Edgecombe County NcArchives Wills.....Purvis, Deroshia Virginia 1901 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Tommy Colbert clycolbert@aol.com June 21, 2011, 11:17 am Source: N C Archives Written: 1901 Recorded: 1912 Purvis, Deroshia Virginia, will date 1 May, 1901, date recorded 24 July 1912, to my husband, William Robert Lee Purvis, all of my personal estate and, during his natural life, the following real estate, one tract adjoining the lands of John D. Taylor, the lands of the late Benj. C. Mayo and others in township # 3, Edgecombe Co., it being the land devised to me by my aunt, the late Nancy Ann Virginia Overton and devised to her by her father, Dawson Taylor, containing (blank) acres, also the tract on which we now reside which was devised to me by my father, the late Jno. R. Overton, bounded on the north by the Philpot land, on the east and south by the lands of Jno. D. Overton and on the west by the lands of Jno. R. Purvis, containing (blank) acres; another tract lying in Hamilton Township, Martin Co., known as the Philpot land adjoining the “next above described tract” also the lands of the late L.K. Purvis, Andrew J. Purvis, Jno. D. Overton, Luke Council and others containing (blank) acres, it being the land conveyed to me by Alex. H. Smith, commissioner and recorded in Martin Co.; also one other tract lying in Pitt Co. in the town of Bethel, adjoining the lands of Warren Andrews on the south, the Britton lot on the north, it being the tract conveyed by Allen Warren, administrator of Edmund Andrews to J.E. Langley by deed dated 13 Apr. (1881, conveyed by illegible to Jno. R. ) Langley to W.J. (James) by deed dated 16 Apr. 1888 and conveyed by James to Jno. R. Overton and devised to my by my father, John R. Overton; also one half interest in another tract in TWP 3 Edge. Co. adjoining the lands of C.W. Taylor, Mary Whitehurst, David Taylor and others, it being the land devised to my mother by her father, Dawson Taylor, containing 170 3/4 acres, also all the other lands I may die seized; At the death of my husband, the above land to go to my brother, John D. Overton during the term of his natural life and then to his heirs; executor, husband, the said W.R. Purvis, signed Deroshia V. Purvis, wit. T. Jones Taylor, H.L. Purvis. Will was entered for probate in Pitt Co. Abstracted 8- 26-03. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/edgecombe/wills/purvis2643wl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ncfiles/ File size: 2.7 Kb