Rev. M. T. Lewis and his wife Mary lived here with their children Lottie and Walter in the 1880s. After he died, Mary married Robert Kelser, teacher, entrepreneur, and president of Piedmont Industrial and Land Improvement Company. Lottie, a Jefferson School teacher, married Charles H. Bullock, teacher, local newspaper correspondent for The Colored American, and later Secretary of the YMCA in Montclair, New Jersey. On retirement the Bullocks and Mary Kelser returned from Montclair and lived here on Sixth Street until Mary’s death in 1944.