Maibelle McCullough Mouton:
Remembering With Joy


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Remembering With Joy

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Maps

Part One

Part Two

Part Three

Part Four

Part Five

Family Reunion

Notes



According to the maps

1 -- the Store

2 -- Guelcksy's room

3 -- Three big black walnut trees, one held the rope swing

4 -- The lawn swing

5 -- Twin cedars that tortured our barefeet!

6 -- Honey suckle arbor

7 -- The rain gage

8 -- The depot

9 -- the garden

10 -- the strawberry patch

11 -- Chicken lot

12 -- Chicken roost

13 -- Calf lot

14 -- tame black berries

15 -- built for help became our playhouse

16 -- Cherry tree (climabable!)

17 -- Plum tree (snow white petals for icing on mudpies!)

18 -- Three peach trees

19 -- Smoke house, full of hanging ham, sausages and bacon!

20 -- Lizzie's flower garden A riot of beauty and color!

21 -- The pump house with a trap door to a cool cellar with rows of crocks full of milk

(Before Refrigerators!)

22 -- The wood rick

23 -- The cow lot with the milking shed

24 -- Drinking trough for the cows and horses

25 -- where the water was pumped into the trough

26 -- The carriage house

27 -- Mrs. Gardiner's home

28 -- the big barn with the hay loft!

29 -- the Gin

30 -- The turntable that dumped baled cotton onto the platform

31 -- the bridges where we caught crawfish

32 -- the Orr home

33 -- The Green where, shows, photographers and circuses set up their tents

34 -- the pasture

35 -- the gate, where we called the cows!

36 -- the quarter mile lane (measured from the railroad)


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