I grew up in this house with my 5 siblings. Our Mother and her brother and sisters also grew up here. Wonderful memories- the house will remain within our family forever. I wish there were additional pictures!

Thank you for sharing your wonderful memories with us! If you don't mind us asking, what was life like growing up in Sangamon County during the 60s? Have there been any major changes to the property over the years?

Life was wonderful. Our cousins enjoyed our home and property as much as we did. We learned how to swim in the river that is north of the barn in the picture. We have had 100s of cookouts in the timber (still do), and our parents (Mom age 90 still lives in the house) sponsored a horse trail ride many times that started from our house. Our brothers all learned how to hunt in the timber with one of the finest teachers around, our Dad. We had horses to ride and fished many times. We played cowboys and Indians numerous times along with hide and seek. We rode our bikes to Rochester on the "country roads". The east side of the driveway was our baseball diamond, with a home plate in front of the stairs and first plate was the big oak tree pictured to the left of the house. Our parents planted a huge garden where the cornfield is in the picture. We would help dig potatoes, tomatoes, green beans watermelon, etc. Take turns churning milk. Dad raised cattle for meat and milk. After he worked his 8hrs at Fiat, he would come home to feed cattle, harvest the garden and work on the farm with the other chores. To call within the Rochester area, we only dialed the last 5 numbers of our neighbor's phone#-everyone's phone number within the area started with 637. The corn crib was removed by a tornado one year, the front porch was screened in and the stairs were moved to the west side of the house. Other than that, it remains the same and is loved as much as we loved it in the 60s and many many years before that.