Charles Nuckolls and Keziah Yancey
THE NUCKOLLS PLACE
Nuckolls Place stands off Route 612 on the south side
of Little River, on land which belonged to the Nuckolls family by the time the
county was formed in 1742. Charles Nuckolls and wife, [Sarah] Keziah, were early
settlers in the county. When he died in 1767, he left his house and 200 acres of
land to his wife and another 200 acres to his son, William, who was probably
only a young boy at the time. In 1782 William Nuckolls married Henrietta Terry,
daughter of James and Henrietta Terry, and they made their home at Nuckolls
Place, where he died in 1818. William left the house to his wife for life, after
which the property was to be divided among their children. In 1823, after
Henrietta's death, Leighton T. Nuckolls purchased the old home place from the
other heirs. In 1819 he had married his first cousin, Frances, daughter of James
and Anna Smith Terry, and they resided at Nuckolls Place for nearly 50 years.
During this time the Nuckolls family were active members of the Little River
Baptist church and greatly assisted in its growth and development. When Leighton
Nuckolls died in 1872, his wife having predeceased him, he left the house to his
four unmarried children, Caroline F., March C., Adelia H. (Hardenia), and
Leighton T.Jr., Hardenia Nuckolls outlived her brother and sisters and in 1915,
after more than a century and a half of continuous ownership, the old home left
the family when she sold it to Raymond Hillman Hornbrook. Other owners to follow
were: Benjamin F. Turner, Robert A. Brown, Oklahoma City University, Fred L. and
Lavinia Williams, Henry and Katherine Conner, and Walker L. and Mary Ann Hacker.
Today the property belongs to Joseph Bernard Holzgrefe. Nuckolls Place, long
vacant and badly deteriorated, is a large, two-story frame dwelling constructed
over a raised brick basement. The house has a gabled roof, free-standing, brick
end chimneys, sixover- six windows on both floors, and both a front and back
door. There probably was a porch on the front of the house at one time.
Preserved on the property is a Nuckolls cemetery.
SOURCE: Old Home Places of Louisa County Louisa County Historical Society pg. 91
Reprinted with permission by the Nuckolls Worldwide Kindred Society First Virginia Nuckolls and Kindred Book II 2000, Pg 713