Waxing and Waning - The Cousin Connection: May 2011

Monday, May 30, 2011

Memorial Weekend

Memorial Day Flowers

Pioneer Cemetery - Damascus, Oregon

The Greenwells

Benjamin F. Greenwell

Jerushia Grimm Greenwell

Sunday, May 29, 2011

Memorial Weekend

The graves of many Greenwell and Grimm realtives are in the Damascus Pioneer Cemetery.

Greenwell Cousins - August 1981

Back row: Dortha Greenwell Wease, June Gantenbein Suckow, Jane Greenwell

Front row: Bess Greenwell, Margaret Upton Waning, Eleanor Greenwell Seibert

More recently, sisters Bess and Jane Greenwell have chosen to be buried in the Pioneer Cemetery.

Bess Greenwell

Jane Greenwell

Saturday, May 28, 2011

Memorial Weekend

Catherine Mulhollin Howles

George Howles

George and Catherine were the parents of Mary Howles Carter. George provided great assistance and support to his daughter while her husband, Joseph Carter, served in the Civil War.

Friday, May 27, 2011

Margaret Upton - Autograph Album 1927-1933

A list of Pleasant Hill Classmates

Classmates continued...

James Waning

James Waning - Yes, he wrote in the album upside down!

Here it is right side up.

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Margaret Upton - Autograph Album 1927-1933

Margaret Upton and Schoolmates

Robert Ford, Mary Patton, unknown, Joe Bates - back row

Margaret Upton, Clara Patton - front row

about 1928/29

Mary Patton

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Margaret Upton - Autograph Album 1927-1933

Further autographs from Margaret Upton's Autograph Album

Cecilia Cruzan

Clara Patton

Mildred Swift

Monday, May 23, 2011

Margaret Upton - Autograph Album 1927-1933

Two more autographs from family members...

Milton and June Gantenbein Suckow

Milton Suckow (June Greenwell's husband)

Evangeline Greenwell (cousin)

Sunday, May 22, 2011

Margaret Upton - Autograph Album 1927-1933

Further pages in Margaret Upton's Autograph Album...

Elsie Greenwell Upton (mother)

V'Ona Upton

V'Ona Upton (sister)

Esther Greenwell

Esther Greenwell (cousin)

Saturday, May 21, 2011

Margaret Upton - Autograph Album 1927-1933

More pages from Margaret Upton's Autograph Album...

George and Adah Long Greenwell

George Greenwell (uncle)

Lillian Nelson Greenwell (aunt)

Adah Long Greenwell (aunt)

Friday, May 20, 2011

Margaret Upton - Autograph Album 1927-1933

Some pages from a young (age 12 to 18) Margaret Upton's Autograph Album.

Glenn and Eleanor Greenwell

Eleanor Greenwell (cousin)

Glenn Greenwell (cousin)

June Gantenbein Suckow

June Gantenbein Suckow (cousin)

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

"In the United States, nationwide food rationing was instituted in the spring of 1942, and each member of the family was issued ration books by the Office of Price Administration (OPA). These books contained stamps and gave precise details of the amounts of certain types of food that you were allowed."

"Rationing insured that each person could get their fair share of the items that were in short supply due to the war effort and import reductions. By the end of the war, over a hundred million of each ration book were printed."

"The Office of Price Administration (OPA) was in charge of rationing consumer goods such as sugar, coffee, shoes, household appliances, and other goods during World War II."

"The OPA accepted ration book applications and issued ration books, from which consumers tore out stamps in order to purchase food and other supplies at grocery stores."

"Four different series of war ration books were issued. In 1942, five months after (December 8, 1941) the United States entered the Second World War, "Book One" series were issued. In January 1943, "Book Two" series were issued. "Book Three" series were issued in October of 1943. And "Book Four" series were issued towards the end of 1943."