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Comment on Something for April by Wesley B. Halleck

Wesley B. Halleck — Wed, 15 May 2013 17:46:09 +0000

JOB: Hi Just checking in on you to see how you are doing. Still greener out here in the Northwest than Illinois, But could do with a little less rain.
Had a computer Meltdown and lost your phone number. You can reach me at
(reconac@comcast.net) Hope every things going great for you talk soon!
Wesley Halleck

Comment on Looking for Information about John Thornton Walker, Springfield, Illinois by Job Conger

Job Conger — Fri, 10 May 2013 21:14:52 +0000

Marcia — I am delighted to read your note. Connie and her husband were TREMENDOUSLY helpful when I was putting my book Springfield Aviation together for Arcadia Publishing a few years ago. They and her husband’s brother donated material to my AeroKnow Museum so I can tell Springfieldians about the hero they don’t know, and I am slowly writing a book (fewer than 100 pages) about JTW and how the Strouses and I met. If you’re ever in Springfield I would LOVE to show that memorabilia to you! Connie and her husband visited Springfield last fall and knocked me over with their donation to the museum and excellent company and conversation!

Comment on Looking for Information about John Thornton Walker, Springfield, Illinois by Marcia Castetter McCarter

Marcia Castetter McCarter — Fri, 10 May 2013 20:35:26 +0000

So wonderful to find this information on John T. Walker. His widow Gerri (as I called her Mom Ball – her re-married last name) dressed me on the day I got married in 1961. John’s daughter, Connie Walker Strouse, Wyoming, DE and I were classmates and graduated from Plainfield, IN in 1960. I just found Connie on Facebook today – many years of looking……how we have scattered to almost all 50 states. This circle is now unbroken……

Comment on Something for April by Dick Henthorn

Dick Henthorn — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:21:31 +0000

It’s nice to see a new post on your WordPress blog. I noticed that the Museum took part in the weekend events at the airport. That’s cool.

Comment on Do You Know A Conger? by Katherine Smith

Katherine Smith — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 18:45:42 +0000

Hi Melissa;
There was no way to reply to your comment, so I replied to a previous message post. My great grandfather George Conger, 1847-1930 is buried at Rose Hill Cemetery in Linden. My mother passed away, but I know that she did not know any of her Conger cousins. May have been a rift in the family before her time. She told me that my grandmother, Kate Conger, was a member of the DAR, so I believe my family were patriots — another rift in the family so I understand was during revolutionary war.

George’s father ( all I know is “Granpa Conger”) was the first patrolman in Rahway. George was Desk Seargant for RPD. One of George’s daughters named Lucy Kellher,(my grandmother Kate’s younger sister) jumped to her death in a sweatshop fire in Newark.

I don’t know if our family is the last vestige of the very early Rahway Congers, or if they moved back to Rahway in a later generation.

You are very lucky to have older persons in your family who kept the genealogical connections alive. It certainly is a great family tree!

Blessings,
Katherine Smith, honumaui@gmail.com

Comment on Do You Know A Conger? by Melissa

Melissa — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 11:51:29 +0000

I am the great grand daughter of Emma Josephine Conger Engeman. My grandmother was her eldest daughter, Bernice. They grew up in West Orange and I am in contact with my Aunt Lorraine, who was Josephine’s youngest daughter, now 92! – With a memory like a steel trap! I still live in NJ and have been to the Oranges many times to visit the cemetaries with my father, Donald Carton. Aunt Lorraine remembers Dick and Dolly and their parents as does my Uncle Rich (Dicky Carton). I too would love to hear from any Congers who have information on relatives. Thanks and good luck! Melissa (Carton) Mogen.

Comment on Do You Know A Conger? by Katherine Smith

Katherine Smith — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 06:33:59 +0000

This is a reply to a post in 2010 –I too am from the New Jersey Congers. My great Grandfather, George W. Conger was a Rahway policeman, married to Annie Pippinger-Cafferty. I don’t know the names of George’s parents, but he had a brother, William Conger who served for a short period at the end of the Civil War, and he married Carolin P. Keeler ( Carrie or Kit.) I want to connect my family into the New Jersey Conger line.

Comment on Book Report part 1 by Jim O'Leary

Jim O'Leary — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 01:30:26 +0000

I look forward to reading your book. My father was a Liaison pilot with the 9th Armored Div. in the ETO.
Jim O’Leary

Comment on new poem/song lyric: Here’s to the Spirit by zielone szkoly zakopane

zielone szkoly zakopane — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 07:10:38 +0000

To jest naprawdę renomowany kawałek:) Podziękowania dla pracujących na rzecz blogów.

Comment on folksong lyric — Take Two by robertdugger

robertdugger — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 20:43:54 +0000

Hi Job,

Glad to see you back online. I was worried that your recovery was not going well. Like the verse. If I lived in Springfield I would certainly visit your performance on the 20th. Good luck! I may catch one of your shows someday if I ever get back up to Springfield, my old home town. Best wishes, though.

Robert Dugger, Knoxville, Tennessee