Stewart County GaArchives Photo Place.....Grimes / Feagin House May 2008
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 In the Westville Guide, a guide that use to be given out when you would visit 
the Westville (Town of 1850's )  It has this info on the Grimes / Feagin House.
" This dewelling was built in 1842 in Stewart Co., by John Grimes for his son 
in law, Henry Feagin. The bulider was Charles Cornelius Lynch. The building is 
a typical example of a home of a middle class family.
 The house was given to Westville by S.L. Tompkins, Mr and Mrs Leo Loiselle and 
Mr and Mrs Olan Slayton.
  The moving of the house was financed by the citizens of Richland. The 
Richland Garden Club is planning and supervising the garden."
 (note that it has house was built for son in law, wrong, John and his family 
must have lived in the house and than when he died Julie recieved the house. 
Julie would have been only 7 years old in 1842 when the house was built.
   Somewhere on the Westville site it has this house was the 1st house put in 
the Westville ,1968, Mr Usher told that it was 1969, but he could have been off 
by a year. Below is something i had put together   and sent to the Stewart Co., 
Ga. Archives.6/2/2001.
   On Page 345 of the History of Stewart Co.,Vol. 2 Book it mentions the JOHN 
GRIMES, SR. FAMILY CEMETERY, near the old Grimes - Feagan ( i think it was 
spell Feagin at one time. This is how some of the papers were signed) home. The 
home has now been moved to the Old Westville,in Lumpkin ,Ga. From what Mr Perry 
Usher told Hugh Grimes, is that the home was moved in 1969, I met Mr Usher in 
1998 while in Stewart Co., with Hugh and Betty Grimes of Houma, La. Mr Usher 
had told Hugh the story about the moving of the home before, but he told it 
again being i was there, of how when the home was being moved the house was too 
wide to take across the Patatua Bridge, so what they did was get some planks 
that the truck could drive on to raise the height of the truck so that the 
house was high enough to pass over the bridges sides, 
   
   There is still a need to search for more info on the Grimes in Stewart 
Co.,Ga. 

 Ps just heard in April of this year that Mr Perry Usher died. Do not have the 
date but I think it was this year, 2001.                          

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