This is the final look at the house that Samuel Louis and Sallie Arethusa Scarborough Womack lived and raised their family in. This photo was taken September 1992. The house has since been torn down.

The original house did not have the wing as shown on the left (facing). That was a later addition, The living room is in the center; with fireplace, but I never saw it used. The window on the right is to the dining room. I know not when the house was built but the first child was born there in 1909.

This is the back view of the house. Facing the little kitchen add-on is to the left. The middle is the wellhouse. To the right is the "back" bedroom. There were many tubs of ice cream made; and, watermelons eaten on this porch!

This is a side view of the house looking towards the dining room and the kitchen. The old smokehouse is to the right rear. The garden used to be on this side about 20-30 feet from the side of the house, fenced in.The area you see on the rear of the smoke house, both left and right, used to be an orchard.

This is what was left of the old hen house. The workshop and forge used to sit approximately 10 feet in front and slightly to the right of the henhouse. The old barn had been torn down so was unable to get any photos of that.

This was Mom and Dad's house in 1992. It still looked the same way when they were moved to South Carolina in 1994. When I was born, the house was a two roomer. In about 1947, my Dad, and his Uncle Willie Scarborough, built two more rooms on the north side which became the living room and kitchen. The porch was built later and even later closed in; as was the back porch. Mom and Dad lived in this house just short of 59 years (Aug 1935 to May 1994).

A view to the north from grandparents old place. The white spot in about the middle of the photo was Mom and Dad's house. Sitting in amongst mostly oak, with a few redgum, cedar and pine also. The field in the foreground was also once an orchard.

The old oak tree in the back yard, with the old outhouse to the left. Behind this tree is where, in Mar 1954, my uncle Delma "Pete" Womack shot himself. He later died on the way to the Veterans Hospital at Little Rock AR. I saw him less than 15 seconds after he pulled the trigger. I do not know to this day whether or not I jumped the fence that was then at the back of the house or climbed it. I was about a month and a half shy of 12 years old.

Standing in front of grandparents old place,looking north down the road I walked, ran, rode bicycles, and drove many times..I may see this again at least once more in my life: after that, probably never again for there is nothing left in Arkansas to beckon me there again.

All photos on this page taken September 1992.
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