The Werner house at what is now 201 Werner Street in Central, formerly Broad Street, stood on property purchased in 1919 and became the home of Theodore and Mary McDow Werner, whose family had moved from Pendleton to Central by 1880 after living in another house that later suffered a fire in the early 1900s. Theodore Joseph Werner Jr., a Confederate soldier, married Mary Catherine McDow in Pickens, South Carolina, on May 10, 1866, and they had six sons and four daughters; four sons and a son-in-law worked for the railroad, and Theodore was described in 1908 as one of the oldest men in the employ of Southern. After Mary died on July 31, 1925, Theodore moved to Wagner, South Carolina, with his daughter Mary Lou Werner Ezell, though he sometimes returned by bus to Central to sit on the porch of his former home before going back to Wagner; he died on March 20, 1936, from a fall and injury to his left hip. Their children included Frances Jane Werner, who married Augustus D. Hardin in 1887 and later moved to Decatur, Georgia; John Theodore Werner, a railroad conductor who married Jennie S. Nicholson in 1895 and died in 1907 after being shot by Chief of Police Attaway following an earlier arrest and later confrontation in a restaurant; William Joseph Werner, a railroad conductor; Robert Sidney Werner, a railroad flagman who died of pneumonia in 1897; Samuel Ernest Werner, who worked as a carpenter for railroad buildings; Miles Arthur Werner, who began as a telegrapher in Central, later became General Agent for the Atlantic Coastline Railroad, and died in 1951; and George "Herman" Werner, the youngest son, born in 1893. Herman Werner began playing professional baseball after being seen in Odenville, Alabama, in 1912, joined the Class D Sally League, moved to Rome, Georgia, in 1915 after the Gadsden team folded, was voted his team's most valuable player as a second baseman, advanced to Chattanooga in the Class A Southern League, and then played for the Atlanta Crackers. By 1917 he was ready for the major leagues, but the war in Europe intervened; though he saw no combat, double pneumonia caused eye problems and he wore an eye patch. From 1919 to 1943 he played in the Sally League, Million Dollar League, Carolina League in Greenwood, and for the Ware Shoals and Greenville teams before returning to Central in 1943, where he worked at the Central Mill for 19 years until retirement. The house later became the home of Herman Werner and his wife Eunice Lawrence Werner, and after his death John R. and Clara B. Head purchased the property in 1989.