THE LOG HOUSE
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The Log House
History
Bert was born in the house. He and Lizzie lived there from
1875 to 1906. When they lived there, the log house was
covered with clapboard and part of a large southern
plantation home. Though Bert was of the third generation
of Whisnants to live in the house, Lizzie was the great great
granddaughter of Alexander McEntire, original grantee of the land.
When Adam Whisnant moved from Lincoln to Rutherford County in the early 1830s, he purchased a farm and old log house on land originally granted to Alexander McEntire by King George III in the 1760s.
Before the Civil War, the log house had been updated with clapboard and extra wings added to make a fine antebellum home. The original logs were protected inside the more modern exterior. Adam's son David enlarged not only the house, but the farm grew into a 2,000 acre cotton plantation.
In 1906 David's son Albert and his wife Lizzie were remodeling the interior when Lizzie became ill from the paint fumes. Shortly thereafter she died from pneumonia. Upon Lizzie's death, Albert left the house exactly as it was when Lizzie died and closed it. It was unlived in for nearly fifty years.
Albert and Lizzie's only son, Barrett, lived in a small house nearby. Barrett never moved his family into the house.
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