Wayne County, NC - Court - Lucy Edwards vs Mary Edwards, 1893 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CR 103.101 - Apprentice Bonds & Records North Carolina } Superior Court Wayne County } Lucy Edwards by her next friend Moses Wiggs vs Mary Edwards State of North Carolina - To the Sheriff of Wayne County, Greeting You are hereby commanded to summon Addison Fields and James W. Edwards to appear before me at my Office in Goldsboro A.M. to give evidence in a matter thereto & then to be heard in which Lucy Edwards has her next friend is petitioner and Mary Edwards is defendant on behalf of the petitioner herein fail not at your peril This March 24th 1893 C.F. Herring csc [Cover reads: Recd. 29 March 1893 Served 31 March 1893 Moses Wiggs (signed) Special Depy Sheff Addison Fields J Jas W. Edwards] ----- Lucy Edwards By her next friend Moses Wiggs, } vs } widower Mary Edwards } James W. Edwards being duly sworn says: That he has been aquainted with deft 12 or 14 years. Addison Fields being sworn says: Deft lives 200 or 300 yards from my house. ----- Lucy Edwards By her next friend Moses Wiggs vs Mary Edwards Lucy Edwards by her next friend Moses Wiggs, alleges That she is a girl about 16 years of age, that she has no father, that she lives with her mother who has one child besides herself about five years, although she has never been married. That she is desirous of being brought up as an honest woman and desires that she be taken from her mother and apprenticed to someone in whose house she may be brought up to an honest and respectable life To this end she prays that a citation issue to her mother & such other persons as the Court may see fit That the matters herein alleged may be investigated and such action taken in the premises as to the Court may seem proper for this - your petitioners will ever pray W.C. Wea(?)ver Attny for Petitioners ----- State of North Carolina To the Sheriff of Wayne County Greeting - You are hereby commanded to cite Mary Edwards to appear before me at my Office in Goldsboro on the 5th day of April 1893 at 10 O'clock A.M. to show cause if any she has why her daughter Lucy Edwards should not be taken from her custody and apprenticed to some good man; and that she bring with her this said Lucy Edwards Herein fail not at your peril C.F. Herring csc This March 29th 1893 [Cover reads: Recd. 29 March 1893 Served 31 March 1893 Moses Wiggs (signed) Special Depy Sheff] ___________________________________________________________________ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Guy Potts ___________________________________________________________________