Elbert County GaArchives Photo Place.....Jacob Cleveland Homesttead( Circa 1787) 1957 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Grace Lee Smith Green GLSGAB@aol.com August 26, 2011, 3:10 pm Source: Race Lee Smith Green Photo can be seen at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/elbert/photos/jacobcle17007gph.jpg Image file size: 26.7 Kb The old homestead located on Coldwater Creek, was built by Jacob Cleveland, Sr. probably when he migrated from Pittsylvania County, Virginia in 1787, to Wilkes County, Georgia, which later became Elbert County, Georgia. The little house in the rear was built first, where the family lived. When the larger home was built this became the kitchen Reuben Cleveland was only 14 when his fatherJacob died in 1791, and still living at home with his Mother. When Reuben and Mary Alexander married 20 September 1804, they continued to live with Reuben's Mother, Mildred, in the old Jacob Cleveland, Sr., home, which was later after 1812, called the Cleveland-Alexander house. It was inherited by their son William Cleveland who married Lucy Terrell and next their son Robert W. Cleveland who married Mary Catherine James, and the last owners were their son William Early Cleveland and his sister Lena Mamie Cleveland, neither of whom married. William Early Cleveland died 6 January 1962. Lena Mamie died 18 June 1975. In 1982, when the Corp of Engineers acquired the home it was destroyed by fire in the building the Richard B. Russell Dam. Additional Comments: From Historic American Buildings Survey "Date of erection: This house was most probably built in 1791. The date "1791" and the initials "W.A." are found carved in both exteior chimneys of the home.The date carved on the chimneys has been seen to read "1741" and does look more like "1741" than "1791". The date of "1741" for the erection on the house is extremely unlikely. The first documented settlement in Elbert County did not occur untill the 1770s. The tract on which the house stands was not surveyed and granted by the State of Georgia until 1787. (Grant Book I, p. 173"). This is when Jacob Cleveland bought this land. The Early Records of Georgia, Volume I, Wilkes County Page 115--HAMBLETON, JACOB and wife Rachel to JACOB CLEVELAND, 250 acres on Vans Creek. Oct. 28, 1786. JEREMIAH CLEVELAND, REUBEN WHITE, Test. My eldest kin say "the date carved by William Alexander was probably a tribute to Jacob". File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/elbert/photos/jacobcle17007gph.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.8 Kb