This is Uncle Paul's house on Decoration Day (Memorial Day) ca 1949. It had been built in the 1850's as a country club house. It had farmland, a brick smokehouse, a housekeepers house behind the main house, a two story 6 car garage, a quonset hut, large greenhouses, a harvest shed, a barn, tennis courts, swimming pool, riding paths, picnic house, orchard, and two holly trees side by side, male and female. They are still there in 2005, although the house is gone. Uncle Paul always had a large family pot luck picnic on Decoration Days. Both the Moore's and the Christie's were there, with the Saxers from up the hill during the 1950's. We had a noon meal with grace by Uncle Orr, with everyone sitting at a long u shapped table in the garage. More than 50 people were there. I forgot to say also that the couple cooking and keeping the grounds for Uncle Paul were also there with their families.
Rhona McMahan