L-R:  Chris Eckhert, from Baker Road (discussed earlier); Mary Lou Miller of Miller Road; Greta Baker, from the north end of Port Oneida Road; and George Burfiend, of Port Oneida Road, just south of the Baker Farm.

Mary Lou’s house burned to the ground a few years later when one of the girls spilled some kerosene for the refrigerator. "They just stood back & watched it burn…They only had the clothes they had on their backs.  I don't know if Charlie even had a pair of shoes…They didn't have nothin'.”  Neighbors  helped the family out with spare clothing.  The Millers lived in their workshop and in a tent they set up under the pear trees that remain by the turn-around at the end of Miller Road.  Later that summer they moved a tool shed onto the foundation left from the house, and moved into that.  "Of course things kept on going.  We thrashed & they had to farm & things kept on goin'."