Cokonougher log house in 1910s Ohio.

    When Zackariah and Mary (Wisecup) Cokonougher purchased their farm on Wisecup Hill in Buckskin Township, Ross County, Ohio, in 1904, this old house was already on the property.

      The house was of log construction and was covered with vertical wood siding.  Members of the Cokonougher family lived in the house until 1923, when they constructed a new house to live in.  My father was one year old when they left the old log house and moved into their new wood frame house less than 50 feet from the old log house. 
      The top of the old Smokehouse can be seen behind the house in this picture.  The Smokehouse was still there when my grandparents died on the farm four decades after the old log house was torn down.  By then, though, the building was used only for storage rather than smoking meat.
      Note also the picket fence surrounding the house.  Picket fences were much favored for yards over other fences by Middle European German immigrants and settlers.  Thus the fence gives a clue to the possible and likely background of the people who originally built the old log house.                                                                   
      The story of how Zackariah and Mary Cokonougher came to buy this house and farm is an interesting one.  I tell the story in my book "The Genealogy Of The Family of Ralph William Cokonougher", available at Amazon.com.
      For future archeologists' reference, the log house was located at Latitude N 39º 20' 4.8" and Longitude W 83º 14' 45.2".