Posted by Carrol Shipley Baker on 26/12/2003, 12:54 am, in reply to "FAMILY LIFE??"
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That would probably be around the time of the "dust Bowl days". Times were very hard having come through the great depression, WW I, and then having crops burried in endless dust storms. My grandmother described how it was in their family. She said there were days that they could not see to the barn and had a line tied from the house to the outhouse,to the chicken house, the barn. They held on to those lines to get to the places they needed. She wet sheets and hung them over the windows and doors, but the dirt still blew in. When they set the table, they would put all the dishes upside down. When they put food on the plates, there would be a ring around the food of dust that settled. They lived in a "tarpaper shack" type of housing with a couple rooms part of that time. Eventually they built a rock house with windows only on the south. It had two rooms. It was called the bunkhouse at the time I was born. Don't know why. They heated their house and cooked/heated water to do laundry using a wood stove. Because wood was not very plentiful, they used cow chips that had dried in the sun. --Previous Message-- : Hi, I'm researching family life in : Gove COunty in or around 1935. : Would deeply appreciate any info or : leads!!! :