The four guys in this photo are (L-R) Mike Norris, Kenneth Crockett, Tommie Shelby and Charles Holcombe. I don't think there would be any mistaking any one of them.I'm struck by how many family photos must have been taken along the side of the old house. It's distinctive faux brick siding makes the house itself unmistakable. By my reckoning, I would place this to likely be the right side/west side of the house. Might more photos have been taken on that side of the house because the west side would have had more sun in the afternoons, and therefore, better for photos? Is there anything you all remember that might make it more correctly identifiable?
I seem to remember there being a hand pump to a well on that side, but my memory is admittedly flawed. What do you all think?
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I have a number of pictures and they were all taken on the west side of the house. The east side yard was much smaller, but the factor of the sun, as you say, is probably the reason for using the west side.
Geraldine
The east side of the house was bordered by a fence that separated the house from the barnyard. There was a pump on the west side from which we got our water and from which we watered the horse and cow.
Mike
Wasn't the wood pile on the east side of the house? And that's the side of the house, toward the front where I remember Grandpa having his saw sharpening frame set up. Did he always have it there?
As I remember it the west side was the larger yard and there were also the rain or water barrels up by the front fence on the east side along with grandpa's saw sharpening equipment.
Gayle
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