By Order of the Court of Ordinary will be sold at Chesterfield Court House on the first Monday in June next within the legal hours the real estate of Mark Rivers deceased, in said District consisting of one tract of land containing forty acres, more or less, lying on Clay Creek, bounded on the North by the state line, west and south by Wm. Carter, and east by lands belonging to the estate of Thomas Horne.
Conditions: - As much cash as will pay the expense of this sale, with a credit until the first day of January next on the balance, purchaser giving bond bearing interest from the day of sale, with good personal security and mortgage, if required to the Ordinary. Purchases paying for necessary papers.
John Evans
Shff. C. D.
Chesterfield C. H. May 11, 1841
[Farmers’ Gazette, and Cheraw Advertiser, May 26, 1841, Page 112, Image 4]
By notice in the local newspaper, the real estate of Mark Rivers will be sold on the 1st Monday in June 1841. Looking at a June 1841 calendar we can see that Mark Rivers land will be sold on 7 June 1841. The newspaper notice does not say how many acres of Land would be sold and all deed and plat books for that time period were destroyed during the Civil War.
We do know that this Mark Rivers was born abt 1781 and died about January 1831. The parents of this Mark Rivers are unknown. We know that his wife was Annie and that she before marriage was a Parker. Annie (Parker) Rivers survived Mark and lived until sometime after 1860 and before 1870.
We can identify most of Mark and Ann children's by a lawsuit filed in 1831.
Chesterfield District. John B. Rivers applicant vs Ann Rivers (Widow), Wm. Rivers and wife Elizabeth, Moses Holifield and wife Amelia, Matthew Rivers, John Dryman and wife Elizabeth, Mark Rivers, Luke Rivers and Samuel Rivers Defendants.
It appearing to my satisfaction that Ann Rivers, Moses Holifield and wife Amellia, Matthew Rivers, John Dryman and wife Elizabeth, Mark Rivers, Luke Rivers and Samuel Rivers reside without this State, it is ordered that they do appear and object to the division or sale of the Real Estate of Mark Rivers deceased on or before the 12th day of April next, or their consent, will be entered off record.
T.,Bryan
O. C. D.
January 27, 1831
[Farmer Gazette and Cheraw Advertiser, February 03, 1841, page 47, image 3]
Using these newspaper clipping and the census we can reconstruct Mark and Annie family.
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1. SHERRIF’S SALE-Mark Rivers Estate Lands obituary, The Daily Press, Newport News-Hampton, Virginia, United States, 26 May 1841, Page 112, Image 4. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/.
2. John B. Rivers applicant vs Ann Rivers (Widow), Wm. Rivers and wife Elizabeth, Moses Holifield and wife Amelia, Matthew Rivers, John Dryman and wife Elizabeth, Mark Rivers, Luke Rives and Samuel Rivers Defendants. obituary, The Daily Press, Newport News-Hampton, Virginia, United States, 3 February 1841, page 47, image 3. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/.
