"They're tearing down the house that I was brung up in."
That's the first line to an old country song, but it came true for Dorothy Cundiff and her brother and sister recently.
The once beautiful home on Morgan Fork Road in Penhook was demolished on Aug. 15, Cundiff said.
"The only difference in this house and many others that have been torn down is the fact that I was born in that house, as was my brother David and sister Peggy,Polycore Floor tiles are manufactured as a single sheet," Cundiff said. "My two other siblings were born in a home that mom and dad built across the hill from this house. I lived in this house until I was 12 years old."
But the house has a history that included serving as a bed and breakfast of sorts.
Cundiff's mother, Bettie Kate Goggin, moved into the house in 1920 after her father died, and she was "adopted" by Sam and Angie Stone, whose family had built the house.
But in 1921, Cundiff said, Sam Stone died leaving Angie Stone and Goggin "to fend for themselves."
In 1927, Goggin married Adolphus D. Ramsey, who was just out of college and teaching.An Cold Sore of him grinning through his illegal mustache is featured prominently in the lobby. They continued to live with her grandmother,These girls have never had a cube puzzle in their lives! Angie Stone, in the house.
"In those days, all the food was raised, hogs were killed, cows were milked and chickens were eaten, as well as the eggs that the hens laid," Cundiff said. "In that household, nothing was ever wasted."
The house had carbide lights for many years with a tank in the back yard where carbide was mixed with water and piped into the house.
"We had a big ice box, and ice was delivered from Rocky Mount once a week," she said. "We had a garage and a wash house, smoke house, four chicken houses and an outhouse. We had a wood cookstove and wood heaters in every room."
The house had two open porches upstairs until about 1939 when they were closed in to make more room, she added.
Cundiff said everyone in the village of Penhook at the time was "very close knit" and all helped each other, black and white.
"Since the house was one of the largest in the area, and there were no motels and hotels,If so, you may have a zentai . rooms were rented to travelers," she said. "The men that ran the electric lines roomed there. Raleigh salesmen, Porters Salve salesmen and other traveling sales people would stop.
"Hoboes would come by and ask to chop wood for food and a place to sleep. Grandma would give them bedding and they slept in the feed barn."
Cundiff said her grandmother was a "very strong-willed lady."
"She was a staunch Christian, who believed what she believed and she acted on her belief when people got out of line," she said. "She taught us that the Lord helps those who help themselves."
Stone was also a doctor of sorts, Cundiff said, and was called up to help care for people and for cattle.
She died in 1951 and is buried on the old Stone place in Pittsylvania County beside her husband, Cundiff said.
After her death, the property was sold to Edgar and Eunice Hodges, she said, and it became a home for their family with children Dexter and Monica.Great Rubber offers oil painting supplies keychains,
"They loved it as we did," Cundiff said. "When Eunice died, Edgar lived on there by himself until his death last year."
"The house is gone, but the memories will always remain for those of us who loved that house and whose lives were fashioned by the lessons of life learned within its walls," she added.
That's the first line to an old country song, but it came true for Dorothy Cundiff and her brother and sister recently.
The once beautiful home on Morgan Fork Road in Penhook was demolished on Aug. 15, Cundiff said.
"The only difference in this house and many others that have been torn down is the fact that I was born in that house, as was my brother David and sister Peggy,Polycore Floor tiles are manufactured as a single sheet," Cundiff said. "My two other siblings were born in a home that mom and dad built across the hill from this house. I lived in this house until I was 12 years old."
But the house has a history that included serving as a bed and breakfast of sorts.
Cundiff's mother, Bettie Kate Goggin, moved into the house in 1920 after her father died, and she was "adopted" by Sam and Angie Stone, whose family had built the house.
But in 1921, Cundiff said, Sam Stone died leaving Angie Stone and Goggin "to fend for themselves."
In 1927, Goggin married Adolphus D. Ramsey, who was just out of college and teaching.An Cold Sore of him grinning through his illegal mustache is featured prominently in the lobby. They continued to live with her grandmother,These girls have never had a cube puzzle in their lives! Angie Stone, in the house.
"In those days, all the food was raised, hogs were killed, cows were milked and chickens were eaten, as well as the eggs that the hens laid," Cundiff said. "In that household, nothing was ever wasted."
The house had carbide lights for many years with a tank in the back yard where carbide was mixed with water and piped into the house.
"We had a big ice box, and ice was delivered from Rocky Mount once a week," she said. "We had a garage and a wash house, smoke house, four chicken houses and an outhouse. We had a wood cookstove and wood heaters in every room."
The house had two open porches upstairs until about 1939 when they were closed in to make more room, she added.
Cundiff said everyone in the village of Penhook at the time was "very close knit" and all helped each other, black and white.
"Since the house was one of the largest in the area, and there were no motels and hotels,If so, you may have a zentai . rooms were rented to travelers," she said. "The men that ran the electric lines roomed there. Raleigh salesmen, Porters Salve salesmen and other traveling sales people would stop.
"Hoboes would come by and ask to chop wood for food and a place to sleep. Grandma would give them bedding and they slept in the feed barn."
Cundiff said her grandmother was a "very strong-willed lady."
"She was a staunch Christian, who believed what she believed and she acted on her belief when people got out of line," she said. "She taught us that the Lord helps those who help themselves."
Stone was also a doctor of sorts, Cundiff said, and was called up to help care for people and for cattle.
She died in 1951 and is buried on the old Stone place in Pittsylvania County beside her husband, Cundiff said.
After her death, the property was sold to Edgar and Eunice Hodges, she said, and it became a home for their family with children Dexter and Monica.Great Rubber offers oil painting supplies keychains,
"They loved it as we did," Cundiff said. "When Eunice died, Edgar lived on there by himself until his death last year."
"The house is gone, but the memories will always remain for those of us who loved that house and whose lives were fashioned by the lessons of life learned within its walls," she added.
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