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...that the McLean Historical Society chose to declare McNulta's hundred years officially up was a sunny Sunday in November. The ceremony, observed at Bloomington's Miller Park Pavilion, proved a great occasion. Civil War songs were played and sung. Uniforms were displayed. Mrs. Emma Hoffman, 96, was there. Her father George Ulmer served in McNulta's regiment, and she remembers going to reunions and hearing her father sing When Johnny Comes Marching Home when he worked alone in the fields. Mrs. Kathryn McNulta, 94, the general's daughter-in-law, flew in from Charleston...
...three Beich brothers obliged their great-grandfather McNulta, and smoked General Grant's gift cigar. They found it mild and surprisingly fresh, but they didn't smoke it too far down. General Grant was known for his habit of giving out exploding cigars. -Jane O'Reilly
...last, the bottle was unsealed. Barbara Dunbar, director of the historical society, and Archivist Greg Koos used forceps to draw out the little mummies, wrapped in white linen and tied round and round with thread. General McNulta's sense of history turned out to be touchingly immediate. He had left, so elaborately wrapped and labeled...
...lavish dinner the Tennessee Army veterans held at the Palmer House and the entire seating plan. An 1868 reunion ribbon, some handwritten notes, two pieces of wartime paper money. One memento to his future heirs was sealed with red wax and carefully labeled: "Cigar given to John McNulta by General U.S. Grant, November 14, 1879, must not be opened for 100 years and then smoked by some one of the descendants or by some soldier who has rendered good service to his country." As a final souvenir, McNulta had tucked inside his bottle a set of newspaper clippings which breathlessly...
...story of dreams richly come true. The seed the Funk brothers developed yields 150 to 160 bushels of corn an acre. The Funk Prairie Home, once center of a 25,000-acre farm, is now a museum, and the seed company is a division of Ciba-Geigy. Land that McNulta bought for $150 an acre now hovers around $4,000 an acre, too much for anyone ever to start out farming there now, but not a bad price for to day's farmer/investor to use as a tax write-off. The Osage orange hedges, planted a hundred years...