Annals of our ancestors; one hundred and fifty years of history in the ...

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CHAPTER XI
CHANGES IN THE OLD HOME
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HE honeymoon over, the thoughts of our bride
and groom turned to the founding of their
home. Our father decided to rent the farm to
the young people, while he would take charge
of the Harrison Church, some twenty miles
west on the line between Ohio and Indiana,
and plans were maturing to that effect. The
dairy, which had been profitably followed, was pushed to
one side as the cows had gone dry. The milk crocks were
placed in the cellar to stay until spring and our "works shut
down."
Our parents had to struggle to build this frame house, and
in fact through all their lives it had been a long pull on an uphill
road. After building the house, some years intervened
before we could finish it. As often happened, it was our mother
who had the head to plan and carry forward what she had
planned to a victorious conclusion. It was the one great m„ate-
rial desire of our hves to see our house painted and the shutters
put on, which had for years been used as a ceiling for an unfinished
room upstairs. One day a letter came from Xenia,
Ohio, from a son of father's old friend Winans, asking him to
take as a boarder his daughter, who was convalescing from a
fever. He was an attorney at law and a man of means and
could make it worth while to take the extra care the child
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