The Mabry Home with its fluted columns was built in 1850 by Dr. Albert Gallatin5 Mabry, who was born September 7, 1810 in Southampton County, Virginia. He was the son of Richard4 Mabry (Nathaniel3, Hinchia, Francis) and his second wife, Polly Braxton. Dr. Mabry received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1837 and moved to Harris County, Georgia in 1840 where he practiced three years prior to moving to Selma in 1843. In 1845 he married Martha Riggs Tartt, widow of Thomas E. Tartt. Dr. Mabry was a member of the Alabama Legislature where he helped pass legislation to establish the State's first hospital for the insane. He also helped to found the Alabama State Medical Association.
Following Dr. Mabry's death in 1874, his children, William Spark and Virginia Mabry continued to live in the home along with Dr. Mabry's step-daughter, Gertrude Tartt, who married Captain Catesby ap Roger Jones. Captain Jones was the commander of the C.S.S. Virginia (Merrimac) which fought the U.S.S. Monitor. When William Spark Mabry, last surviving child of Dr. A. G. Mabry, died in January 1941 he left the house to his nieces and nephews. The house was then occupied by the oldest nephew, Roger ap Catesby Jones, whose grandson, Roger ap C. Jones continues to live in it today.
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