Maude Woods Hembry House

The house located at 97 Terry Street in the Quakertown neighborhood of Denton, Texas, was built in 1905. Residents of the house were C. R. (Cassendy Ross) and Maude Hembry. Maude and Ross had a boarding house and restaurant in Quakertown. The home was removed in 1921 to make way for the city park. Horses and railroad ties were used to transport the house to 1129 East Hickory Street, in the Solomon Hill neighborhood of southeast Denton. Home to William and Alma Clark who moved in 1962, it was torn down in 2005 and replaced with a modern brick structure. 

Maude Woods Clark Hembrey, who also went by “Maudie” was born in Argyle, Texas, and lived in the Quakertown neighborhood of Denton, Texas between 1905 and 1921. She was the daughter of Minnie Bell Woods and the mother of Reverend William M. Clark. She married John Amus Clark on Feb 19 1896 in Denton Texas and after his death married Cassendy Ross Hembry, son of Anthony Hembry & Ida Fox. Maude had two children with her first husband: Walter Clark and William McKinley Clark. Her only son with Cassendy Ross Hembry was Ross Roscoe Hembry, who died by an accidental gun shot at the age of 9 years old on December 10, 1913. C.R. Hembry and Maude Woods- Clark-Hembry owned three properties in Quakertown, two that they rented out to other residents. They were given a total of $4,350 for their properties by the city of Denton in 1921 to relocate.