THE HOUSES OF CLEBURNE COUNTY THE BADDERS PLACE In 1930, our family moved in and shared a house with a widower, Tom Badders, and leased his land for farming. Badders was starting a poultry production operation on part of the property and didn’t want to farm the land. He was convinced that the broiler chicken industry was the coming thing and would soon be a big business in the county, and maybe even in the whole state. The house was arranged in a bungalow plan with one half having a living room, dining room, and kitchen in the one side; and two bedrooms and a screened utility porch in the other. It had a deep front porch facing north to the road and a large barn across the road. My sister was just beginning to walk when they moved there. Both operations—land crops and poultry farming—went well, but after three years, Badders decided to re-marry and needed the whole place for his larger family. Our family then moved to the Taylor Place. THE TAYLOR PLACE I know little about the Taylor Place, but from stories of their two years there, it seemed to be a very happy place for my parents. They endured two deep, cold winters there and spent many hours with their friends and neighbors living nearby. Dad installed sled runners under a wooden soap box with a rope-pull to transport – 8 –
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