Well, I can remember going upstairs at night and Mahlon would carry the coal oil lamp. Me and Mahlon shared one room and the girls had the other – Naomi, Lolly and Cleopha. Then about a year after that when Mahlon went into the service, me and Cleo had a room together and Lolly and Naomi had the other until Cleo left and went to town, probably about two years later. Whenever I was little, the bedroom out towards the barn was called the boys room. I think me and Mahlon and Uncle Herbert were in that room. Once the girls were all gone, I moved back over into the other bedroom and for the last probably thirty years, mom called it the boys bedroom – I always called the other one the boys room. (She called the goat head bedroom the boys room.) I was the last kid to live there for ten years. The goats heads’ probably older than I am. Some Tichelkamp stuffed it. Our family was real tight with the Tichelkamp family, and they were good friends in Schubert. Otto Tichelkamp eventually married Viola Erhardt, my first cousin.
Naomi Vetter says
I loved the wall paper in the east bedroom (boys room). The Cardinal birds were so pretty. I remember how snug it was in the winter sleeping between Lolly and Cleo and it must have been hot in the summer, but I don’t remember that. I think we slept outside some nights when it was too hot upstairs…only once or twice, as we were afraid of snakes. In the winter, if we took water up to our room to drink or to use to curl our hair, it would be frozen in the morning sometimes. What I remember the most about my bedroom is how large it was/is.
Christina Rowland says
The room with the goats head always freaked me out…..that probably had something to do with the older cousins saying the boogey man lived in there. I loved the pink room when I was little…..it was such a girly room with the white curtains. Tracy and I would play up there for hours. One day we decided to tie back the curtains to let the breeze in, and Grandma had a fit…..she had spent considerable time starching them to be all pretty and we had made them wrinkly again! LOL! Poor Grandma!
Julie Baker says
I think we were all afraid of the goat head! So didn’t spend as much time in the boys room. The girls room was pink and had the 3 way vanity. The only unpleasent thing I remember about being I’m there was all the dead wasps.