We have been in the commercial cattle business all of our adult lives and had begun to use Angus bulls to improve the quality of our calf crop. Being so pleased with our first Angus pair we began to invest more heavily in high-quality genetics to produce a better product and began to look for a place to expand our cattle operation.

While taking our son to baseball camp, Lorrie and I saw the property we’d admired while traveling to MSU during our college days. We realized this wonderful property was apparently abandoned and upon investigation found it was for sale. Purchasing the farm, we put on our working gloves, began restoring the farm, and building a dream that had been thirty-four years in the making.
The farm itself is steeped in history.The land the house is built upon was originally purchased in 1845 by 19-year-old E.F. Nunn. He became a farmer, miller, cattle producer, general store owner, and was a member of the Mississippi Legislature. He was called into the Civil War where he rose to the rank of Major. He fought in the battle of Shiloh, later lost a hand, was taken prisoner and eventually released. Nearing the war’s end, Major Nunn realized the South was losing and wrote a letter home to his wife. She was instructed to bury the cotton in the deep woods and trade their money for gold. Thus, they had hard currency and a cash crop when the war ended. Later, over 450 tenant families farmed the property growing cotton, corn and other crops. They supplied the local CCC camps with dairy products and other produce. Tannahoe, meaning “Green Acres” in Choctaw, was named by the original owners, and remained in the Nunn-Evans family for five generations until we purchased it from them in 2000.

Much work had to be done to bring this once-thriving farm back to life. For almost thirty years, the farm and plantation home had laid fallow and unoccupied. Fields were reclaimed, fences and ponds built and repaired, and grasses and corn were planted where long ago cotton had once been king.
The lush green hills today bear witness to God’s redemptive hand on this land just as He works in the lives of people. The Lord blessed us in this undertaking, may He be honored and glorified in all we do!

Psalm 34:1-10