Amos Deason Home

Visitors, DAR members and local news have reported rocking chairs that rock on their own, footsteps like heavy boots walking through the house, things moving, noises, voices and cold spots, and at one open house several people saw the globe of an old oil lantern rise in the air, move forward and fall to the floor; the house has been featured in several paranormal shows and is considered one of Mississippi's most haunted homes. The best-known story concerns the Murder Room: in 1863 Confederate Major Amos McLemore, sent to capture the deserter Newt Knight and staying with Deason, was shot in an upstairs room, an act attributed to Knight. Local lore says the bloodstain on the floor in front of the fireplace reappeared whenever a storm approached, and the floor was later overlaid with new boards to hide it. The Amos Deason Home in Ellisville, built around 1845, is the oldest house in Jones County and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is owned and cared for by the Tallahala Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.