Ambrose Adams and Samantha Blevins Pruitt married in 1931, when Samantha was 60, a widow for the previous 15 years. Ambrose and Samantha shared 12 years together before his death in 1943.
This was a first marriage for Ambrose, who lived with his widowed mother, Lucinda Wagoner Adams. Following their marriage, Samantha moved into the house with Ambrose and his mother, who died in 1940.
Samantha's first husband, Hamp Pruitt, was Lucinda Adams' nephew, the son of her sister Mary Wagoner Pruitt. Samantha's two husbands, Hamp and Ambrose, were first cousins.
"The Ambrose place" is the way my father-in-law refers to this house. He and his siblings were sent across the mountain path to help with chores when his grandmother was living there. It's located across the road from the Adams family cemetery.
The house is in poor condition, with the end walls gone.
The center of the house, more protected from the weather, remains fairly solid.
My father-in-law says that Rural Electrification brought electricity to the community in 1948. By today's standards, this house would have provided a rugged existance. But I imagine that this little four-room house held plenty of laughter in it's day.
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