1. Nettie's Place (Jim Hight's)
2. Clay's Place
3. Seavy's Place
4. Bill Hight/William Troop House
5. Dixie's Place
6. The Back Place, (Aunt Pat's)

1. Nettie's (Jim Hight's)	2. Clay's	3. Seavy's
4. Bill Hight//Wm.Troop	5. Dixie's Place	6. The Back Place

1.       50 acres and house which he lived on 

2.       50 acres and house his father’s old place where daughter Bessie lived

3.       50 acre creek bottom

HIS WILL  went like this: 
	50 acres and house where he lived to daughter Nettie.  
		So now You know why it’s called Nettie’s house.

                50 acres and house his fathers old place to daughter Bessie (the back place) and

                50 acre creek bottom to daughter Lucile
  

Seavy is not mentioned.   Maybe Jim had already helped him on some land deals and things. 
By now Seavy was referring to "folks on the other side of the creek".

(left)Minnie Hight with her daughters, Bessie and Lucile. It was taken about 1902. 
The part to the right of the tree was built about 1870. The front room to the left of the 
tree was built 1890’s and soon after the back “L” where the kitchen is was added. 
The  bell you can see by the back porch is still owned by one of the family.

(right)Looking now at the other picture as it appears today, you see some changes. Paul Hight 
added the 2 dormers about 1920. The side porch was torn off about 1960’s. At some 
time the front windows were enlarged. Granddaddy Thrasher replaced the front porch 
 with a smaller one after the house was moved on the hill. He also added a large den 
behind the kitchen about 1982. 

Minnie Hight, daughters, Bessie and Lucile, 1902 ..........

2008

New information, 9/6/08
This house, aka James Cordie Hight’s place, where Nettie Brown Hight and then Mr. Floyd Craig lived was built by John White's great-grandfather, James Lewis White. He owned a lot of land around there at one time.

Now that the house is being restored, some things are coming to light about past history /construction. The place where a chimney used to be on the east end that was gone even before the 1902 picture. Surprisingly there is not a square nail anywhere. Possibly that proves the house was built in the early 1870’s and not 1860’s. The upstairs floor has tongue and groove PINE flooring. This is certainly not original, must have replaced the old flooring sometime in mid 20th century. Wallpaper 4 or 5 layers thick. No newspapers on walls like many old houses have.

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#2.

Home Place of Clay and Susie

Clay and Susie lived in the big fancy house on corner of Deep Ford Road and Highway 50, (across from Richard Parks). Clay’s farm ran all the way back to the creek joining Seavy’s and across Deep Ford Road from Jim Hight place(where Bessie lived).

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#3

Home Place of Seavy

Seavy Hight bought his place from Morgan Bryant, who was a grandson of the Edmonsons. Morgan Bryant was probably named for Morgan Fitzpatrick. Mrs. Edmondson was related to Morgan Fitzpatrick. There was once a race track on Seavy's place. Bryant or Edmondsons one raised race horses. .
Seavy made a lot of improvements to the house. He put in interior siding, wallpaper, hardwood floors, enclosed the porch in the back to make it into his personal room. When automobiles became more common than horses he built a car porch on the left.

He changed the front wooden steps to cement in the mid 1950's.

When the house was down near the creek, before the TVA disrupted everything, the house had a daffodil-lined walkway from the driveway to the front porch. Later, Seavy changed the straight driveway to a circular drive, and put concrete walkway where the daffodils were.

The creek was lined with huge, beautiful trees. It was somewhat of a slope down to the creek, but not so deep that the mules could not go down their path to the creek to drink. A few times the waters flooded up to within a few feet of the house.

After Seavy Hight could no longer take care of the place and was in Maryland with his step Daughter, Georgie Mae, she had the beloved house moved down the road to a hill near Culleoka. This photo is taken after the move. Eventually, when no one from the family was available to live there, the house was sold to the Thompsons who undertook to restore it and have it registered as an Historical Home.
The road from the highway to the bridge and across it to the intersection was renamed Seavy Hight Road in the 1980's. click for big

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Bill Hight/William Troop House

This house, near Glendale, is near where the older William Hight first settled when coming to Maury county. William Henry “Bill” Hight bought the place about 1880. Bill Hight’s grandson, Mr. William Troop and wife….Mabel??..perhaps were the only ones who ever lived there, but for sure, .they lived there in the seventies, and almost until 1990.

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Home Place of Dixie

Dixie was daughter of Dick Hight and first cousin of Seavy, Bessie, etc. Dick Hight family lived across Highway 50 from Clay and we still call it “Dixie’s place”. It remained hers until she died in the 80’s and it went to her nieces and nephews. Probably Joe Mack still owns it.

This house was built by the Beanland family about 1806. It is a large 2-story log structure. It is one of the oldest houses in Maury county. There is some speculation it may be THE oldest. During the 1840’s and 1850’s it was owned by John W. Dillehay, who owned about 400 acres which included the Walter McCandless place and the Clay Hight place. Dillehay died before the war, leaving his third wife, Louisa Murphy, a widow. She then married James Scribner and they lived here in the years following the Civil War.

Richard T. “Dick” Hight bought the place in the 1890’s after returning from Texas, about the time he married Dilly Park. The farm ended up going to his daughter Dixie. Dixie never had any children. The house and 40 acres are still owned by descendents of Dick Hight.

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#6.

The Back Place aka Upper Place

Some used to call it the "upper place" but others always called it the "back place".

Taken in 1943 , this picture is Rachel Thrasher and son Lane taken in front of the house that Goodman Hight built back in 1870. Floyd and Bessie were living there at the time. More information (with help from Joe Mack and Uncle Jack Craig):
After Goodman's death, Aunt Pat lived there alone until Paul bought the place, then she continued to live with Paul. After Paul's death she lived with Eugenia until Eugenia moved. At this point it was rented to Joe Park Hight (Joe Mack was a child) Aunt Pat continued to live there with them. Then when Jim Hight bought the place Aunt Pat moved in with Jim and Floyd and Bessie moved to the upper place. When Floyd and Bessie moved to Nettie's house the place was not immediately abandoned . It was rented out for a short time, to an unknown person.

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Below is a bookcase which made from salvaged rafters that came from the old house by Bill Thrasher: (image not yet available)

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