Harry S. Truman's mother and father moved to a farm in Grandview, Missouri. He lived and worked on the farm from 1907 to 1917. One of his chores was to fill the water pump, similar to the one in the picture, because they had no running water in their house. Some of his chores were splitting wood, washing chimney lamps, and milking the cows. These are some things that we don't do today.

Truman had a lot of responsibility, even as a child, which probably helped to make him the hard working man he was.