Where I Come From...

The old hotel, where I was born, is gone now.  But, just look!




Moma went to the drug store, to visit the doctor. While there, he inquired of her, as to whether she had a place to have "this baby".  She responded, "Yes, Moma's"( Elsie Mae Sapp).   So, she walked across Market Street, through the Hardware Store, and out back to Grandma's.  I was born in an upstairs room. Looking at the first picture, it's the two last windows, that go in a bit.  That is where Moma had number 7, me, her caboose!  



We ended up buying the house from Grandma, but she stayed on living with us, awhile.  Growing up, in the beginning, we did have some tenants, but we pretty much filled it up, with just us. It was smack dab in the middle of town, back when town was a picture show, dairy bar,  drug store, grocer, and other small town businesses...Remember the general repairmen...fixing your T.V's , radios, toasters...   Just before the Super Mega Store days, when towns had a Main Street.  We all loved it.  Can't you just hear that screen door banging, with all of us  going around town?



I was the last baby born in this house, but I wasn't the first. The first baby ever born in Mabank, was born in this house. Her parents named her, yes, Mabank. 



Now, these are older pictures of the house, than when we lived there, notice the old model car? The rest of the house, after the car, was not part of our house. It had been separated and moved over, to the yard next door, so it was our neighbor's house.   We sold this place, so a new bank could be built.  Moma cried over this house, wanting to move it, but it just wasn't happening.  Before the house was torn down, an elderly lady, named Mabank, came to see her house. Sitting on our big front porch, she told us her story and showed us pictures.  Moma wrote the town paper, mostly by herself, then.  She wrote about this house,  printing a photograph of the way it looked during ,the lady, Mabank's time; it was a lot smaller. Moma also showed the way it looked when we lived there, and during its tear down.  After that, we moved into the old "telephone nook" farmhouse, on Gun Barrel Lane. I was just finishing my 3rd grade year.



I'd  been married and had three kids when Moma and Daddy sold the old " telephone nook" farmhouse and moved, again. But, the crazy thing about this story, remember, I told about  the end of the old hotel being the next door neighbor's house, by the time we lived there?  Well, the neighbors were bought out, by the bank, also. Their house was sold off, and being smaller, it was moved, down the road...That is the house Moma and Daddy bought and she still lives in today, the one with the bottle trees...




Prior houses...

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