This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SMB.2ACI/1369 Message Board Post: These three pictures are of my Steffens family's cabin. Great-great-grandma Rebecca Schuette Steffens proved the homestead after her husband Claus Heinrich Steffens died. She raised his three children, and their one son, Henry Steffens in this cabin. It is a one room log home, much like other pioneers built. It had a loft where the children slept and they stored food up there, and in the celler. The celler was not under the house, I don't think. In the lower level, they had a bed, table and chairs, wood cook stove, and spinning wheel and other things. It was very small, but great-great grandma died in this home, and my grandmother was born in this home. There was much love and no TV. I can just see my three sons living in this cabin with me. They'd be bored to death. The two ladies in the B&W picture are Maggie Koeller Steffens (m. to Henry, above) and Mary Koeller Haase. Mary was Maggie's aunt, and Mary was the twin sister of Maggie's mother. These two look more like sisters than aunt and niece. Please post your family cabins. Denise Brauer Hoehns