CHAS. MCPHEETERS HOUSE

352 S. Mill, Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky
Built 1824

Chas. McPheeters early in February 1824, purchased a lot fronting about 30 1/2 feet here from George Trotter and erected this house "adjoining John Fisher's lot."

His sister, Jane McPheeters, of Fayette County, died in August, 1835. Chas. McPheeters sold his Mill Street house, having already removed to the country, where he died the next year, and an adjoining deed and Mrs. Petty was living here in 1835.

Jabez Beach and wife, Maria, conveyed the McPheeters house to J.B. Johnson in January, 1846, and Johnson and wife, Elizabeth M., sold it to Mrs. Cloe Foreman in January, 1852. (1859 Directory: "Mrs. Chloe Fordman, e.s. Mill, bet, High and Maxwell.")

The Foremans owned the house for nearly a half-century. In 1882 it had been conveyed to Miss Julia Foreman, daughter, by the other heirs of Mrs. Cloe Foreman, sons and daughters as follows: Thos. Foreman and Linnie, wife; M.G. Thompson and Mary C., wife; Joanna Scrugham, all of Lexington; Henry V. Barringer, Ernest A. Barringer and Curaline A. Barringer, of New Orleans, La.; John Foreman, of Cales Co., Ill., Hugh L. Webb and Jane, wife, of Richmond, Ind.

In 1895 Miss Foreman sold the house to Miss Theodosia A. Scrugham, who had been living there for years, and it has since been generally known as the James Scrugham house.

Ellen Carl Griffy, wife of W.T. Griffee, purchased it in 1919 and sold to G.C. Clarke and wife, Marguerite, who conveyed it to Mrs. Collie Stamper and she sold it to George Wilson on 1923.

Source: Old Houses of Lexington, C. Frank Dunn, typescript, n.d., copy located in the Kentucky Room, Lexington (Kentucky) Public Library.

Transcribed by pb, October 2006