Person:Catherine Crossno (1)

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Catherine MABRY vs Thomas T MABRY et al. petition for Dower

Came the petitioner by her Council and it appearing to the Court that said Thomas T. MABRY Abner? [prob. Abram] MABRY and Thomas T. GOODMAN and wife are legatees and heirs at law of said Daniel MABRY deceased have had the

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5 days notice of her intention to a make this application and are present and assenting to the decree the said said Thomas T. MABRY being also Administrator of the Estate of the said Daniel MABRY Dec'd It further appearing to the Court that the following named persons are heirs of said Daniel MABRY dec'd and minors under the age of twenty one years [to wit, crossed out] and have no regular Guardian to wit [line blank]

It further appearing to the Court that said petitioners is the widow of said Daniel MABRY dec'd and as such entitled to dower out of the lands of which said Daniel MABRY died seized and possessed It is therefore ordered adjudged and Decreed by the Court that Jesse S. ROSs Henry CULP and Joseph ROBINSON be appointed commissioners to lay of and allot to the said Catherine MABRY the one third part in value of the lands of which her dec'd husband died seized and possessed including the mansion house where the said Daniel MABRY usually resided prior to this death together with the necessary out houses and that said commissioner report to the next term of this Court and that a writ of Dower issue c. Isued Jany 11, 1851

[Page 166] March 1851

Ordered by the Court that Lewis BECKHAM be appointed overseer of the road of 2d Class in the place of Lemuel PANNEL[?] and that he have the hands in the same bounds to work under his direction Ishued 6th March 1851

Came D. H. MERRYMAN Admr. of the estate of Nancy HAM dec’d and returned into Court an Inventory and account of sales verified by his Oath which was received by the Court and ordered to be recorded

Catherine MABRY vs Thomas T MABRY et al petition for Dower

Be it Remembered that this cause came on this day for a final hearing before the Worshipful County Court of Wayne County David J JONES Esq George W BARKER Esq & William M LAFFERTY Esqr. Justices &c present and presiding upon the report of the Commissioner theretofore appointed to lay of the dower of the petitioner out of the lands of her deceased husband which said report is in the words and figures following to wit

[To the worshipful County Court – crossed out] The undersigned being unconnected with the parties either by affinity or consanguinity and entirely disinterested having been notified by the Surveyor for Wayne County have proceed to allot and set off to Catherine MABERRY her Dower out of the real estate of Daniel MABERRY her deceased husband after having duly consider and fully understood the whole matter do hereby assign to the said Catherine MABERRY for her Dower the following described land with the exctions[?] and improvements thereon to wit A tract of land in the County of Wayne on the waters of Beech Creek containing seventy eight acres and bounded as follows :Beginning on a Sycamore the so west corner of entry No. 630 in the name of Daniel MABERRY for 77 acres runs south 40 poles to a chinguepin oak then South 10 (degrees) West 20 poles a small persimmon Chestnut oak pointers then East 15 (degrees) So 112 poles to a beech then North crossing Beech Creek at 26 poles in all 71 poles to a Hackberry then East 10 poles to a a stake then North 15 (degrees) west 64 poles to a poplar then west 30 ( degrees) North 23 poles then North 26 poles to a Red Oak then west 60 pole to a stake then South 80 pole to beginning Which in our opinion Judgment constitutes one third part in value of the real estate of Daniel MABRY deceased died possessed of given under our hand this Febr. 22d 1851 // s // Josiah ROBINSON Henry CULP JR Jesse J ROSS.

Which not being in any wise excepted to is in all things confirmed it is therefore ordered adjudged and decreed by the Court that all the right title claim and interest of said defendants in and to the above described tract of land be divested out of them for and during the natural lifetime of said petitioner Catherine MABRY and that the same be vested in the said Catherine MABRY for and during her natural life it is further ordered and adjudged by the Court that said petitioner Catherine MABRY pay the costs in this behalf expended and that execution issue. Source: TNGenWeb.com

Page 172. Refunding Bond: Allen CULP, Abraham MABERRY, and William M. CROSSNO are bound on the condition that Allen CULP received from Alexancer LUTTS Clerk of the Court the sum of $45.15 as funds belonging to the estate of Thomas CROSSNO Sr. Dec'd. Now should CLUP fail to pay to the CROSSNO heirs this sum a penal bund shall be paid to the state. [Source: Wayne County, Tennessee Power Of Attorney Records, Abstracted]

Page 28. Mary Ann GOODMAN appoints Whitfield CROSSNOW her attorney to collect monies due me in the right of my being one of the heirs of Catherine MABERY, the sister of Daniel CROSSNO, dec'd. Dated 2 Jan 1869. [Source: Wayne Co., TN. Power Of Attorney Records]

1.   United States. 1850 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432).

   Name: Catharina Mabery
   [Catherine Maberry]
   [Catherine (Crossno) Mayberry]
   Age: 44
   Birth Year: abt 1806
   Birthplace: Tennessee
   Home in 1850: District 3, Wayne, Tennessee, USA
   Gender: Female
   Family Number: 180
   Household Members:
   Name Age
   Daniel Mabery 29
   Catharina Mabery 44
   E M Mabery 18
   Lafayette Mabery 16
   E J Mabery 13
   David Mabery 12
   Demarcus Mabery 9
   Alex Mabery 7

2.   Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees: (Note: not considered a reliable primary source).

   https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/catherine-crossno_11589204