Henry was a carpenter by trade so he most likely built his home himself. Their home is on what is now State Route 660 (Kendrick Ford Road). Rt. 660 intersects with Rt. 621 (Punch Run Road) which intersects with the "Strasburg Road" (Rt. 55) between Front Royal and Strasburg. Henry's death date is not known but would have been sometime between the birth of his youngest child, Lucy Ellen (my gg-grandmother) and 1860 as Catherine appears on the 1860 census as a 50 year old widow whose occupation was farming. All 13 of her children were still living at home and were between the ages of 5 and 24. According to the census, she employed 2 "free black" day laborers for help on the farm .

The house was sold out of the family at some point but was later purchased by their great-grandson, Russell Sealock, (who was my grandfather). As a child, I remember my grandmother telling me that Catherine had died in the kitchen of the house. I remember the kitchen of that house as a large, sunny room (what we would consider today to be a family room, I guess), with room for cooking (on the wood-burning stove), a large dining table, a big pot-bellied coal-burning stove that kept the room warm as toast, and chairs for sitting by the windows to converse with friends and family and watch cars go up and down the road. My mom remembers that, when Granddad purchased the house, the area was divided into a kitchen with a separate dining room and that my Granddad had removed the partition to open it into one large room.

My grandparents entire life was the farm. They raised chickens, pigs and bulls for meat and grew all of their produce, which Grandma canned and stored in the root cellar. There were fruit trees and an old building that held a cider press, though I never knew my grandparents to use that.

There was a separate building for every farm function (barn, henhouse, a building to store hay, a building to store nuts that Grandad collected from the walnut trees, a pumphouse, etc.) I remember how ancient the very wood that these buildings were made from seemed ...old but sturdy as rock, though it had probably never been painted or treated.

Granddad had 40 beehives and sold clover honey (he cultivated clover just for his bees) to people who came great distances sometimes to purchase it. He also sold milk and eggs to neighbors. He had a "separator" that he used to spin the cream from the milk, which Grandma used to churn butter. I wasn't fond of the taste of unpasteurized milk, especially in the spring, when the cows ate spring onions which grew abundantly in the fields.

I would imagine that my grandparents lives were much like Henry and Catherine's lives were on the farm, with the exception of modern conveniences such as electricity and refrigeration. When my grandparents lived there, they were still without indoor plumbing, though. My grandad didn't want a bathroom to be added to the house because "it wouldn't be sanitary to do that in the house." Sadly, after my grandfather died, the house was sold outside of the family again. The new owner updated the original house and resides in it and the land was subdivided into 5 acre parcels and many new homes have been built there.

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Catherine and Henry's children were:
Mary Jane (Mauck) 1835-1915
John William 1839-1892
George W. 1840-1861
Sarah Catherine (Stokes) 1842-1918
Isaac 1845-1899
Henry 1845-
Eliza 1846-
Frances "Fannie" (Vincent) 1845-1932
Thomas 1850
Joseph 1851-1925
Mahala (Walters) 1852-1905
William H. 1854-1870
Lucy Ellen (Sealock) 1855-1924