Grandma and Grandpa's House

The above photo shows Grandpa Norris standing in the porch frame of the house I remember as being in Bordersville. It appears that he is putting boards in the porch section of the house. Do I understand correctly that Grandpa built this house?

Someone mentioned that the house in the background of the “Arm and Arm” blog entry was on the same site before this house was built. If that was the case, did Grandpa build that older house too? Does anyone know when these houses were built?

If Grandpa built this house, did he and Grandma “own” the house? I’ve always been curious about that point since I seem to remember being told the property belonged to “Texaco”.

Buddy, Mishaelle and I drove out to the site of the old house a few years ago. It many have been as long ago as 1995 or 1996. I had difficulty remembering how to get down there since it had been so long. I was first looking for the gully that I remember crossing on a wooden bridge that was just before Auntie Crockett’s house. The gully wasn’t as I’d remembered it in that, after finding the old house itself, I realized the gully was only a very shallow ditch that we crossed without any bridge or culvert at all. We did find the house finally and it was occupied. For that reason, we didn’t get any closer than about 500 feet. I’ve always found it interesting that upon returning to some house or even an area you knew as a child, everything seems so much smaller.

I will be posting this information to the family group, hoping to get some answers there. If you haven’t already joined the Norris Family Yahoo group, please consider doing so. I have listed the URL below that will take you to the group. Please contact me if you have questions.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/norris_group/