Frisbie/Craig Reunion

The Mirror
August 13 2008
Cainsville News

Frisbie/Craig reunion was held Sunday, August 10 at the Cainsville Community Building. Approximately 50 people attended some as far away as California. A good lunch and visit was had by all who attended.

aunt mary left a message on the machine

she has rec'd a scrapbook from great Aunt Dona, which used to belong to Great Grandma Shafer, it has a war picture of Great Grandpa Shafer, newspaper articles about the crimes of the Osborn boys (I think she said 1950s), engagement announcements for her sister Freeda & for her Aunt Betty.
That got her to thinking that someone had written articles for the Trenton Republican Times about her little brother Roger being dressed up as a girl for Halloween about age 2-3, & another article about the entire Axsom family having the mumps.
So, when time allows & I think of it, will try to look these up on-line.

Family Reunion

I originally traded around to get today off to go to the Craig/Osborn/Frisbie reunion in Cainsville, but then I needed yesterday off to help Koren move.
The newspaper ad said "Families of Cindi (Osborn) & Pete Craig, and sister Ida & Sherman Craig."

Jamie Leigh Parkhurst

Cainsville News from The Mirror (Mercer Newspaper) July 23 2008

Deloris Parkhurst has returned from Texas . She spent time in Wichita Falls, TX with her grandson, K.J. Parkhurst and family. Delores attended her granddaughter's, and the daughter of Keith & Cathy Parkhurst, Jamie Leigh Parkhurst, wedding.

(deb's notes: Cathie is the daughter of Richard Frisbie, who is a cousin to my dad. I wish we knew who Jamie married!)

William Cullen Bryant again!

now I'm reading Anything For A Vote Dirty Tricks, Cheap Shots, and October Surprises in U.S. Presidential Campaigns by Joseph Cummins.
I always check the index first: old habit. William Cullen Bryant is mentioned twice.
On President William Henry Harrison's death: Poet William Cullen Bryant said he regretted Harrison's death only because "he did not live long enough to prove his incapacity for the office of President."
Ulysses S. Grant vs. Horace Greely Presidential campaign.
William Cullen Bryant decided that the only reason for Greeley's nomination was that "bodies of men as individuals sometimes lose their wits."

William Cullen Bryant

Anyone who has suffered thru trying to read the genealogy book I sometimes work on knows of my fascination with William Cullen Bryant: newspaper editor, poet, & distant cousin. (If memory serves me correctly, he was a great uncle to Mary Alice Bryant Higdon McMican, who would be my great-great grandma...)
The rough draft on my old computer has files upon files of William Cullen Bryant facts, trivia, things I have found & read about him. I have bought several of his books of poetry & biographies about him. It is somewhat of an obsession.
Anyway, I often spot his name when I read Lincoln books (another of my obsessions. Long story.) I was reading Appendix 1 Mary Todd Lincoln Letters in The Madness of Mary Lincoln by James Emerson. And there it is, a reference to good old William.
I won't quote it, copyright laws & all, but here's the gist of it...

she's on a riverboat ride with three or four choice Philadelphia friends
with scenery such as is seldom met in this world such pens as W.C. Bryant and others have given minute details of the voyage...

another licenced driver joins the ranks

KJ Dailey rec'd his Intermediate Drivers License July 12 2008 in Trenton, MO!