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Ancestral Remains

FROM MY GRANDMOTHER

There Are Homes

So long as there are homes to which men turn at the close of day;

So long as there are homes where children are, where women stay;

If love, and loyalty and faith, be found across these sills,

A stricken nation can recover from its ills.

So long as there are homes where fires burn; and there is bread;

So long as there are home where lamps are lit; and prayers are said;

Although people falter through the dark; and nations grope;

With God himself back of these little homes there is hope.

Grace Noll Crowell

CORRECTION: I had thought that this poem in my grandmother's handwriting among her papers had been her work. Of course during most of her life there was no quick and easy photocopy available, if you wanted a copy of something you'd borrowed you wrote it out yourself. Now, my readers here likely won't do either of those things – they'll copy and paste the text into a social media post, or add it to their collection of browser bookmarks.

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Fruit Cake

"My wedding cake" – Jessie Alberta Silvernail Card

"Mother's receipt – 1928"

Ingredients

1 pound (4½ cups) cake flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon cloves
½ teaspoon cinnamon
½ teaspoon mace
1 pound shortening
1 pound brown sugar
10 large eggs, well beaten
½ pound candied cherries
½ pound candied pineapple
1 pound dates, seeded and chopped
1 pound raisins
1 pound currants
½ pound citron, thinly sliced
½ pound candied orange and lemon peel
½ pound nut meats, chopped
1 cup honey
1 cup molasses
½ cup cider

Instructions

Sift flour once, then measure
Add baking powder and spices, sift together three times, set aside
Cream shortening thoroughly
Add sugar to shortening gradually, cream together until light and fluffy
Add eggs, fruit, peel, nuts, honey, molasses and cider, mix well
Add flour mixture gradually as you continue mixing
Turn into four 8"x8"x2" pans which are greased, lined with heavy paper, and greased again
Bake in slow (250° F) oven for 3 to 3½ hours

Makes 10 pounds of fruit cake

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FROM MY MOTHER

Mom's Testimony (heart.gmi)

Mom's Famous Cookies (cookie.gmi)

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FROM MY FATHER

Who Is This Good Woman?

I know a sweet woman

Whose heart is pure gold,

She's the kind of woman

With whom I'd like to grow old.

I know that she loves me

With a love great and true,

Though the storm clouds may gather

Or the skies are bright blue.

Through great labor and pain

She gave me a son,

Of whom I'll be proud

When life's race is done.

Who is this good woman

With a heart of pure gold?

Who is this good woman

Whose love won't grow cold?

Who is this grand woman

With such great sparkling life?

I write this in tribute

To my dear beloved wife!

Wurzburg, Germany - 1953

Sergeant William F. Card

January 22, 1929 - February 19, 1993

Sweet Penelope

Out there somewhere beyond the sea,

Down where the clouds lie on the lea,

He found his sweet Penelope,

With buds of roses in her hair

And kisses on her mouth.

There is no sweet Penelope

Out there somewhere for me,

With buds of roses in her hair

And kisses on her mouth.

But I can hear the whispering lips

That fly before the outbound ships;

And I can hear the breakers

On the sands a-calling come.

This poem apparently is derived from the story [The Mucker] by Edgar Rice Burroughs. I have not yet read the whole story to see whether these verses are a compilation of lines from the story, or whether they are Dad's own work in imitation of Burroughs. It was of interest to me primarily because it was written in his own handwriting. (I am hoping that such samples can help me understand the hereditary factors involved in dysgraphia.)

[The Mucker] (http://www.erbzine.com/craft/o1m.html)

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