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Evelyn's obituary: "Evelyn 'Lorraine' Arenburg Billings, a longtime resident of Little Deer Isle, Maine, and Greens Farms, CT, passed away at the age of 91 on Monday February 17, in Blue Hill Memorial Hospital, Blue Hill, Maine.
Born in Malden, Massachusetts to Ruth Howard and Harry Arenburg Sr., on March 21, 1928, Lorraine joined her beloved brother, Harry Jr. with whom she held a special bond throughout their entire life. In their pre-teen years, Lorraine and Harry moved to Deer Isle, Maine to live with their grandmother Mary Blastow Gray. There, they found a 'new home' where they were accepted and cherished for who they were. Lorraine formed many friendships that lasted her entire life, including her best friend Madelyn Billings Eaton. Shortly after WW2, she married Walter Billings Jr. They lived on Little Deer Isle, raising three children where he was a scallop fisherman in winters, and a yacht captain in Connecticut during the summers. Lorraine was the rock and foundation of the marriage providing support and exemplifying the traits of Christianity through her unconditional love. Lorraine was nurturing, and considerate while selflessly giving; not only to her children, but also to the many people she and Walt visited doing the Lord's work for the RLDS/Community Of Christ Church in Maine and Connecticut. She knitted over 200 shawls for Cancer and Hospice patients in Fairfield County, CT. She could often be found knitting or hooking a rug with a stack of books near her chair. During her last chapter here on earth, while at Homeport in Deer Isle, she joyfully gave her hand made dishcloths to many friends and visitors. She took great joy in preparing meals for her family, and loved baking; her blueberry pies were legendary. She was a joy to be around, and as her grandchildren can attest, quite competitive when playing Parcheesi or UNO! Warm, compassionate, easy to talk to and easy to love…she was as beautiful on the inside as she was on the outside. She was thought to be an angel, a steadfast guiding light, not only by her family and close associates, but by all whom she encountered. She is now at peace, reunited with her beloved husband and those who have passed on before. Lorraine's family wishes to extend their gratitude to the staff at the Island Nursing Home, and Blue Hill Memorial Hospital for their care and compassion in her final hours, and especially the prayer that was shared for her. She will be tremendously missed by her family, her friends, and remembered for her love of life, strength of character, faith, and inspiration to all. Truly, all who knew her or came in contact with her were blessed by the experience. Predeceased by her husband of nearly 67 years, Walter Billings Jr., brother, Harry Arenburg Jr., grandsons Matthew Brown, Jonathan Rugel, son-in-law Mac McVicar, and best friend Madelyn; Lorraine is survived by her daughter, Mary Ruth Billings McVicar of Sun City, AZ, son, Edward and his wife Diane of Monroe, Connecticut, and Little Deer Isle, Maine, and son, Walter III and his wife, Linda of Bel Air, MD; grandchildren, Hollybeth Brown, Robert (Griselle) Brown Jr., Lorraine Brown, Katelyn Billings, Jonathan Billings, Aubrey (Mick) McCulloh, Ashley Billings, and Daniel Billings; great-grandchildren, Brandon, Autumn, Matthew and Jacob; and many beloved nieces, nephews and cousins. A funeral service celebrating her life will be planned in June."
His life was much different from ours -
The next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water temperature isn't just how you like it, think about how things used to be. Here are some facts about the 1500s':
Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May, and still smelled pretty good by June. However, they were starting to smell, so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor. Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.
Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and men, then the women and finally the children. Last of all the babies. By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it. Hence the saying, Don't throw the baby out with the Bath water.
Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw-piled high, with no wood underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof. When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof. Hence the saying It's raining cats and dogs.
There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house. This posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings could mess up your nice clean bed. Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some protection. That's how canopy beds came into existence.
The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt. Hence the saying, Dirt poor. The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on floor to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on, they added more thresh until, when you opened the door, it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entrance way. Hence the saying a thresh hold.
In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung over the fire. Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot. They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day. Sometimes stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while. Hence the rhyme, Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old.
Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special. When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. It was a sign of wealth that a man could, bring home the bacon. They would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around and chew the fat.
Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous.
Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or the upper crust.
Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky. The combination would sometimes knock a person out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial. They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up. Hence the custom of holding a wake.
England is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a bone-house, and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive. So they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the graveyard shift) to listen for the bell; thus, someone could be, saved by the bell or was considered a dead ringer.
And that's the truth. Now, whoever said History was boring!
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[40377] The unverified Raymond Family Tree in Ancestry.com in 2016 offers: "Jacob Haldeman was born on October 7, 1722, in Switzerland. He married Marie Miller in 1742 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. They had one [known] child during their marriage. He died on February 27, 1783, in Rapho, Pennsylvania, at the age of 60 . . . . Marie Miller was born on December 3, 1727, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania . . . . She died on September 9, 1800, in Rapho, Pennsylvania, at the age of 72."
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[42] Samuel's siblings are Jacob, John and Daniel. The cemetery is located at the southwest corner of the intersection of SR 95 and TR505 in Ashland Co., OH. "News-Journal [Mansfield, Ohio], 14 September 1906," p. 3: "Samuel Maurer, one of the wealthy and well known pioneer residents of Ashland county, who recently sustained several strokes of apoplexy, is lying at the point of death at his home near McKay, with little or no hope of recovery."
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[11805] Walter was Sheriff of Lincolnshire in 1423, Justice of the Peace in 1442-43. He m. (2) Alice, heiress of the Stafford Earls of Devon, dead by April 24, 1448, widow of Sir Henry Cheyney and daughter of Sir Humphrey Stafford. Walter's son (by his first, unknown, wife), Sir Walter Talboys, Lord Kyme, knighted Feb. 19, 1461, was beheaded May 26, 1464 (he m. Elizabeth Bonville, dau. of Sir William, Lord Bonville, K.G., and 1st wife Margaret Grey).
[41258] Find A Grave Memorial 8036907 offers: "Spymaster. He was the chief spymaster for Queen Elizabeth I, and he was involved in uncovering plots against her. His daughter married poet Sir Philip Sidney."
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