Circa 1850s- House at 8118 Badgett Road

Location: 8118 Badgett Rd., Knoxville

The website knoxcotn.org has a page about the Bearden Cemetery, which is across the street from this house. Robert McGinnis, the local cemetery historian, drew a diagram of the cemetery and the surrounding area, and it's included on that webpage. The diagram includes this house, and he labeled it "Two Story House C. 1850." However, in September 2017, Robert McGinnis commented to me on Facebook about this house, saying, "The core of the 2-story white frame is a log cabin, that dates from the early 1800's and was home to Richard Bearden. He deeded land around the [Bearden] cemetery [across the street] in 1819 to Bethesda Methodist Church, which was only in business for about 20 years. It was gone by 1840." So it's possible that this house dates to before 1847, the year that Richard Bearden died, or even before that, to the early 1800s.