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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1932
Page
5
Mrs. Robert Pullen hosts Miss Maud Harris of Louisburg as guest. Miss Virgie Barnes and Eva Williams visit Rocky Mount. W E Fuller of Richmond spends weekend with family in town.
Miss Milwaree Beale visits in Rock Mount. several residents from Roanoke Rapids and nearby towns are guests or patients. Mrs. E J Green and Miss Louise McDonald are hospitalized. community members attend meetings and visit relatives in Norfolk, Richmond, and Charlotte. The W M S observes Home Missions week with services, songs, devotions, and awards at Rosemary Baptist Church.
A notice announces a public auction of two lots 33 and 34 in the Thomas James Edward Hockaday property in Halifax County. The sale, by trustee A. L. Clark, will occur March 26, 1982 at 12:00 noon in front of Citizens Bank & Trust Company, Roanoke Rapids, for cash. The lots are identified by a referenced subdivision map and prior deeds from 1920.
Real estate transactions list transfers in Halifax County and nearby towns. Transfers include properties in Roanoke Rapids, Brinkleyville, Rosemary, Scotland Neck, Weldon, and Rosemary, with various trustees and buyers such as Mary Shaw, Roanoke Rapids Lumber Co, Master Cotton Oil Co, Margaret Norfleet, Lizzie Thompson, and Etta Powell. Prices and exact lot counts are noted for multiple parcels and improvements.
Listings show multiple transfers: Lou Powell to Virginia Carolina Joint Stock Land Bank for 226 acres Polly Gary tract. Allen C. Zollicoffer trustee to Roanoke Bank & Trust Co. covering three parcels in Roanoke Rapids township and one in town. Mary Shaw to John Henry Williams 25 acres on Highway 1. T Parker to Mattie Parker lot in Weldon town. A Dunn trustee to A J Jones 48.8 acres on Tillery to Crowells Cross Roads road. Daniel Williams et ux to E L Petway one Enfield township lot. J W Bullock et ux to E J Petway one Enfield town lot. B F Tillery to H Allsbrook one Scotland Neck town lot. Laura Browning Young et ux to Cecil Pitchford et ux one Weldon town lot.
Notice that on April 2, 1932, at 11:00 A M in Rosemary N C the trustee will sell at public auction the lot known as Lot No 1 in Halifax County North Carolina to satisfy the deed of trust executed August 1 1929 by H T Harlow and Susie Harlow. The sale will occur in front of the Rosemary Branch of Roanoke Bank & Trust Company. The parcel is described in a Map by K H Barrow dated September 20 1928 in a Special Proceeding titled Lucy Massey et al. v J W Massey et al recorded in the Halifax County Register of Deeds.
The document records a land description for Lot No 2 allotted to G E Massey, detailing bearings and distances through multiple trees and markers, ending at a point of beginning. Dated February 26, 1932, signed by Allen C Zollicoffer as trustee.
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