Emerson40
An evening spent dancing
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I took this Waverly photo in 1999, note all the pretty colors. Waverly is miles from Southwood. It was a horse farm, Dear, just look at my riding boots. My great-grandfather, Cornholio James Grant, was a bastard child born at Waverly May 1867, and left those boots behind. Most of the Ward children were dead by 1903. Waverly was sold around 1903 when Cornholio James Grant-Johnson moved to Annapolis, MD. But I got his boots.
Southwood was the seat of George Washington Ward tho he owned the land beneath Bel Air. Southwood passed to George Taliaferro Ward who willed Southwood to son, George Randolph Ward, who died circa 1890. Southwood passed to Nannie Grant Ward then to her uncle William Seymour Ward. John Alexander Henderson bought Southwood after Ward died, and willed it to John Ward Henderson. The original Southwood burned in 1913, the fire started by Cornholio James Grant-Johnson, adopted by Nannie Grant Ward after Nan's parents died unexpectedly.
John Alexander Henderson bought the house an old general named Butler built in 1865, and lived in the house till he died about 1903. The house passed to his son John Ward Henderson, his mother was Martha Chaires Ward. JWH passed the Butler house on to a son. In the late 1930s the state bought the land beneath the Butler house (for a new supreme court building) and the Henderson heir moved the Butler house to Southwood then sold Southwood and Verdura (the Benjamin Chaires seat) to the Saint Joe Paper Company. The Butler house was remodeled to look like the original Southwood house.
I prolly made most of this up except the parts I copied from the internet.
Wow Jimmy.
Let your freak fly.
