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From: angel gebhart <>
Subject: Mrs. Taletha Keck purchased Worley property which was considered the "social center" in the day
Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 20:18:37 -0700 (PDT)

Bloomington (IN) Daily Telephone, April 14, 1924, p. 1



Buys Home Which Was Great

Social Center Of Years Ago

Worley Property at Ellettsville, Famous in History of Monroe

County, is Purchases By Mrs. Taletha Keck, Tis Reported

Where Fashion Danced the Light Fantastic



In that Mrs. Taletha Keck of this city, has recently bought for $15,000 what is well known as the Frank Woreley property at Ellettsville. In this connection it is interesting to recall that at one time this was one of the show places and society centers of the county. That was some 45 years ago when the palacial brick house was built by Frank E. Worley, the town banker, at a cost of $30,000, and it was occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Worley up till about 1900, when Mr. Worley traded it to the Wilsons for St. Louis property, and moved thereto. In the Worley bankruptcy proceedings in 1893, the place became the property of Mrs. Worley. When the Wilsons took hold of the place they undertook to make a sort of hotel for the public, but did not succeed well. About that time the Edmund Palmer bank was established here, in charge of Col. George William Fryhopper. The bank failed; the Wilsons traded the property to Benjamin Franklin, who built the Eclipse Stone Mill. Thos. C. Day lat!
er took
the property over on mortgage.



Years ago when Mr. and Mrs. Worley were the owners and the house was first built, it was the scene of many fashionable dinners and many dances, guests from various parts of the country. Mr. Worley died about 3 years ago, and Mrs. Worley is now a resident of St. Louis. She is a niece of Jefferson Davis, president of the southern confederacy.





Angel Gebhart

INMONROE Volunteer

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