Eades-Thompson House
- Jay Brothers
- May 5
- 1 min read
1106 S. Lamar Ave. Oxford, MS
Circa 1858. 2-story Greek Revival style
Located on S. Lamar Ave. the home was built by James Elihu Eades (1815-?) and Jane Ranklin Eades (1817-1906) in 1858. They wed in 1836. He was a merchant from Kentucky. Eades & Nelms was a dry goods store on Oxford Square in 1860.
After the Civil War, Dr. John Thompson (1818-1875), the brother of Jacob Thompson, purchased the home with his wife Laura E. Hunt Thompson (1831-1903). The Thompson brothers resided near one another.
From the early 1900s to the 1960s, Dr. Billy Sylvester Guyton (1884-1971) and Kate Smallwood Guyton (?-1961) owned the home. Dr. Guyton was an ENT physician and dean (1935-1944) of the original medical school of the University of Mississippi. He was professor of pathology and bacteriology (1915-1920), of surgery (1926-1930), minor surgery (1930-1935), then appointed dean. In 1944, he stepped down from the deanship to return full-time to the Guyton Clinic. In his honor, there is a Billy S. Guyton Distinguished Professor Award. The Guyton Clinic was opened in 1915 in Oxford. In 1961, Dr. Guyton was recognized by Ole Miss in naming the former medical school building “Guyton Hall.” The Univ. of Miss. Medical Center also holds a Billy S. Guyton History of Medicine Symposium.
In 1986, it was owned by Ben and Adalene Pettis. Pettis owns the moving company, 3 Men Moving & Storage.
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