Family Recipe Friday: Open Faced Peach Pie

Open Faced Peach Pie

Weldon's mom made this peach pie.  It's very easy to make and good with cool whip or ice cream.  Several of Ruth's grandchildren have mentioned that they enjoyed this pie.

    1 baked crust                                                  
    1-2 eggs                                                       
    1 cup sugar                                                    
    2 cups sliced peaches                                          
    2 tablespoons flour                                            
    Butter                         
                                
Stir all the ingredients together and pour on a baked pie crust.   Sprinkle with cinnamon.  Bake at 425 degrees for 30-45 minutes. 
Note:   I didn't have any directions as to how long to bake so I estimated.  Ingredients could be doubled to make a fuller pie.


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Random Research Updates

A few random research threads that I'm working on this week:

• Contacted a volunteer from the Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness website, attempting to locate an obituary of William Clifford LeMaster, who died July 26, 1922 in Victor, Colorado.  Received a quick response back from the volunteer, who was going to check to see if Colorado Springs genealogy library had local papers on microfilm to help me.
• Sent off to the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis, MO for records of Luther P. Cummings, U.S. Navy records.  With Eileen as next-of-kin, there should be no charge for anything that they find using SF-180.
• Attempting to track down the records of the Salamonia Methodist Episcopal Church.  Contacted Jay County Historical Society, Indiana Conference of United Methodist Church and finally DePauw University.  Their archives have records of memberships, baptisms, marriages and funerals.  Will have to plan a research trip.
• Contacted the Colorado State Archives regarding records of the divorce and will of William Clifford LeMaster.  They responded positively, but it may be cost prohibitive to obtain these records.  Choices, choices...

Polio Epidemic : Jay County, Indiana (1949)

Source: The Commercial-Review, Portland, Indiana, July 30, 1949, page 1

City Board of Health

and

Jay County Board of Health

Portland, Indiana

July 30, 1949

ORDER OF HEALTH OFFICE

By virtue of the power vested in me by Section 409 of Chapter 157 of the Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana for the year 1949, it is hereby ordered that all places of public gatherings within the corporate limits of the city of Portland, Jay County, State of Indiana, and the entire county of Jay, State of Indiana, be closed and all public gatherings in any schools, churches, theatres, halls or other inclosed place intended for public gatherings and all fairs, carnivals, circuses and all other open places of public gatherings be closed for the purpose of stopping the poliomyelitis epidemic in the said city of Portland, Indiana; and the entire county of Jay, State of Indiana; this order to remain in full force and effect until further order issued by this officer.

GEORGE G. MORRISON, M.D., Secretary, City Board of Health and City Health Officer, and Jay County Board of Health.

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The polio epidemic struck the city of Portland and Jay County, Indiana so severely in the summer of 1949 that the Board of Health shut down all outside activity.  I stumbled across this notice while searching for obituaries on my last trip to the Jay County Public Library.

My father was a young boy during this time, just 5 years old.  Though it did not affect any directly in the family, the polio scare was bad enough that he remembers that his parents would let him go across the street to play with neighbor kids.  Dad wasn't in school yet, and did not go to kindergarten, possibly due to this scare.  At that time, kindergarten was not part of the school system - it was held in the basement of the public library.  The American Legion building in Portland was used as a polio hospital during this time period.  Dad did have a classmate he remembers graduating high school with who had suffered from polio as a child.

The library has a book that was details the events in Portland during this polio epidemic which I will have to check out on my next trip.