Dale: The was house was exactly that. I don't remember the water source, but there was a cook stove and a ringer washing machine in this building. Granddad, Merce, had worked as an electrician as a young man, and I imagine he was the one who wired the house and out buildings. When we were small and visiting in the summer, my mother would sit wash tub out on the sidewalk and give us our "Saturday" baths.
Dale: The outhouse was in back of the wash house. You had to go out a gate into the chicken yard to access the john. The door had an outside latch to keep the door shut, and I remember once, either my brother or I, locking my grandmother in the john.
Dale: Along the walk south of the kitchen window was a smoke house. The walls and door were thicker then most ordinary buildings. In the fall after butchering, the hams and sides of bacon were hung from hooks in the rafters and hickory smoked to cure the meat, similar to smokers of today, except this was building. I don't remember the process for processing the meat prior to smoking. I do remember the smell.