Whitney Montgomery was born in Navarro County in a white-columned house across the pasture south of this site and began writing poetry when he was 15 years old. He became the author of more than 500 published poems that appeared in many major magazines and won numerous poetry prizes. He moved to Dallas in 1927, was editor and publisher of "Kaleidograph" Magazine and Press, and helped organize the Poetry Society of Texas, serving as its vice president. His home was honored in his poem "I Own a Home," which says, "I can not boast of a broad estate, but I own a home with a rose at the gate. I hold the title and I keep the keys, and in and out I can go as I please. My home is not grand but I live content, for no man sends me a bill for rent. And no man comes with a brush and a pail to paint a sign on my door, 'For Sale', I can not boast of a broad estate, but I own a home with a rose at the gate."