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is just covered with layers and layers of dirt. “If there ever comes another flood, LuElle will know where to find it,” she remarked.Museums from New Mexico have come to their farm trying to purchase the arrowhead collection, and representatives from an Austin museum have contacted them, hoping they would donate their collection.LuElle also has a collection of barbed wire, including three of the oldest strands used in the county, one of which she feels is the first used in this area.Also in the living room is a wash stand which belonged to Mrs. Jim Joiner and several clocks including her grandmother’s which is over 100 years old and keeps time perfectly, chiming at eachhour and half hour. There is a secretary constructed of wood from the first church organ ever in the Comyn church, making it in the neighborhood of 100 years old.LuElle has a piece of furniture belonging to Aunt Jo Hilton, who was a sister to Mrs. Willis (Charlsie) Clark (the Clarks’ farm joined the Morris’), also over a hundred years old. LuElle gave home permanents and in return received the old piece of furniture that had been on the Clarks’ back porch out in the weather, which she has redone into a beautiful piece of furniture.Hanging in the living room is a large mirror from the Harmon Drug Store, and near the wall of arrowheads is the mantle from the old telephone office located at the present Mte of the Shell station, and a spool drawer from Miller’s Shoe Shop, located across from the present Post Office.When asked where she obtained all these items, she replied, “ I’ve lived all amongthem all the time.Scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, etc., which she enjoys referring to at various times when someone says “Do you remember?” occupy a table in the living room. She also has old newspapers dating back in the early 1900’s upd recalls one article back in 1113 when De Leon was trying to raise enough money to build the first sidewalks, stating people wanted the walks butthey didn’t want to donate. Also, there is an old pair of eyeglasses, spliced with wire on the sides, which belonged to Mr. Otho Bloyd. On a table isan old abstract of the Hazzard land, which is in itself ahistory book.Also having a place in the living area are a mirror and lamp from the Doc Dabney home and a safe with glass doors which belonged to Mrs. Jim Joiner that displays the celluloid collars that men wore with their collarless-shirts, Mrs. Edmondson’s Woman’s Specialty Shop fan used for advertising with Telephone No. 2, and the first Target roll-your-own cigarettes • the entire equipment for 25 cents.In the entrance foyer there is a trunk that came from Mississippi with the S. A. Hood family which is filled with beautiful quilts, including onemade by Clara Mathis at the age of 93 and a friendship quilt with embroidered names of the residents of the nursing home where she worked in 1973. Also, in this area is EthelCherry Harcourt Cooze’s treadle sewing machine which LuElle still uses, a collection of ladies’ underwear of years gone by worn under corsets which belonged to her aunts, and her grandmother’s pie safe that is easily 100 years old, displaying part of her collection of dolls that appear throughout the house.One bedroom is arrayed with hats collected from various individuals, including several belonging to Laura Miller and Bam Morris, S. A. Hood’s straw hat, and a fur hat belonging to Tate Counts’ dad. There is a picture of J. B.’s dad made in Fort Worth after a long dustry drive of pigs to Fort Worth to market.In this bedroom is a king sizebed made from two old beds, with the welding done by Clyde Nabors. On the bed is S. A. Barber’s one and only king size mattress. In one corner of this bedroom is a dresser andmirror which belonged to Bam(Cont’dtoPageS)
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De Leon Free Press
De Leon, Texas, US
Thu, Jul 30, 1981
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