the Sinclair family, just a note that they were one of the wealthiest of the prominet famlies. The further back we go, the more confusing it gets. Many of the old records are not very accurate as they were poorly written and transcribed from other poorly written records. The nearest I have been to Irelan and Scotland is in flying over on my way to Germany. Oh how beatiful and green in the early morning light. I didn't get back to them as planned on my long trip. Belle From: Maureen Gallagher To: MEMORY_LANE@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 6:04 PM Subject: Re: [MEMORY_LANE] Re: Stories / Belle Yes, I seen the movie. You've been to Roslyn Chapel? Wow! that's my husband's dream to go there. We have a very hard time tracing back any farther than his greatgrandparents on either side since both are native and the trail goes cold. He thinks his ancestor may be William or Henry Sinclair. Do you have any of the Sinclair ancestry figured out? Maureen ----- Original Message ----- From: Belle Shepherd To: MEMORY_LANE@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 6:40 PM Subject: Re: [MEMORY_LANE] Re: Stories / Belle Maureen, The grand fathers and uncles on both sides of my family were Masons. The grands were buried with all the ceremony and rites from their Lodges. They have marble slabs over their graves with the Masonic Emblem carved into them. Several uncles were Shriners. Roslyn Chapel was built by a William de Clare who is buried there, it is a beautil place. My lines go back to him, also some Sinclairs. There are so many names to check out. Did you see The de Vinci Code movie? Belle ----- Original Message ----- From: Maureen Gallagher To: MEMORY_LANE@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 6:36 AM Subject: Re: [MEMORY_LANE] Re: Stories / Belle My Gallaghers came from Donegal and Meany's from Kilkenny. And my husband whose both parents are native has Scottish ancestry on his father's side. Sinclair, some generations back Sinclair came over from Scotland most likely to work with the Hudson's Bay fur trade and had a child with a native woman, and the ancestry remained native down the line. My husband's read up on everything Scottish including Robert the Bruce, the Free Masons, The Templars, Roslynn Chapel and is very interested in reading about the 3 'royal' families, The Stewarts, Sinclairs and the last which escapes me now. Maureen __._,_.___ Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe __,_._,___

Good luck with your Dr ! It's good when they tell you theres nothing wrong with you....except you go home still hurting and knowing they aren't going to take the pain away.........Patch, patch, patch... Only one of the three kids we call grand kids is blood kin to us, but we've been around them all their lives and THEY think we're kin...I feel more related to the two boys than I do my blood granddaughter...She's not as loving ...She's Papa's pet. . Jeannie T ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 23:48:33 -0700 "Jen LaBonte" <AZJen@npgcable.com> writes: > Well, let's hope & pray that Buzz doesn't turn out that way either. I have often wondered how my s-i-l has put up with all that she has for all these years. I guess with her, it's her kin, so she figures that she is > obligated to take care of the kids. ____________________________________________________________ Mortgage Rates Hit 3.25% If you owe under $729k you probably qualify for Obama's Refi Program http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4cbc8d0be162135094m06duc