Built in 1892.
In 1903 the Robert F. Haynes family purchased the house and lived here for many years.
Later the J. C. Lilly family lived here. The present of this historic old home is Cindy Davidson.
This picture was made in 1999
Thomas Thomas used to love to tell the story about when his Uncle and Aunt, Robert Fulton Haynes, Jr. and Stella Tucker Haynes, lived in the big two story house.
On March 28, 1905, on the night of the big fire that destroyed all of Marion's down town business district, the Haynes were having a reception for the Circuit Court members, which included lawyers, and attorney's from Marion and the surrounding area.
They were just getting ready to set down and eat when they heard about the fire and by then the flames had started jumping from house to house on the wooden shingles.
Some of the guests at the reception went up in the attic and cut a hole in the roof, and they started getting quilts off the beds and soaking them in tubs of water and putting the wet quilts on the roof to keep the house from catching fire.
They also started carrying the furniture out to the house to save it in case the house did catch fire.
The house was saved and the only damage done was the hole in the roof that had to be repaired and the cleaning and drying of the wet quilts.
Thomas and Ethel had keep all these years, up until Mrs. Tucker's estate sale a few years back, the china dishes that were being used that night. Although some of them got broken in the hurry to get things out of the house. They were Thomas's favorite of all their china. White with pink rosebuds.
It is a shame the house hasn't been able to be restored to it's former beauty and glory. Really a part of Marion's past history.
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