Much of the care of me fell on my sister Sadie for another baby came very soon. There was only twenty months between my sister […] Read More
My Mother’s sister Aunt Lulu Thornburgh had been living with [my gradmother]. She had been a complete invalid for several years. She was stricken with […] Read More
Another very early memory is Sunday school. How I loved for Sunday to come for then I could dress in my prettiest dress, and I […] Read More
I have gotten away ahead of my story and shall have to go back to the year 1895 when I was six years old. A […] Read More
My brother Frederick Edwin was born July 30, 1898, the twelfth child in our family. I was nine years old when Fred was born. He […] Read More
Before going on with my story of life on the farm I must include my school days at Patterson. I started to school at six […] Read More
I was going on eleven years old when the great catastrophe came, that of going to the farm and leaving our wonderful home and friends. […] Read More
No one has the privilege of choosing the time or place of his birth. Perhaps there are those who would have preferred a different time […] Read More
By: Charles E. Brooks Upper Camp Creek School known in the early days as Kimmel School, was an old school, perhaps one of the oldest […] Read More
The autumn following my fifth birthday which was in March. I remember some talk in our family about starting me to school. But I was […] Read More
In December of 1902 my mother gave birth to her thirteenth and last baby. In the fall before the baby’s birth my brother Fred got […] Read More
Pictured Above: THE KIMMEL SCHOOL on Upper Camp Creek about 1902. Some of the pupils were absent because of scarlet fever, including Millard Brooks, Virgie Brooks […] Read More
[One of my teachers at Camp Creek School was] Anna McAllister. She was a cousin of our first teacher James Wilkinson and lived in the […] Read More
Pictured Above: Home in Marine, IL The year 1904 was the year of the World’s Fair in Sf. Louis. It was to be the most […] Read More
In the early summer of 1905 word got around our neighborhood that a man near Taskee had captured a large rattlesnake, which had the words, […] Read More
Image Above: Estella’s Teaching Certificate In the spring of 1905, there was a teachers’ training school at Brunot. It was taught by a Mr. Pogue, […] Read More
When I was a boy. Fishing and swimming were chief summer pastimes. The word. “pastime” might give a wrong connotation; farm boys of that day […] Read More
In this sophisticated, mechanized age none but some who are classed as II senior citizens are likely to remember ever having attended pea hullings. Pea […] Read More
Our first home was a log house. It was one and a half stories high with a bedroom upstairs, living room, bedroom and kitchen downstairs. […] Read More
In my growing-up “years”, one of the most enchanting things about my Wayne County home was the mountains. They are relatively small mountains, but many […] Read More