--part1_c.7f18151.26a27304_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --part1_c.7f18151.26a27304_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-path: <[email protected]> From: [email protected] Full-name: AltaMDurden Message-ID: <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 22:02:33 EDT Subject: Re: Catawba County Courthouse To: [email protected] CC: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 109 Bless you, Mr. Futch (and Kimberly Andersen Cumber, too), for your great deal of patience and care of old records. I have been on vacation in North Carolina for the last week or so and am just now attempting to respond to my e-mail (so you'll know it's not from a lack of interest that I have not answered.) For many years, we have searched in vain for a finalization of the estate of our ancestor, Nathaniel Mitchum, 1780-1838. He died that year in Lincoln County; however, before settlement of his estate, the county lines were changed (more than once?), and what began as administration of his estate in Lincoln County was transferred to Catawba County sometime before March 11, 1846 when his property was sold before the courthouse door in Newton by Sheriff Andrew H. Shuford, the buyer being Major Hull (coincidentally Administrator of Mitchum's estate). We have received from the Clerk of Court at Newton copies of some of the Catawba County records (including the Sheriff's Sale Deed, recorded in Book 3, pages 589-591.) His heirs-at-law were sons: Logan, Lawson, James Nathaniel, Henry, Banks, Bartlett, Murrell, twins John Robert and Aaron, as well as Sally (Mrs. Henry Johnson); Jemima (Mrs. Daniel Linn - Lynn); and Narcissa, together with the heirs of Joshua Mitchum (deceased), and the widow, Jemima Reynolds Mitchum. >From the Archives at Raleigh (and Ms. Cumber), we have many pages of the LINCOLN County estate administration, which began not long after his 1838 death, consisting of affidavits and vouchers for payment of debts, and lists of items sold (and buyers), at personal property estate sales. WHAT WE HAVE NEVER BEEN ABLE TO LOCATE is a FINAL ACCOUNTING that may have been (or should have been) filed by Major Hull as A