Morning Brent, You lucky to have those memories of your Mother about Pike County. My family was long gone from there before I was even a thought to anyone as far as I know. What is a cellar you ask? A hole in the ground - be it under the house or another out building. We had a cellar at home when I was growing up, it was under the house. Mom kept canned food down there, sauerkraut in crocks as well as pickles. You could put some root vegetables down there and they stayed good all winter. Ususally the walls and floor were dirt, the floor may have have bricks put down. It was cool, dark and damp. My grandparents had theirs under a shed in the yard, the shed was their gardening shed. When my Mom remarried and moved back to the farm there was a big one in that house, it was creepy, my daughter called it the dungeon. She would go down to get something for her grandma but she had to know right where it was and she did the whole thing in a big hurry, not touching anything between the kitchen and the item and back. We call them basements now, or crawl spaces, with no fixins. Keep remembering those wonderful stories. Dorothy Brent Banta wrote: > >Chas. Brammell or Brumble, etc > > Dorothy, > > Thank you for the continued help with my name-changing relatives. As for > the timing, heck- I haven't even recoverd from Christmas, let alone the new > Millenium. We had family from far and wide staying with us so it was pretty > special. > > I think of the ILPIKE group often because you are my only link to Barry, a > town I will always know best from Mom's stories about living there in 1907 > with her grandmother Catherine BRAMMELL and grandfather Solomon SHEWE. Her > best friend was Lila DODGE, who lived close-by. Thanks to Mom, I know a > little about things like ice blocks taken up from the cellar (what's a > "cellar"?) in summer and riding in a one-horse rig. "Dan", I think was more > of a work horse than a trotter, but he was special in Mom's eyes, and she > had no trouble remembering his name even 92 years later. > > Thanks again! > > Best regards to all on the List. > > Brent Banta > San Diego, CA > > ==== ILPIKE Mailing List ==== > Illinois Statewide Marriage Index > http://www.sos.state.il.us/depts/archives/marriage.html