I posted a blog a day or two ago about the mule-making on Holmes Road many years ago. Bob Collins said he could hear braying all the way into town where he was a city slicker.
I came across a picture which seems to go along with the last blog. It is a picture marked on the back by my mother-in-law saying, "Our old home place across road. Holmes Ranch." The Holmes family had built a rock house on the hill and this was an old house still standing.
A card was with the picture reading, "Robert Taylor Judge property, owned by Louis D and Mattie Judge Wyatte (daughter and son-in-law) of Robert Taylor Judge from ? to 1917. Sold to a Butler family from Quitman, Ark. Sold to Ballard Holmes then in 1925 or 26. This house was occupied by Evan Cobb family for a short time."
You can guess that the picture was to be of the pretty girl in front, Pauline Holmes, my husband's aunt when she was young. Who is the person in the back? Don't know. But the house was definitely not the subject since we see only part of it.
I was completely surprised to find a little drawing of the house, pen and ink, with boarded up windows and doors that was done in 1976 by B. Duncan. That's me! My mother-in-law must have asked me to do a drawing of the old house which must have been still standing in 1976.
This Searcy history gets to be interesting.
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