Thursday, July 20th

Yesterday, while sitting on a sidewalk bench, publishing the previous blog entry, I saw some Mennonite girls selling homemade baked goods. I bought an angel food cake. Later that night, MA noticed that the cake wrapping had a label that said Rushsylvania, Ohio. Rushsylvania is where MA's great grandmother, Keziah McCulloch, lived in the 1840's. So we took a day trip to Rushsylvania to do some research. We actually tried to get info at the Rushsylvania library but they told us that the county seat at Bellefontaine was the best source. So, we visited the library in Bellefontaine for several hours. We found proof from the 1850 Federal Ohio Census that she lived there. MA has (with her) a gold watch with Keziee's mother's name (Mary E. McCulloch) engraved along with the Rushsylvania reference.

Later we grilled bacon-wrapped turkey chunks that were outstanding!

The state park is filling up for the week-end. There is something called "Beach Day" here on Saturday so we will pack up tomorrow morning.