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“<hn- neighbors agree that ‘the old place looks nrettv pood now.' But wo shall never feel that the 'oh iif ini] |n\ inp our farm is finished.—we eniov the ehallrrnre of making it still hotter." Mrs. Monofee stated in the Farm Journal article.
Ran Jacinto, the 1 OO-vear-old home L built of field stone and plaster and it has clean, sunple linos. It has weathered the storms unyielding since 1830.
The farm, whiidi contains iso acres of land today, 50 yearn auo consisted of two-or-three thousand acres, extending from the colored church at Smedlev to Jenkins mountain. Of this land 144 acres, which comprised San Jacinto, were sold to J. T. Gore in 1889 by one of the former owners, E. A. Willis, for $22 an acre. . /
The original owner of San . Jacinto was Colonel Ambler who fought in the war for Texas independence and he named the estate after the decisive battle of the war,' fought April 21, 1836', near San Jacinto bay. '
Colonel Ambler’s daughter, ,Edwina Ambler, who inherited San Jacipto from her father, married Captain A. Marat Willis, a Confederate soldier. Some time between 1890 and 1900 the Willis family, consisting of Capt. Willis and hus wife, their daughter, Miss May Willis; Edward Willis and his family; and A. M. Willis, a lawyer, moved to Texas and subsequently to Oklahoma.
Byrd Willis, another son of Capt. A. M. Willis, was .at that time a guard at the penitentiary in Richmond and continued so for many years, later retiring, and died in Richmond several years ■ago. Lewis Willis, another son, was a railway clerk and moved to page county, where he was a factor in republican politics, and
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