JUNE 25 ISSUE ANSWERS: Made in Albany, New York by the J. F. Rathbone & Company, patented 1867 during the Post Civil War, Rococo Period. It belonged to Rachel Turner (grandmother of Mr. Turner Payton). The Payton’s lived upstairs at 223 North Main Street in Romeo. Mr. Turner had built the structure. Later they lived at 246 N. Bailey. This stove was in their kitchen from 1910-1970. It has been in the Romeo area over 100 years. The stove has no grates so it had to burn wood, not coal. It is from Tiny Payton’s estate sale. The stove would have been used for many tasks other than baking bread and pies and heating up coffee. It would have been used to boil water for laundry and heating the sad iron for ironing day. Warm water for your bath in the kitchen and heating a cold kitchen in the winter was necessary. The photo on the stove was Tiny Paton’s mother who would have spent many hours in front of the stove. The black iron pot at the left corner on the stove top was filled with flammable oil