Others On The Farm

In the first couple of years at the Lansdale farm, especially during the summer, we had several friends and relatives staying with us when they were out of work and they helped us with the field work. Bill Wolf, Larry Downing, a friend of Joe's named Thomas and others. After about 1935, the depression began to ease and Joe and Ed found other work and moved away. This left just Mike and I and we were so busy I decided to get somebody to keep house for us.
In the spring of 1936, I found the Zollers family and persuaded them to come and live on the farm. Andy Zollers, his wife Chris and their daughter Norma. They lived and boarded with us in return for Chris' services as a housekeeper and cook plus fifteen dollars a week. This worked out very well for a couple of years. Chris would sometimes come out to the field and help Mike and I if we were making hay and I would take Norma to and from the school bus. Andy worked the night shift at Lee Tire Co. in Conshohocken and he was usually asleep during the day. After a couple of years they moved back to Norristown. We kept in touch with the Zoller family for many years, even after Claire and I were living in Plymouth Township. Chris and Andy both died about twenty years ago and we have not heard of the others for some time now.