My dear Aunt Alice is a historian and has been documenting the Brown Family History for over 50 years. Aunt Alice and Uncle Milner’s vacations included detours to cemeteries, courthouses and libraries. She said to me during a recent visit, “Did you know most old towns have a street named...

  A Western starring: Emma Lewick Woodin I love the AMC series, “Hell on Wheels”.  When I watch it, I’m always flooded with the memory of my father sharing the story of our family  working on the railroad in Kansas in the late 1800′s. Yes I realize the AMC series...

  My Grandmother, Ruth Cornelia Lewick Sodt (1893 – 1979), was a scrapbooker. I recently retrieved one of her scrapbooks from the “cedar chest” that was buried in my sister Martha’s basement. When I dusted it off  I was immediately in love. I so wish I could spend...

Betty’s recipe box is filled with memories of my mother, family recipes and pieces of history. The note cards and scraps of paper where she wrote her recipes are valuable folklore as well as directions for baking cookies. I loved her cinnamon snaps and buckeyes. We spent many hours...

Bethlehem Cemetery – Ann Arbor, Michigan Our final stop on the 2012 post-Thanksgiving research fieldtrip to de-tangle the Luick/Lewick tangle. The Bethlehem Cemetery on Jackson Road in Ann Arbor, Michigan, was a treasure trove of history. John David Luick Sr.’s brother. Jacob...

This cemetery is located on Jackson Road just west of Ann Arbor, Michigan.  The Lima Center Cemetery is also known as the Luick Farm Cemetery.  Lima Center Cemetery The Luick – Lewick family mystery continues…. Our visit to the Lima Center Cemetery reveled several nuggets of Luick...

Family Folklore featuring Michigan Pioneer Andrew Lewick A tale of two names, gold rush fever, bigamy and suicide  Every family has Family Folklore and with each generation it either gets embellished or lost. I have always been fascinated by my family’s stories. I assumed most of these...

We found family in the Edinburgh Cemetery. I couldn’t tell if they were excited to see us but we were surprised to find them! We wandered into this cemetery while touring Edinburgh.  We were looking for place to pee.  No we didn’t pee here and sadly we didn’t stay long...