"The first residence of Samuel Cecil, built in 1814.  It stands north of and overlooking Clinch River, opposite the mouth of Plum Creek, and is three miles west of the county seat.  It was originally a two-story double log house, and was later weatherboarded.   The floors are made of yellow locust lumber and are as hard as polished metal.   The author's mother, daughter and eldest child of Samuel Cecil, was born in 1815 and was reared, and married to my father, in this house.  It is now (circa 1920) owned by Mrs. O.E. Hopkins, a great-granddaughter of Samuel Cecil, and is used as a tenant house."   Source:  History Of Tazewell County And Southwest Virginia, 1748 - 1920, by Wm. C. Pendleton.  Published by W.C. Hill Printing Company, Richmond, VA, 1920., pp. 492