The House Mee Maw Grew Up In

Home Sweet Home! For my grandmother, Marion Ardella Biddix Hall, her childhood home was owned by the railroad. Her daddy worked for the railroad and they lived in one of the many homes owned by the Clinchfield Company. She told many stories that came out of that little house... where children were born... where children died... where memories were made. On one occasion, I asked her about the actual house and for her to describe it and here is what she said:

The house was close to where Hoilman Hill Road is now. It had three bedrooms upstairs and three rooms downstairs.

Downstairs:

Dining Room - table and chairs, buffet, china cabinet, and bed

Living Room - couch, stand up cabinet model radio, organ (Jessie played), Singer sewing machine, rocking chair, straight wooden bottom or split bottom chairs, fireplace, and calendars on the wall

Kitchen - built in cabinet, little white dish cabinet, tables for the water buckets, stove, washing machine

Papa (Marion Robert Biddix) slept in the living room or dining room because he was afraid of fire and he didn't want to sleep upstairs.

The upstairs had three bedrooms.

They had an outhouse.

This is a picture of Mee Maw's brother, Graham, standing at the steps to the house. Mee Maw said Ressie did all of the flowers for many of the railroad buildings and probably did these


This is a picture of Mee Maw's sister, Geneva in front of the railroad home