On Tuesday, October 23, 2018 at 2:37:04 PM UTC-4, graham wrote:
> On 2018-10-23 12:20 PM, l not -l wrote:
> > On 23-Oct-2018, wrote:
> >
> >> On Monday, October 22, 2018 at 10:02:37 PM UTC-5, Dave Smith wrote:
> >>>
> >>> ??? Getting your water from a well does not mean we have to drop a pail
> >>>
> >>> in a hole for water. There is a 1-1/4 line into the well and an
> >>> electrically powered pump and water pressure system. The tank has a
> >>> pressure sensitive switch that keeps the pressure within the low and
> >>> high settings. If the power is out there is no pump.
> >>>
> >> Dropping a pail is the only kind of well I've had experience with. But
> >> depending on a pump and electricity for water makes me glad I live in the
> >> city.
> > My maternal grandparents had a well; but, no bucket dipping was required.
> > Until rural electrification allowed the installation of an electric pump,
> > they hand-pumped the water from the well.
> > Similar to, but not exactly like:
> > https://i.pinimg.com/736x/42/49/8d/4...e-antiques.jpg
> >
> My maternal grandparents had a well during my childhood. As they lived
> next to the churchyard, the water must have filtered through up to 1000
> year old skeletons:-)

There's a mystery novel where the proximity of a church to a
U.S. Civil War era graveyard provides a plot point. Corpses
were sometimes preserved with arsenic for shipment at that time.

Cindy Hamilton