ready to cook the next day. It was assumed every bit of the hog was saved but the squeal! Tubs of the meat was hand ground into sausage and stuffed into hand-scrapped casing and looped around poles and smoked to make it keep. I can remember the method of preserving the sausage, unstuffed, by frying it down and putting a layer of meat and lard alternately. Della says Papa would go to the mill at Bennington and get two big grain sacks of cornmeal to be made into cornbread. He took his own corn to the mill, but she remembers him buying the flour. He would buy twenty sacks at a time and they would consume one sack of flour a week, made into bread. Grandma would make eighteen. loaves of bread at a clip. A family custom, that every one of the family can recall, is that at every meal everyone sat down to the table at once. Grandpa cut the bread with the bread knife and passed the plate. It was a rule that everyone got up at the same time and all came to the table to eat, unless there was sickness. These babies arrived fast, but when they became the age of marrying, they left home just asfast; Eva and Pearl were married the same day with a double marriage ceremony at the home in1908. Iva married the same year and the next year Della married. Then there were a few years before any more marriages took place. John in 1915 Jim in 1918, Bessie in 1919, Ted in May,1927, and Jessie in July, 1917 Jessie would like to relate that tramps and gypsies plagued rural areas, especially if you lived along a railraod track. She recalls Grandma telling about when Pearl was a baby and they were still living at New Cambria, a tramp came to the door and ordered breakfast. She said she knew her brother-in-law had gone to town but she felt sure Grandpa was at the barn, so she went outside pretending to call the dog and no Grandpa. She looked up and saw that he had gone to the field. She motioned for him to come to the house. For some reason Grandpa suspected trouble, so he brought the hammer. By that time the tramp was sitting down to his meal. When he saw Grandpa with the hammer raised, he begged like a good fellow and informed Andrew that he meant no harm. Grandpa said that he had roamed all over the house, in where the baby was and all, and had Grandpa not come on the scene, things might have been different. Gypsies plagues a place, too. After the first telephone came into being, neighbors would warn families in. the direction they were travel ing so that they could get all the children in, because that was a favorite trick to hold a child for ransom. To sum up the story of the Cherrys, with reference to sanitation and nutrition, you may rest assured there was a lot of cleanliness maintained. The diet of bread, cornbread, real butter, apple butter, plum butter, sorgum molasses, pork,  occasionally chicken and fruit might not be what doctors would call a good diet, but at this writing nine children are alive and six are over 70 years of age. ALFRED CONSTABLE FAMILY HISTORY By Avis (Constable) Baugh Alfred Constable was born in Warsham, England, November 17, 1829, the son of Henry Constable and Urana (Wilson) Constable. He was one of a family of fourteen children and came to America with his parents and five brothers and sisters on a sailing vessel in 1833. It took them six weeks to cross the ocean as some days, with unfavorable winds, they would slip back farther than they had advanced the previous day There was much sickness, many died and were buried at sea. They settled in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, where Alfred grew to manhood and married Mary Ellen Rager of Cambria County, Pennsylvania, on May 24,1855. In 1872, Alfred and Mary moved to Irwin, Iowa, where they lived until the fall of 1877 when they came with ten children by covered wagon to Kansas, settling at New Cambria. They lived for a few years on a farm, owned by Simon P. Donmyer, who had come from Cambria County, Pennsylvania some years before and named the town New Cambria. In October, 1882, they moved to a farm three and a half miles northeast of Bennington owned by Mrs. Kate Davis (later Mrs. O H. Shepard), now owned by Clarence Quinn. They later moved into town where he bought a livery barn and a furniture store which included untertaking business- there were no funeral homes at that time. He later sold his business and went back to farming. Alfred and Mary Constable were two wonderful people and were among the first members of the Methodist Church in Bennington which he helped build. Their children and grandchildren are as follows:      URANA ELIZABETH - married Wm. H. Townsan. They had five children: Evard, May Hall, RETURN NEXT