Aunt Leona’s son Henry was a young married man in 1940 and Theresa’s sixth child, a boy was 14, each were plowing in fields on either side of the Honey Creek. (Very happy Christian farmers) Aunt Leona’s son Henry was singing on his side of the Honey Creek (at the top of his lungs) and in GERMAN, “Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the King of Creation.” While Theresa’s son Vernon was singing in English on the other side just as loud, the very same words. Vernon said he enjoyed those times a lot.
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Things I Remember Fondly… by Aunt Sis (part 1)
Here are some memories from Aunt Sis…
Grandpa & Grandma Erhardt’s, Mother’s Day Gathering the twin snowball bushes by the garden gate always were in full bloom and Grandma would let us grandchildren have a snowball fight. Not a bloom was left on the bush and the ground was white as snow, in May.
After dinner Grandpa Edwin and Dad (Adolph) would set out on the banister on the front porch and talk of many things, mostly in German. One thing Grandpa Edwin said I’ll always remember (it was in English), “They say pepper helps a man on his horse, and a woman to her grave.” I was about 7 and thought it was funny, but they didn’t laugh and I’ve wondered about the truth in that all these years!