From the recollections of Helen Kenyon Whitehouse in Hampton Remembers:

My father, Henry Kenyon, was a farmer and my mother, Alice Palmer, of course was his wife and they had eight children, four boys and four girls. We lived where Richard Burdick lives now. That’s where we were born, all born theyah. ‘Course my father was a farmer and my mother did all the housework, took care of all us children. Oh and I can remember of course about my early farm days. My father just had one pair of oxen and a horse to begin with till he got more machinery and the boys got older. Of course we all had to work doing different things y’know, raking hay and doing chores like that. I hulped my mother and then I can remember planting p’tatas in the field, and corn, and doing things like that.

We had a large cellar, nice cellar for storing all the food. Of course we always killed a beef critter and a hog, butchered that. They corned what they could, fresh, they made what they called corned beef, put it down in barrels. And the hogs, they made sausage and salt pork. And we used to make tubes out of cloth and fill them with sausage…We made this salt pork and you know you hardly ever see it in market now…We always had our own milk, of course later sold it, but earlier my mother used to make butter and sell it to the store in Abington.

We had corn and buckwheat and oats – I can remember my father he’d take it down to the grist mill and one bag he’d have it all fine ground and we used to make johnnycakes out of that – and the rest of it was rough ground and fed to the cattle y’know.