This home was built by my (Brandon Elliott) great-grandfather Stanley and his brother in the beginning of the 1900’s. The house next door is the brothers’ home. Each brick was made from the soil in the garden area. The Stanley’s lived in the basement while they made the bricks in the kiln. The brick was given a shiny “Salt Glaze”, thus the term Salt Box.
Stanley was crushed in the coal mine and lived on the porch for 4 days. He passed away when my grandmother Dorothy Stanley was only 11. His wife Bulah was left with the home and 13 other houses in the Chauncey area.
In the 30’s and 40’s the attic was used to make moonshine and a shoe shop was ran out of the back room to repair the coal miner’s boots.

My grandmother Dorothy and Grandfather Clair Parsons have lived in the home since the 1950’s. Clair passed away last year. Dorothy recently had her 92nd birthday.