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Cooper - Penland Cemetery, 80-1 Summary Report, page 7
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A Z-shaped dwelling in two sections, of different ages, wrapped •round an Irish woman with a business tendency, and distinguished by the inost beautiful circular stairway in Madison county??"all of this comes to.light in a review of the Col. H. H. Lee home, for the lastj 13 years the residence of Joseph B. Harris, situated near the Tennessee' river four miles west of Whitesburg.
Tall cedars and two of the larg- < ??" est pecan trees in the South, which iave borne for more than 60 years, shade the home, forming a gradual contour from the hundreds of fertile acres of river bottom land surrounding.
Two rooms of the mansion, both of brick and forming the lower Pl * " “ _____"
-S18, and were followed nearly years later by the others, built substantial frame material.
_ Land Entered by ^Cooper
The quarter section of land, on uhich this home was erected, was tntered in.' 1818 by Jamas Cooper. *, 5 was choice acreage, and in-'•uccd some of the best farming • 1 in the county, all in the ccn-vhat i"? now known as Pond bf.r ,a r-airie gained from the num-v T011^3 formed by floods bor a the rlver is high. His nelgh-ajto"?Wtre scarce, but he was not iarr'i Runut"?8' ride from Ditto's wV1?*. irnT"?rt and export' ea"?]v v,. 1 0118 action during the r? of the last century'.
With bricks hauled" from*~the landing, where they had been brought by boat from Chattanooga or some other point, Cooper erect-! ed a small twoctory building, the beginning of the present mansion. This was to be his home and that of his bride. Charity Cooper, bom, in 1801, the daughter of William Allison; who had come over from Ireland several years after her birth. T
This settler did well, hauling his cotton to Whitesburg for shipment, and occasionally ooming to Huntsville to get supplies. He found that thls land, untilled before his arrival, could not have been better suited for a young planter, and made the most of his opportunity.
Bought More Land Later
In 1830, his fortune increasing, he bought for $800 three-quarters of an adjoining section from Ro-dah Horton, builder of the present McCracken home on Meridian pike Four years later, through a deal) ■with Charles G. Bowen, covered by|
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