The house at 841 Pine Street is one of several homes built around 1900 as investment property on the rear portion of lots once belonging to Mary Edmunds Robinson Crumpton (838 Green Street) and J.R. and E.O. McCully. 841 Pine Street was sold at auction by the children of Mary Edmunds Crumpton in 1917 and acquired by C.C. Bolen. Bolen never lived in the house but engaged it as rental property.
The first inhabitant was Jeduthan “James” Eppes Carter. Eppes was the son of John Wesley Carter, a wholesale grocer, and Margaret Ann Redd. The Carter family lived at 870 Pine Street from its construction until sometime in the 19-teens when the entire Carter family appears to have left Pine Street. A brother, John Wesley Jr. was an attorney and state senator, while another brother, William H. Carter was a local banker. Eppes was born in Danville in 1880. He married Mary Park Dickenson in 1904 and the couple had one child, Marguerite Dickenson Carter (right). According to his obituary, Eppes was a veteran of the First World War. Upon returning home, he served for many years as a legislative committee clerk. In 1943, he ran for the House of Delegates but failed to win the seat and thereafter served as city constable until ill health forced him into retirement.
Armistead A. Moore purchased the house after the Carters relocated to Richland, South Carolina. Mr. Moore was born in Halifax in 1845. He was married three times. His first wife, Martha, whom he married in 1870, was twenty years his senior. After her death, he married a contemporary, Emily Catherine Cobbs whom he wed in 1894. When Emily predeceased him in 1903, he elected to try a younger wife. Maude, with whom he shared the Pine Street house until his death in 1939, was thirty years his junior. At the time of his death Mr. Moore was the last surviving Confederate veteran living in Danville, having outlived Harry Wooding by three months.
By 1945, the Pine Street house was the home of Annie Weldon Dodson. Annie was born in 1894 in Pittsylvania County, the fourth of seven children born to Isaac Weldon and Anna Rebecca Lewis Dodson. Annie died of a pulmonary embolism, a complication of surgery for pancreatic cancer. The house then passed to her nieces and nephews who sold the home. It became rental property once again before Moses Lee Price acquired it in 1972 and where he resided until 1995. In 2015, the home was acquired by the Danville Redevelopment and Housing Authority and is presently awaiting its new owner.
Sources:
Census and Vital records found at Familysearch.org
Death notices and other information found in the Danville Register, Danville Bee archives at Newspapers.com
Census, Directory, Newspaper, and other information compiled by Paul Liepe
