Clay County GaArchives Obituaries.....PETERSON, EVE December 30, 1931
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SOUTHWEST GEORGIAN, FT. GAINES, JAN 7 1932
MISS EVE PETERSON, 96 YEAR OLD SPINSTER, PASSED AWAY WEDNESDAY AT THE HOME OF 
HER NIECES, MISS ANGELINA HARTLEY AND MRS. JANE WATSON, WHERE SHE HAS LIVED 
SINCE THE TRAGIC DEATH OF HER SISTER, MISS VALLONIA, A LITTLE MORE THAN TWO 
MONTHS AGO.  FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD THURSDAY WITH INTERNMENT IN THE FAMILY 
BURYING GROUND.

MISS EVE WAS THE LAST OF A FAMILY OF THIRTEEN AND ONE OF FOUR SPINSTER WHO 
JOINTLY INHERITED THE HOME PLANTATION AT THE DEATH OF THEIR FATHER MR. DANIEL 
PETERSON IN 1891.  TWO OF THE SISTERS DIED ABOUT TEN YEARS AGO, LEAVING MISS 
EVE AND MISS VALLONIA.  ON OCT 19 1931, MISS VALLONIA MET A TRAGIC DEATH WHEN 
HER CLOTHING BECAME IGNITED AT THE KITCHEN STOVE AT THEIR PLANTATION HOM WHERE 
TWO AGED WOMEN LIVED ALONE.

AT THE TIME OF MISS VALLONIAS PASSING, THERE WERE REVIVED MANY LEGENDS OF 
BURIED TREASURE.  LEGENDS WHICH SEEM TO HAVE DATED BACK TO THE IMMIGRATION 
FROM IRELAND OF THEIR GRANDFATHER NEARLY 200 YEARS AGO.

POTS OF IRISH GOLD WERE SAID TO HAVE BEEN BROUGHT BY THAT GENTLEMEN AND BURIED 
ON THE PLANTATION WHICH HAS BEEN HANDED DOWN THROUGH THE GENERATIONS.  THE 
HABIT OF BURYING THEIR TREASURE SEEMED ALSO TO HAVE BEEN PASSED ON, FOR AMONG 
THE POSESSIONS OF THE TWO AGED LADIES WAS AMERICAN GOLD CONTAINED IN A RUSTY 
SNUFF BOX BEARING EVERY EVIDENCE OF HAVING BEEN BURIED IN THE EARTH.

A FURORE HAS BEEN CAUSED IN THE COMMUNITY SEVERAL YEARS AGO, WHEN THE LADIES 
DECLARED THAT THIEVES HAD DUG UP MORE THAN A THOUSAND DOLLARS FROM ITS HIDING 
PLACE.

ALL THEIR LIVES THE TWO LADIES HAD LIVED AS RECLUCES AND OF THE FOUR SPINSTER 
SISTERS, MISS VALLONIA ALONE HAD EVER LEFT THEIR IMMEDIATE NEIGHBORHOOD.  SHE 
ALONE HAD WINESSED ANYTHING SO MODERN AS A RAILROAD TRAIN, ALTHOUGH THEY 
RECEIVED THEIR LIVELIHOOD FROM RAILROAD STOCK INHERITED FROM THEIR FATHER.

FOLLOWING THE PASSING OF HER SISTER MISS EVE DISPOSED OF THEIR PERSONAL 
BELONGINGS, DIVIDING THEM AMONG HER NIECES AND NEPHEWS.  MORE THAN FORTY 
BEAUTIFUL COUNTERPANES THERE WERE AMONG THE HORDE, HAND SPUN AND HAND WOVEN, 
WORTH A KINGS RANSOME TO THE LOVER OF THE ANTIQUE.  FOUR POSTER CORDED BEDS, 
SPINNING WHEEL AND HOUSEFUL OF OTHER ANTIQUES.

AMONG THE SURVIVING NEPHEWS AND NIECES OF THE DECEASED ARE :  MESSRS LINT, 
MARK AND ALLEN PETERSON;  MRS. WILL CROZIER, MRS. WINNIE RAY AND MRS CORA 
HARTLEY, ALL OF THE SEVENTH DISTRICT;  MRS ERMA MOORE IN EARLY COUNTY; EMMETT 
PETERSON OF EAST CLAY COUNTY; MISS ANGELINA HARTLEY, MRS. JANE WATSON AND MR. 
LEWIS HARTLEY OF THE SEVENTH DISTRICT;  MR EWELL HARTLEY AND MR JOHN HARTLEY 
WHO RESIDE IN BARBOUR COUNTY, ALA AND MRS. MARK PETERSON WHO BEARS THE SAME 
RELATIONSHIP TO THE DECEASED AS HER HUSBAND.

Additional Comments:
EVE PETERSON.  BIRTH 1843, DEATH 1931.
DAUGHER OF DANIEL AND ELIZA PETERSON.

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