Truman
and his family lived on this 71-acre farm, called the Dye farm, from 1885
to 1887. Truman's brother, John Vivian Truman, was born here on April
25, 1886. Harry Truman's first memories were of things that happened on
this farm. "My first memory is that of chasing a frog around the
back yard [of our home] in Cass County, Missouri," he recalled. "Grandmother
Young watched the performance and thought it very funny that a two-year-old
could slap his knees and laugh so loudly at a jumping frog. Then I remember
another incident at the same farm when my mother dropped me from an upstairs
window into the arms of my Uncle Harrison Young, who had come to see the
new baby, my brother Vivian." (From a handwritten autobiographical
manuscript, 1945.)
Truman
and his family lived on this 71-acre farm, called the Dye farm, from 1885
to 1887. Truman's brother, John Vivian Truman, was born here on April
25, 1886. Harry Truman's first memories were of things that happened on
this farm. "My first memory is that of chasing a frog around the
back yard [of our home] in Cass County, Missouri," he recalled. "Grandmother
Young watched the performance and thought it very funny that a two-year-old
could slap his knees and laugh so loudly at a jumping frog. Then I remember
another incident at the same farm when my mother dropped me from an upstairs
window into the arms of my Uncle Harrison Young, who had come to see the
new baby, my brother Vivian." (From a handwritten autobiographical
manuscript, 1945.)
