Ms. Kreul’s Class Blog

By Hannah

Hello, Welcome to the Wade House in Greenbush Wisconsin. My name is Elizabeth White. I came here a few years ago with my family. My daughters name is Mary White and my husbands name is Robert E. White. We came here to the Wade House from New York in our carriage. We had a Cut Under Basket Pea. We barely all fit. It’s was a very tiny carriage. I work here as a cook and my husband works in the Blacksmith shop. For every night we stay here at the Wade House, we have to pay 50¢ for each of us to stay in a room. We have to pay 25¢ for meals.

The mattresses we sleep on are made out of straw. Mary and I share a room together to save money. Mary sleeps on a mattress on the floor. Something else I do besides cook is make candles. Mary helps me make them. The candles we make are made of cow fat. We make them ourselves because there to expensive to by at stores. The Wade House has 27 rooms and 12 of them are for the Wade family. Every once in a while there will be a dance in the Ballrooe a dance called Cotilion. When I’m not working I will go to the Parlor and read or go to the Blacksmith Shop to see my husband. (The Parlor is for women only).

The Wade House doesn’t have bathrooms so under our beds we have pots called chamber pots. I’m glad I’m not the maid here at the Wade House! The Wade House is on a street they called farmers highway. They called it that because farmers would come on the road and stay at the Wade House. In the Wade House there is a Barroom. Robert would go in the Barroom with other men. The Barroom is for men only like the Parlor is for women.