This is tin, marked on back "Crabtree hs mo" which I take as the Crabtree

                             house in Missouri. I would assum it must be the house Hyram and

                             Elizabeth lived in at some point as it came down through the March line

                             and I can see no reason for them passing on a photo of another Crabtree

                             house. The image may have been taken in the 1880s, maybe after it had

                             been long unoccupied by Crabtrees. You know, like we go and take a

                             photo of a place where our people used to live etc. The reason I say this

                             is because some parts of this house look too much 'modern' for pre-1870s.

                             The house looks 1880 or later to me.

                            (e-mail:   Kate Lund)

                            Ben's Note:

                            I spoke by phone to Jerry Byrn that owns the old Crabtree Homestead

                            and tore down the old house.  He pretty well described this house.  I saw the

                            old house just before it was torn down around 1955.  Being only 6 yrs old at

                            the time, the house looked bigger but very similar.  Dad farmed the homestead

                            for about 3 years.  At that time it was owned by Dr. Clarence May, being

                            passed down from his mother Emiline Maria (Crabtree) May.  He was an

                            optometrist.