The Scott Cabin
Home of my great-grandmother
Johnnie Whittington.  Built in 1874, it remained on our family farm until the 1980's. I played in this cabin as a child.  Now it is restored and on display at Edgewood Heritage Park in Edgewood, Texas. 
My grandfather, Gabe Scott's General Store originally built and operated in the Board-Elwood Community of Wills Point, Texas some 50+ years ago.  I played in this store when I was a kid, too.  It  was still full of old merchandise like old Prince Albert tobacco cans, medicine bottles, thread and many household items.  It has also been restored and is on display in Edgewood Heritage Park.
 
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This is the church I attended in Wills Point.  It has since been torn down and replaced with the church shown on the right.  I had some happy memories in that big old church.
 
 
The Train Depot
Now serves as museum
Downtown Wills Point.  The white statue is
called the Rose Monument and the streets are the original old red brick.
 
Wills Point is the home of the Wills Pont Tigers, 1965 State Champions in football (I forget but I think it was AA.  Also known as the Bluebird Capital of Texas and home of the Annual Bluebird Festival.  For more info on Wills Point, see the Wills Point History Link below.
Another view of Heritage Park.  This park also has a blacksmith shop, a schoolhouse, a church, a cafe (that Bonnie and Clyde actually ate in), a barber shop, a carriage house and other old buildings of historical note.  The gazebo shown here is a replica of the Edgewood band stage used for entertainment in the 1920's.
Although I was born and raised most of my life in Wills Point, Texas, the family farm (where the store and the cabin were located) was in rural country between Lake Tawakoni and Edgewood, approximately 9 miles north of Wills Point.  My grandfather's store served as a supply house to the sharecroppers in the area, and my grandmother boarded and fed most of the school teachers that taught at the Board-Elwood school many years ago.  Most of the land my grandfather owned is still owned by family members today.  The Edgewood Historical Society built Heritage Park and, luckily, some of my family heritage has been preserved through these buildings and the wonderful park the Society created.  Three generations of my family still live in the Wills Point area.
My Texas
Heritage
 
Thanks for visiting my heritage page.  I'm proud of my
Texas heritage and very glad I was born a Texan.  This picture of me was taken in a park in the Cap Rock area of west Texas by the best sister in the world, mine!.