----- 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 > >