This was the Matiz farm, my father Jack and grandfather John bought this farm around WW2 or later, I worked this farm in the late 50's and 60's until I went to college in 64 and the Navy in 66. I returned from the Navy in 70, in 72 I approached my grandfather about buying the 250 acres,(more or less)he wouldn't sell it to me or talk to me about it, I went to the Scioto Court House and checked on the farm, he had changed the farm to his girlfriend (at the time)for one dollar in the early 60's. At the time her name was Emma Craig, later they married about 1 yr. before he passed. My father paid half down on the down payment and my grandfather paid half, my dad was to young to put his name on the title, so they put it in my grandfather's name, the rest of the farm was paid out of a bottling business they had in Portsmouth, Spur Bottling Co. Emma Craig Matiz sold the farm, after my grandfather passed Emma had some of her family move on the farm, they tore down the house and barns and planted no till corn. Now in my 70's it doesn't bother me but it did for most of my adult life that I couldn't buy the farm, I put a lot of time and hard work in the farm, but it did give me good memories as I grew older, responsibility was one thing for a young high school student living in Portsmouth. As far as I know the farm has grown up, the pond we build back by the 40 or so acres of woods has been filled. Larry D. Matiz, Wheelersburg, OH 45694