At the Ohio History Connection, we have a large collection of items from a family farmhouse near East Liberty, Logan County, Ohio. The items were used by generations of the Green family who had been living at the farm since 1829. The items were donated by Mary Eloise Green, who was born at the farm on June 10, 1903 to parents Milton and Sylvia (Creviston) Green.
Mary Eloise was, in some ways, like many people of her generation from rural areas. She grew up in the house her great-grandparents moved into shortly after their marriage. It was also the house where she, her father, and her grandmother were raised. Four generations of Mary Eloise’s family lived in that house as ownership descended from parents to children.