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Grandmother said there was an Indian in the wood pile ,but except one uncle grandpa was stand offish about we have no proof. Great grandfather ran a general store and natives did visit. Grandmother spoke of during naughty spells going upstairs and mixing beads in their barrels. Somewhere I have some pics. Grandfather in what looks like a long shirt as a toddler and pics of a pet deer around the front porch. Lightning hit the store and the kerosene storage ignited. Great grandpa retrieved his shotgun from inside the door but that was all.His son(moms dad) wrote of his mother keeping a black bear out of the house with a broken pitchfork once. A broad axe in my possession hewed timbers of black walnut for a church's sills. Don,t recall if it was grandfather or his dad that made them and after the church was abandoned returned to salvage those sills. Mom was born out in the woods . Her sister and herself used to find beads in the sandy areas in the forest. Grandpa rode a bike several miles to nearest community regular and walked in winter till house burnt, from stove probably. All four kids ended up living more suburban lives eventually and the land changed hands. It was an large area of forest and lots of small waterways that had traffic for many generations following their courses.
Relevent, Good friend:
That's a lot of stories and details, wow!
You certainly got to grow up a lot more
country than I, very sorry to hear of the hardships.
I know my country kin had good and bad times,
only Burt had more business than he wanted,
making redwood clocks, tables, bookshelves,
etc. He once told me, that before the economy
of '76? took a dive, during the administration,
he had been so busy with orders, he was real glad,
when the recession hit, so he could take a break.
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