Robert Farmer Quotations

My grandparents bought it about 1937, but the structure was built around 1915 for the sister and brother-in-law of John Henry Kirby, the big lumber baron himself.

I found them in the proverbial old trunk, ... One of them may be the oldest phone directory in town. It's just a single sheet of paper with typed numbers on it.

Unless they shrunk up over the years, he must not have been a real big fellow,

We feel sorry for those people and we'd like to help them out,

This is probably one of the oldest buildings in Silsbee,

They lived upstairs and had the business downstairs, ... I can vaguely remember sitting on the porch, and I used to play in the big backyard. My wife and I, when we got married, even lived upstairs from 1978 until 1981.

If one little item is determined to be unconstitutional the whole (legislation) is going to fall.

I'm willing to bet that John Henry Kirby paid to have this house built because it was the most expensive house in Silsbee, ... It was the cream of the crop.