William Pickett

William had 10 half siblings by his father's second marraige to Mary Way.

The first house in which WIlliam and Lydia (Simcox) Pickett lived was a three-sided log house with a large corner fireplace. A few years later, soem of tlhe land was cleared and the timber was used to build a new frame house. A large show building had been erected previously and the family lived in it until the new house was completed.

William had 10 half siblings by his father's second marriage to Mary Way.

The shop was then used as a smoke house for meats and storage for bran, shorts, soap and many other things. There was a broom machine in hte shop so William could make brooms for family use from broomcorn grown on the farm. Later the shop housed an anvil and forge to heat and shape horseshoes.

William also had a shoe bench with many sizes of shoe forms.

A milk house stood north of the new house, where milk and butter were kept cool in a wooden tank, filled with cold water pumped through a wooden trough from a pitcher pump, just outside the kitchen door.

William contracted typhoid fever during the contstruction of the house and never fully recovered.