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The guy who built most of the old buildings I have was a carpenter.Im looking at all the rocks that were laid in there probably by hand. We have it easy nowadays.
Young and family, bought the farm in 1902.
Lost his wife and child to tuberculosis, placed his son in a neighboring valley and traveled to the US to earn enough money to provide for them in the future.
Came back and built the house and farm building, and yep, these foundations were not easy to put in place. The foundation wall of my house he built has a double layer of stone.
The same guy lost his next wife to tuberculosis too.
That generation did not complain about what they had to go through to get the food on the table.