Soon after their 1839 wedding, the Laws moved into a log cabin farmhouse at the source of Plum Run in Monroe Township, and in 1846 they relocated to the present property.

John inherited the farm when his father died in 1869,[2]: 684  and expanded the house when he added a kitchen in the downstairs and a living room and two bedrooms in the upstairs.

When John Quincy died in 1927 the property passed to his third child, Frank Vance Law, but he didn't take title until 1931.

Frank resided at the home until his death in 1956, and the property passed into the possession of his sister Eliza Rachel Law (Lida) and his brother Jay Quincy.

Jay worked the land until his death in 1964, when he named his niece, Ella Virginia Reed Huss, as the heir of the Law Farm.