Deed book 153, page 448, Wilson County Register of Deeds Office, Wilson.
On 13 September 1924, for a nominal sum, Lula Whitehurst conveyed the seven parcels of the Harry Clark farm to the Clark heirs. Whitehurst, a young white woman, worked as a stenographer for attorney Frederick D. Swindell. The 1921 plat map of the Clark farm is titled “Map Showing Division of Land Near Wilson Owned By the Heirs of Harry Clark.” How did the Clarks lose their inheritance? How did Whitehurst get it, and why did she essentially give it back? Harry Clark’s estate records could yield clues, but I have not found the file digitized.
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- Harry Jenkins of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, plat number 3 of the Harry Clark farm, measuring nine acres;
- Ella M. Hinton of Addor, North Carolina, plat number 4 of the Harry Clark farm, measuring six acres;
- Maggie F. Golding of Alamo, Georgia, plat number 1 of the Harry Clark farm, measuring three and 1/10 acres; also, a house and lot in Beaufort, North Carolina at 623 Fifth Street, formerly owned by Henrietta V. Clark;
- Thomas G. Clark of Jamaica, New York, plat number 2 of the Harry Clark farm, measuring nine acres;
- William H. Clark of Birmingham, Alabama, plat number 5 of the Harry Clark farm, measuring eight acres;
- John H. Clark of Wilson, plat number 6 of the Harry Clark farm, measuring eight acres; and
- Augustus S. Clark of Cordele, Georgia, plat number 7 of the Harry Clark farm, measuring eight acres.