randyt
08-01-2012, 06:48 PM
I have a little story concerning a log cabin. Anyhoo a few weeks back I was putting in a furnace for a little old lady in a nearby village. Back in 1906 my great aunt Friendly and uncle Jules moved into a log cabin near this little village. The came up on a steamer into alpena mi and went to this little village of hawks. When they move in they had chased some sheep out of a cabin. Shortly there after the great metz fire happened, michigans worst forest fire. Aunt Friendly went back south and told Jules he could come or stay. Uncle Jules headed south a few months later with a buck board.
I'm doing this job and asked this little old lady about the location of this cabin, my dad had told me it still stood. She told me the location and come to find out her sister owns the cabin and has a modular home in front of it. I told her that I had a photo of Uncle Jules Meyers cabin She pipes up and said her grandpas name was Lou Meyers and he had a brother named jules. Lous farm was just up the road a bit. I said that I would bring the photo to work the following day. I brought the photo in and she had a centennial book of the town and on the front of the book was a photo of the cabin. It was identical, My photo has written on it "meyers cabin 1934". She looked at that photo and looked at the book. She said she never knew a meyers lived there. There was a picture of her granddads brother Jules in the centennial book too. I don't know what uncle jules looked like but my brother described him to a tee. Small world eh?
I'm doing this job and asked this little old lady about the location of this cabin, my dad had told me it still stood. She told me the location and come to find out her sister owns the cabin and has a modular home in front of it. I told her that I had a photo of Uncle Jules Meyers cabin She pipes up and said her grandpas name was Lou Meyers and he had a brother named jules. Lous farm was just up the road a bit. I said that I would bring the photo to work the following day. I brought the photo in and she had a centennial book of the town and on the front of the book was a photo of the cabin. It was identical, My photo has written on it "meyers cabin 1934". She looked at that photo and looked at the book. She said she never knew a meyers lived there. There was a picture of her granddads brother Jules in the centennial book too. I don't know what uncle jules looked like but my brother described him to a tee. Small world eh?