Subject: Re: [TNGILES] Re: Surnames: Peden/Peaton/Carroll/Prior or Pryor/ Horn or Horne/ White > Giles Co Chancery Court, Woodruff Giles T-Z, 1830-1900 by Elizabeth Witt > White of Old Records Dept of Giles Co Court House; File Box T-4, Case 4402 > Attachment Bill 1887 > Tally & Eaton & Others b C.W. Brock. > States; Justice of the Peace and Executions were put into the hands of > Alexander Peden, Constable for the County. > > File Box W-2, Case 3509 1876 > John A. Walker & als JOHN A PEDEN > John A. & Griffith S. Walker of Giles Co vs JOHN A. PEDEN of Arkansas. The > complainants represented that about Jan 1, 1875, they purchased of > defendant JOHN A. PEDEN, a Steam and SAW Mill which was located near > Prospect, Giles Co TN, at the price of $2000.00 for which two notes were > executed. There is no decree in this case only a Demurer of Roseneau & > Loveman. > > File Box W-19, Case 1809 Will of James Armstrong, 1893. > This is a lengthy will. Three fourths of the way down; > The heirs of James Armstrong suing for their share of his estate. In the > depositions of James Brasher given Aug 26, 1872, at the age of 71 years, > in Crittenden Co KY, he testified he knew James Armstrong in SC in 1812, > that they moved from SC to Caldwell Co KY and that James Armstrong was his > mother's brother. When the land was sold by the Clerk and Master on Nov 2, > 1865, THOMAS J. PEDEN became the purchaser of the James Armstrong tract of > 162 acres. This deed is registered in Deed Book EE , page 131, Angenol > Cox, Clerk and Master, to THOMAS J. PEDEN. This land lay on Haywood Creek. > There is and old, old deed in this Case, dated 1820, Nov 21 between > William & Egbert Sheperd to James Armstrong. This is a wonderful genealogy > of the Armstrong family. There are depositions that tell about the family > and who the children married. A copy of this entire file can be ordered > from the Old Records Dept of Giles Co Court House, Attn; Clara Parker or > Elizabeth W. White. [Pulaski, ] > > PS; The Armstrong family intermarried with the Hewitt family from SC to > Giles Co TN- Ginny Keefer > > > > > >