From the Pickins Co. SC Grantee index book:
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P. Alexander Sheriff of Pickens Dist. to Mrs. Viney Howell...
By writ of Fieri Facias....24th of March 1840.....at the suit
of W.L Keith com. in equity to F. N. Garvin (then Sheriff) that the goods,
land, chattle etc. of RobertAnderson and G. T. Anderson to levy the sum of
$508.14 damage & ?, F.N. Garvin then Sheriff seized and taken the lands etc.
of Anderson's .. 140 acres lying on cane creek waters of Seneca River
ajoining land of Wm. N. Sloan, William Evan, and others. appraised for
public sale... sold to J. T. Sloan of Anderson Dist. for the sum of $9.00
and ordered to make ? of Mrs. Viney Howell the highest bidder there for.
..... Sherif P. Alexander acknowleges reciept of payment for land from J. T.
Sloan for Mrs. Viney Howell. .. Land and all rights given to Mrs. Viney
Howell and her heirs forever.... Signed and seald the 14 day of April
1846.... witnesses Elihu H. Griffin and E.E. Alexander, P. Alexander SPD.
E.E. Alaxander and Elihu H . Griffen make sworn statement to
W.L. Keith C.C. & R.M.C., that the deed and papers were signed and
delivered. made and recorded 27th day of May 1846.
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From the Pickens Co. SC Grantor Index book:
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Jesse F. Howell sold land to E.B.B. Sloan March 28, 1843
Vincy Howell sold land to William Evans April 28, 1846
Viney Howell sold land to John Cannon May 6, 1850
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The 1830 census lists a Jesse F. Howell in Franklin Co. GA......no track of
him afterwards unless he is the Franklin Howell of 1840 Anderson Co. SC.
I have not found Mrs. Viney Howell on a census record... possibly remarried,
but marriage records were not available until 1911, unless printed in the
old news papers...
John Cannon and his father James had Howell children living in there
Household on the 1850 census...One I suspect is my ancestor Nancy Elvina
Howell, the other her sister Eliza.
James' Will was too long for me to copy, but neither were mentioned....
still in very good shape too.
Hope this helps someone,
Keith Bailey
Gordon Co. GA