The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1891-10-08
HEIRS TO A FORTUNE.
Cobb County People Who May Yet be
in Luck.

ply of hope if they get nothing else.
The dazzling fortune of s200,000,-
600 is held out before them to reach
for and obtain.
Itcame about in this way: About
fourteen years ago Mr.. Simeon Ed
wards, of Cobb county, received a
letter from his nephew, George Ed
wards, of Mississippi, stating that a
man by the name of Robert Eds
wards owned a piece of real estate
in New York city away back in its
early history-perhaps in its colo
NAL tunes. He leased it to some
persons, company or corporation for
period OF nlnety-nlne years. The
lease expired not many years ago
and then by law should have gone
back 70 the rightful owner, but it
had been so long since the lease be,
gan and the records had became so
lost or obscured that it become a
matter of much difficulty to tell in
whom the correct title was.
He requested Mr.. Simeon Ed
wards to give him some facts in re.
gard to the family history. This
was answered and the facts in a
measure given. Nothing more was
heard Of it till August, when George
Edwards again wrote, stating that
there was an estate of S200,000,000
belonging to the heirs of Robert Ed
wards and unclaimed by the heirs,
and asking was there a Simeon Ed
wards, the son of Reuben Edwards
who died in 1912, at the age of
eighty-fve years. A general reply
was made to this, in which Mr.. Sim
con Edwards was non>committal,
and asking George what he knew
about it.
George replied thai he 'knew very
little except that Simeon had pre-
vlously given him a letter written
about fourteen years ago.
The matter was then turned over
to Colonel A. n. Edwards, an attor-
ney at law, at Marietta, and grand
son of MIR. Simeon Edwards, to in~
vestigate and get up evidence. This
ne is doing and a number of letters
have been received. =
The evidence so far obtained show
the following as to kinship and the
right to inherit: Robert Edwards
had and left as his heirs two sons,
Reuben and John. Reubin was
born in Virginia, lived till 1912 and
died at the age of eighty-five years.
He left a large family of children
to inherit his estate, of whom Sim
con was the youngest and is the on
ly ore now living. Simeon Ed,
wards, our Cobb county man, is thus
a grandson, and perhaps the only
one, of the original Robert Edwards
He has nephews and niece's scatter
ed throughout the United States
who would inherit along with him,
this immense estate.
The hisotry of Simeon Edwards
briefly told, is as follows: He was
born in Georgia, and lived in Cobb
county since 1925, living most of
the time near Powder Springs, Ga
He is successful farmer, and his
large family of children are mostly
farmers, are right we'll of in this
worlds goods and are regarded as
the best and most successful farmers
here.
Little is known of John Edwards,
the other son of Robert Edwards, or
his heirs. He was born in Virginia
and afterwards moved west, and his
heirs are living in different parts of
Georgia, Mississippi and Alabama.
Family Bibles and other records
now extinct, it is claimed, establish
and authenticate these points of
family history.
AS to the genuineness of the cs-
tate, lawyers are making investiga-
ton, and it is now claimed that the
record OF the original deed to this
valuable property to Robert Ed
wards has now, after dilligent search
been found, and that its value run
away up in the millions, as stated.
The heirs are so much interested
IN II that convention vas held in