Person:Thomas Miller (84)

As told by Ruby Miller:

My grandparents had a comfortable home consisting of two large front rooms with separate stairs leading to bedrooms above each room and a front porch extending full breadth of the house. One of the front rooms was the "sitting" room, containing the bed my grandparents slept in. One corner of the family room, behind the drum stove and beneath the staircase leading to the girls upstairs was referred to as "Lum's Corner". Lum was a distant relative, somewhat of a 'dim-wit' that visited them frequently for free meals, to get warm and to stay for a spell, not having a place of his own. He always sat and warmed in that cosy corner. The story was told that Lum hadn't made his 'rounds' for a long time. He appeared at the door of a neighborhood house one frosty morning and at the door, the conversation went like this: "Hello Lum! I heard you had gone to the poorhouse." Lum's feelings were hurt, but quick as a wink, he answered, "By God, I'm at a poor house right now!"

There was a shelf on the wall behind the drum stove on which the clock with ornate columns on each side of the clock face and lion heads on each end, sat. Important papers were also stashed there out of the reach of children. This room was carpeted with a woven rag rug padded with straw. Above the family room was a bedroom for the girls of the family and their girl visitors. The other front room was known as the parlor, with a 'brussels' carpet, stand stables, with the stereo pipe, rocking chairs and the ornate pump organ. Lace curtains and green window blinds covered the windows. The staircase to the boys bedroom above was in one corner of the parlor. The boys and their male guests used this room. There was no connecting door between the two upstairs bedrooms as was the custom in that time. I imagine this front part of the house was perhaps built at the turn of the century.

Behind the sitting room was the old log part of the house, the dining room, followed by the large kitchen. The dining room was papered in a striped-floral paper that I thought was very pretty.

The kitchen walls were whitewashed plaster above the wainscoting. I remember the large fireplace and hearth with a mantle, the Home Comfort Range, the 'wash table' with water bucket and dipper, wash pan, with mirror hanging above and the wall pockets holding the straight razors and combs hung near the mirror. There was also the pie cupboard with tin perforated sides, the huge flour bin with dough tray and biscuit board, kitchen table in center of the room that is now called a working island" in modern kitchens. Near the cooking range was the wood box and an abundance of nice red and white corn cobs used for starting fires and for grandchildren to stack into log cabins'.

When our family would go and stay overnight with my grandparents after supper the menfolks would go into the sitting room to visit and the women folks would do the dishes and tidy up the dining room and kitchen. When all the chores were done there, I remember my grandmother would pick up the kitchen lamp (kerosene) and say, "Let's go into the house".

The farmstead had lots of places of interest for we grandchildren from the county seat - the stock barn, the farm shop, the granary, the smoke house and the summer kitchen and the row of bee hives next to the garden fence. In the corner of the house, where the old log part joined the front portion, there was the very large galvanized water tank, that caught water to supplement the cistern water. the water from the tank was used for watering the chickens and turkeys and for doing the family laundry. The cistern water was used for cooking and drinking.

There was also a sheltered basin in the woods of my Grandfather's farm that was always referred to as "Lum's Basin" because Lum very often slept there in 'making his rounds'.

We children would enjoy romping with the farm dogs named Old Shep, Old Pub and Barney Google.

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   1880 U.S. Census Index provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints © Copyright 1999 Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. All use is subject to the limited use license and other terms and conditions applicable to this site. Meadville, Meade, Kentucky, ED 190, roll T9_433, page 641.3000, image 0506.

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   Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2005. Indexed by Ancestry.com from microfilmed schedules of the 1920 U.S. Federal Decennial Census. Data imaged from National Archives and Records Administration.1920 Federal Population Census. T625, 2,076 rolls. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington D.C. For details on the contents of the film numbers, visit the following NARA web page: <a href="http://www.archives.gov/publications/microfilm-catalogs/census/1920/part-07.html">NARA</a>. Note: Enumeration Districts 819-839 on roll 323 (Chicago City, Cook County, Illinois) are missing, even though the NARA catalog lists them as being there. The Family History Library catalog also lists them as missing. Big Spring, Meade, Kentucky, ED , roll , page , image 500.

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   Record for James R Miller

6. ↑ Ancestry.com. 1910 United States Federal Census (3). (Name: Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;;)
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7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1 7.2} Ancestry.com. Kentucky Death Records, 1852-1953. (Name: Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2007;;)
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8. ↑ Ancestry.com. 1910 United States Federal Census (2). (Name: Name: Name: Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006;;;).

   Ancestry.com. 1910 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT: Myfamily.com, Inc. 2006. Original data: United States. Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910. T624, 1,784 rolls. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington D.C. For details on the contents of the film numbers, visit the following NARA web page: <a href="http://www.archives.gov/publications/microfilm-catalogs/census/1910/">NARA</a>. District 3, Meade, Kentucky, ED , roll T624_493, part , page . Ancestry.com. 1910 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT: Myfamily.com, Inc. 2006. Original data: United States. Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910. T624, 1,784 rolls. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington D.C. For details on the contents of the film numbers, visit the following NARA web page: <a href="http://www.archives.gov/publications/microfilm-catalogs/census/1910/">NARA</a>. District 3, Meade, Kentucky, ED , roll T624_493, part , page .