Sharp Farm

My dad's parents were Emma Geneva Norris and Leonard William Sharp. Leonard died on June 27, 1939 when Dad was only 13 years old. Geneva later married Leonard's first cousin, William Parley Sharp. William's first wife had died and he was running the farm she had inherited. This farm was located in Lewisville, Idaho which is very near Rigby. I have no idea how many acres/how big it was. William was the only Grandpa Sharp I ever knew.

Front of the house showing enclosed porch.

We didn't get to visit Grandma and Grandpa Sharp very often because there were no freeways at the time she lived on the farm and it took 8 or more hours to get there. Dad also had to stop for several short naps along the way.

The house was originally a log cabin, but you wouldn't know it because it had been finished over on the inside and the outside. The front porch was enclosed and Grandma filled it with plants. She had a 'green thumb'. I know she fed her ferns green tea and they grew to be enormous.

Granary is the tallest part. Pigs were in a pen to the right.

You can see the approximate area of the garden.

Grandpa had milk cows. If you wanted, he would squirt milk directly into your mouth. I didn't like raw, warm milk so I didn't have him do that, but I would go out to the barn to watch. He had one cow whose tail had frozen off one winter. She was a Jersey, I think, and it was sad to see the other cows swishing off flies and to know she couldn't. I think he also had pigs when I was very young. I remember the granary. I'm pretty sure he raised potatoes, but don't know what else he may have grown.

Grandma raised a very large garden. She preserved things and kept them in a cellar that you accessed through a trap door in the house. She kept a candy dish in the living room. Usually she had hard candy (sometimes it was the ribbon kind you would get at Christmas time), but if we were lucky it would be M&Ms.

In the spring of 2017, my friend Gaila and I drove out to the old farm and (with the current owner) walked around and took photos. It was the way I remembered except the milking barn and the water pump next to it were gone.

Back of the house.

This stone saying "Harper" is in the backyard. I have no idea what it commemorates.