318 Church Street - True Home

318 CHURCH STREET

Caudis H. Tribble and Ozell Hereford were married in Madison County in 1924. Caudis Tribble was a vice-president of the historic bank on the bluff in Huntsville during the years before the Great Depression. He was for a few years a resident of New Hope after he married Ozell Hereford, who had been orphaned at a very young age in that area. During the Depression he quit the banking business and operated a garage in Madison, with the primary business of repairing flat tires, which was an important and necessary service in those times as well as during World War II.

318 Church Street is recorded in the tax records as having been constructed in 1939. When Gladys McFarlen True and her husband "Pud" moved to Madison, the couples became close friends. After a year of renting rooms in a house on Front Street, Gladys wanted to live next door to Ozell, and the feeling was mutual. The Tribbles gave the Trues a deed to the corner lot beside them without a penny being paid.

Still, Gladys and Pud paid their friends for the lot within a year. · They built 318 Church Street within a year and their house payment was $29.50 per month. The Trues owned and operated a grocery store at 208 Main (now Bandito Burrito) for over 30 years, remaining lifelong friends with the Tribbles.

You may have noticed that the sidewalk ends two houses down from the True House. When the True and Tribble homes were constructed, these homes were outside the city limits and thus did not include sidewalks!