Date:  June 2010

Image Number:   CG90cdCG08

Comments:   The Thomas Staples House at 240 Jackson Street was built circa 1840 for Thomas and Ann (Tompkins) Staples.  This wood-frame house is clad with beaded weatherboard and has four chimneys.  A one-room addition exists at the home's rear, and another room was added to the east side (photo left) of this house as can be seen in the photo below.

Thomas Staples was a leading merchant in Scottsville at the time this house was built.  The Staples house overlooks the Disciples of Christ Church below it, a church which Thomas helped James Turner Barclay build in 1846.  Later Thomas served as an elder for the Disciples Church and then as its leader when Barclay was sent to Jerusalem as the church's first missionary to Jerusalem in 1850.  Thomas Staples died February 12, 1862, and is buried in the Staples Family Cemetery on Church Hill Farm (private property) near Keene, VA.  His wife, Ann, died after October 1860 and is believed to be buried in the Staples Family Cemetery as well.

Following is a view of this house taken from its north side plus a view looking directly at its front door on Jackson Street: