November 2012 – Marion's Blog

From Hoarding to Home Made Twinkies and Oreos – The NY Times Most Emailed List

If you want a window into the things that entertain us and worry us I think the most emailed list on the New York Times electronic edition makes interesting reading. Today I not only enjoyed reading the most emailed articles but I got a chuckle out of the mix of articles that we felt the need to email to a friend.

The first article on the most emailed list is Personal Health: It’s Time to Say Goodbye to All That Stuff. It is an article about a self help book that the reviewer says really helped her with what she called her "life long tendency to accumulate too much of nearly everything that I considered potentially useful to me or someone else sometime in the future." I guess the fact that this is the number one most emailed article explains why the show Hoarders is so popular. Apparently everyone thinks they know someone who 'collects' too much stuff.

The second article on the list is Lives Restored: Expert on Mental Illness Reveals Her Own Fight. It is an article about "Marshe Linehan of the University of Washington, creator of a treatment used worldwide for severely suicidal people". This is also a fascinating article. Surely it being on the most emailed list is a sign of how many of us worry about a loved one who struggles with mental issues.

Number three on the list is Vital Signs: Risks: More Red Meat, More Mortality I guess I'm not the only one who worries about what I can do to live a longer healthier life. I emailed this one to my husband!

Just in case you were worried that this insight into our collective consciousness is not very much fun the remaining six articles on the NY Times most emailed list are about food! Clearly healthy food is not as much fun as guilty pleasures. Number four is Recipe: Homemade Twinkies, number five is Recipe: Chocolate Cupcakes With Cream Filling, and number six is Recipe: Homemade Fritos, They make me want to start baking right now. Number seven is an entertaining article about the woman who researched and tested all these guilty pleasure recipes including number eight which sounds really good Recipe: Fauxreos. Numbers nine and ten are recipes for Korean Pork not nearly as fun as fake Oreos!

Erb, Musselman Genealogy Trip Report – Allegany County, Maryland – May 2012

One of my many hobbies is genealogy. I love being a detective and in many ways genealogy is doing family history detective work. At one point I considered creating a separate Genealogy blog but decided instead to just tag my genealogy posts as such. This is a genealogy post. If you are not interested in genealogy and the Erb and Musselman families you should stop reading now.

On our road trip in the Spring of 2012 Duke and I did family history research in a few places including Allegany County, Maryland. I have been mulling over in my head how to summarize and save the details of the research we did on the trip. I decided to create a trip research report. First I did a Microsoft Word document. But I think I also want it on the blog. I can send a link to the others who I think will be interested and I will have the results in the future if I want to recall what I did and what I learned.

Background

My third Great Grandparents, Joseph Erb (b1789) and his wife Elizabeth Musselman Erb (b1798) lived in Allegany County with their family in the early 1800’s. One of their sons, my Great Great Grandfather also named Joseph Erb was born in 1822 probably in Allegany County.

The Musselman Farm

We arrive in Cumberland Maryland on Sunday, May 13. Based on several sources ¹²³I believed that the Musselman farm was located on land that is now the Arboretum of the Frostburg State University.

Duke and I drove out to the Arboretum and hiked around it. It is a beautiful location but we found no signs of the old Musselman farm. You can see my other pictures of the Frostburg State University Arboretum on Google Photos here. This set also contains other pictures referenced in this trip report.

[1] (Moore, 2004)

[2] (Frostburg State University)

[3] (Brusca, 2010)

Frostburg State University
Library

The library has both a local history section on the open shelves and a rare book room that can be accessed by appointment. I have the name and phone number of the person to contact for an appointment. Let me know if you need it. The library also has an interlibrary loan service. The brochure I received says for more information contact the ILL office ill@frostburg.edu 301-687-4886.

From the catalog the following books sounded interesting:

The Braddock Road by John Kennedy Lacock – published 1994 reprint of an edition thought to have been published in 1914. Includes maps and bibliographical references. The John Brusca Route 40 website⁴ quotes this book extensively. – the book is in the special collection room so I couldn’t review it.
Historical Biographical Sketch of Frostburg, Maryland and its Citizens old and new – published 1912 16p call number F 189.F7 M5 – The book contains pictures of the Musselman Farm and cornerstone.

Allegany County Maryland Rural Cemeteries – I reviewed it and found no Erb, Musselman, Arter or Strotzer
History of Cumberland Maryland by Will H. Lowdermilk – Baltimore Regional Publishing Company 1971 – photos are also in the Google album. In the forward the book includes background on Cumberland Maryland newspapers. On pages 277-278 there is a statement that the Erb family and several other listed families came to Allegany County between 1790 and 1800. On pages 296-297 there is a description of the Militia formed in 1814 and Joseph Erb is listed as a member.

The Genealogical Society of
Allegany County Library

The Genealogy Society of Allegany County Library is located in the library of the Allegany college of Maryland, 12401 Willowbrook Rd, Cumberland, MD. The library is in a room separate from the rest of the library. A librarian had to let me in to the locked room. After I had browsed the regular shelves for a while the president of the society and her husband arrived. The president of the society is Harriett Moore. She is the author of the
Musselman article in the society newsletter². She has Musselman ancestors. We discussed the cornerstone and the location of the ruins of the Musselman farm and she said she thought it might be some place else than the Arboretum.

Her husband gave me a copy of the Musselman article³ from the Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage Newsletter. The article is well sourced and documents the Musselman ancestry.

I also referenced the following books and other materials:

·Genealogical Resources in Allegany County – a seven page handout compiled by the Genealogical Society of Allegany County
The Marriage Diary of William Shaw 1792 – 1813. Several pages from this manuscript are also In the Google album. On page 8 the document lists
the marriages of
- ERB,
  Catherine to Jacob Woodring July 30 1805
- Erb,
  Polly to Jacob Speelman Feb 9 1808

It is possible that Polly and Catherine were sisters of third great grandfather Joseph Erb(b1789).

There was also a card catalog of surnames. A transcription of the Erb and Musselman cards follows this article.

If anyone reading this has more information about the Erbs and Musselmans or if you have any questions please let me know.

Works Cited

Brusca, F. (2010, 11 3). John Kennedy Lacock’s
“Braddock Road” (1909) Part 3. Retrieved 6 23, 2012, from Frank
Brusca’s Route40.net: http://www.route40.net/page.asp?n=10595

Frostburg State
University. (n.d.). Arboretum History. (W. P. hli@frostburg.edu,
Editor) Retrieved June 23, 2012, from Frostburg State University:
http://www.frostburg.edu/dept/biol/arboretum/history.htm

Moore, H. (2004). The
Musselman Family – An Early, But Brief, Sojourn in Allegany County. The Old
Pike Post , 21 (4), 1,2,4.

Phelan, E. D. (1989,
January). Descendants of Christian Musselman (d. 1734) of Lancaster Township,
Lancaster County, Penn. Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage , 146-23.

Transcription of card catalog Cards

The references Alle, Alle Adm., Alle Will, and G1 on the cards refer to the wills and probates of the Musselmans. Familysearch.org has all of them; This Family Search link is to the index for to all M wills and probates for Allegany County. The Musselmans are all listed there. Thanks to Loretta Bonaccorso at Genealogy Your Way for her help with this.

If anyone would like copies of the original cards I have them.

Index Card 1

Erb, Polly Alle

m. 2-5-1808

Jacob Speelman

Joseph Alle
Adm.

m. Elizabeth Musselman

dau of
Christian adm. 1828

Index Card 2

Erb, Margaret G1 * 12-48

m. Samuel Thayer

son/ Murray Keziah
Barrows

Index Card 3

Musselman,
Christian Alle
Adm.

6-14-1825 a –
Valentine Hoffman
Jacob Snyder Adm.

Accts Paid

Nancy

Susanna

Christian Jr.

Etc.

11-15-1826

#2 Adm. “ a –
335

8/15/1827

#3 Adm. “ a -353

Index Card 3 side 2

8/13/1828 A 378

Div
of Estate

Val
Hoffman & Jacob Snyder Adm.

Mrs
Susanna third

Christian Jr.

Jacob

Elizabeth (Joseph Erb)

Nancy (John Blocker)

Susanna (Henry Arthur)

Frances (George Hartzell) Hansel

8/10/1831 #7 adm “ B33

div. John
Heirs (Christian) AlleAdm

Christian 3-11-1834 B82

Jacob Mussellman Mrs. Susa

Elizabeth (Joseph Erb) John Blocker Adm.

Nancy (John Blocker) (Same as Christian

Susanna
(Henry Arthur) except
Christian

Frances
(George Hansell) Jr.
dec’d (heir)

Index Card 4

Musselman G1 * 1-3

Jacob

Teacher School House Run Shoemaker

When school not in session.

Index Card 5

5-10-1843 Alle
Adm. C66

Musselman
John
#1 John Blocker Admx.

Mrs.
Christianna wid third

Sarah

John

Elizabeth

Daniel

Andrew

Equal
shares

Index Card 6

Alle

Musselman
Nancy <Christian Susanna

m.
8-9-1814

John Plucker
(Blocker)

John <Christian
Susanna

m.
1-21-1815

Christina
Blocker < Andrew Barbara

Christian
< Christian Susanna

m. 5-17-1817

Nancy
Arthur

Fanny
< Christian Susanna

m.
9-6-1824

George
Hansel

Elizabeth
< Christian Susanna

m.
Joseph Erb

Susanna
< Christian Susanna

m.
Henry Arthur

Index Card 7

Musselman John Alle
Will

Hazzy
(his wife)

A 519 2-8-1840

Of Dark Co Ohio Appointed Daniel
Musselman

Of Somerset Co. Pa. to recover their 1/5

Int. in late grandfather’s (John
Musselman

Sr) estate in Alle Co.

And debts owed by Abraham’Miller’s
estate

(also their
grfather) in Somerset Co Pa.

Musselman Elizabeth

A 520 2-18-1842 ditto above

Money was owed her by John Blocker of Alle
Co.

(See Stephen Shipley)

Fall 2012 Raod Trip – Post 5 – The Olympic Peninsula

During the last week of our 2012 Fall Road Trip Duke and I spent four nights on the Olympic Peninsula. We stayed in the four different National Park Lodges in the Park. The weather was sunny and warm and we had a marvelous time.

After taking the ferry from Victoria to Port Angeles we drove to Lake Crescent Lodge. Coincidentally the night that we were there was the 75th anniversary of President Franklin Roosevelt staying there. Our room in the lodge overlooked the lake.

In the morning we had coffee on the porch.

The next morning we hiked from Crescent Lake to Marymere Falls

Then we drove to Sol Duc Hot Springs. We hiked to Mink Lake and had a picnic then came back to Sol Duc where we were spending the night and soaked in the hot springs.

On day three on the Olympic Peninsula we drove to the Hoh Rain Forest Visitor Center and took another short hike and had another picnic lunch.

As we were leaving the Hoh Rain Forest we saw the only elk we saw on the whole trip.

We spent our third night in the park at Kalaloch Lodge on the coast. We had a fantastic room in the lodge with 180 degree windows from which we enjoyed a magnificent sunset.

Sunday morning we went for a walk on the beach. Duke built a bit of a bridge across the creek that was entering the Pacific there and I crossed it with no problem going north. But on the way back I lost my balance and fell in!

After I changed into dry clothes we drove to Lake Qunault Lodge and took another short hike. Lake Qunault Lodge reminded me of the lodge in the movie Dirty Dancing. It was such a nice sunny warm day that we sat on the beach reading for awhile.

From Lake Qunault we left the Olympic National Park for the last time. We stopped at Gray's Harbor Historical Seaport and visited The Spar Shop where they have the largest tracer-lathe in North America. They make masts and spars and anything else that needs to be turned on a really big lathe. The lathe operators showed us around and told us they can turn logs up to 40 inches in diameter and 122 feet in length.

The Lady Washington Tall Ship had just returned from a cruise and was moored nearby.

We stopped in Olympia to tour the Washington State Capital.

Then we headed to Tacoma to spend the night with my sister and her family.

On October 9th we headed south to Bend Oregon. We had some wonderful views of Mount Rainier.

From Bend we drove home to Reno. It was a wonderful trip. If you would like to see all of our pictures from the trip they are available on Flickr here.

From Jasper, Alberta through British Columbia back to the U.S.

Duke and I returned from our Fall road trip a couple of weeks ago and I am just getting to updating the blog. This blog entry will be about our travels from Jasper Alberta in the Canadian Rockies to Vancouver and Victoria British Columbia, and then back to the U.S.

We left Jasper heading west and stopped to spend the night at the SunPeaks Resort near Kamloops, British Columbia. The SunPeaks Resort is a ski resort but since ski season hasn't started we got a great room for a great price on PriceLine.

The next day we drove to Squamish, British Columbia. Along the way we drove through Whistler where the 2010 Winter Olympic Games were held. We drove around a bit and stopped to check out the bobsled track. As we were walking around we kept hearing a whistling sound. We finally realized that it was the zip line going down the canyon behind us. It looked like a wild ride.

From Squamish we drove to Vancouver and spent two nights. We visited Chinatown in Vancouver and went to the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden. In the picture below you can see the man using a gong to call the fish before he feeds them. The next picture is of the garden too. It is the first full-size "scholars" garden built outside of China. We took a tour and learned all about the culture of the garden.

The other great thing we did in Vancouver was visit the Museum of Anthropology – University of British Columbia. The building was designed to display the collection of carvings and totem polls. It had a wonderful collection of everything from clothing to boats to art to masks of the native people who lived on the west coast of what is now Canada. I could go back and spend days exploring the collection.

On the way back from the museum we stopped at Granville Island and explored. We visited the public market and watched the sunset overlooking the water. Then we took the pedestrian ferry back to near our hotel and walked the rest of the way.

Tuesday, October 2 we took the ferry from Vancouver to Vancouver Island. We drove up the coast and spent the night in Courtenay. Wednesday we drove to Victoria stopping along the way to hike and explore. The giant Douglas firs were amazing.

In Victoria we went to see Butchart Gardens. While deciding what to do that day I was debating whether it really was worth the drive and the cost. But when we got there I was blown away. They have to be the most stunningly beautiful gardens I have ever seen.

After visiting the gardens we took the afternoon ferry across Juan de Fuca Strait to Port Angeles, Washington on the Olympic Peninsula. It was a gorgeous day, there was no wind and the water was as flat as glass. We even saw some dolphins as we were crossing.

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