Myrtles Plantation Ownership Timeline

The Myrtle’s Plantation

Ownership Timeline

Compiled by NAPS Investigator Cheryl Freeman

1796 – House was built by General David Bradford and wife Elizabeth

1808 – Elizabeth Bradford took ownership when husband, General David Bradford died

1808 – 1823 – Elizabeth allowed daughter, Sarah and her husband Clark Woodruff to manage the Plantation

1824 – Woodruff buys the Myrtles from Elizabeth

1834 – Woodruff sells home to Ruffin Grey Stirling and wife 

1854 – Ruffin Stirling died, leaving home to wife Mary Cobb

1865 – Mary Cobb hires William Winter to manage home

1865-1868 – during this time Mary Cobb gives home to daughter Sarah Stirling and husband William Winter

1868 – Winter is bankrupt and has to sell home - sold to New York Warehouse & Security Company

1870 – Winter buys the home back from New York Warehouse & Security Company

1871 – Winter murdered at home, leaving home to wife, Sarah

1878 – Sarah dies leaving home to mother, Mary Cobb

1880 – Mary Cobb dies leaving home to son, Stephen

1886 – Stephen sells home to Oran Brooks

1889 – Oran sells home, home changes hands several times over next few years

1891 – Harrison Williams purchases home

1950’s – home sold to Marjorie Munson

1970’s – home sold to Arlin Dease and Mr. & Mrs. Robert Ward

Over the next 30 years home belonged to:

James and Frances Myers

John & Teeta Moss