The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-03
BETTER MAN LAW SUITS,
The Report of the ArbitratorS In Di-
viding the Estate of Judge Howard.
(Tarboro Southerner.)


C. M. Parks, r. M. Warren and Ct.
M. I. Fountain, selected voluntarily
by the heirs to divide the estate of,the
late Judge Howard, divided his es-
tate in town, county, and some in the
county of Nash, into six shares, and
then by lot assigned ione to each heir.
This was no easy job but the con-
census of opinion is that they have
done well. There were six heirs: Mrs
j. M. Baker, Mrs. Job Cobb, G. A. Hol-
derness, Miss Mary Howard George
Howard and w. Stamps Howard.
BY this division Mrs. Baker receives
of town property: Arnneim's dry goods
store, the old hotel building on Main
street adjoining Cordons drug store,
the warehouse lot corner Pitt street
and Albemarle avenue, two tenant
houses on Church street near Pamela,
a vacant lot on st. Andrews street
next to II. S. Hicks. OF county prop
erty. the Collins farm this township,
Nash county land near Whitakers,
Taylor mill site, LipscOmbe land and
Rouse land.
Mrs. Cobb receives of town proper
ty: The hardware store and the
brick warehouse in rear of Pitt street
the Mccain residence on Granville
street, the vacant lot on Main street
next to McCann'S meat market the
three tenant houses on st. James street
near Trade, two dwellings on st. James
| street opposite Episcopal church, oil
mill lot near depot. OF county proper
| ty, Oak Spring farm and is to pay
in varying amounts to other heir 81
$3.50.
Mrs. Holderness receives of town
property: The office of Drs. Baker and
S. ~ Harrell, the wooden building in
rear of these, the store occupied by
NJ Kaufman, the old bank building
| corner of Trade and Pitt streets, and
| the building adjoining on Pitt street.
| the warehouse near Registers (frsD
guano factory. OF county property,
Pamela farm and Macnair Crossing
| farm this township, and the Barton
| farm in No. IS.
Miss Mary Howard receives in town
Arnheim's grocery store, the two stores
occupied by Allen & Horne and the
| SOutherner, the lot on Pitt street oc-
! cupied by l.. S. Thompson and Sing
Lee, Burnett's stables on Granville
| street, Mrs. Cookies residence on 81.
| Andrews street, the dye house on Hen
| bricks street, the vacant lots adjoining
| the machine shops and the vacant lot
| between Bico Pittman and J. T. Bras
we'll; farms: the David Bullock am
| the Legett farms, and one-half inter-
| est in the Edwards farm all in No.
5.
George Howard drew in town: the
| Howard block, 3 stores with ware
house and stables in rear a lot on st
| Andrews street, between Mrs. Bridgers
| and Miss Palamountain. In the coun-
| try: the Gold Hill farm, this township;
| onc-half interest in the Harry Bryan
| farm, No Z township; the Jenkins
| farm, Peele land, Joshua Bullock land
! in No. IS.
| w. Stamps Howard's allotment il
town was Cummings grocery store
Stations office, and Bells jewelri
| with the vacant lot in rear of H. l.
| store, the business places on Main St
| occupied by A. Light Murphy, jenkins
! e. Co, WeddeIl, Jacocks and Williams
r. Rose. DR.. w J. Thigpen's office
| and residence, the residence next to
| Masonic hall, a lot near oil mill, a ten
| ant house in Pamela. He has farms
| the Moore farm in No. 8, the Law
renee Johnson farm in No. 6, one half
| interest in Pinehurst machine shop
| property and the DeBerry house in
| this township.
This includes all the property in the
| town of Tarboro. except what is known
| as the life estate in the Sizer proper
| ty, and includes all of the property
| in the county of Edgecomb, except q
| life estate in the Seasons land No
| Z township, and the one-seVenth in
| terest in the Dickens land in No.
| township, and includes the Turner
| Mines and Johnson tract of land in the
| county of Nash, but does not include
| the Mt. Airy property the Halifax
| county property the Tall Grove farm
| in Mecltlenburg county, Va, nor the
| lots in Elm City
| The committee does not give any val
uation upon the property On the
| street, estimates were made of $23,
| 600 per share for the county property,
and 5000 for the town.
Each share has already received at
$4,000 in town property.
| The heirs are all satisfied. which
gives the committee no little cause for
lf-congratulation.