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Peden
HomePhotos courtesy
Nancy Kelly |
| "The
abandoned Peden home" |
Peden Home
Here
is a picture of the abandoned Peden home probably taken in the early 70’s. This
house was about half way down what, I think, now is Juliet Road on the right side
before you get to the turn off to the cemetery. The story behind this picture
was this: - My grandfather and grandmother moved to Fort
Worth around 1971. A couple of years later my grandfather’s brother and wife
who lived in Lefors, TX saw this picture
in the Amarillo paper and
recognized it as my grandparent’s house. If I remember correctly, a young lady
in high school in Amarillo was participating in a photography contest and took
this picture for the contest. Through the paper we were able to contact her and
get a copy of the picture. Amazingly, it won the contest and apparently hung in
a gallery in Washington, D.C. for a few months. The young lady who took the picture
stated that it was a very foggy morning when she took the picture so it appears
to have no background.
The Church and The Jones
I think the
last time I was through Goodnight was around
1998 and the church that I remember on the corner of the highway and Juliet road
and the parsonage was gone by then. Rev. Edwards was the pastor. Across the street
was the Jones white house. My grandparents used to talk about how they get great
joy out of seeing the “Jones Girls” riding their horses up and down the road.
Simple times but good times.
The Garden
One picture shows part
of the garden and barn and was east of the house. Many times I would go help grandma
pick fresh vegetables and watermelons from the garden. Never any better food.
I also helped her make butter from the milk after it was separated. Grandpa had
a milk cow named Ginger but at some point he sold her and switched over to goats.
Peden Family
The other pictures are of my mother Helen Peden
Kelly in front of the house and my grandparents Annie and Clarence Peden with
my Aunt Ruth sometime in the early 40’s. The lilac bushes that lined the front
walk that you see on either side of my aunt and grandparents were still there
in 1998.
The Window in the Dinner Scene
I don’t know if you want
to publish this dinner scene picture but you can see through the window the outhouse
that I was told was put in by the WPA. There were many a cold night trips to the
outhouse! This was also the same window that we would run to look out to see the
passenger train going by in the distance parallel to HWY 287 that was just over
the horizon. This would be the same train that you would later see in the movie
HUD. This early 1960’s scene shows the back of my grandfathers head, my cousin
to the left, my grandmother at the end of the table, my mother, part of me and
my Dad.
The WPA I think, also were the ones that put electricity in the
house prior to my grandparent owning it. There was only one running water spigot
in the house and that was in the kitchen and the well had to be turned on to get
the water. We heated water on the stove to get hot water for dishes or bathing.
There was a wood burning stove in the living room and outside of the stove in
the kitchen that was the only heat there was.
- Nancy Kelly, Academic
Counselor, University of North Texas, Denton,
Texas, September, 2010 |
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| "My
grandparents Annie and Clarence Peden with my Aunt Ruth sometime in the early
40’s. The lilac bushes that lined the front walk that you see on either side of
my aunt and grandparents were still there in 1998." |
| "My
mother Helen Peden Kelly in front of the house." |
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"Part of the garden and barn east of the house. Many times I would go help
grandma pick fresh vegetables and watermelons from the garden. Never any better
food." |
| "You can see
through the window the outhouse that I was told was put in by the WPA. There were
many a cold night trips to the outhouse! This was also the same window that we
would run to look out to see the passenger train going by in the distance parallel
to HWY 287 that was just over the horizon. This would be the same train that you
would later see in the movie HUD." |
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