Last week we were contacted by a gentleman from Missouri who has been compiling ancestry history on his family. He shared that his great-great-great grandfather (and his wife and 9 children) lived in Tyrone in the early 1800's. He believes his great x3-grandfather built the cabin @ HOMS around 1827 and that it took 3 years to build and they lived there for 15-20 years.
They then moved to Missouri in 1852 and rented the cabin through a caretaker for the next 20-30 years to iron and railroad workers. As the iron industry started to fail, the cabin fell into disrepair over time and was likely occupied by vagrants for the next 20 years or so.
In 1913, a grandson of his great x3-grandfather visited the site and took this picture of the cabin. It is believed that the family sold the land sometime around 1925-1930, but that is unconfirmed. We think this is the same cabin, do you?
We know from the Dillon family, who reached out to us last year, that their family occupied the cabin as squatters in the 1920's-1930's and that they moved to a newly built home on Cook Hollow Road in 1939.
We had already started to research the history of ownership for the cabin online and we plan to re-visit the site and the county to see if we can verify the new information we now know!
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