GREENE COUNTY, NC - DEEDS - CHARLES EDWARDS to CHARLTON T. EDWARDS

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Martha Mewborn Marble		 mmarble@erols.com

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FROM FREDERICK LEE EDWARDS COLLECTION - abstracted by Martha Mewborn Marble
- copy of originals in my possession

Greene County - this is a copy of an original deed and it is badly torn
_____ day of ----- 1861
Whereas sometime during the year 1860 CHARLES EDWARDS late of Greene County
executed his last Will and Testament in which he gave a devised to CHARLTON
T. EDWARDS a certain tract in Lenoir county --- the following lines are
mentioned - the old PHILLIPS line, the dividing line between me and C. T.
EDWARDS and the line does not run where it was generally thought and it
would cut off the dwelling and other houses bequeathed to C. T. EDWARDS
which was doubtless contrary to the intention of CHARLES EDWARDS we have
mutually agreed to a change ---- I  ELBERT P. EDWARDS of the County of
Lenoir for one dollar paid by JOHN C. ? EDWARDS and LUCRETIA EDWARDS infant
children of CHARLTON T. EDWARDS dec assign my rights to new boundary ----
provided that the D. C. EDWARDS the widow of C. T. EDWARDS shall hold her
life estate

signed by ELBERT P. EDWARDS
WIT    LEWIS KILPATRICK
To Court Jan Term 1861
Enrolled 22 Feb 1861

NOTE:  widow of Charlton Edwards was Carolina according to the obit of 
their son John C.. Carolina’s mother was Mrs. Elizabeth Edwards