Lucy stoddard wakefield biography of donald
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What's your favorite pie? As a child, I was partial to lemon meringue. The higher the meringue the better. My Grandma Farmer was the master of whipping up the egg whites.
Lemon Meringue Pie |
One of her relatives, Ship Captain Leslie Bryson, wrote after a visit that, "wretched & miserable pride forbade her to complain of her own choice & stir the stink among her Friends, although he [Dr. Wakefield] was in the constant habit of tentelizing [sp] and insulting her feelings with abusive epithets & jealous aspersions of all her connections."
She looked around and decided that the Argonauts, as the miners were called, needed coffee and dessert as consolation for hard days in the mines. According to the Placerville Democrat, May 8, 1891, Mrs. Wakefield baked dried-apple pies in deep, wide tins and sold the whole pie for two dollars.
In the beginning, she sold them from her down-town home. Folks would stop in for coffee ($.50) and a quart
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Samuel Mason |
Those of you who know your American Revolution history may know of Samuel Mason and his service during the conflict. Whether you do or not, perhaps you haven’t heard of what he did after the war that birthed our nation. I’ll share some of both aspects of his life with you today.
Samuel Mason was born on November 8, 1739 to a prominent Virginia family. He spent some portion
of his teen years on the wrong side of the law, stealing horses from a neighbor. However, after being wounded and caught, he stopped the horse thievery. He married Rosanna Dorsey in 1767, with whom he had eight children. In 1773, Mason moved his family to Ohio County, Virginia (present-day West Virginia), where he later served in the Ohio County Militia Virginia State Forces during the war. He achieved the rank of captain was put in command of Fort Henry in the Ohio frontier.Fort Henry |
In late August of 1777, Indians attacked Fort Henry, firing a few shots at men who were outside the fort to round up some horses. When Mason heard the shots, he and fourteen men rode out to their rescue, only to be ambushed. All the men were killed except Mason, who was badly wounded. He was able to survive the at
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