This site is devoted to chronicling the renewed life of an old country log cabin and partial structure of a house which was built by my ancestors in the Northern end of Putnam County, Tennessee, in the Bangham community just north of Cookeville.
I have been disassembling the structure - numbering nearly every piece, inside and out - and storing the pieces of this large puzzle as I prepare to rebuild and restore it to its original form on another location in the next few months.
The cabin was last lived in by my great-uncle Lonnie Phillips in the late 1960s and was a favorite place of mine to visit as a child with my grandfather Jarvis Matheney, Sr. ("Pur") and my grandmother Susie Phillips Matheney ("Mur"), sister to Lonnie.
It sat on approximately 90 acres of beautiful woods and a former farm, had some electricity and no running water.
It's the only place I've ever been to that had a two-seater outhouse, or "privy" as they were often called.
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