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 > >