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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1940
Page
9
The Casper family thanks doctors and nurses at the hospital for care during illness and death of Barbara Joeline Casper. Gratitude is extended to the Patterson Mills Company and village friends for floral offerings and kindnesses. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Casper and family.
Having qualified as Executor of the estate of Emily B. Robinson, deceased, of Halifax County North Carolina, notice is given to all creditors to exhibit their claims to H L Bell Executor at Roanoke Rapids NC on or before May 14 1941 or they will be barred. Debts owed should be paid promptly. Allsbrook & Benton local attorneys. 6t-A&B-6-20
Trustees will sell on Monday June 17 1940 at 11 AM in Roanoke Rapids NC at public auction the Wrenn deed of trust property in Roanoke Rapids Township Halifax County NC including a 63.5 acre tract once known as Hardy Powers land. The sale is by order of the Trustee for default on the September 5 1939 deed to secure indebtedness.
The deed details a land parcel of about 27 acres in Roanoke Rapids Township near Rosemary and Littleton, bounded by Powers and Powell lands, with a prior conveyance to C. B. Wrenn and Cornelia S. Wrenn. A second parcel covers 2.2 acres near South Rosemary described by metes and bounds. The record lists substantial personal property including Ford trucks, farming implements, several mules and horses, a grist mill with power unit, and equipment valued at $190 to $285, signed May 15, 1940 by trustee J Winfield Crew.
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