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AMOS DEASON HOUSE

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c. 1855. Anderson St. at N. Deason St.

Dry goods merchant Amos Deason and his wife, Eleanor, moved from South Carolina in the 1840s and built this unusual Greek Revival one-story four-room house with a five-sided entrance bay and matching gallery in what was then the center of Ellisville. Wood siding, beveled and painted with sand to resemble ashlar stonework, clads the building’s front and sides. During the Civil War, Jones County became a center for pro-Union sentiments, and a group of Confederate army deserters established the so-called Free State of Jones, led by self-appointed captain Newt Knight. When Confederate major Amos McLemore came to arrest them, Knight allegedly killed him in the Deason House. The Tallahala Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) owns and operates the house.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller
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Citation

Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "AMOS DEASON HOUSE", [Ellisville, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-PW10.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 306-307.

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