This has to be one of the most elegant photos I have found. This wonderfully posed and composed photo is of a house on Church Street. This house is located next to the Groveville Methodist Church and Cemetery, across from the Church Parsonage. .
I have been told this is the Borden Family in this photo.
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To most Groveville people this will always be known as the home of Dot and Ed Jones, and their children, Lee, Tim, and Bonnie. I never remember the house with that fence in the front, but to me growing up this house was always a special house, I think it was that porch, a great porch for watching the Memorial Day Parade (Decoration Day then) or just sitting. I guess because the rest of us lived in houses connected to another house, this was a single family home.
Ed was one of the people that sparked my interest in Groveville History. He worked at the Mill and he gave me an old Post Card size photo of the mill, it might have been an old Post Card, and it showed the mill with the Mill Race in the front. It was then that I realized that the depression in the woods near the mill was the remnant of the Mill Race.
Ed Jones was one of the men in the Fire Company that I looked up to. When he and the other older men in the Fire Company would talk about Groveville Stories and History I would just sit there and listen, they were so interesting. I just wish these guys were here today to ask questions of or at least I should have written down some of what they said.
Dot Jones was my Sunday School Teacher, let me correct that, Dot Jones was everyone’s Sunday School Teacher.
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To most Groveville people this will always be known as the home of Dot and Ed Jones, and their children, Lee, Tim, and Bonnie. I never remember the house with that fence in the front, but to me growing up this house was always a special house, I think it was that porch, a great porch for watching the Memorial Day Parade (Decoration Day then) or just sitting. I guess because the rest of us lived in houses connected to another house, this was a single family home.
Ed was one of the people that sparked my interest in Groveville History. He worked at the Mill and he gave me an old Post Card size photo of the mill, it might have been an old Post Card, and it showed the mill with the Mill Race in the front. It was then that I realized that the depression in the woods near the mill was the remnant of the Mill Race.
Ed Jones was one of the men in the Fire Company that I looked up to. When he and the other older men in the Fire Company would talk about Groveville Stories and History I would just sit there and listen, they were so interesting. I just wish these guys were here today to ask questions of or at least I should have written down some of what they said.
Dot Jones was my Sunday School Teacher, let me correct that, Dot Jones was everyone’s Sunday School Teacher.
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Dear Gary....I was so happy to see a photo of this "Elegant House on Church Street". My son & daughter-in-law purchased this home in Feb.2008. It is really significant to know some of the history of this home. John & Jennine are considering updating the exterior now that they can actually see how it looked originally. Thank you, Vivian DeNito.
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