Sager built this cabin, his second in Hico, in 1844, and made a living as a farmer, rancher, and cabinet maker.

[4] Sager was not a soldier on either side of the American Civil War but in 1862, at the age of 62, he was killed by Cherokee people who belonged to the pro-Union Keetoowah Society (called "Pin" Indians).

[5] The cabin is a single-story, two-room structure made with hand-hewn logs that have been squared and chamfered, and joined by notches, with the gaps filled by limestone chinking.

A tree-ring specialist from the University of Arkansas, Dr. David Stahle, found that the logs that made this cabin were from a tree that was a sapling in 1730.

Maggie Aldridge Smith (a descendent of Sager)[7] wrote a book titled Siloam Souvenir: Simon Sager Memorial and sold copies for $1 each to raise funds for the cabin renovation.