Metropolitan Government Archives of Nashville and Davidson Co., TN
Davidson County Chancery Court Loose Records
Rule # 1638
Delana Lowe and others vs. Gideon A. Lowe and others.
Petioners - bill for partition and distribution of the
estate of Gideon H. Lowe, deceased, late of Davidson Co., TN, filed May 10,
1856.
Delana [Delany] Lowe, widow of Gideon H. Lowe.
Richard Redding and Catherine B. his wife, citizens of Cheatham Co., TN.
Thomas R. Shearon and Mary J. his wife, citizens of Dyer Co., TN.
Joseph Willis and Tennessee his wife, citizens of
Alexandria, Dekalb Co., TN.
Ezekial S. Gleaves and Elizabeth A. his wife, citizens of
Dixon [sic] Co., TN.
Leonard J. Lowe of Gainsboro, Jackson Co., TN.
Against
Gideon H. Lowe
Sarah D. Lowe
Letitia A. Lowe
Anna M. Lowe
And Toney N. Lowe or
Neri T. Lowe
All of whom are citizens of Cheatham Co., TN and under age
of twenty-one years, and Alexander Lowe of Robertson Co., TN.
Complainant Delana Lowe is the widow of Gideon H. Lowe,
deceased, late of Davidson Co., TN and the complainants Catherine B. Redding,
Mary J. Shearon, Tennessee Willis, Elizabeth A. Gleaves, Leonard J. Lowe and
Louisa E. Lowe; and the defendants Gideon H. Lowe, Sarah D. Lowe, Letitia A.
Lowe, Anna M. Lowe and Toney N. Lowe are the children and heirs at law of the
aforesaid Gideon H. Lowe, who died intestate at his residence, in the month of
September 1853, said residence then being in Davidson Co., but now in Cheatham
Co., TN
At his death Lowe owned; one tract on the north side of the
Cumberland, near the mouth of Marrowbone creek, also one half of another tract
called the meeting house tract, containing in all 570 acres. Another tract owned in common with Alexander
Lowe of between 90 and 100 acres in Robertson Co., now occupied by Richard
Redding and his wife, on the road that runs from Nashville by Sycamore Mills to
Clarksville, about one and a half miles from Sycamore Mills.
List of slaves named in file -
Allen; Clary; Andrew; Peter; Blackstone; Marinda; Green;
Daniel; Clayton; Levi; Harriet; Richard; Shepherd; Edney; John; James [Jim]
