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Mebane-Nuckolls House: Mebane, TN named for family

Jay Brothers

3 miles southwest of Macon on the Macon-Collierville Rd. Somerville, TN

Circa 1855. 2-story Italianate home


John Howe Mebane (1806-1875) and Henrietta Williams Graves Mebane (1816-1872) built their home about seven years after they wed in 1848. His first wife was Ann Slade Mebane (1810-1848) whom he wed in 1837. that originally had 15 acres.


From Mebane-Nuckolls web site


Mebane was the grandson of Brig. Gen. and U.S. Congressman Alexander and Mary Tinnie Armstrong Mebane of North Carolina. Brig. Gen. Mebane was part of a group of nine men who selected Chapel Hill as the site for the University of North Carolina. The area his family resided became known as Mebanesville (now Mebane, just east of Burlington). John and Henrietta and family moved to Fayette Co. to claim land grants in the names of his deceased father and brothers. In addition, he also purchased several large tracts and amassed about 3,600 acres personally and another 812 jointly with his brother William K. Mebane.


Their son, William Graves Mebane (1838-1882), inherited the plantation. His wife was Emma Carolina Mebane (1842-1911) whom he wed in 1865. He and his wife were part of the effort to rebuilt the Southern economy from its devastation after the Civil War.





After the death of William, Nathan Blaine bought the property as a wedding gift for his daughter, Margaret Virginia “Maggie” Blaine Nuckolls (?-1929). Maggie was married to Charles Edwin Nuckolls (1852-1909) in 1882. The plantation now had 1,000 acres, a smokehouse, icehouse, blacksmith shop, carriage house, cotton gin and other supporting buildings. In 1909, Charles was killed by a tenant farmer from disagreement that escalated.


The plantation remained in the family until the Perkins family purchased it. After Maggie died, the children divided the land. Julius Winifred Nuckolls (1891-1985) and Alice Toombes Bradley Nuckolls (1891-1979) received the land with the house. They wed in 1913 and lived at 760 North Garland. Julius was a general traffic manager for Peabody Coal Co. in Chicago. He rented the land to tenants. Some of the tenants lived in the house in the 1950s/60s so they could watch over it. Nuckolls used the land for a hunting preserve. 





He sold 15 acres and the house to Jim Ann and Willie W. Perkins in 1984, and he kept 150 acres around it. The Perkins family sold the property to Ronnie and Bonnie Warner in 1999. They opened The Neverending Restaurant there. NR 1985


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