Family Visit

This weekend Jeremy and I made a trip to the triangle (Raleigh area for the non-Carolinians. Oh boy I think I just called myself a Carolinian). Anyway, we went for the weekend to visit some distant relatives of Jeremy's. His 2nd cousins (his mom's cousins or Jeremy's great uncle's kids, however you want to think of it). They hosted a lovely Saturday afternoon cookout for us and we got to find out all about his great grandfather and grandmother. We stayed through Sunday morning and had a great visit and good food. We got to peak at his great-grandmother's recipe book, that was very neat, all of the recipes clipped from the newspaper and handwritten ones all in the same book. It reminded me a lot of my mother's recipe book, crammed with both clipped recipes and handwritten ones.

One of the things that spurred the visit, is back last year, Jeremy made a trip to Ohio for an officer down memorial service for his great-great-grandfather Enos Rath. Enos was killed in the line of duty back in 1899. The town of Hicksville, Ohio had a rededicating of his tombstone and a true "officer down" memorial with honors. Jeremy was the only direct descendant of Enos Rath that was able to attend the ceremony (as far as we know). Afterward, he was able to get in touch with his 2nd cousins and that is how we got to go meet everyone. In addition, they had some of Enos things that had stayed in the family and were past down. We got to see his police issued pistol and his billy club (which is what the perpetrators beat him to death with).

It was all very cool (for the lack of a better descriptor).

Jeremy with his 2nd cousins
Enos' pistolEnos' billy club