Wednesday, September 4, 2013

2- Story Cross Hall Dogtrot Log House--has anyone ever described a house more elegantly and pithily?

This is from William Lowndes Lipscomb's 1909 A HISTORY OF COLUMBUS, MISSISSIPPI . . .




Someone else calls it a 2-story cross hall dogtrot log house.

This sometime friend of Andrew Jackson, one of the first 2 Senators from Tennessee, retained a certain self-deprecating wit in his marriage to my widowed GGGG Grandmother.  And according to Lipscomb the Sims step-children continued on good terms with the Cocke children. Good people.

I love the idea of doing ancestral houses. Who would have thought how much is on the Internet? There are great cabins in the Coker histories in northern Arkansas.

Retirement! After 75 if you wake up in the morning you check yourself out and decide how long you can expect to live and then plan the rest of your morning accordingly, if you are optimistic. Time for ORNERY PEOPLE.

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