Aunt Cora Henry and
Grandma Rhodehamel visiting. in 1941.
View from front porch toward road and mailbox are Trumpet vines on a trellis .
On the farm, Dad raised
wheat, oats, corn, a garden, horses, cows, pegs, chickens and sheep. The barn
was for hay, horses and a place for milking cows, and on the west side a
place for the sows to have babies. Dad had a Allis Chalmers tractor also.
The farm house
had 2 bedrooms upstairs, downstairs was a kitchen, dinning room, living
room, front room, bedroom, utility room and a long screened in porch
facing the east. The building just south
east of the house was a wash house with a cave under it and just south of
that building was the out house and east of there toward the barn was the
chicken house.
Mrs. Hoover house in 1943.
It war replace in 1975.
The house as viewed from the barn.
Our oldest sister Alberta being a teacher was only there on the weekends. After the boys left home to enter the service, our father had no one to help him on the farm . I helped him as much as I could. Marion the youngest was still in grade school. The doctor advised our Dad that he should get off the farm because of his health, so he had a farm sale and moved to town. We lived in this house until December 1943 when we moved to Topeka, KS only two blocks from Rev. Harbour.
The barn loft used for
loose hay storage.
Hay was lofted by
horse powered pulley.
A horse at B & B backdoor
Mr. Otis Hoover with team in 1940.
Wedding of Dorothy Markley and Foster Hoover with Rev. Earl Haubour on August 4, 1946 Olathe, KS