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The following is the ground layout as shown on the 1948 County Assessor card: <br />The card also listed a garage with the dimension of 18 x 22 on the property. The house <br />in 1948 consisted of 968 square feet. <br />Lizzie Black died in 1955. Martin Black then remarried to Maude Ramsey. She had been <br />born in 1897. In 1958, Martin Black transferred ownership of 725 Lincoln from just <br />himself to both himself and Maude Ramsey Black. <br />Black died in 1960. Also in 1960, Maude Black sold 725 Lincoln. She died in 1967. <br />Forbis Ownership, 1960-1989 <br />In 1960, Boyd O. and Callie J. Forbis purchased 725 Lincoln from Maude Black. Boyd <br />Forbis was born in Missouri in 1901. Callie Cooley Forbis was born in Missouri in 1904. <br />Their children were Larella (born 1927) and Derl (born 1930). Boyd had worked as a coal <br />miner for 27 years, moving into carpentry and construction work after the closure of the <br />area's coal mines. <br />Boyd Forbis passed away in 1975. In 1986, Callie Forbis transferred ownership of 725 <br />Lincoln to Derl Forbis and Larella Forbis Stout. Callie Forbis died in 1988. <br />Solek Ownership, 1989-present <br />In 1989, after the death of Callie Forbis the previous year, current owner Elizabeth Solek <br />purchased 725 Lincoln from Derl Forbis and Larella Forbis Stout. <br />The preceding research is based on a review of relevant and available online County property records, <br />census records, oral history interviews, and related resources, and Louisville directories, newspaper <br />articles, maps, files, obituary records, survey records, and historical photographs from the collection of <br />the Louisville Historical Museum. <br />7 <br />