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Cap'n Joe Willcox House In Jacksonville

Captain Joe Willcox lived at Jacksonville, Ga., and built steamboats and ran them up and down the river. It is said when he and his wife were married they spent their honeymoon on one of his steamboats and she would play the piano as they guided the boat along the Ocmulgee River. Later, after the death of Cap'n Joe the Dopsons lived in this old house and the Dopson boys, Lester and Dean, would scare me by telling me Ole Bloody Bones and Slew-foot, the ghosts who reportedly lived upstairs, would catch me as I went down the long hall and passed the bottom of the staircase on my way out. I went out so fast nothing could catch me! But the fresh pork sausage, eggs, grits, big hot biscuits, syrup, and cold milk of Mr. Levi and Mrs. Henrietta Dopson were well worth the chance of getting ghost-caught! I enjoyed many a night eating with them and Harriett and Alex and Lester and Dean. If there had been any ghosts in that house they would have certainly showed up for supper!


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Guest 31-Oct-2003 04:08
This house was later owned by my Uncle Lester and Aunt Wilma(Sanderson)Dopson. I can remember going to visit and Uncle Lester telling my brother,me and our cousins about old bloody bones. I remember being afarid to go up stairs. But I guess what I remember most abput this house was the smell of Aunt Wilma's dressing and how I wanted a home just like this. This house was always a place of love.