Home in Cedar Glades
The house had belonged to Willie Robbins. The well was in the front of the house.
The
Robbins family came into Montgomery Co. in the 1880's from Campbell Co., TN.
The
Thornton's came a little earlier from Forsyth Co., GA. Standing by the 1941 ½ ton
Chevrolet navy blue truck with "bumperettes" are George Clifton Thornton
and his daughter Frances. George bought the truck new in Hot Springs on Ouachita Ave.
across from the court house, at Chitwood Motors. The truck sold for $1100 and he paid
$37.75 a month for it. No money down and no papers were signed. A man's word that he
would pay, was all that Mr. Chitwood required. George worked for the WPA and used it to
haul workers in sites in Garland Co., AR. e.g. the building of the Bull Bayou Bridge and
the Lake Hamilton bridge on 270 west towards Mt. Ida. He would also haul ice to the
Cedar Glades area and added rails it to haul livestock.
Photo courtesy of Debra Garner.
Blakely Dam under construction. Photo courtesy of SKM
Susie Adams Terry - Jim Adams - J.W. (Jesse ) Terry
Photo and info courtesy of SKM. The house made of cedar
shingles cut by Jim
Adams is now under water at the old Hot Springs city water works at Wild Cat Holler.
The hanging pots had flowers in summer. Susie loved flowers so much she knocked the bottom
out of her butter churn to put in the yard and planted flowers. This house had a
fireplace that ate wood at a fast rate.
J.W. Terry
Photo courtesy of SKM.
Franklin Ritter and Anna Louisa Tennessee Speer - daughter of Mason Speer and Margaret
Phillips. ca. 1945. Tennie and Frank had 15 children. Photo courtesy
of SKM.