The Green Door by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

Henderson on The Brantley cemetery.īelinda Pitt on The first man hanged in the co…īriggs Sherwood on Lane Street Project: Vick Ceme… Workers in a tobacco… on A rare image of tobacco worker… The last will and testament of Sarah Daniel.Per administrator Stephen Woodard’s Petition for Sale & Division of Negroes, presented to court at November Term 1835, “owing to the small number of slaves & the large number of those entitled to distribution it is impossible to make a fair & equitable division of the same without a sale.”Įstate file of Elisha Woodard (1835), North Carolina Wills and Probate Records, 1665-1998. Treasy Woodard, Henry Woodard, Elisha Woodard, Patsy Woodard Batts and her husband William Batts, Zylphia Eure, Josiah Woodard (a minor), Anna Woodard (a minor), and Henry Benson lived in Edgecombe Elizabeth Peele and her husband John Peele in Georgia Nathan Woodard and Jethro Benson in Alabama and Treasy Stokes and husband John Stokes, Judith Amason and husband Levi Amason, Betsy Boyte and husband Patrick Boyte in Tennessee.Įlisha Woodard’s estate included Old Ben, Young Ben, Jesse, Old Beck, Young Beck, Hester, Mary, Sylley, and Ethel. When he died in 1835 at age 80, he left 14 heirs stretching from Edgecombe County across the South. Elisha Woodard Jr., son of Elisha and Mary Elizabeth Sasser Woodard, lived north of Contentnea Creek in an area of Edgecombe County now in Wilson County.

The Green Door by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman