Greene County, NC - Newspapers          

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                Wilson Daily Times  8/29/1913
  
               CAROLINA WOMAN RICHEST IN THE SOUTH

        MRS. JESSE WILLIAMS OF ATLANTA FORMERLY OF GREENE COUNTY, 
           WORTH BETWEEN FIVE AND TEN  MILLIONS OF DOLLARS.
	
  Kinston, Aug. 29.--Mrs JESSE P. WILLIAMS, of Atlanta, formerly Miss Cora TAYLOR, 
of Bullhead, Greene county, has succeeded to the pricely estate of her late husband, 
who was a noted southern capitalist. Mrs WILLIAMS becomes the largest landowner of 
her sex in the world, and the richest woman in the south.

 Captain Williams died severals weeks ago, and leaving no children and no will, 
his wife became the sole heir. 

 His great estate is variously estimated at from $5,000,000 to $10,000,000. She is 
the only woman in the southern states to control a 22-mile interstate railroad with 
its trains stations, shops, terminals, docks and a steamboat line.

 She owns a quarter of a million acres of farming and timber lands in Georgia and 
Florida. Mrs. Williams is well-fitted to manage the property, having acted as the 
closest counsellor of her husband and virtual manager of the extensive interests 
during the past few years, when he was an invalid. Captain Williams has a brother 
at Mt. Olive, N.C. Mrs. Williams is connected with leading families or this section.

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