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Tract
180
 
Owners:
North State Corp.    
Siler Meadows Mining & Lumber Company    
Adams, Helen (Barber) (29 Jan 1885 - 26 Jul 1959)
Adams, Junius Greene (2 Feb 1884 - 4 Jan 1962)
Ashe, Flora Rusella (Patterson) (2 Jun 1894 - 4 May 1952)
Ashe, Hester (Patterson) (12 Dec 1891 - 5 Jul 1945)
Ashe, James Edward (1 Jan 1894 - 10 Jan 1950)
Ashe, Nick Coleman (31 May 1891 - 5 Apr 1953)
Barnes, Laura Emeline (Jenkins) (4 Feb 1882 - 29 Dec 1966)
Beadles, Mary (Stikeleather) (8 Mar 1889 - 27 Jul 1975)
Beadles, N.N. (5 Oct 1886 - 26 Feb 1934)
Branch, Florence (Redman) (14 Apr 1885 - 23 Jun 1956)
Branch, Patrick Henry (4 Jul 1873 - 12 Oct 1961)
Breman, Joseph B. (25 Apr 1875 - 30 Jun 1954)
Breman, Sarah (Barnard) (16 Sep 1877 - 14 Jul 1970)
Colburn, Burnham Standish (10 Dec 1872 - 26 Dec 1959)
Colburn, Elizabeth Grosvenor (Pierce) (18 Jul 1876 - 14 Jan 1959)
Delozier, Virginia Iowa (Patterson) (21 Jan 1896 - 4 Apr 1986)
Franklin, Andrew Jackson (10 Dec 1865 - 18 Jun 1940)
Franklin, Sallie (Keener) (8 Oct 1873 - 3 Jun 1960)
Herbert, Frances (Carrington) (11 Aug 1897 - 6 Oct 1992)
Herbert, William Pinkney, MD (28 Aug 1884 - 6 Feb 1973)
Jenkins, Lona Ellen (Welch) (26 Jun 1875 - 17 Dec 1952)
Jenkins, Samantha Palestine (Gibby) (2 Oct 1874 - 12 Mar 1950)
Jenkins, William Joel (10 Aug 1873 - 22 Oct 1945)
Kartus, Joseph (17 Jul 1877 - 7 Apr 1944)
Kartus, Mollie (Weinstein) (16 Nov 1884 - 23 Jan 1976)
Ledford, Josh Luther (25 Jun 1899 - 8 Jul 1979)
Ledford, Minnie Marie (Patterson) (31 Mar 1905 - 24 Aug 1986)
McCoy, Stella (17 Oct 1884 - 10 Mar 1975)
Patterson, Edith (Jervis) (22 Feb 1906 - 1 Jun 2002)
Patterson, Fannie Alice (Yeaman) (19 Sep 1903 - 23 Feb 1981)
Patterson, Floyd Decatur (25 Jun 1907 - 17 Sep 1984)
Patterson, Fred Garfield (27 May 1901 - 15 May 1967)
Patterson, Lilas (Justice) (14 Oct 1888 - 6 Mar 1943)
Patterson, Samuel Robert (5 May 1887 - 15 Aug 1952)
Patterson, Walter Moore (29 Nov 1909 - 23 Dec 1973)
Patterson, Wiley Edwin (25 Jul 1889 - 9 Sep 1945)
Shuler, James Jasper (23 Sep 1875 - 12 Feb 1932)
Shuler, Mary (Jenkins) (10 Mar 1877 - 27 Dec 1969)
Smathers, Lillian (Fletcher) (25 Dec 1888 - 12 Jan 1958)
Smathers, William Marion (4 Jun 1871 - 12 Jul 1962)
Stanberry, Joel Pierce (24 Apr 1891 - 25 Aug 1969)
Stanberry, Lillie Mae (Patterson) (22 Jun 1898 - 29 Jun 1981)
Stikeleather, James G, Sr (7 Apr 1872 - 17 Mar 1948)
Stikeleather, Nancy Jane (Weaver) (3 Oct 1877 - 26 Sep 1945)
Stillwell, Caroline (Jenkins) (30 Sep 1879 - 3 Jan 1961)
Stillwell, James Edwin (18 Jun 1873 - 15 Sep 1939)


Deed       Date
59-80  01 Apr 1930
56-537  20 Mar 1931
60-128  20 Nov 1931
60-307  25 Aug 1932
 
AcresPriceGeographic SectionMajor Drainage
15,161.70$98,045.70Hazel CreekHazel Creek
 
QuadrangleGrid SectionHomes on TractSecondary Drainage
Silers_BaldL221
 
Purchaser map
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Tract Notes
Large swath of upper Hazel Creek which reaches from Blockhouse Mountain and the divide between Bone Valley and upper Eagle Creek in the west to the western slope of Welch Ridge from Silers Bald to south of High Rocks. A well-heeled group of folks from Asheville, led by James Gudger and Nancy Weaver Stikeleather, had acquired over 2/3 of the Hazel Creek drainage. The lands were formerly owned by Ritter Lumber and the family of Thomas Joshua & Susan Crisp Calhoun.