History of the Cagle's Farm House
The Simpson-Bobo-Cagle House
The story of the Cagle's Farm House begins sometime in the early 1800s, we think before the Indians were removed in 1838. The kitchen was constructed very crudely. The logs were flattened on one side for the floor joist and the roof rested on small pine poles. The chimney was constructed of rock found on the property with mud. The kitchen measured about 12 x 16, which was common.
Many Indian artifacts have been found on the property and oral history has it that the hill behind the house was used for meetings of Indians from different villages. This makes us wonder about the beginning of the one room. Many Indians did build houses which were not logs.
Sometime later there was two front rooms, much better constructed, built some 20-foot from the kitchen, as was custom in those days. There were two doors facing what is now Hickory Road and two back doors in the rooms with no hall. This was a simple farmhouse 
with ten-foot ceilings in these two rooms with no gable on the front and a simple straight porch across the front and probably the back. The lumber was hand hewed and hand planed and the windows were 6 over 6 and wavy glass. There was a chimney at each end of the house constructed from red clay brick and mortar.
In 1878, Representative John N. Simpson who was also a director of the Bank of Canton owned the house. He did major changes. We found evidence of the center wall between the rooms being moved and a hall created with two “new” doors, half glass and 42 inches wide, placed at the front entrance and 
back entrance of the hall. The outside solid doors were reused on the interior. The front and back 6 over 6 windows were removed and used in two rooms that made an ell shaped house that was custom to the area. These rooms were still detached from the kitchen the best that we know. We are not positive when the 4 rooms were joined to the kitchen, it could have been at this time.
Rep. Simpson made the roof pitch over the front much steeper, installed a gable and added the wrap around porch with the banisters and carpenter gothic trim.
He removed some of the hand-hewed timbers where he placed the front door and the back door. All corners are hand pegged with no nails. The two “new” rooms were constructed of hand cut nails.
Electricity came to the house in 1941 and so did a new bath, in the standard lean-to shed roof room.
Albert bought the farm in 1957 from his Aunt Ella Doss Bobo after the death of Barnum 
Bobo. The Bobo’s had bought the farm from the estate of Rep. Simpson in 1923. We are not sure who owned the house before him, but we think it was a relative, possibly a doctor.
In 1976 after having planned for many years to build a new house, we learned we loved the old farm house to much, so we decided to “re-model” the house. We removed the back roof and added an upstairs which uncovered the mystery of the leaks between the gables that just could not be stopped.
Shortly there after the back new part of the house with the garage area was added. The Cagle boys had a good place for Young Life meetings and a neat poolroom for their friends. Most of the work on the house was done by the teenage boys, Albert and Charles Cagle 
(Albert’s brother). The house truly is a family home.
The year 2002 brought on much needed repairs, as all “ole homes” do. We started work once again with two newly reconstructed chimneys from the roof line up. We finely have a paved drive around the house. A much needed metal roof will replace the metal roof that was put on in 1878. Although the new part of the house has metal from the same company that manufactured the 1878 metal, it is not the same. We have decided to not match the 1976 roof in order to give the oldest part of the house the recognition that it deserves.
Regular maintenance on the inside of the house will follow. Maybe we have learned enough over the years to be more preservation friendly this time around.