Sarah Jane Graves Pervis~My 2nd Great Grandmother

 

22 Jun 1852
 
Married 10 June 1852













Married On the 10th inst., by the Rev. Mr. DuPREE, Mr. Wm. A. PERVIS, of Cheraw, and Miss Sarah Jane GRAVES of Chesterfield District. {Fayetteville Observer, Fayetteville, NC, 22 June 1852]
http://www.ncgenweb.us/cumberland/1851-4abstracts.html
Newspaper clippings of marriage found and post on RAOGK Facebook page by contributors’ Joy Kersteter and Debra Cooper, 17 December 2014.
 
15 April 1857












I, Sarah J. Pervis, wife of William Pervis, Shoe Maker, of Chesterfield District, will from now and after one month from the publication of this notice become a feme sole trader.

                                            Sarah J. Pervis
April 15th, 1857

25 November 1885

















SALE of REAL ESTATE
By virtue of power contained in a Deed of Trust executed by W. A. Purvis and Sarah J. Purvis on the 23^rd day of December 1884 to N. J. Thompson and C. C. Moore, partners under the style of Thompson & Moore, and registered in trust book no. 18, page 202 of the registers office of Anson County, Dec. 27^th, 1884, and by consent and request of said W. A. Purvis and Sarah J. Purvis, we will sell for cash to the highest bidder at the Court House door in the town of Wadesboro, on Monday the 7^th day of December 1885, the land described in said Deed of Trust, containing 50 acres more or less, adjoining the lands of W. J. McLendon and others. Sale of above lands made to satisfy a note secured by mortgage on said reality. N. J. THOMPSON
C. C. MOORE.
Partners and Mortgagees
Nov 25 1885, lt.
[The Anson Times, 3 Dec 1885, Thu, Page 3]
RAOGK Contributor Debra Cooper, 17 December 2014
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4 January 1894










Sarah Jane Graves Pervis, age 59, died 31 Dec, 1893

DEATH: Messenger-Intelligencer issue of January 4, 1894,  page 3, McFarlan News - The funeral of the wife of Mr. Wm. PERVIS was preached by this writer in the M. E. Church of this place last Sunday [31 Dec. 1893]. She was a good old woman. She had suffered intensely for fifteen months from cancer. She was a member of the M. E. church about 20 years. [SOURCE: Steve Bailey]

Sarah Jane Graves first appearance in any document was the 1850 Census for Cheterfield County, South Carolina. Her relationship to Mary and David W. Graves are undeteremined.

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[1] MARRIAGE obituary, The Fayetteville Observer, Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina, United States, 22 June 1852, Page 3, Last Column, top right corner. Wm. A. PERVIS & Sarah Jane GRAVES.
ABSTRACTS FROM FAYETTEVILLE OBSERVER   1851 - 1854
Transcribed and shared by Carolyn Gibbons, Posted July 05, 2007 by Myrtle Bridges
[2] Sarah J. Pervis, feme sole trader; The Cheraw Gazette, Cheraw, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, 13 May 1857, image/page 3.
[3] SALE of REAL ESTATE obituary, The Anson Times, Wadesboro, Anson County, North Carolina, United States, 3 December 1885, Page 3. Deed of Trust executed by W. A. Purvis and Sarah J. Purvis on the 23rd day of December 1884.
[4] Sarah Jane Graves Purvis obituary, Messenger-Intelligencer, Wadesboro, North Carolina, 4 January 1894, page 3, McFarlan News.
[5] 1850 U. S. Census, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, population schedule, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, Page 106A, Line 8, Dwelling 110, Family 110, Household of Mary GRAVES; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed 20 November 2011); citing National Archives Microfilm M432 Roll 851.