Louisa was the daughter of Isaac and Lorinda Asbury Hiser. She married Parker Grosvenor on 30 Aug 1864. . Parker had three small children: John 8, Sarah 6 ,and Albert 2 at the time of their marriage. The first of Louisa's brood was born in 1865 and was named Parker, following the Grosvenor tradition of naming first sons John or Parker. The family was quickly outgrowing the two-room log cabin. Parker set to work building a new large frame house across the road from the log cabin. The timber was cut from the homestead and hauled to Rockwood to be sawed into lumber. By 1870 it was completed and the road was re-routed to pass in front of the house.
Louisa must have been pleased with her new digs. In a time when single room log cabins were the norm, she was the mistress of a 2-storey, 10 room, frame house built of the finest planed lumber and painted! The rooms were huge, measuring 18 x 18 feet, with porches on each side and front. It had four fireplaces, an 18 x 18 basement and huge cisterns on each side of the house to catch rain-water run-off from the roof. Plus a few other amenities like the fenced yard, paved walk, 25 x 25 foot smoke house with it's own basement, wood shed, chicken house , carriage house and hitching rack. She added the finishing touch: Eight more little Grosvenors. A ninth birth ended in disaster resulting in the death of Louisa and child.
Louisa must have been pleased with her new digs. In a time when single room log cabins were the norm, she was the mistress of a 2-storey, 10 room, frame house built of the finest planed lumber and painted! The rooms were huge, measuring 18 x 18 feet, with porches on each side and front. It had four fireplaces, an 18 x 18 basement and huge cisterns on each side of the house to catch rain-water run-off from the roof. Plus a few other amenities like the fenced yard, paved walk, 25 x 25 foot smoke house with it's own basement, wood shed, chicken house , carriage house and hitching rack. She added the finishing touch: Eight more little Grosvenors. A ninth birth ended in disaster resulting in the death of Louisa and child.
Louisa was the daughter of Isaac and Lorinda Asbury Hiser. She married Parker Grosvenor on 30 Aug 1864. . Parker had three small children: John 8, Sarah 6 ,and Albert 2 at the time of their marriage. The first of Louisa's brood was born in 1865 and was named Parker, following the Grosvenor tradition of naming first sons John or Parker. The family was quickly outgrowing the two-room log cabin. Parker set to work building a new large frame house across the road from the log cabin. The timber was cut from the homestead and hauled to Rockwood to be sawed into lumber. By 1870 it was completed and the road was re-routed to pass in front of the house.
Louisa must have been pleased with her new digs. In a time when single room log cabins were the norm, she was the mistress of a 2-storey, 10 room, frame house built of the finest planed lumber and painted! The rooms were huge, measuring 18 x 18 feet, with porches on each side and front. It had four fireplaces, an 18 x 18 basement and huge cisterns on each side of the house to catch rain-water run-off from the roof. Plus a few other amenities like the fenced yard, paved walk, 25 x 25 foot smoke house with it's own basement, wood shed, chicken house , carriage house and hitching rack. She added the finishing touch: Eight more little Grosvenors. A ninth birth ended in disaster resulting in the death of Louisa and child.
Louisa must have been pleased with her new digs. In a time when single room log cabins were the norm, she was the mistress of a 2-storey, 10 room, frame house built of the finest planed lumber and painted! The rooms were huge, measuring 18 x 18 feet, with porches on each side and front. It had four fireplaces, an 18 x 18 basement and huge cisterns on each side of the house to catch rain-water run-off from the roof. Plus a few other amenities like the fenced yard, paved walk, 25 x 25 foot smoke house with it's own basement, wood shed, chicken house , carriage house and hitching rack. She added the finishing touch: Eight more little Grosvenors. A ninth birth ended in disaster resulting in the death of Louisa and child.
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