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Permelia S. Walton was born about 1805 in North Carolina
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4,5,6 Her father died about Apr 1811, when Permelia was about 6 years old.
11 Permelia married Alexander J. Farrar on 3 Jan 1828 in Granville Co., North Carolina
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7,8,9 Her sister's daughter,
Elizabeth John A. Smith, came to live with them after the death of her mother.
12 Permelia and Alexander appeared on the 1850 Federal Census of Christian Co., Kentucky
G, enumerated 7 Aug 1850, reporting real estate valued at $5,120 and 11 slaves. Listed as living with them were Elizabeth John A. Smith, her sister's daughter, Alexander J. Farrer, his brother's son, and Dolley, Permelia's mother.
13,14 Permelia and Alexander appeared on the 1860 Federal Census of Hopkinsville, Christian Co., Kentucky
G, enumerated 10 Aug 1860, reporting $14,920 in real estate and $10,700 in personal property, including 23 slaves, living in 5 slave houses. Listed as living with them as were her niece Elizabeth John A. Smith, her husband
Dr. Henry Davis Tuck, and their son Alexander.
15,16 Her husband apparently died before 1868.
17,18 On 16 Nov 1868 W. D. Ritter, assignee under bankruptcy of
Richard Watson Tuck, transferred Richard's interest in his father's estate to Permelia and
Thomas Herbert Elliott. No details were provided as to why the transfer was made.
19 Permelia bought from Thomas Herbert Elliott half of the interest of
Adam Paul Tuck in his father's estate 9 Aug 1869, for $2,250.
20 Permelia bought his interest in father’s estate, a grocery store house on the north side of Main St. in LaFayette, and a distillery in Little River known as the Williams Distillery from Dr. Henry Davis Tuck and Elizabeth John A. Smith on 11 May 1868, for $6,000.
18 On 12 Aug 1874, Permelia bought from
Martha Washington Tuck and her husband
Matthew Lyddall Bacon, her interest in her father's estate, for $2,100.
21 With Permelia and Thomas Herbert Elliott now each owning half of the rights to the
Dr. Davis Green Tuck estate, and his widow having died, they had commissioners appointed to divide the property, according to value. The Commissioners decided the property should be divided by a north-south line into a parcel of 517½ acres on east and one of 457½ acres on west. On 27 Aug 1874 they executed a deed in which he took the west part, nearest his existing property, and she took the east part, nearest her property. A second deed was required 19 Feb 1880 to correct an omission in the first.
22 Permelia appeared on the 1870 Federal Census of Lafayette, Christian Co., Kentucky
G, in the household of niece Elizabeth and her husband Dr. Henry Davis Tuck.
17 She appeared on the 1880 Federal Census of Lafayette, Christian Co., Kentucky
G, in the household of Elizabeth and Henry, her niece and her husband.
23 Permelia died on 4 Sep 1886 at age ~81.
10 She was buried in the Henry D. Tuck Family Cemetery, Lafayette, Christian Co., Kentucky
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