from 1908 to 1982, the hotel belonged to jack and mary evans bobo, who ran it as a boarding house. the husband died in 1948, and the wife became the sole proprietor. one of her tenants was tom motlow, whose uncle was the eponymous founder of jack daniel's, the whiskey distillery. her own brother-in-law, lem motlow, was an heir to jack daniel's and a state representative. however, bobo refused to serve whiskey in her boarding house. she died in 1983, at age 101.