City Directories and History: Reported to have been constructed about 1830 by the Hunter family. “John Hunter, III, brother of Samuel Marvin Hunter, was married to Nancy Fowler. They spent their first married life in a modest dwelling in Scuffletown which stood on the site of his later splendid brick home a few hundred yards from the Ora railroad depot. The brick structure was built in 1830 and it is today a remarkably well preserved building for its years. The bricks were kiln-dried from clay on the place, and the lumber was sawed from plantation timber. The boxwoods and evergreens bear evidence of great age, and it is not at all unlikely that they were placed there by the hands of John and Nancy Hunter. Some members of the family think that the planting was suggested and supervised by a professional gardener.
Nancy Fowler Hunter survived her husband; and in her will dated January 5, 1872, she left the home place to her son, John Charles Hunter, with a request that three granddaughters, including Nancy Mary Anzie McClintock, be allowed to live there until such time as they should marry and establish homes of their own. Anzie was a daughter of Robert McClintock and Isabella Hunter McClintock, the latter a daughter of John and Nancy Fowler Hunter. Both parents of Anzie died when she was in her early twenties, and she lived thereafter with her grandmother in the brick mansion at Scuffletown.
John Charles Hunter never married and following the death of his mother he spent some time in Texas. Soon after his return, Hunter died at the home of a friend. During the time of his absence from the state the John Hunter place apparently changed hands.
John Hunter McClintock now owns the distinctive old home place of John Hunter, III.”
Information from: The Laurens County Sketchbook, Author – J.S. Bolick, 1973
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