Laura: So, we got out of there and came back to Akron. That is when your grandpa got a job driving long distance trucking. I finally said to him “Dad, we are going to get us a place of our own.” He did not answer me. He thought he could not leave his mother and daddy. He was an only child, I guess I can understand it. So, one day he went out on the truck, I cannot remember if he was gone three or four days, or a week. I’d been saving money, so Aunt Roxie and Uncle Frank lived over there on Hayne Road, where Amy had been living. They said to me “well there are some places for sale; why don’t you buy one of them”. They said that would take me down and get things straightened around. I said, “Okay, let’s go”. While Dad was gone on this trip, I went and bought us a place to live. And not only that, I went and bought the furniture and everything and him not there. He went over to his mother’s when he came home, the old farmhouse. We lived upstairs and they lived downstairs. (It was over on Swinehart Farm, on County Road.) So, Dad, Cecil’s dad, said to me, “My gosh, you must have lots of money”. I said, “No, I didn’t have any money, Dad, I’ve just been saving some out of each payday. But I thought it was time we got out on our own.” They did not want us to leave, of course, he was there only child. So, after Kate was born, I said it was time to get out on our own. But Dad had never done anything on his own. We lived with his people; when he would give his payday to his mother. I never seen it. I felt like a child.

Mike: Did they move to back Akron at the same time you did?

Laura:They were already out here. They came back when we came from Whitesville. They always stayed where Cecil was at because they loved him to death, you know. And he was all they had. I guess I dare not say what Cecil said when he came home and found out I’d bought this place. Anyway, when he came home and he came over and he looked all around and he said, “How in the world did you do this, Laura”. And I said, “Well, honey, I’ve been saving money for a long time, you know that.” He gave me the money. He couldn’t manage it. He said, “I cannot manage it, you take care of it.” He said, “So, I’ll have to say it looks pretty nice.” And I said, “Well, I hope you aren’t mad at me. I don’t think your folks liked it too well. But I thought it was time, sweetheart.”  So, we lived there two or three weeks, I don’t remember anymore, and he came home one evening and he said, “Let me tell you something, honey, I never knew that I could be so happy.” I said, “What do you mean?” He says, “Well, I have always been with my folks, but now this is really like living.” So, I felt pretty good then.

Mike: Tell us how you bought the house.

Laura: Well, like I said, I was a saving money. As well as I remember, it might have been $200 down. I don’t just remember the payments, but I think they were probably about $20 a month. And then when the interest came due, I paid that. That did not go into my house payment. And then when I had some extra, I would always put that in on the house payment. As I remember it was $1,200. That was a lot of money back then, honey. There wasn’t too much money. But I thought as soon as we got it paid off. Well, they had three rooms, a living room and our kitchen and dinette together. One bedroom. My couch made a full-sized bed. After we got it paid off, we added on to it. Your grandpa was pretty handy.

Mike:Where was this house in relation to the home place?

Laura: The old home place I sold? That’s where we started from, we had three rooms. We had an acre of ground. You cannot buy an acre of ground out there today for less than $10,000. Carried the water the first year, from our neighbors. We did not have a well. Then the following year, we drilled a well by hand, him and my brother, Roy. Every year we seemed to get along and add a little more.