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036 tome" aw A4MW" •+ .ft raa-oo64 United States Department of the interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Cabe - Pratt - Harris House Section number 8 Page 7 Orange Co . , NC on the north side of the Eno approximately one - half mile west of the point where the present day Pleasant Green Road crosses the river . A well - traveled road survived into the twentieth century from the Pleasant Green Community , passing the old Barney Cabe homestead where it dead ends at the river . The Cabe Familv cemetery is located approximately 300 yards southwest of the present day residence . There are twelve graves there , but only two of them are clearly marked , including one for " W . Cabe . Died June 18 , 1828 . " William Cabe died apparently without leaving a will and his property was divided among his heirs . An advertisement in the September 24 , 1828 Hillsboro Recorder , a local newspaper , gave notice that his dwelling house , furniture , livestock , farming tools , a wagon and gear , wheat and corn crop and " many other articles too tedious to mention " were to be sold October 22 , 1828 . Another notice in the paper on December 8 , 1828 , is ` ' late residence and 14 or 15 likely again offTr4ed for sale h Negroes . In February , 1829 , commissioners were appointed to make a division of his land which then totaled 1 , 389 acres . They divided that land into nine lots . Lot number three , 160 acres , was assigned to his daughter Jamima ( named after his wife ) , who married twice , first to John Burton in February , 1825 who died early in the marriage , and next to Jehu Brown in August , 1827 . Jamima Cabe ' s will , dated ' March 5 , 1845 , states that she " bequeath ( s ) to my daughter Mary Burton the plantation which I purchased from my son - in - law Jehu Brown , adjoining the lands on which I now live . . I give to my grandson John Burton the Wagon and gear and all of last year ' s crops one of the heifers and one - third of the stock of hogs . . to my affectionate granddaughter Mary A . Burton one bed and clothing , and corner i � wares it contains , together with one of cupboard with all t the young heifers . " It appears that William Cabe left the tract number three , where the Cabe - Pratt - Harria house is located , to his daughter Jamima , using her husband ' s name , Jehu Brown . It is unclear whether the Cabe - Pratt - Harris House was already standing ( making either William Cabe or John Burton the builder ) , or whether Jehu and Jamima built the house . Stylistically , the house appears to date from the late - eighteenth century or the first quarter of the nineteenth century . It seems more likely that Jehu built the handsome house with his wife ' s inheritance , and lived there until they moved to Arkadelphia , Arkansas about 1845 where he operated a successful lumber business which