This historic home is located on Highway 70 in Frances, Kentucky. I'm not sure who owns the home today, or the condition it is in, (June 16, 2021), but it was beautiful in 2008 when this picture was taken.
In the year 1919, the Oliver School in Frances was being torn down. It was being taken down with the logs, beams, and boards carelessly being tossed away. This was a loss Marion Pogue could not bear to see happen.
He retrieved them to erect his house which became a home for him and his family and also a house of learning for his grandson, Forrest Carlisle Pogue, Jr. (1912-1996).
In 1947 Marion Pogue sold the house to Ervin and Cornelia Brasher Woodall. Upon the Woodalls moving in, they found many books left behind by the Pogues which were enjoyed by the Woodall family.
Marion Pogue (1867-1952) was postmaster at Fredonia, and teacher at many rural schools and Dycusburh High School.
When Frances School was built, he became the first principal there in 1919. He served four terms as state representative, one term as state senator, and nine years as inspector for the State Department of Education. He also owned a drugstore and a grocery store in Frances.
Nancy Martin Tabor of the Mexico community shared this information about the home.
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