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Vallance Homestead
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Date taken : 1940
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Actual date of this picture is not known. A good estimate is between 1935 and 1945. The house was built in 1904 and 1905 by Henry Green Vallance. Henry and Anna Jennettie Pearl Yount Vallance raised five children of the first marriage of Henry to Elizabeth Gollihue and seven of their own. In addition Pearl raised two grandsons after the death of Henry. The house had three bedrooms, kitchen, dining room and a small entry coat and boot room at the front door. There was no electricity or plumbing in the house until the mid 1940's when the EPA installed electricity. Each room then had one drop light in the center of the ceiling. Until that time light was provided by a kerosene lamp or candles. The water supply came from catching rain in gutters on the house and directing the water to a cistern on the back porch. The toilet facility consisted of a two h0ler outhouse a good distance from the back of the house. A trip to the outhouse in the middle of the night in the dead of winter was a real experience. After the death of Henry in 1925 Pearl continued to live there until about 1964 when she moved to a nursing home in Memphis, Hall Co., Texas. The Vallance Farm was eventually sold by the heirs to Henry Foster of Memphis, Texas who had adjoining property. Henry is now deceased and the farm is operted by his son Junior. As with most farm houses it was abandoned when all everyone started to move to the local towns and cities. The house still stand ( or did in 2002) but is unlivable. The farm is not as it once was. I can attest to this because I lived and worked on the farm until 1953.
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