This house was constructed by Eugene Gibson and operated by his wife as a boarding house for many years through the Civil War. During the mid-1870s, Mrs. James G. Gibbs (Mrs. William Kilcrease) purchased the house. She was one of the social leaders of the town and an untiring worker for the Confederacy. After the war, she continued her leadership in the Ladies Aide Society, taking on the project of erecting a proper memorial to the heroes of the war. By 1884, this objective was accomplished. The monument is located on the north side of the court house. The Gibbs family moved to Charleston in 1889, and the house was acquired by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Jones, who reared their family there. Mr. and Mrs. Milton Bevis became the owners, and in 1987, restored and enhanced the house and landscape surrounding it.