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Wednesday, September 8, 2021

Delana Lowe and others vs. Gideon A. Lowe and others.

 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]

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