We do own the farm now. I was not able to buy it when my Grand Mother sold it. Four kids and another farm to pay for. In 1998 we where able to buy the farm back. We gave $2600 per acre for it, $260,000 total. He gave $300 for it total in 1934 and Grand Mother sold it for $900 per acre, $90,000, in 1977.
My oldest son lives on the farm now. The house is still there. We did add an addition on it when we bought the farm. The addition is bigger than the original house. It cost way more too.
The original house cost my grandfather $282.00 of boughten supplies. He had the logs from the farm. He worked as an off barer at the saw mill to pay for the sawing of the lumber. He traded labor with a Great Uncle, who was a carpenter, to have it built. They had to drill all of the nail holes. The white oak he had sawed, had seasoned by the time they got to build the house. He did insulate the house. They used "rock wool". He had storm windows installed too. My Grand Mother said that they could heat the house and do all of the cooking on six 100 lbs. propane tanks a year. He even had a bathroom with running hot and cold water. Wind mill pumped the water into a tank in the attic. The hot water was heated buy the cook stove in the kitchen. The wind mill was taken off of another farm that had gotten city water. They used a Delco electric set for lights. It is still in the back of the cellar shed. It still runs. We light the patio in the summer with it. just for novelty.
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