 My name is Alice Mulally. I grew up in out-of-central point near next door to the Blackford Salt Scaver Farm and growing up I knew Lola Blackford and then after she married we knew Lola and Dick and I used to visit Lola until she died in the later 1980s having been born in 1904. Growing up I was often curious about the place because it seemed rather mysterious because it was very old-fashioned and so I learned that Lola's grandparents the McKays had taken out a donation land claim in the 1850s and that they had had three or four sons and a daughter and all the sons had died in tragic accidents or illnesses in their teens or early 20s and so the property went to their daughter and she married Oscar Blackford so that's when it became known as the Blackford Place and they were there for a very long time. They had two children Lola who we're talking about here and her sister Viola. Mr. Blackford was kind of an old-fashioned farmer. He used horses to maintain the pastures where the dairy cattle were and one year a neighbor borrowed the horses for a birthday party and all the children had ridden except me and I finally was put on one of the horses and that horse decided to go home and there was no stopping this big old plow horse so I ended up in the corral down at the barn.