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The Taylor-Hooper House

The Taylor-Hooper House

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)

The Harris-Willis House

The Harris-Willis House

In 1923, H.C. Harris bought this lot in the Oil Boom days and built some kind of structure on the lot. In 1929, he and his wife, Eshter, took out a mechanic’s lien to remodel and to add a bath and sewer connection to the property. The Harris’s defaulted on the loan, and the building and loan acquired the property in in the trustee’s Sale. In 1933, Wright McClatchy (1889-1939) bought the property from the building and loan and used it as a rental property.

Vets helping vets

Vets helping vets

U.S. Air Force veteran Doug Magneson spends his Tuesdays and Wednesdays helping other veterans through another battlefield – the often-impenetrable bureaucracy of claiming benefits earned from serving as an active duty member of the U.S. military.

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