GREENE COUNTY, NC - COURT - Elias Turnage vs. Chrischana Turnage, 1850.

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North Carolina Supreme Court, Case #6994: Elias Turnage vs. Chrischana 
Turnage, 1850. Abstracted from the originals in the NC Archives, and 
contributed by Roger Kammerer and Elizabeth Ross.


                       Estate of Travis Turnage

Travis Turnage died leaving will in Greene Co., NC, in 1846, leaving 
property to the children of his brothers and sisters. The will was 
probated in 1846 (and is also posted in full at this archives website--
see under Wills).

Abstract of will:
Written Apr. 3, 1846, probated May Term 1846.
    wife Chrischana Turnage, Executrix
    (brother?) Lewis Turnage
    nephew Thomas T. Turnage
    nephew Thomas Hooker, Jr.
    brother Amos Turnage's children
    nephew Travis Hooker
    brother Moses Turnage's 6 youngest children
    niece Luizer Joiner
    brother Elias Turnage and his daughters
    (no relationship stated) Clary Askey's daughters
    nephew William Franklin Hooker
    Witnesses: Wm. Ormond, Jesse W. Moore

These legal briefs name the nephews and neices, as traced in this court 
case.

Elias Turnage of Pitt County, daughters:
    Sarah Turnage
    Nancy Turnage
    Mary Adeline Turnage

Clary Askew's children:
    Elizabeth Askew
    Christianna Askew
    Susan Askew

Moses Turnage's children:
    Thomas King and wife Martha
    Moses Turnage
    Nancy Jane Turnage
    Alice Turnage
    Benj.  Turnage
    Margaret Louisa Turnage

Sarah Hooker, guardian:
    Thomas Hooker
    Louis Hooker
    William F. Hooker

Elias Turnage, guardian of 
    Louisa Joiner

Lewis Turnage's children, all of Tennessee:
    Susan  --married Cornelius Rawle
    James B. Turnage
    Emmanuel Turnage
    Thaddeus G. Turnage
    Christian Ann E. Turnage
    Mary Turnage
    Joseph Turnage

Amos Turnage's children, all of Tennessee:
    Thomas F. Turnage
    Henrietta --married _____ Marr
    Mary Adeline Turnage
    David E. Turnage
    Mourning Amanda Turnage
    Sarah Turnage
    Amos Turnage
    Narcissa Turnage

Christiana Turnage lived in Hookerton, Greene Co., NC. Elias Turnage was 
a man of "limited education".

Deposition was taken from Patience Perkins Jordan at the tavern of 
Jonathan Woods in Snow Hill, Greene Co., 1849.