thistledome1840
Cadet
- Joined
- Jan 13, 2013
I found this site through Google and was quite impressed. I want to first say most are probably more Civil War historians than I, but I have done the research with this house. It did belong to Chalmers until his death and his wife sold it to E.B. Horn in 1898 for 600 dollars. It is one of the rare Antebellum homes that has the Cistern inside the house. There have been only 5 owners of the house and I am the 5th. The bones are carbon dated back to over 150 years and we are still finding more and trying to piece together the bodies of each child. They were all children. The father and mother are buried in HillCrest Cemetery in Holly Springs and there are two infant girls buried there also. General Chalmers is buried in Elmwood Cemetery in Memphis. I am hoping to get some of my Memphis business partners to sponsor seperate grave sites in the family plot to give each child a natural burial. Please visit and like us on Facebook. We have just recieved our Historic Landmark and we are trying to restore the house and property back to normal. The story is I was reinforcing the floors under the housr and sort of boxed myself in and had to remove a small amount of dirt when I uncovered the femur bones of the first infant. As the detectives arrived we uncovered more than 150 bones beneath the home. It is big news here and it is helping get the word out of this wonderful house. We have become members of Collierville Historic Membership because of Chalmers. If you would like to share more stories or give more info on Chalmers I would like to hear them. From what I can tell he followed SHermer everywhere through the war.