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Photo 24-JAL-2

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Residence of J R and Nellie Harris Epley. The home burned in the November 1969 and they replaced it with a trailer. The building in the center (almost behind a tree)was the wash house for laundry and storage of canned goods and the left hand building is the barn with a milking parlor attached in the foreground of the building. To the right and toward the back of the trailer is the smoke house. In later years, J R and I would get up about 4 am during hog killing time and load out the pig to go to Lafayette TN to be blocked out and then when we returned home with the meat it was an all day affair to process the pork out at the wash house. J R was a beekeeper and he inspired me to become a beekeeper after his sudden death from a heart attack in 1994. Nellie (my cousin) enjoyed cooking and always had a good desert prepared. This farm was originally the Sutton Wygal place and my Uncle Freelie B Harris bought it and lived there with his wife Julie Hinton Harris (Nellie's Parents)until his death in 1969.

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