This was written by the daughter of John A. Applegate. Although the date of the visit had to be before 1960, it's still a great description of Bill and Mary.
https://lillianscupboard.wordpress.com/2013/07/23/cousin-bill-and-fried-mush/
My father's favorite cousin was Bill, ten years his senior and completely opposite from my diminutive, quiet, handsome, intelligent father. Bill was bawdy, boisterous, tall and husky with a loud, hearty laugh – a loveable rascal.
I remember him only in scruffy clothes with mud-caked brogans. He was a blacksmith by trade and followed the county fair trotting circuit to shoe the horses. Back in the 1960s, I took my three young children to the Owensville (Clermont County, Ohio) Fair and stopped in a trailer parked on the fairgrounds to visit Bill and his family. Inside the small trailer, 4 or 5 little kids were seated at a table and Bill's wife, Mary, was at the wood-burning stove frying mush in a big cast iron skillet. She would slice the mush, throw it into the hot grease, flip it and then put it on one of the kids' plates. For the 15 or 20 minutes we were there, she never stopped flipping and serving slices of hot mush – there was always an empty plate and a hungry child yelling for more.
https://lillianscupboard.wordpress.com/2013/07/23/cousin-bill-and-fried-mush/
My father's favorite cousin was Bill, ten years his senior and completely opposite from my diminutive, quiet, handsome, intelligent father. Bill was bawdy, boisterous, tall and husky with a loud, hearty laugh – a loveable rascal.
I remember him only in scruffy clothes with mud-caked brogans. He was a blacksmith by trade and followed the county fair trotting circuit to shoe the horses. Back in the 1960s, I took my three young children to the Owensville (Clermont County, Ohio) Fair and stopped in a trailer parked on the fairgrounds to visit Bill and his family. Inside the small trailer, 4 or 5 little kids were seated at a table and Bill's wife, Mary, was at the wood-burning stove frying mush in a big cast iron skillet. She would slice the mush, throw it into the hot grease, flip it and then put it on one of the kids' plates. For the 15 or 20 minutes we were there, she never stopped flipping and serving slices of hot mush – there was always an empty plate and a hungry child yelling for more.
This was written by the daughter of John A. Applegate. Although the date of the visit had to be before 1960, it's still a great description of Bill and Mary.
https://lillianscupboard.wordpress.com/2013/07/23/cousin-bill-and-fried-mush/
My father's favorite cousin was Bill, ten years his senior and completely opposite from my diminutive, quiet, handsome, intelligent father. Bill was bawdy, boisterous, tall and husky with a loud, hearty laugh – a loveable rascal.
I remember him only in scruffy clothes with mud-caked brogans. He was a blacksmith by trade and followed the county fair trotting circuit to shoe the horses. Back in the 1960s, I took my three young children to the Owensville (Clermont County, Ohio) Fair and stopped in a trailer parked on the fairgrounds to visit Bill and his family. Inside the small trailer, 4 or 5 little kids were seated at a table and Bill's wife, Mary, was at the wood-burning stove frying mush in a big cast iron skillet. She would slice the mush, throw it into the hot grease, flip it and then put it on one of the kids' plates. For the 15 or 20 minutes we were there, she never stopped flipping and serving slices of hot mush – there was always an empty plate and a hungry child yelling for more.
https://lillianscupboard.wordpress.com/2013/07/23/cousin-bill-and-fried-mush/
My father's favorite cousin was Bill, ten years his senior and completely opposite from my diminutive, quiet, handsome, intelligent father. Bill was bawdy, boisterous, tall and husky with a loud, hearty laugh – a loveable rascal.
I remember him only in scruffy clothes with mud-caked brogans. He was a blacksmith by trade and followed the county fair trotting circuit to shoe the horses. Back in the 1960s, I took my three young children to the Owensville (Clermont County, Ohio) Fair and stopped in a trailer parked on the fairgrounds to visit Bill and his family. Inside the small trailer, 4 or 5 little kids were seated at a table and Bill's wife, Mary, was at the wood-burning stove frying mush in a big cast iron skillet. She would slice the mush, throw it into the hot grease, flip it and then put it on one of the kids' plates. For the 15 or 20 minutes we were there, she never stopped flipping and serving slices of hot mush – there was always an empty plate and a hungry child yelling for more.
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