Thursday, December 6, 2007

Grandma Pauline's autograph book

from Grandma Pauline Axsom's autograph book, a little rectangle green paper book bound by string and very brittle, she recieved it quite young and had autographs from throughout her life in it....entries from her nurses, roommate and the janitor during a hospital stay...lots of entries from her daughter Freeda Haggard...and from all of Jerry Haggards family...several loving ones from her husband Alfred Axsom....and lots from her school friends. She left this book to her oldest daughter Mary Johnson, who will leave it to the next daughter Freeda Haggard, who will leave it to the son Bernard Axsom...Mary Johnson stated that her mother kept this book in a cedar chest with other momentoes at Trenton to keep the mice out of it. There were entries by her brother Dean Shafer (1939), Cousin Mary Lou (1938), Cousin Ruth Flanagan, Aunt Hallie Graves July 11 1939, Aunt Mary Uhler, Alma Craig Aug 28 1938. Cousin Marjorie H. Hamilton Drake Sept 3 1939 (Madge Boyd's second daughter), Warren Boyd 1939 Garden Grove, Cousin Wanda Maxine Osburne, Aunt Myrtle Osborn, Joy Uhler 1939, Marvin L. Axsom (her husbands brother), Mr and Mrs Ed O. Moore Setp 3 1939, Naydeane Boyd 1939, Anna (her husbands' sister), Grandmother Boyd Sept 3 1939, Mickey, Sept 6 1939 Daisy Axsom, Sylvia Flanagan 1939, Cousin Pearl Graves 1937, Aunt Maude Sept 3 1939, Your Friend Marie Boyd 1939 Leon Ia, Your cousin Eva Willis 1939, Mother Shafer June 24 1937, Cousin Lois Booth Oct 6 1937, Stella Rose Oxford,Betty Jean July 9 1937 (her sister), Aunt Edith King Sept 3 1939, Grandpa Pete JM Craig 1937, Aunt Mayme Flanagan Sept 3 1939, Vi Avril June 2 1985, LAvere Osborne Nov 7 1937 Creston Ia, William Frisbie age 9 June 29 1937, Aunt bess July 4 1937 Saline, Mo, Mamie Frisbie July 9 1937, her brother Bernard Axsom....
and deb dailey transcribed these entries:
"Cainsville Sept 19 1942
Dear Sis-When I am over there
Shooting Japs
Don't sit up too late
Or you'll get the yaps.
Ralph Shafer"

"Nove 7 1939 (this is how she wrote Novemeber)
Dear Pauline
One and one are two
But if one and one should marry
How is it in a year or two
Theres two and one to carry?
Mother Shafer"

"Shall the grass
grow around the stump
he is my dollie shugar lump
Rosa Bearr" (married Grandpa Shafer and later married Grandpa Alfred's Uncle Willie Axsom, her exact spelling)

"June 29 1937
Dear Pauline
Live long and eat pickles
but marry "Buster" who has his nickles
Your cousin Mamie Frisbie
Remember the older school days when you and i were young, we used to pull each others hair, and chew each others gum"

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