This neo-classic Greek revival site was built in the mid-1800s by Edmund P. Graves who married a step-niece of Frederick Stump. After Frederick Stumps death in 1820, his young widow, Catherine Gingery Stump, inherited a residence and 300 acres that joined Dry Fork on the south and Whites Creek on the west. Not having children of her own, Catherine shared her residence with her two sisters, her younger brother John, and her niece Helen. In the 1850’s, Catherine gave Helen a 200 acre track where she and her husband Edmund Graves built this house.
Graves and wife, Helen, had six children by the time the Civil War began. With Nashville captured by the Union Army in 1862, many confiscations of property occurred but by 1870 the Graves’ farm had recovered a large part of its productivity. The Graves continued to live in their house until the 1900s. J. D. Campbell owned the property from the 1920’s until William H. Thompson Jr and wife, Jean, purchased the farm in 1950.
More information can be found at The Past Remembered Volume 1 by Paul Clements, Clearview Press, 1987.