Boatwright, according to H. Sides, was sawmilling at Tadmore during the early 1930s in Houston County.
A bill of sale, recorded in the Houston County records, reveals that J. Walter Boatwright sold his sawmill plant to M. C. Boatwright in 1927 for $800. Property included a boiler, a circular sawmill and carriage, a “steam engine, all machinery, located in Houston County, Texas.”