[1] The home was constructed by Thomas Dudley Isom, a physician in Lafayette County.

The exact dates of construction are lost, due in part to a lack of records from 1865 to 1883.

[3] At the age of thirty in 1856 Isom married Sarah McGehee of Abbeville, South Carolina.

[4] Their daughter, Sarah McGehee Isom, would be born in the 1850s in this house and become the first female faculty member at the nearby University of Mississippi and the first female faculty member at a coeducational institution of higher education in the Southeast United States.

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