Ben Hur, Arkansas

This is the big town where Erin got married
in 2005. This was taken in 1946. The store
was owned by Frank Reese. Erin, it sat in
that field where Glendon Garrison is fixing
up the old house. Frank married Buena Vista Casey
b: 23 Jul 1886 in Kissee Mills, Taney Co., MO.
He got killed in a car wreck and the little store
died too!

I guess that dog is keeping an eye on things at
the store!

Frank Reese got to Ben Hur, AR in a unusal
way. His mother was a mail order bride of
Jerry Standridge. Rhoda Reese was married
to Will Reese who died. She had little Frank
and some more kids and lived in Missouri.
She advertised in a magazine for a husband.
Jerry Standridge lived near Ben Hur, Ar. He
was old, had already been married twice
and had a houseful of kids. Anyway, Jerry
was the husband that Rhoda ordered and
she brought Little Frank to Ben Hur. I guess
that would be the rest of the story!