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From the house in 2025.
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The family comes home
Descendants of Colonel Jonathan Latimer gathered in Sumner County on September 26 and 27, 2025. They heard from county commissioners, toured local cemeteries, looked over family treasures, and walked through the log house. For many of them, it was the first time inside.
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A budget, at last
A committee of neighbors, a descendant, two specialists and four commissioners spent the spring building a plan. In June 2025 they handed in a scope, a line item budget, a timeline, a site plan, a floor plan and a drawing of the finished house.
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The brick starts coming off
The veneer began coming away and the hand hewn logs came out from under it for the first time since the mid 1900's. Photographs from both days are on the restoration page.
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The bequest comes back
The five hundred thousand dollars was separated back out of the education technology trust and returned to the county, where it had been meant to go since 2016.
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