SEGMENT: FARMING METHODS, FOOD & MEALS, & FAMILY BACKGROUND
Anna M. Williams>UIS Collection T-Z>UIS Collection T-Z, Segment 3
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- ACTIVITIES
- Still makes own clothes.
- BUTCHERY
- Neighborhood men butchered hogs and cattle and shared the meat. Made head cheese, blood pudding, crackle.
- FARMING METHODS
- Used horses and mules to draw plows. She helped dad plow with two-wheeled plow and three horses. She planted and "bugged" potatoes. Bugged potatoes by picking bugs off and putting them into buckets. Same with tomato worms.
- LAND
- Had 160 acres.
- FAMILY BACKGROUND
- Family spoke German. She learned English with difficulty at school.
- FOOD & MEALS
- Phone call prompts aside about honey and bees. Strain honey by warming it, then straining out the wax. She also can render lard and stuff sausage.
- FAMILY ACTIVITIES
- Grandmother taught her to knit. She loves to piece quilts.
- FAMILY BACKGROUND
- German background. Grandparents immigrated - spoke low and high German. They described using a cradle instead of sickles and scythes. Grew rye. Settled near Matanza.
- POULTRY
- Grandparents raised ducks, turkeys that nested in tall grass by the lake. Driven with wave of a rag up to the house.
