How far back do I remember

I do remember things I have been told about my childhood but what are the ones that I truly remember on my own?

I’m sitting here trying to remember; what is my very first memory of my life.

Exactly when I moved from Meigs county Ohio to Columbus I do not remember of course; I was only one.

I don't even remember my first brother, Jerry, as a baby coming home from the hospital. Was he born in a hospital. You would think I would, I was almost 5, but I don't even remember kindergarten. Did I go to kindergarten? Did they even have kindergarten when I was five? Mother told me years ago I went to preschool at the OSU preschool classes held at Campbell Hall on campus. I do remember a playground and kids at Campbell Hall but was that when Jerry or Jennifer went there? Geez, what IS my first memory, my true memory not something told to me by others.

I remember sitting on the lap of man who was in a rocker and I liked to play with his suspenders. Was that grandpa Cotterill, I think so. Did he wear suspenders? He died in 1949. Or is that a memory of grandpa Cleland? I am sure he wore suspenders. He worked on the railroad and farmed. I remember he had pigs and oh how they did stink and cows plus fields of corn everywhere! But what year is that memory from, how old was I and whose suspenders was I playing with?

I remember when Jennifer was born but then I sure should, I turned 10 in April, Jennifer was born in July. I need to dig deeper into my mind!

I have been told Daddy moved to Columbus before Mother and I. Mother said Daddy went to Columbus shortly after I was born where he lived and worked at the poultry farm at OSU. Why did we not go at the same time? I need to ask about that? Why did we move from Rutland in the first place?

I know that we must have moved to Columbus at the end of January or the beginning of February in 1946. I found an ad for an auction of household items being sold by Ivan Cotterill. The sale was held January 31, 1946.

Athens Messenger
Jan 29, 1946
Page 8
Public Sale
I will offer at Public Auction at my residence, 4 miles north of Rutland, on the Rutland and Harrisonville Road.
Thursday, Jan 31, 1946
Sale starts at 12:30
Dining room suite, 9 pieces; living room suit, 3 pieces, 4 kitchen chairs; 1 sewing machine; 1 full length mirror; 1 porcelain top table. 1 linoleum rug 9X12, 1 linoleum rug 10x16; 1 Estate Heatrola; 1 kitchen stove; 1 combination oil stove, 1-80 pieces set of dishes; 1 auto radio; 1 pr hip boots, size 8; 3 doz. steel traps; 50 bu coal; 1 Guernsey cow (7 years old); 1 beef type heifer; 50 White Leghorn chickens; 1 sheep shearing machine with new 1 1/2 Briggs and Stratton engine and new A. B. wide hand piece.
Ivan Cottrill, Owner
Bus Peck, Auct.
Terms: Cash on day of sale.

Okay, why were they selling all these things? I understand the cow and heifer, even the 50 Leghorn chickens but why the dining room suite, living room suit, and SEWING MACHINE. Mother made lots of my clothes, she would have needed the sewing machine. Did she get a new one? Dishes, they didn't need dishes? We had to eat off of something. I now have some strange visions in my head!