This is about my Kenneth L Wolf Srs and My wife Donna Irene Renkens Family.   Starting from when I was born in 1933 with three (3) brothers.  It was a great  time to be a youngster.  No computer, no TV, no electricity, no  refrigerators.  
 We had large gardens and my mother canned all our vegatables for winter.  She  also canned meat. Deer, rabbits and squirrels.  In the fall we had family hog  butchering  when the weather turned cold.  All the relatives would bring their  pigs to be slaughtered.  After slaughtering the pigs would be slid into 55  gallon drum tipped and tied to an old door.  Filled with water and a fire  burning at the bottom.  As many as possible would gather around the table and  sscrape the hair off the hog.  We used knives and I remember using the Old  zink 
 jar lids to scrape the hair off.  Worked fine. Then they wold be hung up to  cool overnight.  The next day they were cut up and put in the salt house to  cure.  The lard would be rendered ot and put away for winter. Sausage would be  canned also for the winter.  In the summer when school was out we played from  sunup to after dark. No drugs then, just good clean fun. No crazy peolpe to  worry about.  We did have our homeless people but we called them tramps or  bums.  It was a very good time. Of course we had our ole swimming hole in the  Little Youghagany River.  The boys had one and the girls had theirs up river  and around the bend from us. Lots of time spent hunting and fishing. Sundays  were spent laying around reading the funny papers or going to visit the  relatives. I have tried to geather as much information about the three  families involved.  Many thanks to Irene Renken for her hard work and the book  she helped compile about the Renken Family and her ancestors.  Also many  thanks to My Mother, Beulah Barnes for giving me the Book about The Bittinger  Family which was invalube in giving me information and steering me in the  right direction.  Also to the many people that I have talked to on the  telephone and internet giving me information and pictures.  The job is not  over but I will keep trying.  If anyone has any information or pictures I will  be glad to pay the postage.