Tom Osborne family photo; deed (Theodore L. King to Susan M. FitzSimons); 'Grannie FitzSimons' portrait; two envelope labels

Scanned page 281 of Book 1 — Scan of original. Open full size →

Caption beneath Osborne family photograph (top left)

Mr. & Mrs. Tom Osborne & family —

Deed wrapper (top centre)

DEED.

Theodore L. King

    TO

Susan M. FitzSimons

Deed.—Consideration, $ 3000

Dated the 24 day [of] February [1876]

Filed for Registration on the 17[?] day of July, 1876, at [illegible] o’clock, [illegible] M., and registered in the off[ice of] the Register of Deeds for Henderson[?] County, N.C., this 17 day of July[?] 1876, at H[?] o’clock, P. M., in No. 16, of Deeds, on page 446. [illegible] 449.

[signed:] J. F. Egerton[?]     Register of Dee[ds]

Clerk fee   .25 Reg fee    1.[?]5        [total] 2.20

Caption beneath portrait (top right)

Susan ~~Barker~~ Milliken Fitz Simons “Grannie Fitz Simons” — As she was when I knew her. (A.F.W.)

Label / envelope (middle left, upper)

Letter from my Grand Mother to Mrs. Tom Osborne & one from Mrs. Osborne to Ellen — A.F.W.

Label / envelope (middle left, lower)

Letter from Uncle Huger to Aunt Ellen and Mrs. Osborne concerning the sale of the Mills River farm.

AI Notes

Five items mounted on this album page. Top left: a sepia portrait of the Tom Osborne family — an older man and woman with five children grouped around them — captioned in ink below in the compiler’s hand. Top centre: the printed-and-handwritten outer wrapper of a DEED recording a transfer from Theodore L. King to Susan M. FitzSimons for $3,000, dated 24 February 1876, filed and registered 17 July 1876 in Henderson County, N.C. Top right: a sepia photograph of an elderly woman in a dark dress and white cap, seated and reading a book, captioned below as “Susan Milliken FitzSimons” — the compiler’s grandmother (“Grannie FitzSimons”) as she remembered her. Middle left, upper envelope: a label in the compiler’s handwriting, identifying a pair of letters filed elsewhere. Middle left, lower envelope: a second label identifying another letter. Both envelopes are signed “A.F.W.” — Amy FitzSimons Walker, the compiler. “Uncle Huger” is William Huger FitzSimons, Amy’s uncle, no. 5 on the p271 family chart (m. Annie Cain). “Grand Mother” is Susan Milliken Barker FitzSimons (the same “Grannie FitzSimons” pictured at right). “Ellen” is Aunt Ellen — Ellen Milliken FitzSimons, the librarian (no. 6 on the p271 chart). The deed grantor Theodore L. King is distinct from the unrelated King family of Charleston — this Henderson Co. transaction set the Mills River farm in Susan’s name (cf. p280, where Gaillard Stoney FitzSimons recounts buying the Mills River farm in 1876 after moving from Charlotte).