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by Denise Nix
Gardena, CA
When Herschel Nix started the first grade, he was 8½-years-old and towered over his younger classmates.
It wasn't long, however, until the principal of the two-room brick schoolhouse realized that Herschel surpassed the other first graders not only in height, but in his ABCs and 1-2-3s, too.
David S. Long in pictured above.
By Joseph M. Long, Grandson
July 2001
By T. C. Langford
Summer 1944
Gutgsell Family Tree
Valentine Gutsgell
Born 2-10-1844, Died 9-21-1897
Franz Joseph Gutgsell (n. 17? d. 14 Nov 1821) and Agatha Dschle (n. 17? d. 13 Feb 1826), Franz and Agatha were married 24 May 1819. They resided at house Nr. 79 in Pfaffenweiler, Breisgau, Germany. According to Fritz Gutgsell, current Bruegermeister of Pfaffenweiler, house Nr 79 still stands.
Children:
By Larry Moore
Greene, Morgan and Putnam County Georgia are all named after Revolutionary War heroes. Greene was Georgia’s eleventh county (1786) and one of its original boundaries covered one hundred miles along the Oconee River. This story of General Nathanael Greene is the second of a three-part series.
Vocational Molly
Not all good talkers are found in Paris.
Mixed Chorus 1; Girls Chorus 2;The Student Prince 1.
By Bettina P. H. Burns
By: Lee Thatcher
Sarsaparilla, (Smilax Officinalis) whose name is derived from Spanish, meaning Thorny. This thorny vine has been used medicinally since at least the late 1500s. In Roman times, the young shoots were eaten, and the vine worn as garlands by the Bacchus festival partygoers.
Some of its uses included a cure for the common cold, a cure for earaches and deafness, and relief from upset stomach. The common saying in the Old West was that sarsaparilla cured anything but a gunshot wound.
When I became nine years of age, my father concluded that it was best for me to break up this free and semi-nomadic life, and to send me from home to school. I had picked up the rudiments of education in a female school which had been established at home for the education of my two sisters, and which was taught by two Northern ladies, one a Miss Parsons, of Massachusetts, and the other a Miss Draper, of New York. Miss Draper was a sister of Dr.
By Kathy Warnes
Reverend Ernest Norquist of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, describes his draft status in 1941 as “being under the threat of the Selective Service.” He decided to enlist in the Army so he could choose where he could go and his choice was the Philippines.