Townies

[Paul from MI]

Grew up in the house my grandfather bought in 1912. Sold it after Dad died in 1995, but kept the farm. Moved up here to God's country and built this house i built 50 years ago, not going anywhere.

 

[M Nut]

Same farm for me, only gone the last two years of my college education.

 

[Vito]

I should have worded my question better. The answers I have received is what I was referring too.

Vito

 

[VicS]

Lived in small town the first 6 month's of marriage in 1966. Went to basic and AIT 4 months. Bought this farm while in AIT. Been in this house ever since. Just 1 1/2 miles from where I was raised. Son lives on home place. Daughter lives between us.

 

[Brendon-KS]

Not me personally but my father-in-law has lived in the same house continuously from his birth 85 years ago to the current day.

 

[dpendzic]

same town for my 77 years--built my own home 52 years ago and still in it, only around the block from the house i grew up in and still own the boatyard behind it

 

[flying belgian]

Hor-ray for Nicollet County.

 

[Stephen Newell]

My mother lived in the house she was born in until she had to be put into a nursing home in the same town. My father lived in a town nine miles from where he grew up until he died. Me, I moved 600 miles from there.

 

[Traditional Farmer]

My dad was born,lived in and died in the same house.I was born in the same house and probably will die in it if I sell the one I live in now and move back over to the other end of the farm.

 

[NDIHC]

I've lived in the same area all my life, but not the same town. Lived in my home town through high school, then a year in another town 200 miles away, but in the same state for college. Then spent about 10 years in another town within 30 miles of my hometown. For the past 24 years I've lived in the house my great grandparents built in the late 1890s, 12 miles from my home town. This is where my wife and I have raised our kids and have no intentions of leaving it.

 

[SDE]

Born in Neillsville. Lived in Alma Center until the third grade. One year in La Crosse and all the rest in Spooner with the exception of USAF.

 

[Harold Hubbard]

75 now, lived at home until college, five years away, back home for a year, then another year in two neighboring towns. Got my mail at home that year. Moved back to the farm in '72, bought my sister's trailer, and eventually built my house on the same place, lived here ever since.

 

[Tony in SD]

When I was born, mom & dad brought me home to a farm that dad rented as a young man. 3 years later grandpa retired, so we move to the ancestral farm my brother now owns. My brother has lived on the ancestral farm longer than any of our ancestors. I now own and live on my uncles farm halfway between mom & dads 2 farms.

 

[Steamboat]

Personally, my history is just the opposite! I have lived in 10 different states (not counting 5 years in Navy). And also lived in several towns in some of those states. However I have lived here in Virginia for 43 years! Confused? So am I when someone asks me where I am from!

 

[Geo-TH,In]

I went to college in Terre Haute in 1967. Got a masters in math and Physics. I've lived in the same house for the past 45 years.

 

[4520BW]

I live a 1/4 from where i grew up. I bought the farm that borders my parents.

 

[rrlund]

Same house. What's starting to feel like a responsibility is that I've known so many different generations both before and after me. I've come to realize that there are very few of us left who've always been here. I just never had an inkling of a dream that the only place a lot of this history would exist would be in my mind. I dawned on me three years ago when a neighbor woman who's been here all along too, called me and asked if I remembered the name of the guy who murdered a school teacher in a swamp between her house and mine back about 1930. Another lifelong local is the only person I know who's Dad told her the same story that my Dad told me about Jack Benny stopping at a house here in town one day to visit a woman he knew in Vaudeville.

My uncle's great grandson just bought the house and 20 acres that borders me on the north. My aunt and uncle have both passed away and so have my cousin and her husband. I can remember going to the cousin's wedding plain as day. Who could have ever imagined that her grandson would be my neighbor some day?

When I was a kid, there was three generations living in that house. Fred was from the WW 1 generation. His daughter and son in law along with their three kids lived there with him. All three kids were a few years younger than me. I read in the paper recently that the youngest of them just passed away. Who else would know that much history and that many generations in just one house in a neighborhood?

 

[rrlund]

I'm in the same boat as your brother. I've lived here longer than anybody. My wife just took over second place from my Dad. I have the abstract. The longest it was ever in one family before that was about 25 years. Petermans bought the place in 1902. My Granddad bought it from them in 27.

 

[WNYBill]

Eighty years in the same WNY town, moved there when I was 3. Married my high school sweetheart, we went to Kindergarten together. Lived in 3 houses before we married and three since. Last one we built on the family farm and have traded with our son. I am back in the house I grew up in. However, we lived in France and San Francisco while I was in the Service. I believe I may be the oldest/longest resident of our little town. The Newspaper calls me when they need to verify something.

 

[Traditional Farmer]

The oldest house on my farm and the house on the neighbors farm which is owned by relatives, history of both I can run back thru my extended family being in those houses to at least 1850.Some of my family was here before the Revolutionary War.One line came from Hessian soldiers that were brought over by the British to fight for them but stayed after the war.