Sears and Roebuck Home

I remember when this was just built because we passed it when we went to my grandparent's house for Sunday dinners. My dad always told me that the house was purchased from a Sears and Roebuck catalog and it was delivered by mail to this location. I don't know when, but Sears and Roebuck stopped delivering houses by mail order. The entire house (now shown with later additions) was sold for less than a thousand dollars.

Birthday Month

October 25th It was hot in 1934 mom had her bed brought downstairs. I was born there The doctor never showed up but the midwife, Emma Schoenfelt, came. They named me Abraham Wesley Lincoln because I am related to President Lincoln.

October 27th It was hot in 1936 when Patty was born in the country. The same doctor never came so her aunts and grandmothers were the midwives. They named her Patricia Ann Custer because she is related to General George Armstrong Custer

Mud Creek

1024mudcreek_1635, a photo by iamabraham on Flickr.

I thought about the good times I once had a place we called, "Mud Creek."The creek isn't much to brag about but did have one hole or deep spot so you could swing three or four feet before touching bottom. Mud Creek was a more of a draining ditch than an actual creek. It carried water off of several adjacent farms in the area as it flowed south to the beginnings of larger streams like Miller's Fork. When I turned the corner and drove down the little hill to where Mud Creek used to be, I was greeted with this thicket of bushy shrubs and weeds. What happened to "Mud Creek?"I wondered. I had a find a lane to turn around in so I could go over the culvert again. I am positive nobody swims there these days and I doubt that anybody knows it used to be a happy place where boys jumped in the pools as naked as J-birds.