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Roasting Weiners (Gladys)

: July 18, 1943, p. 1

: July 18, 1943, p. 2-3

: July 18, 1943, p. 4

Letter transcription:

Kentland Ind
July 18 – 1943

Dear Daddy –

Another lazy Sunday afternoon – John & Mark are playing croquet with the Zell girls. David is taking a nap. He got so he didn’t want to eat so I decided to change his eating times. I gave him a bottle of milk at about 8 this morning (the first) then at noon gave him mashed potatoes, apple sauce, custard and a little milk. About 4 I will give him some milk and at 7 cereal and put him to bed. He is slow about drinking out of a cup but I think he will come along by the time he should get along without a bottle. Donnie Funk gets along without a bottle

[page 2] now, but he has to hurry, with a new baby coming there in Dec. He has developed so fast. I think he will soon walk, but he must have known he had to hurry to make way, for maybe a little sister. However Arlene says she won’t be disappointed if there is another boy.

Mother is still in bed. She ate a piece of chicken, a cup of custard and a piece of cake for dinner. I put some mashed potatoes & gravy on her plate but she didn’t eat much of them. It is hot this afternoon so she may not get along so good. The heat makes her feel worse.

The rain we had over the week-end helped a lot. Link sprayed part of their back yard to kill out the crab grass and it looks like all the grass where he sprayed will die out. I think I won’t worry about our grass. We will just

[apge 3] keep it mowed and let it grow. I am going to take some more pictures in the back yard so you can get an idea how much the shrubbery is growing and see some of the flowers. Some of the spirea has grown up until they are almost 5 ft. The rains this summer have made everything like that grow so good.

There is an army program on this afternoon – there has been a lot about the invasion of Sicily. I wonder if you by any chance heard the Fibber program when they talked about Sicily – They were so excited & Molly asked what the excitement was about – Fibber said that was the first place he could pronounce – Then he pronounced it wrong, putting the accent on “silly.” – said anybody could pronounce “c-silly.”

I have been taking some pictures of David but don’t know whether they will be good. Our camera seems to have one sight broken.

[page 4] and I can’t see thru the other one. I want you to see how he stands up in his buggy – just wonder what you would say about that – probably spank him.

— I went to get Mark at Funks, he had run an errand for Arlene then stayed. They were roasting wieners and wanted me to stay and have one. They had Donald’s pen in the summer house so we put both babies in and I stayed long enough to eat a “dog’ then came back to feed David & put him to bed. When both babies are in the pen Donnie doesn’t see much larger than David. Being almost a month older he gets around the pen a little better, but David does alright. Donnie would pinch David and pull his hair. David didn’t seem to mind but Bill slapped Donnie’s hand – Donnie jabbers back when they scold him or slap his hands.

I am sleepy so will try to get to bed – getting up time comes around so soon.

Love – Mother

David standing in his buggy

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Boy Joins Navy (Roscoe)

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: July 17, 1943 envelope

: July 17, 1943, p. 1

: July 17, 1943, p. 2

: July 17, 1943, p. 3

: July 17, 1943, p. 4

Letter transcription:

July 17, 1943
Lieut. R.S. Yegerlehner USNR
Navy 60 F.P.O. San Fran C.

Dear Mother,

Five letters yesterday from you – The latest July 1. Another was a v-mail along the last few days of June, and one with the picture of D. I’m inclined to agree with John. In comparing this with previous pictures I don’t believe it is a good picture. It was under developed or over exposed or something. As usual there are letters missing because you mentioned Dr. M. being mad at Parttens for taking Ruth to a specialist but didn’t say what was the trouble – but I just know you wrote that in a previous letter.

Needles to say you will find the several times mentioned check enclosed. That should be enough to pay off the Ins. loan and buy a few bonds. If you

[page 2] wish and think it worth while you might even start paying Mutch & Ruth a little now and then. That is providing it doesn’t run you short. I’ll be able to send some home from time to time but I’m keeping around 200 on the books just so I’ll have enough for transportation in case I should need it. I’m hoping! – when I get an accumulation over that amount I’ll send it to you and you can use it as you see fit.

I didn’t know about your mother was having bowel trouble and it’s hard for me to suggest. Does she have diarrhea all the time with blood? You went a little indefinite about the symptoms etc. She should be on a bland diet. The sulfa drug is OK for a time and a little Metamucil would not be out of the way. A blood count

[page 3] and hemoglobin are very essential. The sugar in the urine may or may not be important but worth keeping in mind. All those things are merely suggestive and things I would do if I were there. Of course a rectal exam would come first. That is about all I can think of not knowing the circumstances and a 6,000 mile consultation isn’t good so you will have to use your own judgment which I know you are capable of doing.

Is Glenn married again or is that the wife he had? If it’s the same onee they must have bit a spark not visible before in order to reproduce after this long a period of married life. Yesterday I found myself being drawn into another one of the love struggles. Boy married to girl 8 years – Boy joins navy – find himself on a South Sea Isle – girl’s letters

[page 4] become fewer and fewer – one come 3 days ago – without date – 4 pages and then stopped in the middle of the sentence – later another started – whole new page – and it ended in the same way – not signed an both letter about 4 pages each and both ended in the middle of the sentence and no signature. The whole thing is beyond me. He seems very much discouraged and I can’t seem to blame him either, but why write you that stuff.

The regular weekly inspection is due now most any minute so I’ll try to put a finishing note at least I’ll try not to end in the middle of the sentence.

Inspection done and I must say things aren’t in as good a condition as they should be. Guess more bearing down in necessary.

Hope your mother is feeling better and that the hot weather isn’t too hard on you and the boys –

Love Daddy

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Inventory and Appraisement of the Estate of Dorsey Hoagland

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I have been fascinated lately by some of my slave owning ancestors (or potential ancestors). I am still working on building the case for Dorsey Hoagland as one of my ancestors but for now I will assume that he is likely my ancestor. I have been catching up on the show Finding Your Roots with Louis Henry Gates, Jr. I do not have any direct African American ancestry in my tree, however, I do have a few genetic cousins who are primarily African American. Many of the Finding Your Roots episodes explore the ancestry of prominent African Americans. I recently watched an episode with Derek Jeter as they traced his Jeter line to a white slave owner. They were able to prove that one of Jeter’s ancestors was the son of a white slave owner and his black slave. As I look over the inventory of Dorsey Hoagland’s estate, the document reveals that he owned seven slaves. Only one of the slaves was an adult, a female, with the rest being children with descending ages. It strikes me that the children were likely all siblings, or possibly related to one another, with the adult female as the mother to all but the eldest teenager. I would love to hear anyone’s thoughts on this issue. I am trying to learn more about researching African American history and ancestry in general.

: Nelson County Probates H/2, p. 156-157

: Nelson County Probates H/2, p. 158-159

Dorsey Hoagland, Inventory and Appraisement
Nelson County, Kentucky
Probate vol. H/2, p. 157-158
Inventory completed 20 July 1836; filed 9 January 1837

“Inventory and bill of appraisment of the property belonging to the estate of Dosey Hogland decᵈ appraised on the 20^th day of July 1836.

The following is a list of property that is not considered as assets in the hands of the administrators but reserved to the widow, and heirs under an act of assembly in that case made and provided which allows to the widow, and heirs the same property that is exempt from execution. [?]

One yellow horse	50.00
One cow and calf	10.00
One Bed Bedstead and furniture	20.00
One plow and Geer	4.00
One plow & lead one pot Head One axe & one hoe	3.00
One loom and apparatus thereunto belonging	1.50
One spinning wheel	“.50

The property that is considered as assets in the hands of the administrators

One Negro woman Sitter aged 26 years	350.00
One do[ditto] boy William do[ditto] 16	600.00
One do[ditto] girl Maria do[ditto] 13	450.00
One do[ditto] boy John do[ditto] 11	450.00
One do[ditto] boy Snocuden [?] do[ditto] 8	350.00
One do[ditto] boy Isaac do[ditto] 6	250.00
One do[ditto] boy Harrison do[ditto] 4	175.00
Three pots	1.50
Three ovens & lead, & one pan & lead	1.00
Two spiders, & lead, & one skillett	1.00
Two pair Pot hooks & shovels	“.50
One pair waufle Iron	1.00
One frying pan and ladle	“.50
One Tea Kettle and [?]	1.12½
Two large kettles	6.00
Two small do [ditto]	1.50
One Copper kettle	2.50
One Lot of old Iron	1.50
One pair of [?]	2.50
One Copper Tea Kettle	1.50
One lot of Iron [?]	“.50
One Lot of shoemaker tools	1.00
Eleven open tubs	1.25
One Roan mare	35.00
One Bay mare & colt	40.00
One wagon [?] and Geer Tar bucket & feed trough	65.00
One plow/Cary	“.75
Two Shovel plows	1.00
Three axes one shovel & sprouting hoe	4.00
Two broad hoes	“.50
One pair [?] & 3 [?]	1.50
One wooden Tooth harrow	“.50
One Flax break and Two grind stones	2.00
One handsaw hand axe & drawing knife	1.50
Two Augers one chisel & anvil & cross	“.50
One cross cut saw	1.00
One pair of Geer	2.00
Three blind bridles	1.50
One man’s saddle	5.00
One do [ditto] old	“.50
One cutting box	1.00
Two large Tubs	“.50
One Carey plow	4.00
One Iron fork 3 do [ditto] wood & 2 scythes	2.00
Twelve open Tubs	1.50
One wheat [?]	5.00
One wheat sive	“.75
One lot of shingle & some Timber	4.00
One lot of Cooper timber	5.50
Thirty six [?] head of hogs	95.50
One lot of plank	3.50
One mewly [?] cow	8.60
One Red and White heiffer	6.50
One Brindle Do Do [ditto]	7.50
One Red steer	10.00
One Black steer	10.00
One spotted do [ditto]	10.00
Two stills & all the apparatus thereunto belonging	95.00
Four yearling Calves	14.00
Twenty Three head of sheep	28.75
One cow	10.00
One lot of Oats in the field	5.00
One Tight barrel	“.37½
One Book case	1.50
One clock & one small squareTable 6f	2.00
One small bed bedstead & furniture	5.00
One looking glass 3f Two water 9pr [?]	2.00
Two Candle sticks	“.75
One bed bedstead and furniture	8.00
One Trunk	“.75
One bed bedstead and furniture	8.00
One lot of bedclothes 14 pieces	20.00
One bed bedstead & furniture	7.00
One sidesaddle and bridle	18.00
One powder Keg & some powder	“.75
One side saddle & bridle	1.00
One cupboard and furniture	12.00
One Desk	5.00
One Fall leaf Table	1.50
One Square Table	“.50
One Coffee mill	“.50
Three Tin buckets	1.25
One Rifle Fun	10.00
Two hand Irons	2.00
Two smoothing Irons	“.50
One [?] chest and fifteen	“.50
Seven old chairs common	1.00
Two pot trowels [?]	1.00
Two open Tubs	“.25
One lot of Oak flooring plank	12.00
One do [ditto] poplar	2.00
One do [ditto] do [ditto]	“.50
One Keg of Tar	“.50
Six Corks of hay in the meadow	8.00

John Overalt}
Thoˢ J. Hammond}
Henry A. Lewis} Appraisers

We do hereby certify that the forgoing list contains all the property a True account of all the property belonging to the estate of Dorsey Hogland deceased which has come to our hands as his administrators July the 27^th 1836.

J.C. Hogland Admin.
Mary Hogland Admix.

At a County Court held for Nelson County at the Courthouse in Bardstown on the 9^th day of January 1837. This Inventory and appraisment of the Estate of Dorsey Hogland decᵈ was returned and ordered to be recorded.
Attest Nathᴵ Wickliffe C. of C.C.”

Out of Forms (Gladys)

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Letter transcription:

MRS. R.S. YEGERLEHNER
KENTLAND
INDIANA
7-17-43

Dear Daddy – This is the first v-mail I have used for a long time. Was out of forms & the boys would forget to get a supply. We had a hard rain today about noon. Came down in streams. Everything was so dry we needed rain. Now should have beans in abundance. Got yours of June 30, also J. & M. got theirs of that date. I see Link pulling a branch down the storm brake loose. If we could cut up all the limbs that have fallen would have enough to burn next winter. This summer seems to be flying by. Just 6 weeks still school starts. I am going to dig potatoes for use next week. Carrots are big enough. Also green beans & cabbage. Tomatoes will be soon but they don’t interest me much. Mother ate a pretty good lunch today – She is still in bed. I think she will get up when she feels strong enough – Arlene told me yesterday she going to have a baby in Dec. Mary F. is due in Oct. Don’t know of anyone else who is booked for fall or early winter. Arlene said to tell you to hurry back so we could catch up with them – I don’t believe I would care to keep up that fast. Donnie will be just 16 mo. old in Dec. John is practicing. Mark is out playing in the yard. David is playing in his pen. He is graduating to 3 meals a day.

Love – Mother

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Nothing of Importance (Roscoe)

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: July 16, 1943 envelope

: July 16, 1943, p. 1

: July 16, 1943, p. 2

: July 16, 1943, p. 3

: July 16, 1943, p. 4

Letter transcription:

Lieut. R.S. Yegerlehner USNR
Navy 60 F.P.O. San FranC.
July 16, 1943

Dear Mother,

Nothing of importance has happened since yesterday so this will be a continuation of nothing so to speak.

In one way I was very pessimistic this A.M. We had oranges for breakfast and I planted 4 seeds. I don’t know how long it will take to grow an orange tree but that is one planting of fruit of which I hope not to be here long enough to enjoy. I just wonder if when they grow to be big oranges if the word “Sunkist” will be on the outside of each orange.

[page 2] Somehow last night before evening show we had a little party each man and officer were given a couple bottles of beer. It wasn’t much but it raised the morale a little and maybe helped pass the time a little more rapidly. We also had some tidbits to go along with the beer – some salted peanuts and small pieces of toast with a sort of deviled ham spread. It may have been spam all ground into a mess.

I baited my rat trap with a piece of spam and a piece of cheese. It was suspended on a wire far enough so the rats couldn’t get to it but the ants

[page 3] did. They ate the cheese and left the spam. I’ve also seen dogs just snif at it and pass on and eat a dried bread crust, however, if one was hungry enough I think a good slab of spam wouldn’t be so bad.

In passing I didn’t get paid yesterday so obviously I can’t send the check but will in tomorrow’s letter if we are paid today. At least these notes will serve to notify that the thing will be forth coming.

I have another huge job thrown into my lap – it deals with the sanitation of the Island. It will

[page 4] be my job to see that each area is kept clean etc. What a job! I can say this as far as I’m concerned I don’t think much of the job but in the Navy one doesn’t think too much. Lentz had the same type job at Norfolk.

Ruth Y. wrote the other day that Herschel Steiner and a Hofman boy were headed this way but my chances of seeing them are a little slim I think but one never can tell. Joe Roberts is the only person I’ve seen that I knew before leaving home.

Well I guess I’m again at the end of that well know rope so will say
Lots of Love
Daddy

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Canning Beans (Gladys)

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: July 16, 1943 envelope

: July 16, 1943, p. 1

: July 16, 1943, p. 2-3

: July 16, 1943, p. 4

Letter transcription:

Kentland Ind
July 16 – 1943

Dear Daddy,

It is cloudy and thundering and I believe we will get some rain. It has been dry and hasn’t rained (except a little shower this a.m.) for more than a week. Mrs. Zell said if it rained they would get lots of beans now. We have some ready to pick and I suppose I will have to do the picking – Mark has gone out twice but come back each time with an excuse, of some kind about not picking any. It won’t take long to can a cooker full (4 qts) if there are that many to can. I don’t intend to can carrots. There is a method of preserving them raw. Just put them in a heavy jar and cover – leave in basement & they keep as long as they last. So that eliminates

[page 2] that vegetable from the canning list. It is still doing a lot of thundering and a few drops have fallen but no heavy rain yet.

No mail today but didn’t expect any. However this is the third day about the time the mail all gets caught up then it stops coming for a few days, sometimes a week. The last was of July 3. So glad you had rec’d the pictures. If I can get my hands on the negatives Betty Lou took I’ll send some more soon. Dorothy promised to have more made but I haven’t seen them.

I think Mother is getting better, tho slowly. She eats a little better and takes her medicine every meal (before & after). An appetite stimulator and “acidophilus broth” – whatever that is. Have to keep it in the refrigerator and she takes it in milk.

David is having a screaming good time. Is standing up

[page 3] in his bed. He is getting so he doesn’t care to eat every 4 hrs. so think I’ll put him on 3 meals a day. He sometimes gets awake at 6 but I just pay no attention to him so he goes back to sleep and the last two mornings he hasn’t had his first bottle until about 8 a.m. He doesn’t seem to mind at all. He takes more than a can of carnation a day – potatoe, apple saude, cereal, egg yolk, vegetable soup, carrots, peas, asparagus, etc., in turn. I sometimes give him vegetable soup with beef broth. He likes it.

I was surprised the other day. While the Thompsons were visiting Foulkes, Mary came up to see David & brought their David along. She is expecting the stork again. I believe it is due in Oct. Davie doesn’t walk yet. He is short – I don’t believe he is as tall as David and he is 5 mo. older, but what could you expect. They aren’t very tall.

[page 4] The Foulkes had a party on their terrace last night. Seems they have one every night or so – and they always get to vocalizing – With what they have had to bring on singing you can imagine how it sounds up here – not good. I don’t mind, they don’t bother me, but it does disturb Mother some.

I see in the paper John Krull has been sent to a camp in Mich. He was home on furlough not long ago. I think I mentioned it before. The acc’t of Lon Staton’s death was in last week’s paper but don’t think I mentioned it. I have scanned thru the papers but see nothing I think would interest you – anyway if I miss something it will be news when you get the paper.

David seems to be having some trouble of his own. I think he needs to go to sleep but doesn’t want to give up. Just looked in and he is trying to take off a shoe. John is reading and Mark is working on his airplanes.

The water meter was read today & Fred said it was only 4:00 this time – was $6 last. I sprinkled the flowers once this summer – last nite.

Love Mother

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Inventory Sale of Dorsey Hogland

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Dorsey Hoagland of Nelson County, Kentucky died intestate around 1836. He did not write a will. However, he did have a sizeable estate which was disposed by his administrators. Some of the estate’s property was sold for cash, while some was set aside for the widow and heirs. The following represents items that were sold from the estate. Besides farm animals and farming equipment, Dorsey owned a couple stills, shoemaking equipment and cooper’s timber. One can infer quite a lot from Dorsey’s possessions. Did he make whiskey? Was he a shoemaker by trade?

Hoagland, Dorsey - Appraisement (Nelson Book 2, p.157)

Nelson County, Kentucky Probate Book H/2: 157-158

Dorsey Hogland Sale of Inventory
Nelson County, Kentucky
Probate vol H/2: 156-157
Sale 21^st and 22^nd of July 1836; Filed 9 January 1837

A list of sales of the property belonging to the estate of Dorsey Hoglan decᵈ which was sold on the 21^st and 22^nd days of July 1836.

Mary Hogland	One book case	1.25
Same	One clock	11.00
Same	One small square table	1.12 ½
Same	One bedstead & furniture	4.25
Same	Two looking glasses	“ .87½
Same	Two waiters	1.43¾
Same	One bed bedstead & furniture	5.62½
Same	One trunk	“.37½
Same	One bed bedstead & furniture	6.93¾
Same	One lot of Bed clothes	9.37½
Same	One bed bedstead & furniture	6.93¾
Same	One side saddle	10.50
Same	One side saddle & [?]	1.19 [? written over]
Same	One cupboard & furniture	8.80½
Same	One desk	3.25
Same	One large tallboy [?] table	1.37½
Same	One coffee mill	“.37½
Same	3 tin buckets [?] coffee [?]	1.56¼
Same	Two pair hand irons	2.12½
Same	Two smoothing irons	“.81¼
Same	One large chest	“.06¼
Same	One square table	“.68¾
Same	Eight Windsor chairs	2.43¾
Same	One set common do [ditto chairs]	2.06¼
Same	Four kettles	6.12¼
Same	One copper stew kettle	3.06¼
Same	One copper tea kettle	2.12¼
Same	One pair of small [?]	“.93¾
Same	One pot and Bale	1.06¼
Same	One do [ditto] do [ditto]	“.56¼
Same	One large oven & coal	“.25
Same	One small do [ditto] do[ditto]	“.31¼
Same	One pan and lead	“.68¾
Same	One shovel [?] and ladle	“.25
Same	Two pot …[?]	“.75
Same	Sifters [?], reggier [?] & trays	“.37½
Same	One small Carey plow	“.87½
Same	One shovel do [ditto]	“.43¾
Same	One axe	“.68¾
Same	One hoe	“.56½
Same	One single tree and clevis [?]	“.56½
Same	One red cow	14.12½
Same	One Brindle Heiffer	8.12½
Same	One red & white do [ditto]	7.75
Same	One roan mare	23.26¼
Same	One flax brake	“.12½
Same	One cross oak flooring planks	5.25
Same	One wooden tooth harrow	“.25
Same	Two collar & one [?] of [?]	3.93¼
Same	One blind bridle & cutting box	1.56¼
Same	Two large still Tubs	“.50
Same	Five hogs 1^st choice	26.12½
Same	7 do [ditto] 4^th choice	10.50
Same	Two Augers	“.25
Same	One wheat pan & sive	8.50
Same	Eleven open tubs	.25
		$207.45¾
Samᴵ D. Hardy	One black steer	14.00
Same	One red & white spotted do [ditto]	13.75
Same	One red do [ditto]	15.87½
		$43.62½
Geo. W. Caldwill	One Rifle Gun & shot rounds	16.00
Same	One Bay mare & colt	59.00
		$75.00
Martin Hogland	One keg & some powder	1.56¼
Same	One lot of old Iron	2.00
Same	One Iron wedge	“.43¾
Same	One Tight barrel	“.37½
Same	One pair [?]ple Irons	1.06¼
Same	1 wagon feed Tough & Tar bucket	71.00
Same	One set of hind Geer	9.00
Same	One lot of old Geer	2.00
Same	One pair of stretchers	1.56¼
Same	One old man’s saddle	“.18¾
Same	Six corks[?] of hay in the meadow	5.00
Same	One Keg and some Tar	“.75
Same	One Iron pitch fork	“.31¼
		$95.25
James Philips	One lot of poplar planks	4.50
Same	Four hogs 2^nd choice	23.06¼
Same	6 do [ditto] 3 choice	18.00
Same	7 do [ditto] 5 do [ditto]	12.12½
Same	7 do [ditto] 6^th do [ditto]	11.00
Same	One lot of poplar planks	1.06½
Same	One do [ditto] do [ditto] do [ditto]	6.06¼
		$75.81¼
Harsy Robey	One lot of lasts & shoe maker tools	1.75
Same	Four open tubs	1.12½
Same	One skillet	“.18¾
Same	One lot of shingles	7.12½
		$10.18¾
John Shepleigh	One spider & lead	“.75
same	One flax hackle	1.18¼
same	One man’s saddle	6.00
Same	One cross cut pair	2.00
		$10.56¼
Thomas Aud	One red male heiffer	$12.06¼
Elisha Miller	Four yearling calves	$19.25
Wᵐ Congrove	23 head of sheep	33.25
Henderson Hibbs	4 old Irons	“.50
Same	One axe & one hoe	“.62½
Same	One lot of oats in field	5.81¼
		$6.93¼
Wᵐ Hardy	One pair large slatyards [?]/paid	2.06¼
Rezin Shopsaco [?]	7 old open tubs /paid	1.60
Barbara Hogland	One pot and lead	“.43¼
Same	One tea kettle	“.56¼
William Ashlock	One spider and lead [?]	“.93¾
Murry Ash	One frying pan /paid	“.63½
William Taylor	One large Carey plow / paid	3.81¼
Matthew Kurts	One shovel plow (paid)	“.87½
Jonathan Hibbs	One shovel (paid)	“.62½
Henry Fleming	One sprouting hoe paid	“.75
Levi Magruder	One Broad axe (paid)	“.50
Joseph F. Greathouse	One lot of cooper’s timber pᵈ	.43¾
Henry Jones	One drawing knife & [?] pᵈ	“.25
Isaac Osbourn	Two stills and all
	the aparatus thereunto belonging	76.00
Conrod Kurts	One lot cooper’s timber paid	1.06¼
Same	One hammer paid	“.18¾
John Hogland	One hand saw & axe & [?] knife pᵈ	1.81¼
[?] same	One grind stone	“.56¼
Aquilla Hagan	One chissel paid	“.43¾
James Hogland	Three wooden pitch forks	“.12½
Same	One hammer [?] scythe	“.06¼
Same	One Dutch scythe & hayings	“.52
Nelson Hibbs	One Grind stone paid	“.12[?]
		$683.14½

G. C. Hogland Admʳ
Mary Hogland Admrix
Teste
P. B. Samuels CUNR [?]

At a County Court held for Nelson County on the 9^th day of January 1837. This list of sales of the estate of Dorsey Hogland decᵈ was returned to the Court and ordered to record.

Attest Nathᴵ Wickliffe, Clk

The image is from FamilySearch. While I was able to read a good portion of the items on the list, there were a few items that I could not determine. Any suggestions are welcome!

©2014 transcription by Deborah Sweeney
Post originally found: https://genealogylady.net/2014/10/13/inventory-sale-of-dorsey-hogland/

Letter from Ruthie (Ruth)

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: July 16, 1943 envelope

: July 16, 1943, p. 1

: July 16, 1943, p. 2

: July 16, 1943, p. 3

Letter transcription:

Bluffton, Ind.
July 16, 1943

Dear Jake,

The folks tell me you have a garden. How is it doing? We have been having so much rain that it is telling on the tomato fields. Floyd is gone again this week and since I have been working I can’t tag along so well. But a few weeks ago when he went to Chicago I went as far as Kentland and stayed with Gladys, as she probably wrote you. John & Mark were over to Ruth M’s but David was very much at home. You know David was to be my boy’s name but first here first served I guess! Even if I had had one I don’t think he could be a bit cuter than your David is.

[page 2] Floyd had a little good luck the other day. He figured out a price log for tomato prices and sent it into the Company. One day this week they sent him a $50⁰⁰ war bond for the suggestion and also a nice letter of appreciation, which made him very happy.

The last account I had of Glen he thought he would be moved again. He doesn’t seem to mind it so much as I thought he would.

I suppose you can tell that I don’t have much to write, but I want you to know that we don’t forget that you are out there doing your part. I hope we are going our part here. This pay as you go tax plan reminds us to the extent of 20% of each pay that we have a job to do. However we can always tighten our belts a little more if we need too.

[page 3] Glen writes that he doesn’t like v-mail so much so I thought I would try the old way again.

Since I have this written I’m not sure of your address so maybe you will get it and maybe you won’t.

Write if you run out of anything else to do –
Love
Floyd & Ruth

P.S. After reading some of these punk letters, I’ll bet you wonder how you ever gave me a passing grade in that physics class way back in high school days –

Floyd and Ruth Yegerlehner

Three Cheers for DNA

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Since I do not have the time to spend on book writing until the end of this month, I have been using my spare minutes to work on some of my DNA puzzles. I have had lots of genetic goodies land on my doorstep so far this month. Here is one of them.

One mystery in my family tree is the parentage of Sarah Ann Jewell. She was born in Kentucky and later moved to Greene County, Indiana, where she married George Rea on 13 March 1842. Now presumably, my sweet young Sarah Ann did not travel from Kentucky to southern Indiana by herself. In the first half of the nineteen century, Kentucky and Indiana were still considered frontier states. Sarah most likely arrived in Indiana with her parents or other family members.

After combing through census records and other various limited records available online (Greene County does not have a very strong online presence NOR does it have many microfilms available from the LDS library), I determined that there was only one Jewell family in Greene County in the first half of the nineteenth century. The patriarch was Samuel Jewell: a miller by trade and an Irishman by nationality. Born in Ireland around the time of the American Revolution, he immigrated to Virginia where he married Rachel Painter on 31 December 1798. They soon moved west, living in Ohio (1820), Kentucky (1830), and finally Indiana (1840). Samuel and Rachel had at least three sons who followed them to Indiana: John, William, and Isaac.

So my next puzzle was to determine which of Samuel’s sons was Sarah’s father. Isaac was eliminated by pure logic. He was born in 1815, only ten years before Sarah was born. For the same reason, William was too young as well. I have come across several unsourced family trees over the years which claimed that William was Sarah’s father. William was born in 1812. He was too young to be Sarah’s father. (Another reason why one should not trust unsourced family trees!) William married his wife, Mariah Miller, in Shelby County, Kentucky, on 9 November 1835. This left John P. Jewell as the only potential candidate.

John Painter Jewell was born about 1800 in Virginia. He married Mary Hoagland, on 18 October 1820, in Bullitt County, Kentucky. Three nods in John’s favor! John was old enough to be Sarah’s father; he married his wife before Sarah’s calculated birth year; and, he had lived in Kentucky.

John was enumerated on the 1830 census in Greene county. Among his household were two girls between the ages of 5-9 (remember this for later!). Unfortunately, only the heads of household were enumerated by name. Sarah died relatively young, perhaps in childbirth. She did not live in the time of compulsory death certificates. Luckily, a transcription was made of her gravestone in the mid twentieth century. I do not think it survives as I have yet to find a willing Find A Grave photographer to capture her stone. I am still working on locating a will or land records for John Painter Jewell in Greene County, but I have been unsuccessful thus far in gaining access to the records. (If you know of anyone who is willing to do ‘on the ground’ research in Greene County, Indiana, let me know!)

So this mystery has remained at a standstill until now. A few months ago, I was contacted by another researcher who was looking for the parents of his ancestor Rachel Jewell of Greene County, Indiana. He had also come to the conclusion that John P. Jewell was likely Rachel’s father, which would make my Sarah and his Rachel sisters. After several conversations back and forth via email, I finally convinced him to do DNA testing. His results came back this week. The disappointing news is that he does not match either my father or me. However, he does match another cousin on this same branch of the family!

DNA is fickle. The predicated relationships that the DNA companies come up with are just that….predictions. They are based on a mathematical algorithm. In theory, a person inherits 50% of their DNA from each parent; 25% from each grandparent; 12.5% from each great grandparent; and so on. By the time one travels back in time to their third great grandparents, the potential inheritance is only 3.125% per individual. There are 32 individuals in the third great grandparent generation. Even though my father and Mr. Lawson are likely 4th cousins, there is no guarantee that they would inherit the same 3.125% from either John P. Jewell or Mary (Hoagland) Jewell.

The DNA lesson that I would like everyone to take away from this story is the importance of testing as many people in your family as possible. DNA is NOT inherited equally. Had my 3rd cousin not already tested, I would have assumed that my new cousin, the descendant of Rachel Jewell, was not related to me.

Reader Beware (Roscoe)

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Reader Beware! There is language in this letter that is offensive. I was very disheartened when I read those words as it was not something I ever heard my grandfather say, or ever expected him to say. I contemplated removing the language for all of two seconds, and knew that I could not. As a historian, I refuse to edit history in this way. Nor will I make excuses for Roscoe, other than to say that he lived in a very different time. We can not ignore the complicated racial past of our country by pretending hurtful and painful slurs did not exist. As much as I abhor the language in novels like Huckleberry Finn or Uncle Tom’s Cabin, I would not remove those offensive words, and so I do not remove them now. So reader beware!

: July 15, 1943 envelope

: July 15, 1943, p. 1

: July 15, 1943, p. 2

: July 15, 1943, p. 3

: July 15, 1943, p. 4

Letter transcription:

Lieut. R.S. Yegerlehner USNR
Navy 60 F.P.O. S.F.C.
July 15, 1943

Dear Mother,

The second box that you sent – the one you had to divided came at long last. I’ll enumerate the content and you can see if anything was missing – one box of crackers – or rather I should say cracker crumbs. You know what I mean by that. It really was a box of powder. 6 cans of sardines – all in good condition and one package of square candy pieces – plus some papers. The box was battered and torn and half open – So don’t send anything

[page 2] else unless I write specifically for it. I did write for this but it was a mistake except for the sardines. I had given up hope of this box arriving since it had been so long. Maybe that box I sent you while still in Noumea will finally arrive. It had lot of pretty shells and numerous other little trinkets that I wanted you to have but I guess it can’t be helped.

The colored boy was coming in to clean up the tent and I was going into the yard to finish but he went to another tent instead. He is a more or less worthless ‘niggir’ and has to be jacked up about every other day in order to

[page 3] get anything done. I cleaned that table off that I described to you but it is rapidly becoming a source table of many adornments again or do I mean adornments!

I’m now in the front lawn because the boy finally came.

I’ve said this so often but I think now within the next few days I will send a check so be on the lookout. We were told that pay day would be the 15^th and if so I’ll send it tomorrow and will follow in a few days with the number, date of issue etc so that if I should misplace my number book here you will have it. I think that is safer than a money order – because if I misplace

[page 4] the slip there is no way of checking on the thing. The check will be a subject of many letters following – just like the uniform check was good for 9 months subject matter.

Back in the tent again, It doesn’t take that black boy long to do what little he does. The main reason for coming back were the flies. They land and crawl pretty hard.

I’m still eagerly awaiting the pictures of D. so that I can compare his beauty handsomeness and personality with that of the beauty of and winning qualities of his mother.

Love Daddy