Originally when built for the overseer, there was just the room that is now the parlor and front hall downstairs and the rooms over it, with a box stairs leading to the second story. Then about 1828, James Sidney Jones III rebuilt and added the room on the other side of the hall [for his mother and himself and sisters]. When James Sidney Jones went to live in Greene County, Alabama, he sold the home place to his brother-in-law James Ward. I think it was here Anne Walton Jones made her home until her death in 1842 [rather than the old house by the cemetery.] 

     Elizabeth made her home here with her third husband Rev James Delke.   Ca 1847 Preacher Delke and Elizabeth added the breezeway and wing extending toward the back which included the long room on the second floor about 15’ by 25‘ and the steep straight flight of stairs to the second floor was made from the box stairs. The kitchen at this time was a separate building in the corner of the yard. There was a little house known as the dairy just behind the house . (This became a wonderful play-house for my generation.—my father later converted it into a barn for one of the tenants.)   

     When her daughter Anne’s fine home burned in Murfreesboro about 1866, she and her husband Maj. John W Moore moved into the home on her ancestral lands with her by then thrice widowed mother. In the 1890’s when Major Moore along with each of his siblings inherited $10,000 from his cousin Sam Westray, he built the two rooms to the west as a retreat for himself and wife—away from the uproar of his sons families. These rooms had large windows and each a large closet with a window. also included was a porch and entry for wood.

     The barn was built, and the sheds on both sides of the smoke-house were added at this time using the materials from the old house at the Jones Hole.  A grand privy was built. It was a three holer (one smaller in the middle) and was raised two feet above grade so the manure could easily be removed and spread on the fields, this necessary little house was lathed and plastered and had two two-sash window with shutters so the family could read while they sat. At that time this fancy little house was located at the end of a path through a lovely garden. (My children’s generation thought Grandma had the most wonderful play house.) The kitchen was brought closer to the house with a second section to the back porch added, plus a pantry. Arthur & Johnnie Moore raised their family here. At that time water was brought from a well about 75 feet in front of the house.

     When Raynor Moore & Ola Parker were contemplating marriage the pump was installed at the back door as condition - Ola was not about to live in any house with such an inconvenient water supply. Also the kitchen was moved into the old dining room and a cooking range installed. Later a screened porch about 10’ by 50’ was built for the children.

    In September 1952 the hurricane Hazel blew one of the huge oaks in the yard over. One branch landed on top of the back porch crushing it; another limb was over the front porch but very little damage was done there. At that time Ola drew up plans for two bath rooms, a utility room and a kitchen which were constructed on condition by Raynor that the old dining room become the dining room again.  The house was the home of my brother Arthur Cotton Moore III.  My sister, Julia Lawrence now owns the old home.