“Wild Turkeys for a Boy” – Elizabethtown, PA (1930)

Master Jay Charles Musser lived in Elizabethtown, a rural college town in Lancaster County of southeast Pennsylvania.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabethtown,_Pennsylvania

In November of 1930, the boy received a Thanksgiving postcard from Grandma.

Grandma mailed the postcard from another town in PA, possibly Mount Joy or Mountville.

The face of the postcard is a lovely drawing of a rustic field in which wild turkeys are foraging among the corn shocks.

The scene is nicely framed by branches of withered oak leaves.

The proclamation, “Thanksgiving Day” is printed across the blue sky.

The postcard was printed in Saxony and published by the English firm of Raphael Tuck & Sons.

The postcard is older than the date of the mailing -Grandma may have been saving it for years.

On the reverse, Grandma greets “My dear grand Son” and she “hopes this finds you all well”.

There is good news from Grandma – “Grandpa is getting along nicely and improving every day”.

We do not know what affliction Grandpa may have suffered, but Grandma is encouraged that “he can be up now”.

Grandma closes with a wish that Jay will “enjoy your Thanksgiving dinner” and a plea, “come to see Grandma”.

On hopes that Grandpa regained fully his health, that all members of the family enjoyed a wonderful Thanksgiving, and that Jay was able to pay a visit to Grandma.

GENEALOGICAL NOTE

Jay Charles Musser was born in Elizabethrown, PA on the fifth of September,1917.

(Jay would have been 13 when he received the postcard from Grandma.)

His parents were Charles Klug Musser (1879-1945) and Ada Bertha Coble (1880-1956).

Jay had one sister, Mary Mae Musser (1918- 1945).

In September of 1944, Jay married Mary Ruth Hertzler (1920-2011).

The couple had four children – two daughters ad two sons..

Jay C. Musser died in June of 1982; he was 64 years old.

His obituary in the “Lancaster New Era” notes many details of his successful career.

Jay received a baccalaureate degree and a Master’s degree in Chemistry from Franklin & Marshall College and became an internationally-celebrated expert in the manufacturing of chocolate.

The list of scientific and culinary awards is extensive.

He was President of the Klein Chocolate Company for many years.

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