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Aunt Ethel's Home

This tiny home was built by Aunt Ethel and her husband Jace Gibson and my picture was taken when my sister Pam and I visited the area around 2005 after hearing the story from her daughter Peggy whom we lost not long afterward to kidney cancer. Peggy's story was that Ethel and Jason had several children at the time, all living in a tent on this farm, while they built their new home around 1930. It seemed to be one of the oldest homes still standing in 2005. Ethel and Jace are buried down the road at Hills Chapel Cemetery on the Long Road close to her father John Thomas Bozeman and his 4th wife Sara Ellen Bean. Sara raised these children after their mother died young and told them stories, like she was related to the hanging Judge Roy Bean. She was a wonderful stepmother who also gave them four more siblings before she passed away. Many of these descendants still remain in Dublin, Ramer, Grady, and Hickory Grove.

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