Salfordville

When Claire and Judy came home, we lived there near Salfordville for only about fourteen months. Our so-called conveniences were very few. We did have running water as far as the kitchen since I had had a well drilled the previous summer, but we had no bathroom or inside toilet. We had no central heating system and no heat at all upstairs. On the first floor, we had two coal burning stoves besides the relatively modern kitchen range which burned liquid propane gas. This made the first floor relatively comfortable.
Those coal stoves had names which were cast in the door in front of where the coal was put in. I don't remember the name of the one in the living room, but the other one was "Lillian" and we always called it by that name.
We had made many improvements and were planning more when we decided to move. At that time, we planned to come back later when we were better off financially. However, we soon realized that we were better off at our new home and job. I feel today that was the right decision for once.