Listed in Arkansas Register of Historic Places on 06/02/95

ELABORATION

The Heathcock-Jones House was built by the Heathcock family around 1845. James Martin Jones, a settler from Georgia, married Julia Heathcock after the Civil War, and the house remained in the Jones family until the early 1950's when it was purchased by Terrel Weeks. It was bought by a Mr. Banks in the 1970's who then sold it to Steve Collier in the 1980's. It was purchased by the present owner, William Osborn, in 1992.

Although the Heathcock-Jones House is currently ineligible for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places due to the interior renovations, the large rear addition, and general deterioration, it is being nominated to the Arkansas Register of Historic Places under Criterion C as a good example of an antebellum single-pen, half-dovetail notched log cabin in Montgomery County.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Information submitted by Mr. William J. Osborn.

The Goodspeed Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Arkansas. 1891. Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, 1978.

Herndon, Dallas T., Centennial History of Arkansas. The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company: Little Rock, 1922.