1864 Jun 4:        “Arrived in Paris.  Built first log house, one of ½ dozen in Paris.”

1870 fall:            Thomas “started to build a log house on his farm outside of Paris.”

1871 Jan 3:         He finished new log house on the farm.    Hyrum Edward born.

1874 March:     “Bought 2 city lots and moved into Paris.”

1887 Jul 26:      “Put up rafters on my new log house at the farm north of town and finished the house roof on Aug 8th.

1887 Sep 7:   “Moved  into the new log house on the farm.”

1900 Feb 3: “Moved from my farm to the shop which I had built on corner of Main & 1st North.”

1901:           “Subsequently adding 2 rooms on the west side ground floor and 3 rooms upstairs.”
                                                                                       (Thomas Minson’s  Journal Written by him personally)

 

 
Frank Cammans said:  “The lady in front of the log house, I am quite sure, is my Mother, Violet Anderson Cammans.  I have an original photo and I think that my Dad took the picture.”   

 

I was thrilled to get the picture of the log house.  In its day it must have been a nice place.  When we saw it, it was leaning and it was much smaller than the picture looked.  The top was an upper loft for the boys to sleep.  The downstairs was not very big.  It had a screened porch on the side.  But it did have the same shape as this picture.  It is so nice to have a picture of the log house at an earlier time.  I was surprised to hear he had two log houses.  I always thought he only built one.  Dixie Minson Nov. 2004

 

 

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