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watsd

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Wagner Kettle?
« on: July 18, 2005, 08:10:27 PM »
I am quite excited. When I put this kettle in the soup I did not know it had writing on it. Are they pretty common? Janice

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Re: Wagner Kettle?
« Reply #1 on: July 18, 2005, 08:16:40 PM »
Duh!! I forgot to add the picture. Janice

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Re: Wagner Kettle?
« Reply #2 on: July 18, 2005, 09:16:29 PM »
Janice,  that is a Sidney Hollow Ware yankee bowl.   Very nice.   The company was bought out by Wagner in 1897.   Yep,  108 years ago.   They are not common.


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Re: Wagner Kettle?
« Reply #3 on: July 18, 2005, 09:33:32 PM »
Man, you two have found a nice collection of stuff by your father/husband.  He sure knew his stuff!!
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« Reply #4 on: July 18, 2005, 09:54:00 PM »
Yes he did know his stuff and he loved cast iron. He had 132 cast iron seats. I am not putting them in the soup though. Janice

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« Reply #5 on: July 19, 2005, 10:32:08 AM »
Janice, I think I got this right. As your husband was putting all this cast iron and other stuff together did you yourself take an interest in an particular part of it, the cast iron, the old farm machinery or whatever? Or are you just learning this cast iron stuff by the seat of your pants so to speak. You said you learned a lot on this forum, I didn't know how much you got into it before, just curious?

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« Reply #6 on: July 19, 2005, 10:53:38 AM »
I think there can only be one serious collector in a family. I have cooked with cast iron since we got married. I have three skillets and a dutch oven. I decorate my house in antiques. I have an ice box, a spinning wheel, a rug beater, lots of kitchen things etc.

I did not know anything about the different makes of cast iron until I started cleaning it. Then Julie Gadgets would go on google and try to find out about the different items.l That is how she got on this site. Thank goodness she did.

Both of my daughters have a few antiques also. We have all shopped in the museum for years. In the past few years I have started to collect computers. Julie and I each have an iMac and I have a Powerbook. I do lots of things with pictures and music. Julie and I both do a lot in history. Hope to do a book when the work is all done this fall. If you need any family history looked up just ask Julie Gadgets. She is really good at it. Living in such a rural area we really appreciate the internet.

I guess I gave you lots more than you asked for. Janice

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« Reply #7 on: July 19, 2005, 11:29:34 AM »
Oh no Janice, I find all that stuff very interesting and right up my alley. In fact just this past week I looked up and found the grave of my great grandfather in Kentucky. You talk about family history. Listen to this. My sisters mother-in-law, (mother-in-law now deceased) is from an unusual family. It goes like this. William Riley Lee as a young man fought in the Civil War alongside his dad. After the war he married this woman and they had 12 kids, this woman died in 1899, in 1905 at age 57 he married a 24 year old woman and they had 8 more kids. My sisters mother-in-law is from the second set of kids. There is only 1 surviving son from the second set and all of the first set have long since died since they were born in the 1880's and 1890's. Anyway, the 24 year old woman he married, who was my sisters mother-in-laws mom died around 1980 and she drawed her deceased husbands Civil War Pension until the day she died. One of the daughters of one of the men from the second set of kids is into genealogy and I am interested in it too and we talked for a long time about it. These folks are from the same hollow that I am from in Kentucky. This grandaughter has the family bible along with the discharge papers and all kinds of other documents. She also has a newspaper article telling about this guys dad (William Riley Lees dad) being shot and killed by a man and that man convicted of the murder. Here they both went through the Civil War and then the father ends up getting shot and killed by some scoundrel. Anyway, I think all of that is interesting.

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« Reply #8 on: July 19, 2005, 11:41:14 AM »
What an interesting story. We love things like that. About 7 or 8 years ago we started working on an early history of our little town. The homesteaders came in 1910 some of them staying and many of them leaving. We have put together 5 or 6 photo albums of pictures of the homesteads, homesteaders, churches, schools etc. Julie borrowed the old newspapers and spent two winters going through them and gleaning all the little news bits about the area. We have much of this on the computer already and still lots to go. It is another very addictive hobby. Janice

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« Reply #9 on: July 19, 2005, 11:55:29 AM »
Yes it is Janice. What got me digging into this particular story is that back in April I was a guest on a small FM radio station in Cincinnati, Ohio. I was wating to go on and this guy asks me am I so and so's guest and I said yes. Well that guy was doing a radio show and he sounded like people like me talk. So I asked him where he was from because I knew very well he wasn't from Cincinnati, Ohio. Long story short he is from the same hollow that I am in Kentucky and his grandfather ended up being one of the sons from William Riley Lee's first marriage. He knew William Riley Lee was his great grandfather but from what I knew, I was able to tell him who his great great grandfather was. That would be the one shot and killed by the scoundrel. We found all this out after the radio show. But at the radio station when he found out that I was from the same hollow as he was, he asked me to sit down with him and be on the radio with him as well. So that day I was on two radio shows as it was. One was for what I went for and the other just happened. Things like that make life a little more interesting.
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