| SINCE THIS STORY WAS WRITTEN HOSEY HOMESTEAD HAS BURNED
The old Hosey home place on Big Root
By Bob Weaver 2002
A still-standing Big Root house may be 120 years old, the home place of
Grantsville resident Ron Hosey. "There has been an add-on to the house,
likely built by my great-grandfather Joseph "Joab" Hosey," he said. "It has
seen a lot of families come and go."
The house, located about three miles up Big Root from Route 5, was recently
purchased by Eric Metz, who is working on fixing it up and using the property for his taxidermy shop.
Ron Hosey recalls life on Big Root
India Hosey ran a store in the 1960's
Peanuts and RC Cola
Hosey said it was the best and hardest of "pure country life." He said his
family raised what they ate. "We really were farmers, butchering and
gardening."
Several generations of Hoseys lived in the house, including Hosey's
grandfather Quimby Hosey and his own father, Parker Hosey. who was
married to India Goodnight.
Ron Hosey is the last surviving member of his siblings, Albert, Joe, John,
Irene and Kathryn, who married an Ullum.
"My mother, India, had a little store next door to the old house during the
early sixties," he remembered. "She sold some bread, milk, pop, clothing and
things you would run out of."
"A lot of history rests with the old place," he concluded.
Hosey is now deceased.
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