PRICE/THOMPSON FAMILY STORY.

PRICE, THOMPSON

Posted By: Pat Welch (email)
Date: 12/28/2001 at 18:48:12

Subject:

Old-Time Suppers, etc.

Date:

Sat, 17 Nov 2001 19:10:10 -0600

From:

"pat welch"

To:

iggy29@scican.net

Nancee, I have just subscribed to your
Decatur Co. website &
am thoroughly enjoying it. Thank you!
Now & then I see an
ancestor's name, which is neat, but also
it is even neater
to read of the period of time. There was
a pretty good
sense of humor out there even then!

In reading about the Handkerchief
Festival, I was reminded
of when I asked my grandmother Verlie
Price how she met
grandpa Ralph Thompson. I copy her words
as she wrote them
to me (but feel free to edit it in any way
you need to, or
not use at all):

"Our little country school "Popcorn"
gave a program of
one-act plays - musical numbers, etc, &
after the program we
had a Pie Sale (we thought the
old-fashioned box supper was
a bit "Passe"). So each girl was to bring
a pie to sell.
My girlfrind Edith Lantz & I thought a
whole pie was a bit
too much for one couple, so we decided to
make different
ones. I made a gooseberry & she made a
new recipe which we
had just heard of "Cholocate Pie". We put
half of each on
each plate.

While they were auctioning off the
pies, Ralph's cousin
Ethel Machlan & I were peeping out from
behind the curtain
which we had strung across the stage for
the plays & she
said "I see Uncle Clem's boy Ralph
standing clear back there
in the corner. I could see that
tow-headed boy whom I did
not know (altho I had heard them speak of
their cousins
Ralph & Lester) & after the bidding was
over here he came
with my pie. He had bought a pie brought
by one of the
girls from town but managed to swap for he
had come up there
to try to meet me. I remember we two
Country Bumpkins
having a hard time keeping up a
conversation.

We did not really start dating till
the next Fall & then
dated for almost 4 years, but we did not
call it dating. My
girl friends' grandfather said 'Well! I
see young Thompson
is 'waiting on' the little Price girl.
Pretty nice young
couple. Shouldn't wonder if they'd kick
up & get married
one of these days'. We had a big laugh at
his old fashioned
expression. We were about 2 generations
too late for them
to say he was 'sparking me'. We just said
we were keeping
company or just plain going together.

At least it 'took like a good
vaccination' & we settled
down to raise a passel of kids."

Ralph & Verlie were born in 1889 & 1890, &
married in 1912.
Both were from the Van Wert area & not
only did the Price
girls go to school at Popcorn, they
(mother included) taught
school there. I can say in all honesty
"Thank goodness
grandma could type & send me so much of
this information, &
that I was smart enough to hang onto it"!
Such a wealth of
history that went to their graves with our
ancestors.
Pat Thompson Welch