• The Hight family moved from Louisville, NC to Maury Co, TN.
• Hight Carpenters: Besides Rick and Paul, and Thrashers, Seavy was also an outstanding carpenter. He built his barn, complete with drive thru lane, corn crib, and upstairs hay loft with steps. He also renovated and improved the house, and built some fine furniture. One heavy four post cherry wood bedstead remains in the family, now in Alaska, along with a cupboard (Hoosier style).
• The White family had close connections with the Hights, both for having land holdings in the area and for carpentry skills, including James Lewis White having built the Home Place where various Hights have lived.

William And Martha Hight were the first to come to Maury County. They came from Granville County NC along with the Dentons and Colliers about 1830 to Williamson County where they stayed a few years, then moved to Maury County.

William and Martha first settled in the area south of Glendale, possibly the William Troope place or a little further east.

The area between Park Station and Scribner Mill was a Wilderness until the 1850’s . It was comprised of 3 or 4 thousand acres owned by Patrick McGuire of Columbia. He had never cleared or improved it in any way. In the 1850’s it was sold off in tracts. The whole area was known as the “Wolf Harbor Hills”. Morgan Fitzpatrick, early pioneer, had hunted in the area before Maury County was even established, while still Indian land. He often camped in the Big Bend of Fountain Creek. When the land sold 1850’s he bought the tract of bottom land in the Big Bend(Seavys). He built a mill prior to 1863 just upstream from Seavy’s house. He never lived there but the land ended up being owned by Edmonsons. Mrs. Edmondson was a relative of Fitzpatrick. Seavy bought the place from J. M. Bryant who must have bought it from the Edmondsons.

During the 1850’s William’s sons Goodman, George and Rufus Henry all lived more toward Culleoka , kind of in the triangle of Glendale, Culleoka, and Scribners Mill

Goodman S. Hight Sr. first came to the “Wolf Harbor Hills” area in 1860 and bought land 37 acres from his brother Rufus Henry on SOUTH side of Fountain Creek. Possibly this was the old Horace Osborne place west of Seavys place back in the hills.

Here is an interesting website including a bit about George Hight. Civil War Happenings in the Neighborhood

Some speculation about the article: (BT)

"I never have been able to figure where George Hight was living when this happened. It sounds more like the Horace Osborne place where I think Goodman was living at the time. But Goodman wouldn’t have been home, instead he’d been off fighting somewhere at that time. I guess George must have been living on the Whitaker place when this happened. He was an overseer there. Far as I know George Hight never owned land. "

Goodman bought the place we know as the “The Back Place”, alias “Aunt Pat’s or the “Goodman Hight House”. (((still checking this item.....)))

Artifacts found around the Home Place

The only Civil War era finds were two common civilian buttons. Pictured are 1918 dime, marbles, suspender buckle at bottom right dates 1870’s, 1880’s spoon, 2 Boy Scout tokens probably lost by Gene or Jack Craig, and the best find was a silver plated brass coin purse with initials “F. C.” for "Floyd Craig".

Fountain Creek Mill