A marriage license can be found for a Roy Acord to a Edith Patterson on the wvculture.org web site. The date is 3 Feb 1945 in Mullens, WV. The licence states that Roy's parents are Ellet Acord and Pearl Mace. I think that the parents should be Charles Elliot Acord and Rosie Pearl Milam. Does anyone have any better info than this for Roy? http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=11121872&Type=Marriage

In a message dated 10/06/08 22:27:06 Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: I am looking for info on two people named cook who i cant find the parents of. One is Geneva Margarette Cook b. oct 17 1871 in Wyoming county. She married Otis stover. The other is Mandonah Cook b mar 18 1869 and she married Henry Gilbert Scarbrough. I cant find the parents names for either of them. Anyone know anything? Thanks ___I do have a Geneva Cook but I do not know if it is yours as I do not have dates for her. It is however in the Wyoming Co. area. I have a father listed as Kermit Cook and mother Ida Wooten. Kermit was the son of James Everette Cook and May Pauley._I do have more on that particular Cook line but I do not know if it is the one you are searching for...........Let me know........will be glad to share if it is correct. Rita Leise _____________________________________________________________ Want to do more with Windows Live? Learn “10 hidden secrets” from Jamie. http://windowslive.com/connect/post/jamiethomson.spaces.live.com-Blog-cns!550F681DAD532637!5295.entry?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_domore_092008 ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I am looking for info on two people named cook who i cant find the parents of. One is Geneva Margarette Cook b. oct 17 1871 in Wyoming county. She married Otis stover. The other is Mandonah Cook b mar 18 1869 and she married Henry Gilbert Scarbrough. I cant find the parents names for either of them. Anyone know anything? Thanks _________________________________________________________________ Want to do more with Windows Live? Learn “10 hidden secrets” from Jamie. http://windowslive.com/connect/post/jamiethomson.spaces.live.com-Blog-cns!550F681DAD532637!5295.entry?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_domore_092008

hi david...looks like you and i are related too. (Rev) Mitchell Cooke and Mary Cooke are my grandfathers ,(Jode Othoniel Cook,) great-great grandparents, whose parents are William Cooke and Catherine Stewart, i think. debbie ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Dillow Thomas" <[email protected]> To: "Dennis W and Chris Watson" <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 1:51 AM Subject: [WVWYOMIN] Fw:The gravees at Ravencliff,West Virginia.. > Hi There Dennis & Chris, > > One in that grave yar is kin to you and I also. > > I went on there and check them out and you and I was kin befor we was > born. > > Brooks, Bower,Walker, > Jane Walker is a sister to my Grent Grandpa Thomas G. Walker and Mary Ann > Cooke/Cook d/o (Rev) Mitchell Cooke and Mary Cooke. > > Now that I know the Walker line you are working on I can sent you a lot of > stuff. > > I will sent you stuff on the HasH,Walker,Cooke,Cook, Halsey,Poe, > You and I are kin so many ways I just don't were to start at 1th. > Morgan,Brown,Perdue,Wikel,Barton, > Tilley,Workman,Tovillor,Goode, > Richandson,Wyatt,Blankenship, > York,Rose,Browning,Dorton,Grubb, > Clay,Stewart,McGlothlin,Church, > Lusk,Casey,Weaver,Privette,McKinney, > Pugh, > Just a few I can thank of off top of my head, > Atwell,Green,Simms, > > John Cooke, > It is hard to from West Virgina and not be kin to John Cooke,(Capt) Ralph > Stewart,Mitchell Clay,John Jesse Poe, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>... > Please let me know witch Walker framily you are in need of. >>From David Dillow Thomas. > > Bennett,Bearnett,Cline,Heartwell,Barton, > Laxton,Pendery, > Johnson,Staton, > Just a few. >>From David. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi Betty...it's hard to find someone that we're not related to someway. LOL!!i've been trying to research the cook family tree...what a big tree!!!!!ha!ha! debbie ----- Original Message ----- From: "LifeBuyDesign" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2008 10:58 PM Subject: Re: [WVWYOMIN] Growin' Up in Appalachia Debbie: My Grandpa was Walter R, son of Richard Madison Cook, commonly called as Capt. Dick, My Grandma Was Minnie Edna D/O Burl Matison Cook. I always enjoy being funny and I also brag about the fact that Catherine was not only my grandmother, but also my aunt. Cooks and Stewarts, What can I say Betty ----- Original Message ----- From: "debbie stringer" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2008 11:51 AM Subject: Re: [WVWYOMIN] Growin' Up in Appalachia hi betty ..... what were your grandparents first names? debbie cook stringer from tampa, fl/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "LifeBuyDesign" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 7:15 PM Subject: Re: [WVWYOMIN] Growin' Up in Appalachia Stan: You made me hungry. The last year I lived with Grandma and Grandpa Cook we put up 200 quarts of tomatoes. As I look back I rather enjoyed it, but at 16, oh well that's teenagers. Grannie always put up pickled beans and oh yes pickled corn. I can almost taste that Molasses Cake and fresh Buttermilk. Sure do miss the good times. Betty Cook Martinez Frederick Maryland ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stanley Browning" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 6:21 PM Subject: [WVWYOMIN] Growin' Up in Appalachia Our mailing lists have been unusually quite of late, and it isn't even dog days yet! So I will throw out a little tidbit for you to use as fodder to exercise your memories of how it was "back then." How many of you helped make hominy? Sour kraut? Pickle beans? Other old time staples? STAN Making Hominy When Ira Cook, Jr. and I were discussing my notes for my new book,"Matheny and Me," the subject of making hominy came up. I remembered that my mother and granny made hominy several times, but I could not remember the details. For that reason, I chose to ignore the subject in my book and hope that no one would notice. Now Ira is no ordinary reviewer, but I finally concluded that there might be others who are just as picky and would feel that hominy should get equal coverage with some of the other staple foods we made ourselves, which most folks now pick from a grocery store shelf and could not care less how they are made. I think I know the hominy preparation steps my granny May and mother followed pretty well, but it's the relative measurements of ingredients that evade me. I know that a unique and necessary ingredient was lye.[1] They used lye water to make hominy that was just like they used to make homemade soap. They soaked dried shelled “field corn” for two or three days in the lye water until the grains swelled and the skin came off. The mixture was stirred occasionally throughout the soaking period. The corn was then washed repeatedly to remove all the lye. The last step was simply to cook the corn until it was tender. Our friends further south than West Virginia use cracked corn, thus they get hominy grits. What happens beyond this point in the process is left to the imagination of the cook. Most people just heat the hominy, add butter and salt and eat it that way. Some make paddies and fry them. I don't know how my wife, Connie, prepares that sissy- made store-bought hominy she buys, but it turns out just as good as the real stuff and it is a lot less trouble. [1] One of my friends says that a couple of boxes of soda dissolved in enough water to cover a gallon and a half of beans works just as well as lye. I think I like that idea better. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] 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 [email protected] 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 [email protected] 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 [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

hi there david...sorry it has taken me soo long to get back to you. i have been looking for that picture and i can't seem to find it. i'll keep looking and i'm very sorry i can't find it. my uncle may have it. as soon as i locate it, i will email it to you. debbie ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Dillow Thomas" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2008 11:53 AM Subject: Re: [WVWYOMIN] Growin' Up in Appalachia Hi There Dibbie & Stan, May I have a copy of the picture of the Cooke/Cook Reunion please are you going sent it E-Mail please let me know ok? and thank you all very much. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >From David Dillow Thomas. My G: Grandma was Mary Ann Cook married to Thomas G. Walker d/o (Rev) Mitchell Cooke and Mary ? Please let me have a copy and thank you very much. >From D.D.T. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.. ----- Original Message ----- From: "debbie stringer" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2008 11:34 AM Subject: Re: [WVWYOMIN] Growin' Up in Appalachia > Hi Stan...... > Thankyou very much for the info you sent me. i have been trying to do > the Cook family tree. Sooo many Cooks. I have a photo of a Cook family > reunion that my late father, Ernest Cook, gave me. It kind of reminded me > of > a political meeting of some kind! LOL! > So you muxt be related to Nancy Browning? Do you still live in West Va.? > debbie > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Stanley Browning" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 11:54 PM > Subject: Re: [WVWYOMIN] Growin' Up in Appalachia > > > Hi Deborah, > > Its pretty hard to be from Wyoming County and not be related to the > Cooks. Consider the following: > > (1) John Cooke begat William Cook Sr., who begat Mitchell Cooke, > who begat Ballard Preston Cooke, who begat Irvin Jacob Cook, who > begat Joda othaneal Cooke, who married Lula Mae Cooper. > (2) John Cooke begat William Cook Sr., who begat William Newton > Cooke, who begat Burl Matison Cooke, who begat Burl Hamilton Cook, > who begat Ira Winfred Cook, who begat Ira Cook,Jr. > (3) John Cooke begat William Cook Sr., who begat William Newton > Cooke, who begat Burl Matison Cooke, who begat Martha Cook, who > married Green Browning and begat Mormie Browning, who begat Stanley > Browning. (Wow!! Thats me) > > And how about this? > (4) Austin Cooper begat Isaac Bee Cooper, who begat Lula Mae Cooper > (5) Austin Cooper begat John Cooper who begat Bee Cooper, who begat > Erna Cooper, who married Mormie Browning and begat Stanley Browning. > > STAN > > > > > On Jul 31, 2008, at 11:44 AM, debbie stringer wrote: > >> hi stan..... my name is deborah cook stringer. i think i am related >> to ira >> cook jr. maybe? i was born in pineville hospital in 1953. my >> grandparents >> were Jode & Lula Mae Cook from rockview. there are several of my >> family >> members still there. i live in tampa, fl. now. >> debbie >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Stanley Browning" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; >> <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> >> Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 6:21 PM >> Subject: [WVWYOMIN] Growin' Up in Appalachia >> >> >> Our mailing lists have been unusually quite of late, and it isn't >> even dog days yet! So I will throw out a little tidbit for you to >> use as fodder to exercise your memories of how it was "back then." >> How many of you helped make hominy? Sour kraut? Pickle beans? Other >> old time staples? >> >> STAN >> >> Making Hominy >> When Ira Cook, Jr. and I were discussing my notes for my new >> book,"Matheny and Me," the subject of making hominy came up. I >> remembered that my mother and granny made hominy several times, but I >> could not remember the details. For that reason, I chose to ignore >> the subject in my book and hope that no one would notice. Now Ira is >> no ordinary reviewer, but I finally concluded that there might be >> others who are just as picky and would feel that hominy should get >> equal coverage with some of the other staple foods we made ourselves, >> which most folks now pick from a grocery store shelf and could not >> care less how they are made. >> >> I think I know the hominy preparation steps my granny May and mother >> followed pretty well, but it's the relative measurements of >> ingredients that evade me. I know that a unique and necessary >> ingredient was lye.[1] They used lye water to make hominy that was >> just like they used to make homemade soap. They soaked dried shelled >> “field corn” for two or three days in the lye water until the grains >> swelled and the skin came off. The mixture was stirred occasionally >> throughout the soaking period. The corn was then washed repeatedly >> to remove all the lye. The last step was simply to cook the corn >> until it was tender. >> >> Our friends further south than West Virginia use cracked corn, thus >> they get hominy grits. >> >> What happens beyond this point in the process is left to the >> imagination of the cook. Most people just heat the hominy, add >> butter and salt and eat it that way. Some make paddies and fry >> them. I don't know how my wife, Connie, prepares that sissy- made >> store-bought hominy she buys, but it turns out just as good as the >> real stuff and it is a lot less trouble. >> >> >> [1] One of my friends says that a couple of boxes of soda dissolved >> in enough water to cover a gallon and a half of beans works just as >> well as lye. I think I like that idea better. >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] 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 WVWYOMIN- >> [email protected] 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 > [email protected] 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 > [email protected] 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 [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi, Can you tell me if Chloe Ann Walker married a George W. Stewart on 20 Sep 1864..s/o Charles Stewart and Nancy Cook.. Thanks Bunches Sherry ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Dillow Thomas" <[email protected]> To: "Dennis W and Chris Watson" <[email protected]> Cc: "Jack Crawford" <[email protected]>; "Bob Hampton Weaver" <[email protected]>; "Lynda Davis-Logan" <[email protected]>; "Barb Duncan" <[email protected]>; "Audrey Blankenship Gill" <[email protected]>; "Cindy_Fentress" <[email protected]>; "Paul B. Phelps" <[email protected]>; "W. Dawn Wright" <[email protected]>; "Bill Cottle" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; "Nancy Clark Martz" <[email protected]>; "Cynthia Larimore" <[email protected]>; "Patience" <[email protected]>; "Betty Cook Martinez" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 10:34 PM Subject: [WVWYOMIN] Fw: Walker1850,1860,1870,1880 Census. > Hi There Chris and Dennis, > > Here want I have so far on the Walker Family. > (Capt) William Jun Walker b: 1820,Jan,21 in Caswell NC, > Expired 1899,Dec,23 in Wyoming County,West Virginia. > > (1) Marta F.Walker b:? expired ? > (2) Chloe Ann Walker b: 1844 in NC Expired in1929,in Boone County,West > Virginia. > (3) James B Walker b: 1846, d: 1909 > (4) "( Thomas Gerald Walker 1850,in NC d:1918 in Rock view,Wyoming > County,West Virginia.)" > (5) Martella F Walker b:1851,d:1927. > (6) Andrew Jackson Walker b:1853, d: 1935. > (7) Jane Walker 1858,d:1929 in Ravencliff,Wyoming County,West Virginia > married to John L Duncan b:1854,Jan,24,d:1923,Feb,06 in Ravencliff,Wyoming > County,West Virginia. > (8) Parthena Walker b:1858,d:1913. > (9) Nancy Walker, b:1860. > (10) Mary Walker 1862,d:1933 > (11) Olly Walker b:1864,Expired 1917. > (12) Okey Walker b: 1864, Expired 1917. > (13) Sarah Octavia Walker b:1867,Expired 1946. > > Hey Cathy, > We would be about 3th Cousin's. > is that right Lee,Chris,Cathy. > I weil sent more tommorw. > FromDavid Dillow Thomas. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Do you all have anything on an Aldie Walker? I think Aldie may have been a nickname. I'm told that his people were from around Roderfield area. So, not exactly Wyoming County, but close. He's buried in the Iaeger Cemetery. Below is the information from his military stone. Alda Walker WV Wagoner 7th Inf. 3 Div. WWI 6/5/1895-10/11/1947 Thanks! Melissa (Morgan) Kline Cecil County, Maryland Tracing Their Footsteps http://www.tracingtheirfootsteps.wordpress.com/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Dillow Thomas" <[email protected]> To: "Dennis W and Chris Watson" <[email protected]> Cc: "Jack Crawford" <[email protected]>; "Bob Hampton Weaver" <[email protected]>; "Lynda Davis-Logan" <[email protected]>; "Barb Duncan" <[email protected]>; "Audrey Blankenship Gill" <[email protected]>; "Cindy_Fentress" <[email protected]>; "Paul B. Phelps" <[email protected]>; "W. Dawn Wright" <[email protected]>; "Bill Cottle" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; "Nancy Clark Martz" <[email protected]>; "Cynthia Larimore" <[email protected]>; "Patience" <[email protected]>; "Betty Cook Martinez" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 10:34 PM Subject: [WVWYOMIN] Fw: Walker1850,1860,1870,1880 Census. > Hi There Chris and Dennis, > > Here want I have so far on the Walker Family. > (Capt) William Jun Walker b: 1820,Jan,21 in Caswell NC, > Expired 1899,Dec,23 in Wyoming County,West Virginia. > > (1) Marta F.Walker b:? expired ? > (2) Chloe Ann Walker b: 1844 in NC Expired in1929,in Boone County,West > Virginia. > (3) James B Walker b: 1846, d: 1909 > (4) "( Thomas Gerald Walker 1850,in NC d:1918 in Rock view,Wyoming > County,West Virginia.)" > (5) Martella F Walker b:1851,d:1927. > (6) Andrew Jackson Walker b:1853, d: 1935. > (7) Jane Walker 1858,d:1929 in Ravencliff,Wyoming County,West Virginia > married to John L Duncan b:1854,Jan,24,d:1923,Feb,06 in Ravencliff,Wyoming > County,West Virginia. > (8) Parthena Walker b:1858,d:1913. > (9) Nancy Walker, b:1860. > (10) Mary Walker 1862,d:1933 > (11) Olly Walker b:1864,Expired 1917. > (12) Okey Walker b: 1864, Expired 1917. > (13) Sarah Octavia Walker b:1867,Expired 1946. > > Hey Cathy, > We would be about 3th Cousin's. > is that right Lee,Chris,Cathy. > I weil sent more tommorw. > FromDavid Dillow Thomas. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Just want I got of of Finwe A Grave. Do you have a list if so would you pease sent Lee HasH, and myself please. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "shirleyp" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 8:29 PM Subject: Re: [WVWYOMIN] Fw:The gravees at Ravencliff,West Virginia.. > do you have the listing in this cemetery? shirley > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Dillow Thomas" <[email protected]> > To: "Dennis W and Chris Watson" <[email protected]> > Cc: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 1:51 AM > Subject: [WVWYOMIN] Fw:The gravees at Ravencliff,West Virginia.. > > >> Hi There Dennis & Chris, >> >> One in that grave yar is kin to you and I also. >> >> I went on there and check them out and you and I was kin befor we >> was >> born. >> >> Brooks, Bower,Walker, >> Jane Walker is a sister to my Grent Grandpa Thomas G. Walker and Mary >> Ann >> Cooke/Cook d/o (Rev) Mitchell Cooke and Mary Cooke. >> >> Now that I know the Walker line you are working on I can sent you a lot >> of >> stuff. >> >> I will sent you stuff on the HasH,Walker,Cooke,Cook, Halsey,Poe, >> You and I are kin so many ways I just don't were to start at 1th. >> Morgan,Brown,Perdue,Wikel,Barton, >> Tilley,Workman,Tovillor,Goode, >> Richandson,Wyatt,Blankenship, >> York,Rose,Browning,Dorton,Grubb, >> Clay,Stewart,McGlothlin,Church, >> Lusk,Casey,Weaver,Privette,McKinney, >> Pugh, >> Just a few I can thank of off top of my head, >> Atwell,Green,Simms, >> >> John Cooke, >> It is hard to from West Virgina and not be kin to John Cooke,(Capt) Ralph >> Stewart,Mitchell Clay,John Jesse Poe, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>... >> Please let me know witch Walker framily you are in need of. >>>From David Dillow Thomas. >> >> Bennett,Bearnett,Cline,Heartwell,Barton, >> Laxton,Pendery, >> Johnson,Staton, >> Just a few. >>>From David. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>. >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] 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 > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >

Hi There Chris and Dennis, Here want I have so far on the Walker Family. (Capt) William Jun Walker b: 1820,Jan,21 in Caswell NC, Expired 1899,Dec,23 in Wyoming County,West Virginia. (1) Marta F.Walker b:? expired ? (2) Chloe Ann Walker b: 1844 in NC Expired in1929,in Boone County,West Virginia. (3) James B Walker b: 1846, d: 1909 (4) "( Thomas Gerald Walker 1850,in NC d:1918 in Rock view,Wyoming County,West Virginia.)" (5) Martella F Walker b:1851,d:1927. (6) Andrew Jackson Walker b:1853, d: 1935. (7) Jane Walker 1858,d:1929 in Ravencliff,Wyoming County,West Virginia married to John L Duncan b:1854,Jan,24,d:1923,Feb,06 in Ravencliff,Wyoming County,West Virginia. (8) Parthena Walker b:1858,d:1913. (9) Nancy Walker, b:1860. (10) Mary Walker 1862,d:1933 (11) Olly Walker b:1864,Expired 1917. (12) Okey Walker b: 1864, Expired 1917. (13) Sarah Octavia Walker b:1867,Expired 1946. Hey Cathy, We would be about 3th Cousin's. is that right Lee,Chris,Cathy. I weil sent more tommorw. FromDavid Dillow Thomas. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

do you have the listing in this cemetery? shirley ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Dillow Thomas" <[email protected]> To: "Dennis W and Chris Watson" <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 1:51 AM Subject: [WVWYOMIN] Fw:The gravees at Ravencliff,West Virginia.. > Hi There Dennis & Chris, > > One in that grave yar is kin to you and I also. > > I went on there and check them out and you and I was kin befor we was > born. > > Brooks, Bower,Walker, > Jane Walker is a sister to my Grent Grandpa Thomas G. Walker and Mary Ann > Cooke/Cook d/o (Rev) Mitchell Cooke and Mary Cooke. > > Now that I know the Walker line you are working on I can sent you a lot of > stuff. > > I will sent you stuff on the HasH,Walker,Cooke,Cook, Halsey,Poe, > You and I are kin so many ways I just don't were to start at 1th. > Morgan,Brown,Perdue,Wikel,Barton, > Tilley,Workman,Tovillor,Goode, > Richandson,Wyatt,Blankenship, > York,Rose,Browning,Dorton,Grubb, > Clay,Stewart,McGlothlin,Church, > Lusk,Casey,Weaver,Privette,McKinney, > Pugh, > Just a few I can thank of off top of my head, > Atwell,Green,Simms, > > John Cooke, > It is hard to from West Virgina and not be kin to John Cooke,(Capt) Ralph > Stewart,Mitchell Clay,John Jesse Poe, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>... > Please let me know witch Walker framily you are in need of. >>From David Dillow Thomas. > > Bennett,Bearnett,Cline,Heartwell,Barton, > Laxton,Pendery, > Johnson,Staton, > Just a few. >>From David. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Hi There Dennis & Chris, One in that grave yar is kin to you and I also. I went on there and check them out and you and I was kin befor we was born. Brooks, Bower,Walker, Jane Walker is a sister to my Grent Grandpa Thomas G. Walker and Mary Ann Cooke/Cook d/o (Rev) Mitchell Cooke and Mary Cooke. Now that I know the Walker line you are working on I can sent you a lot of stuff. I will sent you stuff on the HasH,Walker,Cooke,Cook, Halsey,Poe, You and I are kin so many ways I just don't were to start at 1th. Morgan,Brown,Perdue,Wikel,Barton, Tilley,Workman,Tovillor,Goode, Richandson,Wyatt,Blankenship, York,Rose,Browning,Dorton,Grubb, Clay,Stewart,McGlothlin,Church, Lusk,Casey,Weaver,Privette,McKinney, Pugh, Just a few I can thank of off top of my head, Atwell,Green,Simms, John Cooke, It is hard to from West Virgina and not be kin to John Cooke,(Capt) Ralph Stewart,Mitchell Clay,John Jesse Poe, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>... Please let me know witch Walker framily you are in need of. >From David Dillow Thomas. Bennett,Bearnett,Cline,Heartwell,Barton, Laxton,Pendery, Johnson,Staton, Just a few. >From David. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.

Debbie: My Grandpa was Walter R, son of Richard Madison Cook, commonly called as Capt. Dick, My Grandma Was Minnie Edna D/O Burl Matison Cook. I always enjoy being funny and I also brag about the fact that Catherine was not only my grandmother, but also my aunt. Cooks and Stewarts, What can I say Betty ----- Original Message ----- From: "debbie stringer" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2008 11:51 AM Subject: Re: [WVWYOMIN] Growin' Up in Appalachia hi betty ..... what were your grandparents first names? debbie cook stringer from tampa, fl/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "LifeBuyDesign" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 7:15 PM Subject: Re: [WVWYOMIN] Growin' Up in Appalachia Stan: You made me hungry. The last year I lived with Grandma and Grandpa Cook we put up 200 quarts of tomatoes. As I look back I rather enjoyed it, but at 16, oh well that's teenagers. Grannie always put up pickled beans and oh yes pickled corn. I can almost taste that Molasses Cake and fresh Buttermilk. Sure do miss the good times. Betty Cook Martinez Frederick Maryland ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stanley Browning" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 6:21 PM Subject: [WVWYOMIN] Growin' Up in Appalachia Our mailing lists have been unusually quite of late, and it isn't even dog days yet! So I will throw out a little tidbit for you to use as fodder to exercise your memories of how it was "back then." How many of you helped make hominy? Sour kraut? Pickle beans? Other old time staples? STAN Making Hominy When Ira Cook, Jr. and I were discussing my notes for my new book,"Matheny and Me," the subject of making hominy came up. I remembered that my mother and granny made hominy several times, but I could not remember the details. For that reason, I chose to ignore the subject in my book and hope that no one would notice. Now Ira is no ordinary reviewer, but I finally concluded that there might be others who are just as picky and would feel that hominy should get equal coverage with some of the other staple foods we made ourselves, which most folks now pick from a grocery store shelf and could not care less how they are made. I think I know the hominy preparation steps my granny May and mother followed pretty well, but it's the relative measurements of ingredients that evade me. I know that a unique and necessary ingredient was lye.[1] They used lye water to make hominy that was just like they used to make homemade soap. They soaked dried shelled “field corn” for two or three days in the lye water until the grains swelled and the skin came off. The mixture was stirred occasionally throughout the soaking period. The corn was then washed repeatedly to remove all the lye. The last step was simply to cook the corn until it was tender. Our friends further south than West Virginia use cracked corn, thus they get hominy grits. What happens beyond this point in the process is left to the imagination of the cook. Most people just heat the hominy, add butter and salt and eat it that way. Some make paddies and fry them. I don't know how my wife, Connie, prepares that sissy- made store-bought hominy she buys, but it turns out just as good as the real stuff and it is a lot less trouble. [1] One of my friends says that a couple of boxes of soda dissolved in enough water to cover a gallon and a half of beans works just as well as lye. I think I like that idea better. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] 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 [email protected] 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 [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Stan, My aunt Iris Ellison West taught me and we strung them on long heavy thread and hung out side until dried. We always used Kentucky Wonder beans. You know this was from the Indians, but they probably laid them out to dry. Norma ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stanley Browning" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 11:25 PM Subject: Re: [WVWYOMIN] Growin' Up in Appalachia >I didn't forget leather britches, Norma, they are covered elsewhere > in my book. Did you make yours by stringing the beans on a thread or > did you just spread them out on the roof in the sun to dry? > > On Aug 1, 2008, at 8:36 PM, <[email protected]> > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Stanley Browning" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 12:04 AM >> Subject: Re: [WVWYOMIN] Growin' Up in Appalachia >> >> Stan, >> You forgot something when you listed all of the veggies. What about >> Leather >> Britches? >> Norma Russie >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WVWYOMIN- >> [email protected] 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 > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

> > > >> Hi Deborah, > >> > >> Its pretty hard to be from Wyoming County and not be related to the > >> Cooks. Consider the following: > >> > >> (1) John Cooke begat William Cook Sr., who begat Mitchell Cooke, > >> who begat Ballard Preston Cooke, who begat Irvin Jacob Cook, who > >> begat Joda othaneal Cooke, who married Lula Mae Cooper. > >> (2) John Cooke begat William Cook Sr., who begat William Newton > >> Cooke, who begat Burl Matison Cooke, who begat Burl Hamilton Cook, > >> who begat Ira Winfred Cook, who begat Ira Cook,Jr. > >> (3) John Cooke begat William Cook Sr., who begat William Newton > >> Cooke, who begat Burl Matison Cooke, who begat Martha Cook, who > >> married Green Browning and begat Mormie Browning, who begat Stanley > >> Browning. (Wow!! Thats me) > >> > >> And how about this? > >> (4) Austin Cooper begat Isaac Bee Cooper, who begat Lula Mae Cooper > >> (5) Austin Cooper begat John Cooper who begat Bee Cooper, who begat > >> Erna Cooper, who married Mormie Browning and begat Stanley Browning. > >> > >> STAN > > >> > >> On Jul 31, 2008, at 11:44 AM, debbie stringer wrote: > >> > >>> hi stan..... my name is deborah cook stringer. i think i am related > >>> to ira > >>> cook jr. maybe? i was born in pineville hospital in 1953. my > >>> grandparents > >>> were Jode & Lula Mae Cook from rockview. there are several of my > >>> family > >>> members still there. i live in tampa, fl. now. > >>> debbie > Hi Debbie. I saw in one of your messages that you have a photo from one of the Cook Family Reunions. I would love to have a copy of that photo if possible. My email address is [email protected] Like just about everybody with Wyoming Co roots, I have a trace of Cook ancestry. Thanks, Wade Halsey

----- Original Message ----- From: "debbie stringer" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2008 11:49 AM Subject: Re: [WVWYOMIN] Growin' Up in Appalachia > hi david...i was born in pineville hospital, but lived in mullens on moran > ave. gosh its been so long ago. my mom's maiden name was pennington. did > you > know any? > debbie > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Dillow Thomas" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Cc: "Oneida Joyce Halsey" <[email protected]>; "Cynthia Larimore" > <[email protected]>; "Lynda Davis-Logan" <[email protected]>; > "Dennis W and Chris Watson" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 5:40 PM > Subject: Re: [WVWYOMIN] Growin' Up in Appalachia > > > Hi There Stanley, > I know just want you are saying about Wyoming County,West Virginia and not > like Pickley Bean's,Pickley Corn,Dry Green Bean's,Good old fat back to > cook > a pot of bean's with. > > You all was talking about begat Levi Robert HasH and Evelyn Walker, > Thomas > G. Walker, Winnie Artess HasH abnd George Dillow Thomas begat the Thomas > family in Wyoming County,West Virginia. > > There was > George Dillow Thomas b: 1882,Nov,27 in Virginia and Expired in 1945,Aug,05 > In Mullens,Wyoming County,West Virginia. > > The you have the all the HasH,Cooke/Cook.Poe,Halsey,Brooks,Workman, > Weaver,Richardson,Perdue,Perdaw,Wyatt, > Browning,Tilley,Miller,Goode,Cline,Steel, > Wikel,Chester M. Wikel that work at the Chevrolet/Pine Cheverolet in > Pineville,Wyoming County,West Virginia. > > Put the Bowman,Privette,Church,Lusk, > Phillips,Manning,Blankenship,Hager, > Carr,Mills,York,Belcher,Clay,Stewart, > Barton,Blake,Wolfe,Wolf,Green, > McGlothlin,Bond,Whitt,McKenney, > > Brown, George F. Brown,Morgan,Cooper,Lewis, Byrd, > Rose,Taylor,Laman,Dorton,Gubb,Butcher, > Oscar Butcher, (Rev) Elbert I.Hill,(Rev) Oscar Sparks, > I aways was thanking my mother was a (REV) went I did something bad. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.. > As big as butt locks is I must have been real real bad ore y mother like > for > me to cry. > > > > > > How about the Funeral Home there in Pineville,Mullens,Wyoming County,West > Virginia. > > > How many recall George F.Brown,Pete Morgan, > Bailey, > > If I have left any one out you all may put there are just a few.,I know > there > are some I never named but if thay was from Mercer,Wyoming Any other > County's just name them and we are kin to them. >>From David Dillow Thomas. > I was begat with George Dillow Thomas and Winnie Artess HasH ther was (1) > Georgena Thomas b: 1935,July,15 Itmann,Wyoming County, West Virginia > Expired 1985,May,05,Dayton, OhiO, > (2) Oneida Joyce Thomas b: 1937,Jan,04 in Itmann,Wyoming County,West > Virginia. > (3) David Dillow Thomas b: 1939,Dec,12.in Itmann,Wyoming County,West > Virginia. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Stanley Browning" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 11:54 PM > Subject: Re: [WVWYOMIN] Growin' Up in Appalachia > > >> Hi Deborah, >> >> Its pretty hard to be from Wyoming County and not be related to the >> Cooks. Consider the following: >> >> (1) John Cooke begat William Cook Sr., who begat Mitchell Cooke, >> who begat Ballard Preston Cooke, who begat Irvin Jacob Cook, who >> begat Joda othaneal Cooke, who married Lula Mae Cooper. >> (2) John Cooke begat William Cook Sr., who begat William Newton >> Cooke, who begat Burl Matison Cooke, who begat Burl Hamilton Cook, >> who begat Ira Winfred Cook, who begat Ira Cook,Jr. >> (3) John Cooke begat William Cook Sr., who begat William Newton >> Cooke, who begat Burl Matison Cooke, who begat Martha Cook, who >> married Green Browning and begat Mormie Browning, who begat Stanley >> Browning. (Wow!! Thats me) >> >> And how about this? >> (4) Austin Cooper begat Isaac Bee Cooper, who begat Lula Mae Cooper >> (5) Austin Cooper begat John Cooper who begat Bee Cooper, who begat >> Erna Cooper, who married Mormie Browning and begat Stanley Browning. >> >> STAN >> >> >> >> >> On Jul 31, 2008, at 11:44 AM, debbie stringer wrote: >> >>> hi stan..... my name is deborah cook stringer. i think i am related >>> to ira >>> cook jr. maybe? i was born in pineville hospital in 1953. my >>> grandparents >>> were Jode & Lula Mae Cook from rockview. there are several of my >>> family >>> members still there. i live in tampa, fl. now. >>> debbie >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Stanley Browning" <[email protected]> >>> To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; >>> <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> >>> Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 6:21 PM >>> Subject: [WVWYOMIN] Growin' Up in Appalachia >>> >>> >>> Our mailing lists have been unusually quite of late, and it isn't >>> even dog days yet! So I will throw out a little tidbit for you to >>> use as fodder to exercise your memories of how it was "back then." >>> How many of you helped make hominy? Sour kraut? Pickle beans? Other >>> old time staples? >>> >>> STAN >>> >>> Making Hominy >>> When Ira Cook, Jr. and I were discussing my notes for my new >>> book,"Matheny and Me," the subject of making hominy came up. I >>> remembered that my mother and granny made hominy several times, but I >>> could not remember the details. For that reason, I chose to ignore >>> the subject in my book and hope that no one would notice. Now Ira is >>> no ordinary reviewer, but I finally concluded that there might be >>> others who are just as picky and would feel that hominy should get >>> equal coverage with some of the other staple foods we made ourselves, >>> which most folks now pick from a grocery store shelf and could not >>> care less how they are made. >>> >>> I think I know the hominy preparation steps my granny May and mother >>> followed pretty well, but it's the relative measurements of >>> ingredients that evade me. I know that a unique and necessary >>> ingredient was lye.[1] They used lye water to make hominy that was >>> just like they used to make homemade soap. They soaked dried shelled >>> “field corn” for two or three days in the lye water until the grains >>> swelled and the skin came off. The mixture was stirred occasionally >>> throughout the soaking period. The corn was then washed repeatedly >>> to remove all the lye. The last step was simply to cook the corn >>> until it was tender. >>> >>> Our friends further south than West Virginia use cracked corn, thus >>> they get hominy grits. >>> >>> What happens beyond this point in the process is left to the >>> imagination of the cook. Most people just heat the hominy, add >>> butter and salt and eat it that way. Some make paddies and fry >>> them. I don't know how my wife, Connie, prepares that sissy- made >>> store-bought hominy she buys, but it turns out just as good as the >>> real stuff and it is a lot less trouble. >>> >>> >>> [1] One of my friends says that a couple of boxes of soda dissolved >>> in enough water to cover a gallon and a half of beans works just as >>> well as lye. I think I like that idea better. >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> [email protected] 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 WVWYOMIN- >>> [email protected] 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 >> [email protected] 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 > [email protected] 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 > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >

----- Original Message ----- From: Lynda Davis-Logan To: David D. Thomas Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 1:20 PM Subject: Mitchell/Clay Stewart Hi David, Just got back from vacation and have been catching up on everything!! While re-reading on the Hager site, I noticed that you'd ask me to send you a picture of Mitchell Stewart. If I didn't send it before here it is. Ada Ferguson Stewart was my gg-grandmother's baby sister. My gg-grandmother was Juda Ann Josephine Rebecca Evelyn Ferguson who married Henderson Huff, Jr. Their daughter Laura m. John W. Blankenship (our other connection - John was the gg-grandson of Peter, Jr Blankenship and Jemimah Perdue.) Cousin Lynda

Hi There Debbie, My name is David Dillow Thomas Debbie you said your mother name was (Pennington) was she any kin to Emery Pennington and Mabel Dudley please let know. If so the Mabel Dudley was my Daddy sister child thay use to live in South Mullens,West Virginia. Mabel mother we called her Aunt Sis Dudley. Mabel just Expired about 4 years ago. >From David Dillow Thomas. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>. ----- Original Message ----- From: "debbie stringer" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2008 11:49 AM Subject: Re: [WVWYOMIN] Growin' Up in Appalachia > hi david...i was born in pineville hospital, but lived in mullens on moran > ave. gosh its been so long ago. my mom's maiden name was pennington. did > you > know any? > debbie > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Dillow Thomas" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Cc: "Oneida Joyce Halsey" <[email protected]>; "Cynthia Larimore" > <[email protected]>; "Lynda Davis-Logan" <[email protected]>; > "Dennis W and Chris Watson" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 5:40 PM > Subject: Re: [WVWYOMIN] Growin' Up in Appalachia > > > Hi There Stanley, > I know just want you are saying about Wyoming County,West Virginia and not > like Pickley Bean's,Pickley Corn,Dry Green Bean's,Good old fat back to > cook > a pot of bean's with. > > You all was talking about begat Levi Robert HasH and Evelyn Walker, > Thomas > G. Walker, Winnie Artess HasH abnd George Dillow Thomas begat the Thomas > family in Wyoming County,West Virginia. > > There was > George Dillow Thomas b: 1882,Nov,27 in Virginia and Expired in 1945,Aug,05 > In Mullens,Wyoming County,West Virginia. > > The you have the all the HasH,Cooke/Cook.Poe,Halsey,Brooks,Workman, > Weaver,Richardson,Perdue,Perdaw,Wyatt, > Browning,Tilley,Miller,Goode,Cline,Steel, > Wikel,Chester M. Wikel that work at the Chevrolet/Pine Cheverolet in > Pineville,Wyoming County,West Virginia. > > Put the Bowman,Privette,Church,Lusk, > Phillips,Manning,Blankenship,Hager, > Carr,Mills,York,Belcher,Clay,Stewart, > Barton,Blake,Wolfe,Wolf,Green, > McGlothlin,Bond,Whitt,McKenney, > > Brown, George F. Brown,Morgan,Cooper,Lewis, Byrd, > Rose,Taylor,Laman,Dorton,Gubb,Butcher, > Oscar Butcher, (Rev) Elbert I.Hill,(Rev) Oscar Sparks, > I aways was thanking my mother was a (REV) went I did something bad. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.. > As big as butt locks is I must have been real real bad ore y mother like > for > me to cry. > > > > > > How about the Funeral Home there in Pineville,Mullens,Wyoming County,West > Virginia. > > > How many recall George F.Brown,Pete Morgan, > Bailey, > > If I have left any one out you all may put there are just a few.,I know > there > are some I never named but if thay was from Mercer,Wyoming Any other > County's just name them and we are kin to them. >>From David Dillow Thomas. > I was begat with George Dillow Thomas and Winnie Artess HasH ther was (1) > Georgena Thomas b: 1935,July,15 Itmann,Wyoming County, West Virginia > Expired 1985,May,05,Dayton, OhiO, > (2) Oneida Joyce Thomas b: 1937,Jan,04 in Itmann,Wyoming County,West > Virginia. > (3) David Dillow Thomas b: 1939,Dec,12.in Itmann,Wyoming County,West > Virginia. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Stanley Browning" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 11:54 PM > Subject: Re: [WVWYOMIN] Growin' Up in Appalachia > > >> Hi Deborah, >> >> Its pretty hard to be from Wyoming County and not be related to the >> Cooks. Consider the following: >> >> (1) John Cooke begat William Cook Sr., who begat Mitchell Cooke, >> who begat Ballard Preston Cooke, who begat Irvin Jacob Cook, who >> begat Joda othaneal Cooke, who married Lula Mae Cooper. >> (2) John Cooke begat William Cook Sr., who begat William Newton >> Cooke, who begat Burl Matison Cooke, who begat Burl Hamilton Cook, >> who begat Ira Winfred Cook, who begat Ira Cook,Jr. >> (3) John Cooke begat William Cook Sr., who begat William Newton >> Cooke, who begat Burl Matison Cooke, who begat Martha Cook, who >> married Green Browning and begat Mormie Browning, who begat Stanley >> Browning. (Wow!! Thats me) >> >> And how about this? >> (4) Austin Cooper begat Isaac Bee Cooper, who begat Lula Mae Cooper >> (5) Austin Cooper begat John Cooper who begat Bee Cooper, who begat >> Erna Cooper, who married Mormie Browning and begat Stanley Browning. >> >> STAN >> >> >> >> >> On Jul 31, 2008, at 11:44 AM, debbie stringer wrote: >> >>> hi stan..... my name is deborah cook stringer. i think i am related >>> to ira >>> cook jr. maybe? i was born in pineville hospital in 1953. my >>> grandparents >>> were Jode & Lula Mae Cook from rockview. there are several of my >>> family >>> members still there. i live in tampa, fl. now. >>> debbie >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Stanley Browning" <[email protected]> >>> To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; >>> <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> >>> Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 6:21 PM >>> Subject: [WVWYOMIN] Growin' Up in Appalachia >>> >>> >>> Our mailing lists have been unusually quite of late, and it isn't >>> even dog days yet! So I will throw out a little tidbit for you to >>> use as fodder to exercise your memories of how it was "back then." >>> How many of you helped make hominy? Sour kraut? Pickle beans? Other >>> old time staples? >>> >>> STAN >>> >>> Making Hominy >>> When Ira Cook, Jr. and I were discussing my notes for my new >>> book,"Matheny and Me," the subject of making hominy came up. I >>> remembered that my mother and granny made hominy several times, but I >>> could not remember the details. For that reason, I chose to ignore >>> the subject in my book and hope that no one would notice. Now Ira is >>> no ordinary reviewer, but I finally concluded that there might be >>> others who are just as picky and would feel that hominy should get >>> equal coverage with some of the other staple foods we made ourselves, >>> which most folks now pick from a grocery store shelf and could not >>> care less how they are made. >>> >>> I think I know the hominy preparation steps my granny May and mother >>> followed pretty well, but it's the relative measurements of >>> ingredients that evade me. I know that a unique and necessary >>> ingredient was lye.[1] They used lye water to make hominy that was >>> just like they used to make homemade soap. They soaked dried shelled >>> “field corn” for two or three days in the lye water until the grains >>> swelled and the skin came off. The mixture was stirred occasionally >>> throughout the soaking period. The corn was then washed repeatedly >>> to remove all the lye. The last step was simply to cook the corn >>> until it was tender. >>> >>> Our friends further south than West Virginia use cracked corn, thus >>> they get hominy grits. >>> >>> What happens beyond this point in the process is left to the >>> imagination of the cook. Most people just heat the hominy, add >>> butter and salt and eat it that way. Some make paddies and fry >>> them. I don't know how my wife, Connie, prepares that sissy- made >>> store-bought hominy she buys, but it turns out just as good as the >>> real stuff and it is a lot less trouble. >>> >>> >>> [1] One of my friends says that a couple of boxes of soda dissolved >>> in enough water to cover a gallon and a half of beans works just as >>> well as lye. I think I like that idea better. >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> [email protected] 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 WVWYOMIN- >>> [email protected] 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 >> [email protected] 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 > [email protected] 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 > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >

hi david...as soon as i find the picture i will email it to you. i have it packed away. ok? ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Dillow Thomas" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2008 11:53 AM Subject: Re: [WVWYOMIN] Growin' Up in Appalachia Hi There Dibbie & Stan, May I have a copy of the picture of the Cooke/Cook Reunion please are you going sent it E-Mail please let me know ok? and thank you all very much. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >From David Dillow Thomas. My G: Grandma was Mary Ann Cook married to Thomas G. Walker d/o (Rev) Mitchell Cooke and Mary ? Please let me have a copy and thank you very much. >From D.D.T. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.. ----- Original Message ----- From: "debbie stringer" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2008 11:34 AM Subject: Re: [WVWYOMIN] Growin' Up in Appalachia > Hi Stan...... > Thankyou very much for the info you sent me. i have been trying to do > the Cook family tree. Sooo many Cooks. I have a photo of a Cook family > reunion that my late father, Ernest Cook, gave me. It kind of reminded me > of > a political meeting of some kind! LOL! > So you muxt be related to Nancy Browning? Do you still live in West Va.? > debbie > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Stanley Browning" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 11:54 PM > Subject: Re: [WVWYOMIN] Growin' Up in Appalachia > > > Hi Deborah, > > Its pretty hard to be from Wyoming County and not be related to the > Cooks. Consider the following: > > (1) John Cooke begat William Cook Sr., who begat Mitchell Cooke, > who begat Ballard Preston Cooke, who begat Irvin Jacob Cook, who > begat Joda othaneal Cooke, who married Lula Mae Cooper. > (2) John Cooke begat William Cook Sr., who begat William Newton > Cooke, who begat Burl Matison Cooke, who begat Burl Hamilton Cook, > who begat Ira Winfred Cook, who begat Ira Cook,Jr. > (3) John Cooke begat William Cook Sr., who begat William Newton > Cooke, who begat Burl Matison Cooke, who begat Martha Cook, who > married Green Browning and begat Mormie Browning, who begat Stanley > Browning. (Wow!! Thats me) > > And how about this? > (4) Austin Cooper begat Isaac Bee Cooper, who begat Lula Mae Cooper > (5) Austin Cooper begat John Cooper who begat Bee Cooper, who begat > Erna Cooper, who married Mormie Browning and begat Stanley Browning. > > STAN > > > > > On Jul 31, 2008, at 11:44 AM, debbie stringer wrote: > >> hi stan..... my name is deborah cook stringer. i think i am related >> to ira >> cook jr. maybe? i was born in pineville hospital in 1953. my >> grandparents >> were Jode & Lula Mae Cook from rockview. there are several of my >> family >> members still there. i live in tampa, fl. now. >> debbie >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Stanley Browning" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; >> <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> >> Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 6:21 PM >> Subject: [WVWYOMIN] Growin' Up in Appalachia >> >> >> Our mailing lists have been unusually quite of late, and it isn't >> even dog days yet! So I will throw out a little tidbit for you to >> use as fodder to exercise your memories of how it was "back then." >> How many of you helped make hominy? Sour kraut? Pickle beans? Other >> old time staples? >> >> STAN >> >> Making Hominy >> When Ira Cook, Jr. and I were discussing my notes for my new >> book,"Matheny and Me," the subject of making hominy came up. I >> remembered that my mother and granny made hominy several times, but I >> could not remember the details. For that reason, I chose to ignore >> the subject in my book and hope that no one would notice. Now Ira is >> no ordinary reviewer, but I finally concluded that there might be >> others who are just as picky and would feel that hominy should get >> equal coverage with some of the other staple foods we made ourselves, >> which most folks now pick from a grocery store shelf and could not >> care less how they are made. >> >> I think I know the hominy preparation steps my granny May and mother >> followed pretty well, but it's the relative measurements of >> ingredients that evade me. I know that a unique and necessary >> ingredient was lye.[1] They used lye water to make hominy that was >> just like they used to make homemade soap. They soaked dried shelled >> “field corn” for two or three days in the lye water until the grains >> swelled and the skin came off. The mixture was stirred occasionally >> throughout the soaking period. The corn was then washed repeatedly >> to remove all the lye. The last step was simply to cook the corn >> until it was tender. >> >> Our friends further south than West Virginia use cracked corn, thus >> they get hominy grits. >> >> What happens beyond this point in the process is left to the >> imagination of the cook. Most people just heat the hominy, add >> butter and salt and eat it that way. Some make paddies and fry >> them. I don't know how my wife, Connie, prepares that sissy- made >> store-bought hominy she buys, but it turns out just as good as the >> real stuff and it is a lot less trouble. >> >> >> [1] One of my friends says that a couple of boxes of soda dissolved >> in enough water to cover a gallon and a half of beans works just as >> well as lye. I think I like that idea better. >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] 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 WVWYOMIN- >> [email protected] 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 > [email protected] 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 > [email protected] 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 [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

hi stan.. what's the name of your book? debbie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stanley Browning" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 11:25 PM Subject: Re: [WVWYOMIN] Growin' Up in Appalachia >I didn't forget leather britches, Norma, they are covered elsewhere > in my book. Did you make yours by stringing the beans on a thread or > did you just spread them out on the roof in the sun to dry? > > On Aug 1, 2008, at 8:36 PM, <[email protected]> > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Stanley Browning" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 12:04 AM >> Subject: Re: [WVWYOMIN] Growin' Up in Appalachia >> >> Stan, >> You forgot something when you listed all of the veggies. What about >> Leather >> Britches? >> Norma Russie >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WVWYOMIN- >> [email protected] 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 > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message