"A little info about the house: Otto Kleager and his wife Tillie lived in this house for many years. My mother and uncle were also born in this house (LaRue and Gervis Kleager). I spent a lot of time as a young child visiting my grandparents at this house. It had a tin roof and was heated by two wood fired stoves. One was a cook stove in the kitchen, the other was a wood stove in the family room. There were two bedrooms upstairs, each with a feather bed, and one bedroom downstairs. There is a cellar under the house with two entrances, one from the kitchen and one from outside. There is also a cistern located behind the house fed by gutters from the roof. The cistern had a hand crank used to raise water."
He also sent me some other pictures. Describing that it was heated by two wood stoves may explain this picture of (the back) of the house with an enormous woodpile. In the top picture is what looks to me like the same dog in the family picture background. Don't know who the people on or in front of the woodpile are, but that had to take A LOT of work to stockpile that much wood!
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