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Mystery of an Antique Ring

Sunday, June 19th, 2011

By Joey Cresta
jcresta@seacoastonline.com
June 17, 2011 2:00 AM
KITTERY, Maine — An amateur genealogist in Dover, N.H., is trying to piece together the history of a ring recently found on a Kittery beach.

When Scott Drummey read the June 9 Portsmouth Herald article detailing Berwick resident Carrie Arsenault’s discovery of an inscribed gold ring, he got down to the business of solving a family mystery.

The only clue when Arsenault found the ring on a private beach near the Lady Pepperrell House on Route 103 was an inscription: “CCD to MAL Dec. 25, 1880.”

Arsenault’s mother, Kittery deputy town clerk Kathy Pridham, looked through town marriage records and found one match: Kittery residents Charles C. Dixon and Maranda A. Lewis were married May 12, 1881, by the Rev. John A. Goss.

Arsenault and Pridham were unable to find out much more about the mysterious couple, but Drummey, who became interested in genealogy studies after researching his own family history, turned to Ancestry.com and found some interesting facts that may start to clarify the lives of Dixon and Lewis and their possible connection to the ring.

“As soon as I read the article, I thought, ‘There’s a history behind this,’” he said.

Scott Drummey is hoping to find an heir to the ring. “Are (descendants) reading this article? Do you know who they are? Let them know their great-grandmother’s engagement ring recently washed up on the beach,” he said.

If you can help, you might want to first read the article. Find out more about the story.

Funeral home….did you know?

Saturday, June 18th, 2011

Did you now that:

1: Funeral homes MAY NOT refuse to accept caskets purchased form another retailer.

2: Funeral homes MAY NOT charge a handling fee for caskets purchased from another retailer.

3: Funeral homes MAY NOT require consumers to be present when a casket is purchased from another retailer is delivered to the funeral home.

4: Funeral homes MAY NOT make slanderous statements about buying caskets from another retailer.

5: Funeral homes MAY NOT require consumers to buy certain funeral goods or services as a condition for furnishing other funeral goods or services.

This was published in the Wisconsin Cemetery and Cremation Reporter in 2007. It is based on the strict Federal TRade Commission laws governing funeral homes and their interaction with customers.

Cream of Wheat Model Recognized

Saturday, June 18th, 2011

Cream of Wheat Model
This was from a 2007 issue of Wisconsin Cemetery and Cremation Association Newsletter.

(AP) A man widely believed to be the model for the smiling chef on Cream of Wheat boxes finally has a grave marker bearing his name.

Frank L. White died in 1938, and until recently, his grave in Woodland Cemetery (Michigan) bore only a tiny concrete marker with no name.

A granite gravestone was finally placed at his burial site. It bears his name and an etching taken
from the man depicted on the Cream of Wheat box.

When White died Feb. 15, 1938, the Leslie, MI Local Republican described him as a “famous
chef” who “posed for an advertisement of a wellknown breakfast food.”

White lived in Leslie for about the last 20 years of his life, and the story of his posing for the Cream of Wheat picture was known in the city of 2,000 located about 70 miles West of Detroit.

The chef was photographed about 1900 while working in a Chicago restaurant. His name was
not recorded. White was a chef, traveled a lot, was about the right age and told neighbors that he
was the Cream of Wheat model.

Fairview Mausoleum

Saturday, June 18th, 2011

I recently found a picture and a short article on the Fairview Mausoleum formerly in Milwaukee. I hadn’t realized it was a community mausoleum.

The article can be seen at Links To the Past The article was published in the Wisconsin Cemetery and Cremation Reporter.

Milwaukee Biographies

Sunday, February 27th, 2011

Hello all,

Thanks to Maxine I have been adding biographies to the website from the book The History of Milwaukee 1881. If you haven’t checked the page out lately, please be sure to check it out.

http://linkstothepast.com/milwaukee/1881historyindex.php

I added a few names to the surname registry.
Magestro or Magistro and Loveall.

Moved Birner from Cem X to Cavalry Cemetery #036

Added Aldrich to Cemetery X

Milwaukee County Updates

Sunday, February 20th, 2011

This weekend I was busy updating Milwaukee Genealogy information as sent in by researchers. Thank you for your submissions!

Updated the spelling of the name Grueber that appeared on the Lutheran Church page.

Moved Herman Auger from Cemetery X to Forest Home cemetery.

Added 1881 History bios scanned by Maxine.

Winkler death information to cemetery 50 Wanderers Rest.

Added a section of Wisconsin Artists sent in by a contributor. The link to it is on the Milwaukee Family page.
Here is the direct link.

Added to Marriages:
Koopman, Phillips, Tenner, Essers, Seifried, Krause

Waukesha Deaths in Cemeteries

Thursday, February 10th, 2011

This week I worked on the following files at the courthouse. I have added the deaths to following cemeteries:

Cemetery X
Lena O’Brien
Leonard Fielder

Summit Cemetery
Adelia Parks Leavitt

Prairie Home
Samper A Perkins

Oconomowoc Cemetery
Mary Machus

Wisconsin Memorial park
W H Rintelman

Waukesha County Updates

Friday, January 28th, 2011

I updated the Waukesha and Washington counties sites today with deaths extracted from probate records in Waukesha County.

BEAUMONT marriages and Hartland Cemetery
BUCKHOLZ Prairie Home and Obituary
NICKELL Prairie Home Cemetery and Obituary
BOECK: Prairie Home Cemetery
MEREDITH: Oak Ridge Cemetery and Obituary
RUEKERT: St. Joseph Cemetery Waukesha
PITZKA: See RUEKERT
SMITH: Cemetery X
HELD: Washington County Probate in Waukeha County

Updates to Waukesha Free Genealogy Website

Saturday, January 15th, 2011

I have been going through the items that have been sent in by researchers and have been updating the site.

I made this change to the Waukesha site at www.Linkstothepast.com/waukesha/22.php

ROWLANDS Update to Tabernacle cemetery.

Polish Catholic Deaths

Sunday, November 14th, 2010

This morning I moved the St. Stanislaus Death Register from the old Milwaukee GenWeb website to my site. St. Stanislaus is a Polish Catholic Parish on the southside of Milwaukee. Thank you Mary Popovich for compiling the data and submitting it to the GenWeb Website.

There were only a few pages on the old GenWeb website, so it will not be long before that site will be taken down. If you link to the site, please be sure to update your links to the new site.

The url is: www.LinksToThePast.com/milwaukee

Thank you.