Thanksgiving Dinner '08

Thanksgiving Dinner (Reminders for next year and recipes)
Rolls
Green bean Casserole
Pecan Pie
Cherry Pie
Apple Pie
Dawn's Marinated Turkey
Brine:
8 qt water
3/4 C kosher salt
3/4 C syrup
3 T pepper
8 cloves crushed garlic
1 lemon finely sliced
Marinate in the brine for at least 24 hrs. The longer it soaks, the more flavor it will have.
Stuff in turkey:
2 onions
4 garlic cloves
Rub:
thyme
sage
poultry seasoning
pepper
Before you cook the turkey put onions and garlic cloves in it.
Seperate the skin from the turkey and rub the rub under the skin. Sprinkle on top too.
Cover in foil. Bake @ 375 for 45 mins.
Topping:
1/2 C syrup
1 C cola
Pour syrup and cola mixture on top. Cover in foil. Bake until done according to weight.

Cynthia's Sweet Potatoes
3 C sweet potaotes(mashed)
1 C sugar
2 eggs
1/2 C milk
1 tsp vanilla
Combine above ingredients.
Topping:
1 C brown sugar
1/2 C flour
1/4 C butter/margarine
1 C pecans
Combine ingredients and put on top of the potatoes.
Bake @ 400 degrees for 30 minutes

Dawn's Pumpkin Pie
4 oz cream cheese
1/2 container of cool whip
1 Tbs sugar
1 Tbs milk
Combine well and pour on bottom of graham cracker crust.
15 oz can pumpkin
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp nutmeg
1 tsp cloves
2 4 serving packs vanilla pudding
1 C milk
Combine well and pour in crust.
Refrigerate for 4 hours until it sets up.

Orange Salad
1 8 oz tub of cool whip
1 ? container of cottage cheese
1 16 oz can madarine oranges
2 small sugar free orange jello packs
Combine and let set overnight.

So this is our family recipe spot for Thanksgiving. Some of these recipes had to be wrestled out of people to get ahold of :) But we got them and now here they are! We'll fill in the blanks when we actually have the real recipes in front of us later. Happy Thanksgiving!

Veterans past and present

This is just a small list of family members who are currently serving or have served. They include family by blood or marriage and our young folks who were members of JROTC in High School. I hope to add a bit about their sevice as well as time goes.

Father of Georg - Frederick William Potsdam Giants in Alsace

John Exline - Revolutionary War

W. E. Klopp - US Army, WWII

E.Hugh Brown - US Navy

J. P. Brown - US Army, retired
101st Airborne, Ft. Campbell, two tours
Germany, Wiesbaden & Nurnberg one tour each
Ft. Drum, NY...one tour, went on to be civilian emp. at Ft.Drum

J. M. Brown - US Marines/ US Army
Marines,0311, out of Lejune from 92 to 97.
Was with the 1STBN 2DMAR 2DMARDIV
Curently with The 161st ESC. 27th EN BN, 20th EN BD out of FT. Bragg.

V. Forbes - US Marines
R. Forbes - US Marines/US Army
Desert Storm,
Ft. Drum, NY

A. Williams-JROTC, High School, reached highest possible rank. Represented local Disabled Vet's in the parades.

W. Kepley-JROTC/Guard reserves, member of drill team. He and A.Williams(female) met in JROTC are are now engaged!

D. Forbes-JROTC

Ancestors serving in the 1700's

I originally posted this on Veterans Day. Our family has a long history of those who served in the military. These are two examples of men who served as far back as the 1700's. This information came from the "family book".

1. Father of Georg Christoff Oechslen. Tradition has it that his family had lived in Alsace for a generation or two already after leaving Schaffhausen, and that his father had been impressed into the army of Frederick WIlliam I. This service was probably started between 1715 and 1725 or thereabouts. Frederick William had started his reign with a systematic military discipline which has characterized many of his successors also. With an eye to the spectacular organized one regiment of the tallest men in the kingdom, none being eligible except those over six feet tall. This regiment was known as the Potsdam Giant Regiment and was recruited from all parts of the Kingdom, of which at that time Alsace was a province. This famous Potsdam Regiment is a matter of Prussian history, and the traditions of the Exline family say that the father of George Christoff Oechslen was a member of this regiment.

2. Revolutionary War; John Axline served in the Revolutionary war as a Private under Lt. Col. Posey in the Company of the 3rd. Regiment with h i s name spelled "John Exline". His name appears on the muster roll dated 16 Apr. 1782.His grandson Attorney Henry A. Axline of Columbus, Ohio, in searching for John's war record noticed that on the payroll, the name of John Exline was always set to one side and marked 'I for special services1'.Later he found an old chest which the family had brought from Virginia and in it was a diary kept by Christena, wife of John Axline. She had made this notation "Everything is in confusion around me. Since John made the last gunpowder, the British have confiscated everything we have". This excited the curiosity of Henry Axline who searched the army supply records and found a record of the gunpowder that John had made. John would fight for a time and then go home and make gunpowder, then go out and fight again. On 15 Sept. 1784 a certificate for the sum of 16 pounds, 19 shillings was issued to John Exline in payment for his services.

I will be adding more in the future...of both our past and present veterans....

Credit/Sources

I must give much of the credit for the information regarding my ancestors to my ancestors. They have left a trail, well marked. A great deal of information came from visiting our local Family History Center and the "family book" GENEALOGY OF THE EXLINE AND AXLINE FAMILY by Edythe Wilson Thoesen, Emma Miller Exline & Leo L. Holz. As I have been able I have tried to confirm information with a second source. Somewhere on here I hope to post a list of sources, much of which is public records, ect.

A little intro....

Our family is forever and spending time with family in the past or present brings me the greatest joy! ....as do my thoughts of our family in the future! Much of what you will find in my blog will be about our family ancestors, with a touch of family life in the present. Be sure to visit the Forbes 7 blog pages for life in their family, today.