Family Recipe Swap!

We talked about several family recipes today during the Boyd Cousin Connection.  Wanted to share them with everyone.

Thanks to Jane (Sheldon) Dodds for sharing Ethel's Yellow Loaf Cake recipe and to Debbie (Carney) Loukatos for sharing the Watermelon Pickle recipe.

Simple and tasty! Have baked it several times of the last couple months.  Yum!

Debbie has just made a batch of these, she'll have to let us know how they turn out!

Who's the Artist???

Great profile likeness of RC Boyd.  We had some good debate as to who the initials stood for.  We'd love to know who this artist was?!?!?!

 

Any ideas???

 

Ward School Columbus, Nebraska 1898

 

               3rd & 4th Grades, Ward School, Columbus, Nebraska, 1898

Thankful that someone decided to write the names of most of the students in the photo.  Jessie Boyd, Motto Mowery and Letitia Christine Boyd were all in this photo.

Curious Chinese Artifacts

Cousin Jane came across some interesting artifacts in a Boyd Family trunk.  We have no idea why they were kept and what significance they may have?  Curious!  

John and Susan (Yardley) Boyd's daughter, Elizabeth, was a missionary in China in the 1880's.  She ended up dying in Hankow (Wuhan) China in 1882.

These artifacts are from a time much later than Elizabeth's life.  So was it because of her connection to China?  Or some other reason?  We may never know!

 

Notice the 1922 patent date on the edge of the purse.

And then there was this photo of a couple.  Who were they?  Why was this kept?  It was taken by "Artistic Photographer, Trolley Square, San Francisco"