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Being in Missouri and that age they mostly just cut trees and made lumber in those days...one of our Old barns had a walnut Beem ...my dad saved it when he tore down the barn..

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That's wormy and has a different grain configuration due to the way it was sawed.

This is true ....but it didn't stop the old timers from building with what they had.. We had a lot of old barns and houses built with rough cut cotton wood...in those days that was just about the only trees around here in Nebraska..
As for central Missouri there were plenty of better choices...

When looking at the end grain, do the pores seem to be the same size throughout the cross section, or are they larger in the area of the growth rings?

That is true, not too many extra trees in Nebraska. And my great great grandfather homesteaded in South Dakota in 1882. I always wondered where they got wood for building a house.