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| 110-acre Farm Page Moved Here |
| Location |
| Union Township, Delaware County, Indiana |
| North side of CR1270N, east of CR225W |
| Coordinates: 40°22'31.21”N 85°25'43.08”W |
| Google Custom Map |
| Occupants - 1947 - 1959 |
| Oscar C Robbins, ID0014 | Grace Foulke Robbins, ID0015 |
| Sarah Esther Robbins, ID0198 (on the weekends) |
| Description: |
| Property Layout and House Floor Plan |
| 1952 Plat Book, page 43 |
| Delaware County Plat Book, 1957 |
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| House, about 2001 | House, 1955 | 1955 East end of House, Workshop, small barn, Lane, CR1270N at bottom of lane |
1955 Small barn - Lane Big barn at end of lane CR1270N at bottom of lane |
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| Location |
| Muncie, Center Township, Delaware County, Indiana |
| Located on west 16th Street, east of Hoyt Avenue |
| Address, 1945: 1108 W. 16th St (See image belown) |
| Coordinates: 40°10'30.02”N 85°23'53.67”W |
| Google Custom Map |
| House Floor Plan |
| Occupants - 1945 - 1947 |
| Walter C. Robbins, Sr., ID0005 | Norma Louise Haas Robbins, ID0006 |
| Walt Robbins, Jr., ID0001 | Phillip Eugene Robbins, ID0007 |
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| Walt, Jr. sitting on porch 16th St House - Looking East |
Norma, Walt, Jr. 1945 |
Walt Jr., Tricycle front of 16th St. House (Shows House Number) Sept 1947 |
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| 17th St House - Page Moved Here |
| 400S House - Page Moved Here |
| Location |
| Monroe Twp, Delaware Co, Indiana |
| Coordinates: 40°07'34.09N 85°20'19.89”W |
| South side of CR450S, west of US Highway 35 and east of State Highway 3 |
| Original Address: R R 2, Box 340E, Muncie, Indiana 47302 |
| Current Address: 4091 E CR450S, Muncie, Indiana, 47302 |
| Google Custom Map |
| Description |
| This property consisted of 9.5 acres equally split between pasture/land and woods |
| Built in 1976 by Scott McKibben, a Muncie contractor, for the Living, ID0001 and Shirley Robbins Family |
| 2-story brick with 4 bedrooms, living room, dining room, kitchen, eating area off the kitchen, 2.5 baths, a radio room and a 2-1/2 car attached garage. |
| Later a detached 2-car garage was built |
| A pond was dug in July 1988 S11, |
| Property Layout and House Floor Plan |
| Photo Album |
| Occupants |
| Living, ID0001 [1976 - 1990] | Shirley Kay Musick Robbins ID0002 [1976 - 1991] |
| Living, ID0003 [1976 - 1985] | Living, ID0004 [1976 - abt 1989] |
Tractor Stuck in Ditch
1985Family Room
Shot looking West
Dec 1978Ph2588.tif Ph3315.jpg
| 67S House# 1 |
| Location |
| Salem Township, Delaware County, Indiana |
| West side of Highway 67 south of Muncie between CR 400S and CR 500S and north of the Stoney Haven Motel site |
| Coordinates: 40°07'34.42”N 85°27'02.53”W |
| Address at the time the family lived there: R R 1, Box 250A - Daleville, Indiana 47334 |
| Google Custom Map |
| Description |
| This house is located far off the highway and there is a concrete drive leading to the house. The house had 3 nice sized bedrooms, living room, family room, kitchen, laundry area and a 2-car detached garage. It also had a large patio. The house sat on about ¾ acre. |
| The house sits quite a distance from the highway in 1974. Today [2009] the highway is much closer because of a widening project that took place around the year 1999 which expanded the highway from a 2 lane road to what is now a five lane highway |
| House Floor Plan |
| Occupants (From 1973 to 1976) |
| Living, ID0001 | Shirley Kay Musick Robbins, ID0002 |
| Living, ID0003 | Living, ID0004 |
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| Abt 1973 Highway 67, a 2-lane road |
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| Location |
| Coordinates: 40°07'02.57”N 85°27'29.93”W |
| Original Location [while living there]: West side of Highway 67 South of Muncie, and south of CR 500S |
| Present day location [since the rebuild of Highway 67S in about 1997] now on S. Honeycreek Road/ Old In-67 |
| Google Custom Map |
| House Floor Plan |
| Occupants 1994 - 1996 |
| Living, ID0001 | Living, ID1888 |
| Westport Dog [ - Until 1995] | Chelsey Dog [1995 - 1996] |
| Location |
| Muncie, Delaware County, Indiana |
| South side of E
Centennial Ave, somewhere between Muncie Bypass (Highways: IN 67, IN
3 and US35) on the west and Country Club Rd on the east – probably closer to Country Club Rd |
| Coordinates: Approx: 40°12’25.78”N 85°19’53.23”W |
| Google Custom Map |
| Occupants - 1947 - 1948 |
| Walter C. Robbins, Sr., ID0005 | Norma Louise Haas Robbins, ID0006 |
| Living, ID0001 | Phillip Eugene Robbins, ID0007 |
| Description: |
| At
the time we lived in this house it had a brown shingle-type siding
much like roofing that was popular at the time. As I recall there was a detached garage on the right and behind the house. There was some acreage |
| House Floor Plan |
| Interview with Living ID0005 - 22 Sept
2005 Lived here about a year. Walter put in a bathroom, a septic tank and a well. Put the water pump under the sink in the house. It consisted of the pump with a separate motor connected with a belt. Phil, ID0007 got his little finger caught in the belt and he lost a portion of the end of that finger. Walter ran the well pipe from the well into the house to the pump. He had dug down to the well that was already there and Milton, ID0043 came out and cut the pipe off and Dad put a cap on it and ran the pipe to the house. We lived in this house a little over a year. The county was talking about running a sewer line that would cost everyone along the road $1500. That was one reason for the move. This property had a barn. Walter also did auto repair in the barn. There was 5 acres and we had a few cows. Source: Interview with Walter C. Robbins, Sr., ID0005 - 22 Sept 2005 Doc0551.pdf |
| Autobiography of Norma Haas Robbins, Mother of Phil "Phil was just about 2 yrs old & was gone one day - I looked & looked - got real panicky. I found him across the road at a neighbor's house - he wanted to play with their little boy. At the time they were using our road as a highway" - Doc406.pdf |
| Location |
| Union Twp, Delaware County, Indiana -East side of CR175W, south of CR1270N |
| Coordinates: 40°22'14.29”N 85°25'16.38”W |
| The Oscar and Grace Robbins Family lived here before moving to the CR1270N farm |
| Google Custom Map |
| Occupants - 1943 - 1947 |
| Oscar C Robbins, ID0014 | Grace Foulke Robbins, ID0015 |
| Sarah Esther Robbins, ID0198 (on the weekends) | Orris Milton Robbins, ID0043 |
| Description: |
| 40 acres |
| Called the Cole
Farm because the Cole family purchased the farm from Oscar and Grace when they moved to their bigger farm about 1 mile west (CR1270N farm ) |
| Delaware County Plat Book, 1957 |
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| Location |
| Green Township, Randolph County, Indiana |
| CR1000N .67 miles east of CR1150W |
| Coordinates: 40° 18' 19.86"N 85° 11' 00.23"W |
| Google Custom Map |
| Occupants - 1937 - 1943 |
| Oscar C Robbins, ID0014 | Grace Foulke Robbins, ID0015 |
| Walter C. Robbins, Sr., ID0005 | Sarah Esther Robbins, ID0198 | Orris Milton Robbins, ID0043 |
| Description: |
| 103 acres |
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| Location |
| Address: 2628-1/2 Pendleton Ave - Anderson, Madison County, Indiana |
| Coordinates: 40°05'19.63”N 85°41'51.83”W |
| Google Custom Map |
| Occupants (From June 1964 to 1966) |
| Living, ID0001 | Shirley K. Musick Robbins, ID0002 |
| Living, ID0003 |
| Description |
| House Floor Plan |
| The large complex to the west of the house was Guide Lamp, Division of General Motors Corp (Has ceased operations and been torn down) |
| The large oval to the east of the location of the house is the Sun Valley Speedway (Anderson Speedway today). There was a large, tall, wooden fence surrounding the speedway. This fence was directly behind the house and we were able to climb up on top of the shed next to the house and watch the races. Joe Helpling, who owned the speedway at that time, would come around and run us off |
| The house was very small and sat behind a restaurant belonging to the owners of the house (Herb and Garnet Brown). The restaurant was called “Brownies” |
| The house had green siding. It was a one story building that, according to Herb Brown, had once been a chicken house. They had remodeled it and turned it into a rental house. It consisted of a living room two bedrooms, a kitchen and bath. It was a very comfortable home for a new family to get started |
| Shirley and her husband rented this house and Shirley worked part time in the restaurant |
| Location |
| Union Twp, Delaware County, Indiana |
| South side of CR 1270N, east of CR225W |
| Coordinates: 40°22'27.90”N 85°25'48.56”W |
| Google Custom Map |
| Delaware County Plat Book, 1957 |
| 1952 Plat Book, page 43 - |
| Description: |
| 43 acres |
| Land originally belonged to Oscar and Grace Robbins (Parents of Milton) |
| Milton obtained the land and built a house and outbuildings. He also created a pond on the property. |
| Occupants |
| Orris Milton Robbins, ID0043 | Living, ID0044 |
| Living, ID0045 | Living ID0046 |
| Location |
| Salem Twp, Delaware County, Indiana |
| North side of CR400S [Cross Street out of Anderson], West of CR900W |
| Address: R.R. 1, Box 295A - Daleville, Indiana 47334 (When family lived there) |
| Coordinates: 40°08'05.93”N 85°33'40.32”W |
| Google Custom Map |
| Description |
| 1-story brick ranch house with blacktop drive and
sitting on ½ acre. It has 3 bedrooms, 1 bath, living room, kitchen and 2-car garage. |
| House Floor Plan |
| This home was newly-built when purchased by Living ID0005 and Norma Louise Haas Robbins, ID0006. They lived in it until they built another new house south of Yorktown in 1966 |
| The home was built by a local builder George Harlan ID0568 |
| The home was purchased in 1966 by their son Living, ID0001 and Shirley K. Musick Robbins, ID0002 for $16,000 |
| Living,
ID0001
and Shirley lived in the house From 1966 to 1973 when they bought a
house on Highway 67 south of Muncie [67S house #1] in 1973 |
| This house, located on Delaware County Road 400S
north of Daleville, was a brick ranch house with 3 bedrooms, kitchen, living
room, one bath and a 2-car attached garage. The home had been built by
George Harlan a local builder and was the first new home for the family.
In 1966 it was decided that a new home was needed so George Harlan was contracted to build a brick ranch house south of Yorktown. |
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| From 1960 to 1966 | From 1960 to 1964 | From 1966 to 1973 |
| Walter C. Robbins, Sr., ID0005 | Living, ID0001 | Living, ID0001 | Shirley Musick Robbins, ID0002 |
| Norma L. Haas Robbins, ID0006 | Living, ID0003 | Living, ID0004 | |
| Phillip E Robbins, ID0007 | ||
| Living, ID0013 | ||
Images - (Click for Larger Image) Abt 1968 Ph4280.jpg
| N of Eaton Farm Page Moved Here |
| Location |
| Blackford County, Indiana |
| East
side of S Carmin Rd between W Mohee Rd
(Blackford County) on the north and Delaware County Rd 1270N on the south |
| Coordinates: 40°22'49.37”N 85°25'57.30”W |
| Google Custom Map |
| The
house and barn were on the east side of the road but there was land
belonging to this farm on both sides of the road all the way north to W Mohee Rd |
| The Jarrell Family left this farm in 1957 and moved to Mechanicsburg, Henry County, Indiana |
| Occupants |
| Paul Jarrell, ID0053 | Mary Robbins Jarrell, ID0052 |
| Donald Jarrell, ID0054 | Living, ID0055 | Living, ID0056 | William Jarrell, ID0057 |
| Stoney Haven Motel - Page Moved Here |
| Location |
| Google Custom Map |
| Jackson Township, Hamilton County, Indiana |
| 236th Street, 4.57 miles west of Cicero, Hamilton, Indiana |
| .19 miles east of Anthony Road |
| Coordinates: 40° 07' 53.45" N 86° 06' 18.43" W |
| Occupants | ||
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Oscar
Robbins and Grace Foulke Family |
Robert Ross, ID0085
and
Sarah Foulke, ID0084 Family
(Before 1930) |
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| Carrie Foulke, ID0081 | Myron Foulke Robbins ID0016 | |
| Alice Foulke, ID0082 | Ina Marie Robbins ID0197 | |
| Sarah Foulke, ID0084 | Mary Audrey Robbins ID0052 | |
| Arthur Foulke, ID0086 | Walter C. Robbins, Sr., ID0005 | |
| Grace Foulke, ID0015 | Sarah Esther Robbins ID0198 | |
| Jesse Alvin Foulke, ID0079 | Orris Milton Robbins ID0043 | |
| Description - |
| There was a 4-room tenement house on this farm and it was located east of the big house. Mary Frances moved to the tenement house when the Ross Family was living there and she stayed when the Oscar Robbins Family moved into the big house. |
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| 1982 | George Foulke Farm House 1930 Built in abt 1890 |
George Foulke Farm House 1930 Built abt 1890 |
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| There were several farms in the same area owned by family members at the same time period |
| Google Custom Map |
| 110 Acre Farm of Walter & Norma Robbins |
| #CR 1270N Farm of Oscar & Grace Robbins |
| Cole Farm of Oscar & Grace Robbins |
| Milton Farm belonging to Milton Robbins and his wife |
| Paul & Mary Farm belonging to Paul & Mary Robbins Jarrell |
| Location |
| Google Custom Map |
| Northeast corner of 17th and Gharkey Streets - Muncie, Delaware County, Indiana |
| Coordinates: 40° 10' 29.95" N -- 85° 23' 36.46" W |
| Occupants |
| Living, ID0454 | Wilma Haas Lucas, ID0379 Family (Owners of the house) |
| Living, ID0452 | Living, ID0451 |
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Walter C. Robbins, Sr., ID0005,
Norma L. Haas Robbins, ID0006, Son
Living, ID0001 - 1945 (Lived in two small rooms in back of house - fixed up as an apartment) |
| Misc. Info |
| Clarence and Artie Lucas (Parents of Living Lucas ID0454) lived directly across the street (west) from this house - The house is now gone (2008) and it is a vacant lot |
| Remembering |
| email from Living, ID0452 dated 8 Oct 2008: |
| The picture [1940s
image above] was taken not long after my parents bought the house. It was unpainted when we moved in. Also, there was a wall that Dad built next to the sidewalk not long after we moved. The day we moved, I took bed pillows and slid down the little bank to the sidewalk several times before i was caught. |
| The apartment, such as
it was, was in the back on the North side and consisted of two small rooms and a back porch. My parents rented it out to Geneva and Martin Morehouse, friends of the family from Kentucky, while Martin was in the service after WWII. They, along with their children, died in a car crash sometime in the early 50's. |
| My Lucas grandparents
[Clarence & Artie Lucas] lived across the street at 2225 S. Gharkey. The house and shop are gone now |
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| Jackson Township, Hamilton County, Indiana |
| Coordinates: 40° 07' 37.14" N 86° 06' 35.15" W |
| Google Custom Map |
| Home of: Jesse M. Foulke, ID0088 | Mary Baker Foulke, ID0090 |
| Cadiz Farm Harrison Township, Henry County, Indiana |
| Location: |
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| Occupants: Oscar C. Robbins, ID0014 | Grace Foulke Robbins, ID0015 Myron Foulke Robbins, ID0016 | Ina Marie Robbins, ID0197 | Mary Audrey Robbins, ID0052 | Walter Clifton Robbins, ID0005 | Sarah Esther Robbins, ID0198 Orris Milton Robbins, ID0043 |
| Dad stated that they lived at this
farm for a long time and that Myron had graduated from Cadiz High
School. Grandpa owned this farm, he had a mortgage on it. The farm
consisted of 80 acres. They had 15 or 20 head of milk cows, had
horses and Poland China Hogs - these were his dad's pride and joy.
He kept 5 or 6 Poland China sows all the time and only raised this
breed of hogs. His mother always kept 500 hens and traded the eggs
she got to the grocery store for groceries for the family and then
the store would sell the eggs. They also sold the cream from the
milk cows and fed the milk, other than what they used themselves, to
the hogs. After the house burned his dad built a new house on this farm. They were living at the Scott farm while he was building this new house. The new house consisted of an old house that he had bought, cut in two and hauled to the Cadiz farm. Once there he put it back together and did the refinishing, and adding porches, etc. Later, after they had left this farm this house that he had built burned and it was said that the next one on the farm after that burned as well. Dad does not think they ever moved back to this farm after leaving when the house burned. He did state the farm was located on a corner. [Page 9] Dad thinks his dad lost this farm in 1929 or so. They couldn't afford to even pay the interest on the mortgage because it was during the depression. Source: Interview with Walter C. Robbins, Sr., ID0005, 22 Sept 2005] Doc0551.pdf |
| - Dad – Attended 2nd, 3rd, maybe 4th grade - Myron graduated 1930 - Stayed with a friend after the family moved to Cicero so he could graduate from Cadiz - House burned about March 1920 - Grandpa owned this farm but let it go back after the house burned because he couldn’t afford the payments because of the depression Source: Interview With Walter C. Robbins, Sr., ID0005, 20 Sept 2005 Doc0879.pdf |
- Dad stated that he went to Cadiz School 3 or 4 years - probably the 2nd through 4th grade. [Probably more like 2nd through 6th grades.] School Year was from Sept after Labor Day to the last of April. If they happened to start before Labor Day they could be excused to go to the State Fair. [Interview with Walter C. Robbins, Sr., 20 Sept 2005] School Year was from Sept after Labor Day to the last of April. If they happened to start before Labor Day they could be excused to go to the State Fair. Source: Interview with Walter C. Robbins, Sr., ID0005, 22 Sept 2005] Doc0551.pdf |
| Chicken Coop: - Abt 1 March 1923 - This farm had a 32-vold DC electricity. When the house burned they let us live in the chicken house which was about a mile from Scott's farm - Not bad after it was remodeled. Source: Interview with Walter C. Robbins, Sr., ID0005, 29 Sept 2005 Doc0740.pdf |
| Scott's Farm was about ½ mile
west of Cadiz farm in Henry County - the house had a porch built out
front - it was a 2-story house Source: Interview with Walter C. Robbins, Sr., ID0005, 29 Sept 2005 Doc0740.pdf |
| - They moved to this farm after the house at the
Cadiz Farm burned. Mrs Scott had been married to a man that was a
house mover but he had died and she needed someone to run her farm.
The Oscar Robbins family moved in with her and Oscar ran the farm.
This caused some problems because Grace, Oscar's wife was jealous
and afraid that Oscar would have an affair with Mrs. Scott. They
only lived at this farm for about a year and probably moved to the
Shirley farm from here. This was an 80 acre farm. [Interview 22 Sept
2005 Source: Interview with Walter C. Robbins, Sr., ID0005, 22 Sept 2005 Doc0551.pdf |
| Oscar was also busy building a new
house to replace the burned one on the Cadiz farm. This is the farm
where the eagle landed on the fence and stayed a long time. Scott's
Farm was about ½ mile west of Cadiz farm in Henry County - the house
had a porch built out front - it was a 2-story house. Source: Interview with Walter C. Robbins, Sr., ID0005, 29 Sept 2005 Doc0740.pdf |
| Location: |
| Google Custom Map (The possible locations for the Shirley Farm are indicated) |
| Family Members
living here: Oscar C and Grace Foulke Robbins Family Myron Foulke Robbins, ID0016 Ina Marie Robbins, ID0197 Mary Audrey Robbins, ID0052 Walter Clifton Robbins, ID0005 Sarah Esther Robbins, ID0198 Orris Milton Robbins, ID0043 |
| Oscar and Grace rented this farm from
a banker. They moved here dad thinks when he was about 9 [had to be
earlier if he started the first grade here]. The banker paid the
bills for Oscar to build the silo on the farm They had hired someone
to do the concrete work. Walter filled the holed with concrete and
Myron helped in some way as well. The silo was about 20 or 30 feet
in diameter and about 20 or 30 feet tall. This farm was located about 2 or 3 miles from Shirley back east from Shirley and there was a railroad - the farm was next to the railroad. The farm was off of highway 234 about 2 miles south. Highway 234 goes north of Shirley to Kennard then north then east to New Castle. Paul Jarrell ID0053 told dad that if you take the Mechanicsburg Road south you would run into this farm. - Dad stated he started school - the 1st grade at Shirley School and that Myron and Ina went to Kennard H. S. because Shirley only had 6 grades. [Interview with Walter C. Robbins, Sr., 20 Sept 2005] Dad thinks he was 7 when he started school - This was a one room school, with one teacher and a pot-bellied stove in the center of the room - the water and outhouse was behind the school. They took a bus to Shirley and then Ina and Myron took another bus to Kennard. From what I can piece together now it appears that Dad was 6 when he started to school. Source: Interview with Walter C. Robbins, Sr., ID0005, 22 Sept 2005 Doc0551.pdf |
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| S1 | An Atlas of Delaware County, Indiana: From Actual Surveys under the Direction of B.N. Griffing, C.E. (Knightstown, Indiana: Griffing, Gordon & Co, 1887, Reprint 1971), page 18, Union Twp, Section 11. Bk1849 | |
| S2 | Haas, Norma ID0006. Autobiography of Norma Haas Robbins. Yorktown, Indiana, 1992. | Transcription |
| S3 | Book: Helm, T B, History of Delaware County, Indiana, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches (Chicago: Kingman Brothers, 1881, Bk1595). | |
| S4 | Book: "Our Own Baby" for Walter C Robbins, Jr., Dec 1944. Acc988 | |
| S5 | Plat Book:
Farm Plat Book
and Business Guide Delaware County Indiana (Rockford, Illinois:
Rockford Map Publishers, 1952. Bk1869), page 43. Notes: Shows the 26 acre farm owned by Walter & Norma Robbins in 1952. and the farms owned by Oscar C. Robbins and Milton Robbins. |
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| S6 | Delaware County Indiana
Official Farm Plat Book and Directory (Madison, Wisconsin:
County Plat and Directory Co., Inc., nd [1957]); Acc000343 - Bk3332,
page 33, 43. Notes: Page 33: Section 11, north of Eaton - Shows 26 acres belonging to "L. B." [Leo Bettinger] Section 7 & 8 Show the relationship of the Farms of Walter, Oscar and Milton Robbins Page 43: Robbins, W [Walter] - Muncie, Union (Owner) and Eaton, Union (Renter) Robbins, M [Milton] - Muncie, Union (Owner) No listing for Oscar Robbins Note: I estimated the publication date from page 12 - the ad for WLBC Radio - they state they have been serving the farm home for 31 years and they were established in 1926. |
Plat Book Pages |
| S7 | Real Estate Closing Statement,
sale of Closing Statement, N of Eaton Farm, 14 Jan 1955. Acc000204
Extract: |
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| S8 | Interview with Walter Clifton
Robbins, by Walter Clifton Robbins, Jr., 22 Sept 2005, Extract: Dad remodeled the bathroom - originally it only had a stool sitting out in the middle of the room with no walls. He put walls around it and finished the bathroom adding a tub with shower and a sink and ran water to the bathroom. He also remodeled the kitchen by first fixing the the drooping ceiling - it probably drooped 6 or 8 inches in some places. He put in new ceiling joists and jacked up the ceiling to make it all level and put in a new ceiling. Had the house and barn painted. The barn had a metal roof. Dad installed stalls in the hog house for sows to have their baby's. The wood for these stalls came from logs out of the woods on the property. Dad hauled the logs to a saw mill in Matthews or Hartford City to have them cut into lumber. It was rough sawn oak and very hard. Dad bought a heavy duty 1/2" drill and a portable circular saw when he built these stalls and has these tools to this day. The hog house had a cement floor. The previous owner (Tatman) had been a tomato farmer and had built and used this building for something to do with the tomatoes but dad could not remember for what purpose. We raised around 200 head of hogs each year. We had them at our farm and also down at Grandpa Robbins' farm. Dad raised them at both places. The hogs were born in January and we would be up half the night watching over them, using pitch forks to move the baby pigs out of the way so the sows wouldn't roll over and crush them. At one time we had 60 head of Black Angus cattle plus 10 milk cows. At some point our milk cows got into the grainery and ate a large quantity of soybeans. They all swelled up and we had to have Dr Hyde, the veterinarian, from Hartford City come out. He opened up their stomachs in an attempt to relieve the pressure and remove the soybeans. Most of the cows died and dad had them made into hamburger. We had so much hamburger "we had hamburger out our ears." We had a fellow painting the barn - he worked with dad at Chevrolet. Instead of money dad gave him 200 pounds of hamburger as payment. He took the hamburger and forgot about it or something and it all spoiled - so he ended up painting the barn for nothing. Castrating the animals - Dad attempted to castrate some of the calves one time. He had watched Dr Hyde and he thought it looked simple enough. When he tried it on his own, however, he was not quite as successful as he would have liked. He had lots of bleeding. The calves survived but it was a mess and he never attempted that again - he left that chore to Dr Hyde. Dad was very proficient at castrating the hogs though and could do 40 or 50 at a time. He did try to do some little pigs that were only 2 or 3 weeks old one time but it was almost impossible to find their gonads so he never tried that again. Son, Phil had a horse named Trigger and son Walt Jr had a horse named Sliver - had a pony named Bill and another horse named Scout. |
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| S10 | Book: Telephone Directory, Muncie,
Delaware County, Indiana, page 118. Indiana Bell Telephone Company,
July 1961. Repository: Muncie Public Library. Acc001943/Ph9045.jpg
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| S12 | 1953 Taxes for Walter C. and
Norma L. Robbins. Federal and State Forms. Acc000206/Doc1132.pdf
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