The picture of the Marvice and Zettie Emerson Williams’ home, (see below) is from the very early 1940’s, I believe. This old house survived two fires, many wind and rain storms, as well as, the rough and tough of the growing-up years of eleven children. Mom and Dad first moved here just after Clarice, their oldest child, was born in 1919. In its first few years, the house did not have the front porch nor the addition of a kitchen, a dining room, and a screened-in-back porch. My brother Donald told me that Dad himself had built the extra rooms. That space certainly would be needed because there were to be 10 more children to follow Clarice.
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