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Chandler-David Family Home - Banks County, Georgia

A Fine Example of Federal Period Rural Georgia Architecture

As Franklin County, Georgia was settled, one family that moved into the newly opened area of former Cherokee lands was the David family, descendants of Huguenots, and believed to have relocated from Virginia. This family settled in the area of Banks County now known as David's District, near the Five Points crossroads on the Old Carnesville Road. Around 1835-40, the family built a large two story house in this area, and the house was used as a tavern for travelers to be able to stay overnight and receive a meal. According to family history, the house was originally painted red.

The house was made from hand-hewn oak timbers faced with clapboard siding, with a center hall and rooms to either side, and was a fine example of the rural Georgia architectural vernacular (cf. The Georgia Catalog, Historic American Buildings Survey, by John Linley, The University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA, 1982), similar to the "plantation style" of the Federal Period. The upstairs had three large bedrooms. Chimneys were located on both sides of the house, and made from locally made brick. This house was destroyed around 2003 after the last Chandler occupant (Rachel Breedlove Chandler, wife of Curtis Eugene Chandler, Sr.) passed away (2000) and the property was sold by her five children. The hearths were regularly whitewashed with porcelain clay from the nearby streambed to the south of the house.

Behind the house, a large building was built as a kitchen, with a large hearth at one end. In later times, the main house was remodeled to include a kitchen, and this building became the "wash house". On the south side of the property, a smoke house was built. About 100 yards further south, a barn and corn crib were built, also with hand-hewn timbers. These outbuildings were donated and relocated to the Fort Hollingworth-White House property around 2006, and are being restored. (see Fort Hollingsworth-White House.)

The David Family

Henry David (b. ca. 1780, d. 1845) and son Isaac M. David (1808-1865) were most likely the first residents of the area later known as the David's District, but it is not clear which of them built the Chandler-David home. Isaac M. David and wife Artimecy Morgan had daughter Pilina White David (1833-1862), who married Reuben David Nunn (d. 1864), and lived in the Chandler-David home.

After both Reuben David Nunn and Pilina White David Nunn died, the property was turned over to daughter Olivia Ann Nunn and husband Isaac Chandler. Reuben David Nunn died at Murfreesboro, TN after the battle there.

The remaining members of the David family eventually left the area (believed to have relocated to the Atlanta area), but an unmarked family cemetery remains in the woods to the south of the Chandler Family cemetery.

The Chandler Family

Joseph Chandler and wife Nancy Turman moved their family to Northeast Georgia from Lunenburg or Mecklenburg County, VA around 1780-1785, first settling in the area of Washington, GA, and then moving into Franklin County, GA as lands opened up with the treaties with the Cherokee nation. Making things confusing for researchers is the fact that another Joseph Chandler family moved to within a few miles of the subject Joseph Chandler at about the same time, that family relocating from the other side of the North Carolina-Virginia border, and apparently not related whatsoever. (A privately published book The Other Joseph Chandler, by Ilene Chandler Miller, 1987, provides detailed genealogical information.)

Joseph Chandler's son, Sterling Chandler (b. 1782) purchased land in the area to the southeast of David's District along Bear Creek (1808, 1810, 1811) and later, on Black's Creek (1818, 1819, 1820, 1821), according to deed records and tax digest from the period. Sterling Chandler's son Dudley Jones Chandler, born 1809 (and apparently named after the prominent Justice of the Peace in Franklin County at that time, Dudley Jones, who is buried near Five Points in a field north of the crossroads) married Nancy Francis Jolly in 1831. Dudley Jones Chandler had seven sons who served in the Civil War. While this article is not intended to be a genealogical history, suffice to say that the David family property eventually, through marriage, became owned by the Nunn family, and subsequently to descendants of Sterling Chandler.
Isaac Chandler (b. 1847) and wife Olivia Ann Nunn (b. 1859, m. 1878) had ten children, including Curtis Eugene Chandler (b. 1895). Isaac lived in the Chandler-David family home until his death in 1937. Curtis Eugene Chandler and wife Rachel Breedlove moved into the home to care for the aging Isaac Chandler ca. 1930, and continued to occupy the home until Rachel's death in 2000. Many of the Chandler descendents as well as the Nunns are buried behind the old house in the Issac Chandler cemetery. The land where the cemetery is located is deeded to itself so it was not involved in the sale of the house and outbuildings.
The house was destroyed, but the outbuildings can still be seen at Fort Hollingsworth.

Other Notes

Family records are unclear about connections between the name White and the David family. Pilina White David (b. 1776, m. 1804, d. 1857 in David family cemetery) is recorded as daughter of Isaac David and Mildred White. Pilina White David married Henry David (b. 1780, d. 1845), son of Peter David IV and Elizabeth White. Mildred White is shown as daughter of Henry White (b. 1724, d. 1802 in Bedford Co., VA) and Celia Page (b. 1731, d. 1799 Buckingham Co., VA). It is not clear how or when the White family members arrived in Georgia.
It is interesting to speculate whether there is a connection between the White family at Fort Hollingsworth and the Chandler family that donated the surviving outbuildings from the Chandler-David property now located at the Fort Hollingsworth-White House.