The House That Louis Chowning Built

Louis Chowning

Louis Chowning

Chronology of Ownership
DATE ACTION BOOK / PAGE
6/18/1891 Mary Jane Hall sold 2 acres to Sallie Chowning for $2500 S-3/123
5/13/1898 Sallie Chowning & Louis Chowning deeded part of 2 acres to Allie B Chowning Z-3 / 48-49
8/31/1899 George Chowning (Louis' Brother?), Linda Wilson* & husband, Mary Caldwell* & husband, and George S. Chowning* (*children of Sallie Chowning) deeded to Allie B Chowning Part of the 2 acres. A-4 / 174
1/17/1908 Indenture - Burnett Graham to Tillie Chowning, wife of Allie B Chowning, who inherited part of the property from his mother and purchased the rest from George S Chowning & others on 8/31/99 G-4 / 221
1/14/1911 Tillie Chowning and Allie B Chowning to George S Chowning J-4 / 148
10/1/1919 Indenture Tillie and A. B. Chowning to Mary P Skinner S-4 / 461-462
10/1/1919 George S Chowning & Bell M Chowning to Mary P Skinner S-4 / 461-462
9/25/1947 Mary Skinner died and willed the home / property to Lillie Vivian Anderson (Will book 62 Page 212. (Tracts 1 & 2)
S.R. Skinner to Curtis Coombs 5/30/1929 D-108 / 22
Part of property to S.R. Skinner 3/1/1929 D-107 / 442
Willed to Mary by S.R. in 2/7/1938 (Will book 58 Page 36)
1960 Lillie vivian Anderson is declared incompetent. Citizen's Fidelity Bank & Trust became trustees of the property.
6/29/1961 Estate of Lillie V. Anderson & Citizen's Fidelity Bank & Trust to Laban P & Carolyn D Jackson D-152 / 265
5/14/1971 Laban P & Carolyn D Jackson to Bobby L Harper & Wife. D-172 / 505
11/17/1972 Bobby L Harper & Wife to Ralph Hunt Sidway & Barbara Sidway D-178 / 68
10/7/1976 Ralph H Sidway & Barbara Sidway to Duke A & Joyce A Pyle D-194 / 140
4/5/1978 Duke & Joyce Pyle to James B and Juanita P Badgett D-201 / 107
12/9/87 James B & Juanita P Badgett to Lawrence Mitchell Pennington & Rita E Pennington D-247 / 140
1/22/1997 Rita E Pennington (widow) to Regina L Rose D-333 / 624
2/28/2003 Regina L Rose to Robert Griffiths & Pamela Tucker

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