Home and Hearth, Whiteside, MO - Lonely Chimneys on Waymarking.com

Visible from the road (MO-Z) in Whiteside. This shows as a town on most maps, but in fact is just 3 or 4 house along a country Missouri highway. I talked with a couple of the neighbors to this lonely chimney, and no one could remember the name of the family, nor how long ago the fire occurred that took this house to oblivion.

BUT

Piecing together the information I was given the story goes this way:
The wife was a looker. She liked to dance in the local country bars.
The husband was a drinker, but he frequented different bars.
One winters night, dark and gloomy, windy and cold, the sodden husband returned home from a multi-event-right-arm-bending evening with the Jack & Coke crowd and found his wife was not at home.
He made a few phone calls, and could not track the whispering-waif down. He started to become suspicious, and then angry and then down right belligerent. But no other human was present for him to use and work off the anger. So, he decided to take aim at the family dog with his half empty bottle of Jack. This blue-tick hound was neither stupid nor slow, and skedaddled out of range of the misguided aim of the drunken man. In the process, as the hound scampered through several rooms in his hasty retreat, knocking over several kerosene lamps. And then, as they say in the backwoods, the rest is history.
The dog was never seen again. The willowy wife was never seen again, and the husband, well he quietly slipped, whimpering into history.