into two rooms, a large

kitchen and the back kitchen. The back kitchen had a Waterloo stove which was used for boiling sap, making soap and heating water for laundry. The wood for the kitchen stove was stored in the back kitchen also. A big tank for the gravity water system was overhead and an upright gasoline engine pumped the water into the tank. George had a hen

house and an ice house

built behind the house. George purchased an- other 100 acres of land in 1905, doubling the size of the farm. More buildings were neces- sary. George build a barn to house cows and horses and later added

Janet Wood (Mrs. Luke). Adelaide Wood Collettion.

an ell-shape extension 50’ x 35’ in which to store grain. Still later, he added a long shed for a sheep shelter. He built a boiler house, a piggery, a workshop, and a grainery between the house and the barn. He had a shed across from this in which to store the driving wagons and machin- ery. John O. Boulter and his brother Fred were hired in 1914 to build a barn for horses and their supply of hay and straw. The house and barn were wired for electricity in 1918 and a telephone was installed about

1932.

Luke and Janet were members of the Tryon Methodist Church.

Luke Wood and Janet Waite had 5 children:

+George William b. 7 Apr 1866. Eliza Jane Mountain b. 18 Feb 1868, m. John Addington Dawson.

See Dawson history.

+Ada Eleanor Darby b. 7 Aug 1870. +Howard b. 19 March 1873. +Alice Maude b. 18 March 1880.

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