Thanks to Jim Lasseter for the identification. He notes that his grandparents, Zadock Wilder Lasseter (1878-1938) and Ava Cly Sutton Lasseter (1878-1974) bought this house around 1900 from its builder, a Mr. Cooke, who milled the lumber for the house on site shortly after the founding of Rochelle.
Amazing beautiful and knowing the history really makes it. Thanks for sharing
I spent many happy hours in this home, visiting “Other Mother” as The grandchildren called Mrs. Lassiter, with my husband Irvin Dennard, who was also a grandson!
My grandparents’ home in Rochelle, Ga. It is located across the street from the Rochelle Baptist Church, which they attended along with their Eight children. Thank you for sharing our family home.
They were my grandparents as well; I was told that the man who did the beautiful ‘gingerbread’ work would ask to be taken by to see “Mrs. Lasseter’s house” when he was an old man. Rarely can you find such artistry these days. The Mashburns lived across the street [I think] and their children were school mates of my Mother, Dorothy Lasseter Smith, 1909- 2011.
Many a happy afternoon was spent on the wrap-around porch in those wonderful rockers, as teen-age boys roared by [on this usually quiet little street] showing off their ”smitties” mufflers! isn’t it crazy what we remember from our youth!?
This is the “Lasseter” house. From family lore, it was built shortly after the railroad was completed and the town of Rochelle laid out which occurred around 1888. It is located less than three blocks from the railroad tracks and was one of the first houses built in the new town. The builder was a Mr. Cooke who moved a sawmill onto the property and built the house from Longleaf Pine on the property. Mr. Cooke lived in the house while he built other houses in the area. Sometime around 1900 when he was ready to move on, he sold the house to my grandparents, Zadoc Wilder Lasseter from Vienna, and his wife, Ava Sutton Lasseter, from Rochelle. They both lived in the house until their deaths when my mother and father, Kenneth and Evelyn Lasseter, moved into the house–around 1972. In 1997, Evelyn Lasseter sold the house to a grand nephew of Ava Sutton, Danny Sutton and his wife, Pam.
Jim Lasseter
Thanks for the fascinating history, Jim! I will change the information on the posting.
What is the address for this house? I want to find it on Google Earth.
The house is located on the northeast corner of Gordon and 3rd Ave, across the street from First Baptist Church.
This home is known as the Lasiter House. Now occupied by Danny and Pam Sutton.