OMG. I think I just found out some important information about Sophia's mother.
So tonight, I decided to browse through the Edgecombe Co. wills on the genweb site. Not really looking for any one person in particular, just anyone that's in my family tree. Well I ran across the will of Charles Land. Now, I know from a record on ancestry.com that Sophia's mother was the daughter of Charles Land, Sr. It doesn't list her name though. Well, of course, I had Susan Land listed, but had a hard time verifying this info. The only other place I saw Susan Land listed was the familysearch.org site and someone's random family tree on the web. No sources, so who knows if it's right?
Well anyway, back to the point...I found his will. He lists his children and wife, and then at the very end, he says, "to my beloved daughter, Sally Braswell, one bed and stead and furniture and one pine chest."
Sally BRASWELL.
Could it be that I had her name wrong all along? It's Sally and not Susan? Or maybe it is Susan, but maybe Susan's just a nickname or middle name? In any case, it must be Sophia's mother. It's got to be. And plus, I know that Sophia's maiden name was Braswell b/c it's listed on the county marriage record.
I'm so excited! I've been looking for some kind of information, some kind of breakthrough, and this is just a little one but still pretty amazing.
One more thing that I have to wonder about...the pine chest. My mom's got a trunk, but we all call it grandma's trunk b/c it belonged to my grandmother Mary Elsie. And she got the trunk from her mother, Della Bone. The story of the trunk is that it traveled overseas from England. But when it traveled and whose possession it was in, we don't know. But according to my mother, her grandfather, john hardy, wanted my grandmother Elsie to have it. So that makes me think the trunk came from Della's side of the family. So could it be that this mystery trunk came from the Land Family?? From Charles to Sally to Sophia to Susan to Della to Elsie to my mom? Hmm...I'll have to check with my mom to see if that trunk is made out of pine!
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Charles Land's 1838 will says "to my beloved gran daughter, Soffy Braswell, one bed and stead and furniture and one pine chest." Isaac Braswell married Elizabeth Hyatt in 1834, so Charles daughter (whose name we don't yet know) was dead by then. But it was her daughter Sophia that Charles was mentioning. Soffy was a really bad mis-spelling of her name.
I'm not sure why the other children by his deceased daughter weren't mentioned. Sophia may have been the oldest grandchild by his deceased daughter (which I think is likely), or perhaps the youngest, or maybe just his favorite. By 1830 Isaac Braswell had 5 grand-daughters.
Vickie Elam White
Hey, thanks for the info! I guess wherever I found that will online had the wrong name on it, and it said daughter instead of granddaughter.
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