Revised 2007
Master Bedroom
This is the master
bedroom. The trunk belonged to Mollie Petry’s father,
Montross Hyatt. You saw some of the silver he made in the
dining room.
(Point out Montross Hyatt’s grandfather’s
revolutionary war commission signed by John Hancock.)
The wedding dress belonged to Terry’s grandmother, Natalie
Petry. “Miss Natalie” married Hampton Stewart in 1900. She
lived all but one of her 94 years in this house.
(Point out “Miss Natalie’s” picture in her
wedding dress on the mantle.)
You are
going to be walking through the dressing room and the “Bath
Room” to get out to the “Old Kitchen”. This house was one
of the first in Eufaula with running water. The “Bath Room”
was truly a bath -room for taking a bath. The room had a
copper tub that was filled from a pipe coming down from the
attic. Above the bathroom there is a room in the attic
known as the “Tank Room”. The “Tank Room” still has a tin
lined floor. There was a large wooden tank in the Tank Room
that collected rainwater from gutters on the roof.
Terry’s grandmother “Miss Natalie”, related how when she
was a young girl, her four brothers would have to
periodically put on their bathing suits and get in the tank
with scrub brushes to scrub it out.
While they had water for bathing there were, of course, no
inside toilets because there were no sewers and also
because toilets used too much water. Water service was
first installed in Eufaula in 1886.
The ladies of the house used chamber pots and the gentlemen
used chamber pots and the privy. “Miss Natalie” said that
ladies never venture out to the privy!
The folk art paintings in the bathroom are by the
Montgomery, Alabama artist Mose Tolliver better known as
MoseT. Mose died this year.