Hosted by RootsWeb, the oldest & largest FREE genealogical site. Click here to visit RootsWeb.
COMANCHE COUNTY, KANSAS: HISTORY & GENEALOGY
Bibliography     Biography     Cemeteries     Churches    Cities & Towns     Clubs     Contributors     Diamond Jubilee    Events     FAQ     Genealogy     Guest Book - Sign     Guest Book - View     History     Links     Maps     News Articles     Newspapers     Opry     Photos     Poetry     Queries     Records     Resources    Satellite Images     Schools     Search     Veterans     HOME

The Wilmore Methodist-Christian Butchering Bee Prelude to Supper

Wilmore Butchering Bee. This Western Star photo shows only a part of the eight hogs but all of the 18 men who helped with the butchering bee. They are: Front row, from the left -- Lew Baker, Marvin Belcher, Fay Smith, Bob Hackney and Rod Baker. Squatting at the right of the center hog are, from the left -- Gene Dorsey, Rev. Wayne Riggs, Wendel Ferrin, Homer Ring, Melvin Smith, Charley Lenertz and Louis Helm. Standing, at the rear are, from the left -- Ord Trummel, Ed Baker, Ernest Ferrin, Leo Thornberry, George Kennedy and Jack Bond.

      Eighteen men met at the Fay Smith farm east of Wilmore last Friday and butchered eight hogs. They were hung up in a shed to cool and were cut up and processed into sausage, hags and bacon sides on Monday for the community's annual Methodist - Christian Brotherhood groundhog supper on Wednesday of this week. However, due to the snowstorm the supper has been postponed until Wednesday evening, Febrary 8. Serving starts at 5:30 in the Methodist church in Wilmore and the public is invited to attend.
      The above Western Star photo shows only a part of the eight hogs but all of the 18 men who helped with the butchering bee. They are: Front row, from the left -- Lew Baker, Marvin Belcher, Fay Smith, Bob Hackney and Rod Baker. Squatting at the right of the center hog are, from the left -- Gene Dorsey, Rev. Wayne Riggs, Wendel Ferrin, Homer Ring, Melvin Smith, Charley Lenertz and Louis Helm. Standing, at the rear are, from the left -- Ord Trummel, Ed Baker, Ernest Ferrin, Leo Thornberry, George Kennedy and Jack Bond.

-- undated clipping from The Western Star, probably about 1954.
Source: Ollie Hackney Clipping Collection, courtesy of Bobbi Huck.

This RootsWeb website is being created by Jerry Ferrin with the able assistance of many Contributors. Your comments, suggestions and contributions of historical information and photographs to this site are welcome. Please sign the Guest Book.

This page was last updated 31 Oct 2003.