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In 1936, Dora Logan sold the lot for this house to Mrs. Madge Taylor and in that same year she and her husband executed a mechanic’s lien for the construction of a one-story residence. In 1939, Madge sold the property to her daughter, Sara Louise Smith, and her husband, Wilford A. Smith, and 18 months later the Smiths conveyed the property back to Madge. When the house was conveyed by Madge to Si C. Jeffrey in 1944, Madge was a widow and her daughters and sons-in-law Herma and Burke Stancill, Sara Louise and Jesse L. Long, and Estelle and Frank D. Wear joined in signing the deed. Silas Crawford Jeffrey was the son of S.R. Jeffrey (1852-1929) and Jennie Kirk Stribling Jeffrey (1866-1945). (Mr. S. R. Jeffrey was born in England and immigrated to America in 1871 and worked originally as a mechanic at the Graham Family Salt Works in Graham)

Young County Commissioners agreed to pay $5,000 for a Fort Worth architecture firm to survey where to put a cannon cover and a building that will serve as a shop and storage building and a blacksmith display for Fort Belknap.