John Smith McDearman 

Farm House

This is a zerox copy of an old picture of the John Smith McDearman Farm House.  On the far right, is a distant view of the house.  The house was a tall 4 room structure.  The front door led into a small hallway directly facing the stairs.  A door to the left led to the kitchen and a door to the right led to the parlor. These were the 2 downstairs rooms and there were 2 bedrooms upstairs.   There was a back door in the kitchen and not thirty feet out was a well.  There were two brick flues, one on either side of the house and the stove pipes went through the upstairs to provide heat for the bedrooms. The front of the house had 2 windows, one on each side of the front door.  The back of the house had 4 windows, one for each room.  The outside had 4" drop siding and a wood shingle roof.  The picture of the house was taken from the west.  The cedar trees (barely visible, just look for shapes of trees) were by the well and on the east were at the little family cemetery.  The McDearman property was sold to the Roth family after Sarah Jane Travis McDearman died in 1918.  Sometime in the 1930s, the Roth family used the stairway and the front door while building a home for one of the Roth children when they married.  The rest of the house was then torn down.  

 Source:  Notes from Laurie Jeanne Karnes (McDearman descendent) and Katherine Figley (neighbor of the McDearman's and Roth family descendent).