Oak Grove Farm House

I did not know until recent years, and as the result of extensive and sometimes very frustrating family history research done by my maternal uncle and brother, that our farm had originally had the name of  "Oak Grove Farm". This name appears to have been chosen from the two lines of planted oak trees that led up to the southern entrance to the house. This very old photo shows the young oak trees. (Also, notice the"free range" chickens.) This shows the house facing due south toward Dugger Mountain and the town of Piedmont Alabama.

The added-on to house in the above photo shows how it was built on a hill that sloped gently in all four directions. Notice how the planted oak trees are much larger than in the previous photo. 

The photo above,which I made in my teens, is of the house from east looking westward. Notice the large barn on the right. It was one of ten buildings of varies sizes that were to the back side of this house. In the foreground is a large picture for our hogs, and sometimes for our cows that ordinarily were in the westward pasture leading from the house down to Terrapin Creek, the boundary of our farm.

Our mother made this note on a 3x5 card:
"OAK GROVE FARM

Located at Amberson, Ala. which is now Spring Garden, Ala.

Residence of J. C. and Jane Woolf, their adopted nephew J. J. (Jack) Burns

After the marriage of J. J. Burns to Maud Allison, they made their home here with Mr. & Mrs. Woolf and their three children were born here. The children born at Oak Gove Farm to Mr. & Mrs. Burns are Joseph Carlton, Robert Allison and Annie C."