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This is the Love Farm. Built by my grandparents Virgil and Mary Lula Love around 1910. It was part of a 200 acre cotton farm in the Blackland Prairie, the biggest house in the area and a very large acreage. My grandfather was a member of the International Order of Oddfellows and my grandmother was a Rebekah. They used to hold IOOF dances on the second floor, and lit up all the lights on the wraparound porch; it was quite scandalous. My grandfather died in 1950 and my grandmother in 1963. The property stayed in the family until my parents (my mom was the youngest daughter, born in 1919) bought it in the mid-70s. My folks retired in 1980 and moved back, dying in 2001 and 2003. The farm was sold to the neighbor who’d been leasing it for maize. The house was demolished around 2016.