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Peden Home
Photos 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." |
| "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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