Butts County GaArchives Photo place....."The Yellow House"-c.1919, Fincherville Rd c.1995 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Larry Knowles knonga@bellsouth.net August 13, 2004, 1:11 pm Source: Larry C. Knowles-Conyers, GA Photo can be seen at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/butts/photos/gph811theyello.jpg Image file size: 90.4 Kb "THE YELLOW H0USE"-c.1919, Fincherville Rd., Butts Co. GA This house in the S.W. corner of Fincherville Rd. and Ingram Rd. was built by Olin A. Knowles(and family members)about 1919. One of the few painted homes in the area, it was always referred to as "the yellow house". During construction, the growing Olin Arastus("Ras")and Daisy(Wilson)Knowles family was then living across the road, in his father's house. [Oscar Bryans and Lanie A.(Maddox) Knowles at that time were living in Jackson, where he was listed as Police Chief on the 1920 census] The Ras Knowles family had recently returned to Fincherville from Flovilla, where they had lived near Daisy's father, William A. Wilson. Ras had farmed, and honed his carpentry skills at Flovilla, while working security and maintenace with Luther Hoard at the Campground in Indian Springs. Two children, William Alton & James Wilmer("Bud")had been born before the move to Flovilla. Bernard, Sarah Leone, Olin A. Jr., Oscar Donald, and Frances Virginia were born at Flovilla(Dr. A. F. White, attending). Daughter, Gladys Olean-born June 13, 1818, was the only child born at the O. B. Knowles place. The remaining children; Vesta Lousie, Mary Martile, and Gerald Sanders ("Bill")Knowles were born at the "Yellow House". Timber for the house was cut on Monroe Gray's land, on Jack Maddox Bridge Rd. near the Williamson-Knowles family cemetery. "Roe" Gray was Lanie Knowles' brother-in-law, having married her sister, Sarah Frances Maddox. Shortly after completing his house, Ras built a smaller one for his father-in-law, W. A. Wilson, on the N.W. corner of Ingram Rd. In July 1918, W. A.("Tib")Wilson had lost his wife Ella F.(Fincher)Wilson at Flovilla. Daisy was putting up jelly when she learned of her mother's death. On a roll now, Ras soon began a large house for his brother-in-law, John W. Welch, who had married Daisy sister, Lena. Though appearing much different now(the current Nelson Rodgers place)was almost identical to the Yellow House(known later as the Ingram place). Both, featured full porches across the front, and unique spiral chimney flues by a local artisian. The layout for the Knowles home included the mandatory central hall: to the left, front to back, were the "parlor", dining room, & kitchen. To right, the master bedroom & the girls room. The wing on the right was the boys room. The bathroom, of course, was "outback". The Knowles family was quite prosperous during this span; farming nearly 400 acres of Knowles and Wilson land, at one point working twenty-one mules, they employed "hands" and had several sharecropper tenant families. But, the bollwevil and bad financial advise about stored cotton, prior to the great depression, caused them to give up the house. "Doc" Jinks, a family friend, assumed the mortgage, and provided some equity. The Knowles family soon moved to Forest Park in Clayton Co., where Ras could more utilize his carpentry skills. Renting at first, he later built his second home there on Ash Street. In their golden years, during the mid- 1950s, Ras and Daisy returned to Butts Co., to the City of Jackson. They are buried at their ancestral chuch, Sardis Baptist in Henry Co. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/butts/photos/gph811theyello.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 3.9 Kb