Our Hearth

This is a photo of the old house down at Auburn. If you click on the photo you can see it larger. Looking out of the upstairs window is my dad (aka Grandpa) and his cousin, Darla. I also included Grandmama's handwriting from the back of the photo. At some point my Grandaddy's parents lived in this house (maybe 1946-1956), but they did not build it.


The remains of the house are beginning to form a pile on land that my dad still owns.


David & Elizabeth's Dad had a great idea to reclaim some family history, so we've been collecting the chimney bricks and will use them to build the hearth for our wood stove.

As the house has fallen down and laid on the ground for years & years, some of the bricks had become buried in the grass & dirt. Some had fallen through the floor boards.

Dad said if it had been any warmer, he wouldn't have stuck his hands under this house!

We also collected brick from an old house at the North Place. Nobody in our family ever lived there, but my Grandaddy bought the land about 1951.

Some of the bricks fron the kitchen chimney at the Auburn house had stars imprinted on them, while the fireplace bricks were plain. The bricks from the North Place fireplace were Ferris bricks, but the kitchen chimney was plain bricks.

Dad calculated that we'd need 230 bricks for the hearth. Extras will be used around the landscaping.