Person:John Lamar (31)

John S. and Elizabeth J. lamar took their young family and went to Young County, Texas, along with his parents in 1880. John became a building contractor in Graham, Texas. In the late 1880's, he bought the "Woods House" on North Oak Street from Judge Woods, who was justice of the peace.

It was a one-story rambling frame house with a north wing, a broad veranda on the south with an entrance of fence and a gate which wass called "the drummer's gate". Through this entrance, many a drummer's trunk was pulled, and from the veranda, along with the tobacco smoke which wafted out on the night air, went many a story. On a post erected at the north corner of the building was a bell that called the dinner and supper hours. The old bell with its penetrating peal served also as the city's fire bell.

Crouch, Carrie J., Ibid., pp. 60-61

John S. ran the Woods House a few years and then turned it into a residence. He was a member of the Methodist Chruch and served on the Board of Stewards. His tombstone only records 1921.

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