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The “Telker House” on Heggie Street.
Photo purchased at The Rocking Chair Antiques and Collectibles, Charleston, Missouri
June 23, 2015
DH

I am told they were called Telker Houses; owned by a certain Mr. Telker, the
cotton planter-farmer-owner. Because my parents picked cotton for him, we
could live in one of his houses for cheap rent. The structures were no more
than tin-roofed shacks - but we were dry. We lived in the last house on the

street before the cotton fields.