This is about how to dig a privy under a stump! Actually it was the newest privy for a yard dating back to likely the civil war and lived in by John Brooks Henderson who was Missouri's senator who coauthored the 13th amendment freeing the slaves. Henderson was also a bank president, along with other civic positions. He eventually moved to Washington D.C. in 1888 where he lived into his 90's and was the oldest living senator.