We know the barn is back there but we cant see it. I didn’t see Father until Naomi said he was on the picture. I enjoyed reading Marks e-mails. I learned that if I clicked on his comments, it would take me to whatever section of the family web site he was referring to. Thanks Mark. I wish we would hear from more and more of the cousins and like Mark said thanks Lloyd Jr and Christina and anyone else who worked to get this set uo and running.
The only thing I recognize is the house. The barn would be on tje other side of the house… righr? Those other buildings must have been torn down except for the smokehouse (if that is the smokehouse!) By the time I was born.
The shed on the left is the one that’s just past the gate that leads down to the creek. It was there when we were growing up and still is. What is that building called? Is that the granary? Machine shed?
I don’t have any memory of the shed on the right. What was it for?
Aunt Cleo mentioned the locust tree. I remember it as a tall, tall stump. Of course, I was maybe 6 years old. And there were fence posts around the stump?
This shed that we are talking about, the one inside the gate & road that leads down to the bottoms lands of the farm, it was a granary and a machine shed. but I have a tendency to think of it as a the tool shed. When you would go in the door in the middle of the building it was built up high and father had a step made from a tree to get in there. the first thing you saw was fathers tools. That is why I call it the tool shed. At the end of that room was the granery where they stored whatever. Mother always reminded us to stay out of the wheat or oats because children could sink down and die by smothering in there.I want to tell you that fathers tool shed always impressed me, because it was a place for everything and everything in it place.It wasn’t like the smoke house or our house where you had trouble finding things. If you took it out of there you better put it back where you got it. I also remember it to house our sheep when we had sheep. Store and hang tobacco to dry, in the fall until it was ready to be striped and put into hanks or( bundle of tobacco)to hang over a tobacco stick to dry out until pressed together and sent to the tobacco auctions to sell. In later years when Mahlon left home father purchased a tractor. this was also used to store those things. It had many used. I ten to call it fathers tool shed.
This picture was on the site before along with a few other pics of the farm. I know Mahlon has some stories about that sheep buck. I hope he shares them here.
I think that is Uncle Herbert and not Daddy in the picture. I remember Uncle Herbert carrying stuff out to the pigs and sheep. Daddy wore overhalls and Uncle Herbert wore pants with suspenders and was bent over like this picture shows. they looked so much alike. you could tell they were brothers.
Naomi Vetter says
Is that Daddy in the upper right hand side? I like to see Abraham Lincoln on the hill and I don’t know if we named the other tree.
Lloyd Jr. says
Shouldn’t there be a barn in there somewhere?
cleopha Howard says
That big old Locust tree behind the tool shed is hiding the barn.
cleopha Howard says
We know the barn is back there but we cant see it. I didn’t see Father until Naomi said he was on the picture. I enjoyed reading Marks e-mails. I learned that if I clicked on his comments, it would take me to whatever section of the family web site he was referring to. Thanks Mark. I wish we would hear from more and more of the cousins and like Mark said thanks Lloyd Jr and Christina and anyone else who worked to get this set uo and running.
julie baker says
The only thing I recognize is the house. The barn would be on tje other side of the house… righr? Those other buildings must have been torn down except for the smokehouse (if that is the smokehouse!) By the time I was born.
Lloyd Jr. says
The shed on the left is the one that’s just past the gate that leads down to the creek. It was there when we were growing up and still is. What is that building called? Is that the granary? Machine shed?
I don’t have any memory of the shed on the right. What was it for?
Aunt Cleo mentioned the locust tree. I remember it as a tall, tall stump. Of course, I was maybe 6 years old. And there were fence posts around the stump?
cleopha Howard says
This shed that we are talking about, the one inside the gate & road that leads down to the bottoms lands of the farm, it was a granary and a machine shed. but I have a tendency to think of it as a the tool shed. When you would go in the door in the middle of the building it was built up high and father had a step made from a tree to get in there. the first thing you saw was fathers tools. That is why I call it the tool shed. At the end of that room was the granery where they stored whatever. Mother always reminded us to stay out of the wheat or oats because children could sink down and die by smothering in there.I want to tell you that fathers tool shed always impressed me, because it was a place for everything and everything in it place.It wasn’t like the smoke house or our house where you had trouble finding things. If you took it out of there you better put it back where you got it. I also remember it to house our sheep when we had sheep. Store and hang tobacco to dry, in the fall until it was ready to be striped and put into hanks or( bundle of tobacco)to hang over a tobacco stick to dry out until pressed together and sent to the tobacco auctions to sell. In later years when Mahlon left home father purchased a tractor. this was also used to store those things. It had many used. I ten to call it fathers tool shed.
Naomi Vetter says
This picture was on the site before along with a few other pics of the farm. I know Mahlon has some stories about that sheep buck. I hope he shares them here.
Aunt Lolly says
I think that is Uncle Herbert and not Daddy in the picture. I remember Uncle Herbert carrying stuff out to the pigs and sheep. Daddy wore overhalls and Uncle Herbert wore pants with suspenders and was bent over like this picture shows. they looked so much alike. you could tell they were brothers.