dee_burris: (candle)dee_burris ([personal profile] dee_burris) wrote,
@ 2011-04-01 08:55 pm UTC
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Entry tags:photo;williams, sepia saturday, williams
I think my great grandparents, Jo Desha Williams and Maxie Leah Meek, were very proud and very happy with their home in Russellville, AR. They took quite a few photos of it.

The home was on East Main Street, although I do not have a house number.

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Thanksgiving Day, 1899


Later, they added to it.
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And again.

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Unfortunately, through a combination of being underinsured after the 1906 Russellville fire, and extending credit to too many folks, after nearly 30 years in business, the Williams Grocer Co. folded.

By 1920, the Williams family sold their beloved home, and moved to Little Rock.


This is a Sepia Saturday post.


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(Anonymous)
2011-04-02 07:50 pm UTC (link)
Absolutely beautiful home and a great story. I love houses like that. So sorry about the end of the story.
QMM

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