As I always try to do, I take note of the spellings of names and noticed how Leone spelled her first name. I had seen it predominantly as Leona. While not that big of a deal,
accuracy is the most important aspect of preserving history and genealogy and WAY too many people just write down stuff full of errors and then many post it
on various websites which then continues the errors on ever further.
Before I started changing
her spelling in some of my files and information I had, I found her tombstone and looked at the spelling there...just in case she had spelled it one way when she was
young and changed it later - which is not all that uncommon...plus even tombstones can have errors, BUT I want to find the name at birth if possible and it is Leone.
This is why I'm constantly requesting people to let me know when they see errors I have on my web pages and in the Monitor articles I publish.
Here is the interesting
item I scanned that brought about this article.
Update on the Brady collection:
I'm generally not interested in history unless it has a direct connection with Manning and Manning people.
I also am not a history/geography buff other than, again,
Manning connected.
But when I saw this picture and scanned it, I was pretty sure I knew where it was and confirmed it by double checking Glen Brady's
separation papers and it listed the name of the Island I thought the picture was showing.
So I searched the Internet and it is a historically famous image.
What makes me EXCITED, NOT that I have a scan of a historically important image but that a Manningite had it in his collection and he served at the battle to
take this island from the Japanese and then later it was used as the base from which the plane that carried the atomic bombs to drop on Japan.
For now I'll leave the name off, to see if there are other history buffs out there who will recognize it right away or know the name.
I'm not into poetry or little anecdotal articles, but find lots of little clippings saved by a Manning Veteran and/or a family member that meant something to them.
Here is one item that Glen and his family kept...which gives a little perspective on what went through their minds when they received their selective service notice.
I've scanned hundreds of WWII war ration stamp booklets over the decades, and while scanning one recently and looking at the various military equipment on the stamps, I got
to thinking...about the mind-set of many people today and if they were living during WWII.
Would they have protested these militaristic stamps - the weapons of war that were
killing people - even though the Nazis were slaughtering millions in Europe, and the Japanese Imperialists who did the sneak attack on Hawaii...why the US isn't a perfect system either.
Then I think about so many people today who have absolutely no clue as to the sacrifices all Americans made during WWII to save the world.
We are paying high prices for food right now - think about if you had to live under rationing during a world war???
We have way too many citizen whiners and the illegals coming here who think we owe them.
When I work on Veteran's military stuff, I try to put myself in Veteran's shoes and think about all of the various items I've scanned and then think about many of them were boys -
18 to 25.
To be given this chemical warfare card to carry, not to mention to be aware of that you were probably heading into combat soon.
Glen Brady in front
What's in a picture?
As I continue to scan the Brady/Musfeldt collection I ran into several more interesting images.
I've scanned thousands of old baby pictures and sadly many of them are not identified and no one at the time I scanned them knew who the babies were...not even for sure if
the baby was part of their family, or a baby picture a friend, neighbor, or other relative had sent to the family.
Baby pictures can be a "dime a dozen" and generally most people
don't care about, but many times I "see" things in those pictures that other people don't think about.
At least we know who they are in these 2 pictures.
The first one shows Glenna Brady holding the handle of the push mower.
What I like about this picture
is it is a good image of a push mower.
I remember when I stayed with my Ehrichs grandparents in Aspinwall when I was a kid and would watch grandpa, Louie, push his mower.
Like most kids initially, I wanted to "help out" so I asked grandpa if I could mow the lawn. At first it was fun but before long I realized how much work it was and then told grandpa I
was tired.
Then several years later as I got older and watched him sharpen the rotary blades of the push mower, it hit me there was even MORE work to mowing the lawn.
Glenna Brady holding Sheryl Musfeldt
Another aspect captured in this picture is the old push-button light switch.
I've scanned hundreds, maybe thousands of old horse pictures on farms in the area and this is a first for me.
I always comment about how everyone's collection I scan I find things I've never seen or scanned before.
Now I'm sure people today who have horses have captured their horse taking a "snow bath" but you have to understand historical
perspective. This picture was taken 62 years ago. There weren't phones with cameras on where just about anyone now can take pictures. The chances the Brady family had
their camera with them and then catch this scene would be very rare back then. While people took a lot of pictures over the last 100+ years, the cameras did not have the technology
we have today and people didn't carry their camera around with them everywhere like can be done now.
So before you scoff at this picture just below as nothing unique, put yourself back in time and think about it some...
More from the Musfeldt/Brady/Jensen collection...
Karen Brady and her sister Glenna attended Jefferson No. 7. Here is a picture with some names.
Please help out if you can...
Here are the names found while working on the Manning School history book for Jefferson No. 7 back in 2007-09
It is by no means complete, and I'm always looking
for more names, pictures, and information for the area country schools...
Shelby County, Jefferson Township, District No. 7
Directors: Allyn Erb, Howard French, Lowell Nelson
Teachers: Bernice "Pinkie" Armentrout, Eileen (Jensen) Stoelk, Alice McConnell
Students: Nadine Alwill, Bernice Armentrout, Beverly Bargenquast, Bob Bargenquast, Jim Bargenquast, Joyce Bargenquast, Charleen Barten, Gene Borkowski, Sharon Borkowski, Vernon Borkowski, Glenna Brady, Karen Brady, Jim Breining, Verlee Breining, Howard Christensen, Kenneth Christensen, Lois Christensen, Thelma Christensen, Allyn Erb, Dennis Erb, Gary Erb, Gloria Erb, Mildred Erb, Florence French, Howard French, Ruth Ann French, Albert Hansen, Lynn Hansen, Warren Hansen, Grace Jensen, Dorothy Juhl, LaVern Juhl, Marcia Juhl, Virgil Juhl, Dick Kuhl, Lynn Kuhl, Alys Larsen, Larry Larsen, Phylis Larsen, Leslie Laver, Margaret Laver, Ralph Laver, Gerald Lunsman, Marlin Mohr, Dwayna Mork, Adolph Nelson, Adrian Nelson, Jim Nelson, Tony Nelson, Donald Nielsen, Janell Nielsen, Jean Nielsen, Beverly Pries, Lois Pries, Keith Schwiesow, Gene Weber, Jim Weber, Bonnie West, Janice West, Donna Winsor, Darrell Wittrup, Delphi Wittrup, Don Wittrup, Betty Wooster, Chuck Wooster, Richard Wooster
Now I'm sure most people will say OK, big deal, and that is just fine.
I'm at least able, and take the time, to connect the dots of Manning's history and put the little pieces of the puzzle together.