Uncle DeMar's Home and Barn

Uncle DeMar's Home

and his barn

In Auburn WY not far from the Hog Hole and the Old Stone Church is Uncle DeMar Hillyard's home and barn. In the pasture with this barn Uncle DeMar would raise a steer for us and we would enjoy hamburger and steaks through the winter. We would have family reunions in the yard where Uncle DeMar would pull an old milk can out of the coals and provide a meal of potatoes, carrots, onions and beef for hungry Hillyard aunts, uncles, counsins and grandparents; and, I'll never forget the time when we watched Uncle DeMar on a one-legged stool milk his cows by hand. My younger 5 year old brother, Paul, pointed at the udder and teats and said, "Wow, look at all those peters!" Aunt Virginia would feed us Sunday dinners and I would play on her electric organ in the living room.