Man's Hitch Story

Copyright 2012, CABS for Reflections From the Fence

He just could NOT put this ole dirty, rusty, 9 year old hitch in the new ride with out a bit of clean up.  (OK, a LOT of clean up involving a number of trips to several home improvement stores, hardware stores, parts ordered, followed up by MORE trips to the home improvement stores. Up side of all this, I got a number of lunches out while we ran the errands!)

He starts dismantling the hitch.

Parts:

Primer:

The humidity was VERY high, he brought the parts into Tana, peeeyouuuu, paint fumes all night.  The air conditioner and the electric heaters were both running at the same time to keep the interior of Tana dry.  Don't ask, it was his idea, which worked for a while.  The air conditioner did help pull the fumes and stinky air out of Tana tho.  Geesh what we will do to get a job done, eh??

Below, the hitch receiver head, with teflon lube plate.

Now, starts the black paint.

All painted, ready to go to the truck shop for installation.  Man would install the hitch head and the name plate himself later.

It took one 14 hour day at the truck shop (includes drive time of almost 4 hours, close to 2 hours each way), but, here it is, all installed.  Note that tired happy face.  

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Wedding Wednesday, John M. Osborn, And the Anti-Nuptual Contract

Copyright 2012, CABS for Reflections From the Fence

During volunteer hours I spend working on book projects for the Lenawee County Family Researchers, I sometimes run across articles that peak my interest, here is one such article, a sorta anti-Wedding Wednesday.

The above article was published in the January 9, 1897 issue of the Michigan Messenger, published in Adrian, Lenawee County, Michigan:

"Some time ago John M. Osborn, near Hudson, married Sarah Tucker, a domestic in his household; Osborn had been married several times before, and to protect his children he made Sarah Sign an anti-nuptial contract that she should have a very small amount of his property at his death. After Osborn died, the wife brought action to set this agreement aside. Watts, Bean & Smith, of this city, with Fellows & Chandler, of Hudson, for the estate, filed a bill to have the provisions of the agreement operative. Judge Lane decided in favor of Mrs. Osborn, and now the supreme court has reversed the decision, and declared in favor of the estate."

I have not researched any of these people, I do not know anything more than what you see here.  I find em, you enjoy em, and hopefully some day, someone will be able to use them in their research.



*Obviously, I did not digitally clean up this image, all those annoying lines from the microfilm printer.  SIGH
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