Isom Place is located at 1003 Jefferson Avenue in

Oxford, Mississippi Oxford is a city and college town in the U.S. state of Mississippi. Oxford lies 75 miles (121 km) south-southeast of Memphis, Tennessee, and is the county seat of Lafayette County. Founded in 1837, it was named after the British city of Oxf ...

and listed on the

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. The home was constructed by Thomas Dudley Isom, a physician in Lafayette County. The exact dates of construction are lost, due in part to a lack of records from 1865 to 1883. The earliest version of the structure was a two or three bedroom cabin, but by 1840 Isom used the cabin as a core for the current home. At the age of thirty in 1856 Isom married Sarah McGehee of Abbeville, South Carolina. Lore reports that McGehee brought a shoot of a magnolia tree from South Carolina and planted it in the front yard of Isom Place; it is not known if the tree remains standing.Doyle, Don H. ''Faulkner's County: The Historical Roots of Yoknapatawpha.'' Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2001, pp. 104-105. Their daughter, Sarah McGehee Isom, would be born in the 1850s in this house and become the first female faculty member at the nearby University of Mississippi and the first female faculty member at a coeducational institution of higher education in the Southeast United States. .

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References

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Mississippi Houses completed in 1835 Lafayette County, Mississippi National Register of Historic Places in Lafayette County, Mississippi {{Mississippi-NRHP-stub