This was home for many years to Fitzgerald’s last door-to-door pedestrian mail carrier, Richard Mathis (1923-2011). It was originally owned by his father, I believe it was originally owned by his parents, Richard N. Mathis, Sr., (?-1978) and Thelma Temple Mathis (1896-1982). Richard graduated from high school with my grandmother and was one of my Sunday School teachers at Central United Methodist Church.

South Main-South Lee Streets Historic District, National Register of Historic Places