The Wilcher-Ada Haymore House : 無料・フリー素材/写真
The Wilcher-Ada Haymore House / melissambwilkins
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| 説明 | This house used to sit at the intersection of Indian Grove Church Road and Holly Springs Road, just down the hill from the old Farmhouse in which my Grandmother was raised. It faced the end of Indian Grove Church Road. The house was built by Wilcher "Dean" Haymore.The house passed through several owners until it came to be owned by Ada Haymore. (Bob Johnson and Norma Bowen think that she either bought it from the prior owners when they were about to lose it or out of forclosure, because Bob remembers going to town to pay money to the land bank).My Great Great Grandpa Johnson (Edward Andrew Johnson) was a tenant there and raised his children there.Ada Haymore rented this house to Johnsons for years. Mom says that she and Bob Johnson are probably the only Johnsons that never lived there in that house (The Johnsons were cousins of Ada Haymore). Ada Haymore was a Latin teacher at Mt. Airy High School, and was my mother's Latin teacher when she was in school. Ada Haymore built the house back up the hill on Holly Springs Road on the right (opposite hill from the one on which the farmhouse is). She and her siblings were orphaned, and raised in Oklahoma by relatives. When they came back to the area, they built that house on the hill and filled it with furniture that belonged to their parents that had been kept in storage for them all that time. Ada's sister died, leaving her truly alone (she never married, and neither did her siblings). Ada Haymore invited Bob Johnson's parents to move in with her, and they did. That house on the hill became the only house Bob knew until he got married, and Ada Haymore was like a 2nd mother to him. When Ada Haymore died, she left the houses to Bob Johnson's parents, and gave him the land. Bob in turn inherited the houses, and kept the this old house.The house was finally torn down in 2001 soon after these pictures were taken.Postscript: Great Grandmother Haymore's right hand was burned so that the fingers were welded together. When she was six, her 4 year old sister, Emma Johnson stumbled into the fireplace at this house and her clothes caught on fire. The other children were sent to the spring for water, and each time they returned with the bucket, they spilled it. Lula Johnson Haymore (my Great Grandmother), tried to put the fire out by beating Emma's clothes, but Emma died, nonetheless, and Lula's hand was permanently crippled (though it was great for holding a crochet hook). Postscript: Ada Haymore's father was a Colonel in the Revolutionary WarDuring the Civil War, somone in the Haymore family deserted (possibly had been wounded), they were hidden in the attic. The army found him and took him back to base and died shortly thereafter or on the way.A child that lived there (this story has been told for generations) would go downstairs to ask for milk and a piece of cornbread every day. The parents couldn't figure out what he was doing. They followed him one day and saw that he was feeding a copperhead snake in his closet the cornbread and milk. They killed the copperhead and two weeks later the child died.Source of Information: Norma Haymore Bowen, April 2007Photo by: Norma Haymore Bowen, February 2001 - Permission obtained to post in my account under a CC-BY license |
| 撮影日 | 2001-02-01 00:00:00 |
| 撮影者 | melissambwilkins , USA |
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