Near this site stood Cottage Home, the farmhouse of the Reverend Robert Hall Morrison, a Presbyterian minister and one of the founders of Davidson College. He and his wife, Mary Graham, had ten children, and three of their daughters married men who later became Confederate generals: Eugenia Morrison married Rufus Clay Barringer, Isabella married Daniel Harvey Hill, and Mary Anna married Thomas Jonathan Jackson. Mary Ann Morrison and Thomas J. Jackson were married at Cottage Home on July 16, 1857, when Jackson was a professor of natural and experimental philosophy and of artillery tactics at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington. Separated in April 1861 by the war, Jackson and his wife were reunited that November when she joined him at his headquarters in Winchester. On November 23, 1862, Julia Laura Jackson, their only child, was born. She and her mother were with Jackson when he died on May 10, 1863, after he was wounded during the Battle of Chancellorsville. Mary Anna and Julia Jackson returned to Cottage Home, where they lived with the Reverend Morrison and where Julia was educated until 1873, when she enrolled in the Charlotte Institute for Young Ladies. Mrs. Jackson, who wore mourning black for the rest of her life, toured the South with Julia as the widow and only child of General Stonewall Jackson, appearing at ceremonies such as statue unveilings. Julia married William Christian on June 2, 1885. She died of typhoid on August 30, 1889. Mary Anna Jackson died in 1915. The Greek Revival-style Cottage Home, built circa 1840, burned in 1911.