c.1866 Fixer Upper on 2+- Acres in Hoboken Georgia Under $50K ~ Sold
68 King St, Hoboken, GA 31542 $49,900 ~ Sold For $42,000
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Byline: Terry Dickson
ST. SIMONS ISLAND, GA. | When Rachel Kelly was growing up, her father Nolan Davis Jr. owned a general store in Hoboken, Ga.
He sold meat, groceries and other items that folks couldn’t do without. He gave credit to all the farmers around. They’d pay cash when they had it and settle up in the fall when the crops were all harvested and sold. And folks around Hoboken did what country people have always done: They shared things from their pastures, fields and gardens.
“We didn’t have money,” Kelly said, “but we ate well because people brought us food.”
In 1974, her father closed his store. She didn’t say why, but by then there was a lot of competition just 15 miles away in Waycross and people had cars. When Davis shut his store, there were a lot of accounts receivable so he sent out simple handwritten bills.
When he died in 2000, he was still owed thousands. Besides sending out those letters to his old customers, he hadn’t really tried to collect, Kelly said.
That’s why Kelly and her sisters, Margaret Dixon and Diane Davis, were surprised in May to get a letter and a check from Marilyn Crawford on behalf of her father, Eldon Crews.
“Daddy wanted me to send you the balance of a bill he had with your daddy,” Crawford wrote to Dixon. “He wanted you to divide it with your sisters. This will make him feel much better.”
The bill that Nolan Davis mailed to Crews on May 27, 1974, was for $391. …
- 4beds
- 2baths
- 2,774sq ft
- 1.93 Acres
- Build date 1866
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2 Comments
Theresa Primo
Hi would like it if home owner could phone ☎️ so we could come to some arrangements Theresa @-781-385-0636
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Sorry, as it states, it’s sold.