This home is located between Riverside Drive and Airways. Built in the 1840s with slave labor by Thomas McCorry. The home has four large rooms on one floor and the kitchen downstairs. During the Civil War the family silver was hidden in a hollow tree and covered iwth leaves. The home was sold in 1950 to the Mid-Town Company. The portrait of Mr. McCorry is at the Jackson-Madison Library.

Source: Emma Inman Williams /Marion B. Smothers / Mitch Carter - Excerpts of Jackson & Madison Pictorial History 1988. This photo is Courtesy of Hattie Gibbs Dietrich.

Notes of "Tales of Madison" by Harbert Alexander - The McCorrys were one of Jackson's earliest Catholic families. Judge Henry mcCorry was considered to be among Tennessee's most powerful Democrats in the late 1800's. Even today he is remembered for his efforts in getting the votes recounted in an election where a Republican had been elected as governor. When the votes were counted a second time, the Democratic candidate had the most votes and Judge McCorry was given credit for "stealing" the election. Musidora McCorry is also buried in the family plot at Riverside Cemetery. The Jackson chapter of the UDC is named for her. Tradition says that Henry McCorry, along with Middleton Hays, started Jackson's chapter of teh Ku Klux Klan shortly after theend of the war. The robes for the Klansmen were made byMusidora McCorry with the help of her sisters Ellen and Pet.

Biography of Judge Henry McCorry- Grandson of Thomas McCorry

Riverside Cemetery Jackson Tennessee