Looking for help from you all! My cousin's sister died when she was about 2, in 1945. At that time, I am told her parents (my aunt and uncle) were living in the Appalachia area. Little Louise died of diphtheria. Mom said that the miners were not able to afford a funeral home to take care of the dying children, so the families did the burying themselves. Mom remembers that Louise was buried in what was called the Miners' Cemetery. Does anyone have any information on this cemetery or any way that I can find out about Louise grave site? We are trying to get a copy of her death certificate, but Vital Statistics department tells me that not all birth nor death were reported back then. Any help would be greatly appreciated!! Chris Watson Searching Genealogy for Acord, Brown, Coldiron, Dorton, Evans, Frazier, Grubb, Pizzino, Radcliff, Schlager, Stepp, Tankersley, Walker, and Watson Families On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 19:01:31 -0400 "David Dillow Thomas" <[email protected]> writes: > > ----- 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 > > > > > > > Chris Watson Searching Genealogy for Acord, Brown, Coldiron, Dorton, Evans, Frazier, Grubb, Pizzino, Radcliff, Schlager, Stepp, Tankersley, Walker, and Watson Families ____________________________________________________________ Play it loud with a new car stereo! Click here! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/Ioyw6i3n6nDg4cpTGX6YwsrRfZSGsZvmWSEP6KZwqFwGaPQXYBQiiz/