IF THIS HOUSE COULD TALK - #3
Humble Beginnings -- I started out as a two-room house 152 years ago. Charles, a 32-year-old bachelor, began me, his own house, in April,1873, by having the cellar dug.
My original structure consisted of a kitchen and a sitting room that also was used for dining and sleeping. In a full cellar below, Charles stored food over the winter to keep it from perishing and wintered his flower bulbs and some of his potted plants.
Charles and his mother moved in that fall. Only, it wasn’t just the two of them who lived here at first. His mother helped with daughter Jane Schmidt’s eight (at the time) children by day and brought several of the younger ones to sleep here under our roof at night.
IF THIS HOUSE COULD TALK - Blog #13I’ve been fortunate to have had family here long after Charles and Sylvia died. Jennie lived her entire life here. Tinnie, after she was...
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IF THIS HOUSE COULD TALK -- Blog #12IF THIS HOUSE COULD TALK ---Blog #12 I remember June 9, 1881, the day that Charles John Daniel was born. The night before was a restless...
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