Life History

Notes

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  Excerpt from affidavit related to confusion over settlement of the estate of Richard C Carson, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.  Excerpted pages concerning relationships in R C Carson's family.  Pages excerpted and relevant lines highlighted by Dr Orville Boyd Jenkins, 18 November 2019
  
  1 December 1916
  
  Defendant George E Wilson, executor of the estate of J M Wilson, deceased, and Wm R Johnston, son of Wm B Johnston, deceased
  Plaintiff Mrs Emmie Lemley Brown, granddaughter of Richard C Carson, Administratrix dbn of estate of Richard C Carson
  
  Affidavit Page 7 (Probate page 11)
  Items:
  Ella R Carson was born in the year 1843
  At the death of her father, she went into the home of her uncle Joseph H Wilson
  Ella R Carson married in 1868
  Ella and Byron Lemley moved to Jackson, Mississippi, where she died in 1875
  Dr Byron Lemley died in 1904
  Their daughter Emmie Lemley, plaintiff in this action, married Alfred W Brown in 1902
  Emmie and Alfred Brown moved to Charlotte, North Carolina
  Joseph H Wilson died 13 September 1884
  George E Wilson was appointed administrator of his father's estate estate on 3 November 1884
  -- Probate on Estate of R C Carson, North Carolina, Wills and Probate Records, 1665-1998
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  Dr Byron Lemly
  Birth 3 Dec 1841 Jackson, Hinds County, Mississippi, USA
  Death 30 Aug 1904 (aged 62) USA
  Burial Greenwood Cemetery, Jackson, Hinds County, Mississippi, Section 1, Lots 90-93, "new cemetery"
  
  Dr. Byron Lemly was a druggist.  In 1904, he lived at 112 N. Congress Street in Jackson.  His first wife Ella Rose Carson died in 1875, and he married a second time to Alice Waite.
  
  Parents:
  Samuel Lemly 1819-1883
  Rebecca Jane Emeline Steele Lemly 1824-1893
  
  Spouses:
  Ella Rose Carson Lemly unknown-1875 (m. 1867)
  Alice B Waite 1850 - unknown
  
  Siblings:
  William Steele Lemly 1840-1912
  Burton Lemly 1843-1862
  Samuel Lemly 1849-1933
  Martha Virginia Lemly 1851-1863
  Amanda C Lemly Terrell 1853-1906
  Rosa Lemly Preston 1855-1937
  Emeline Steele Lemly 1857-1868
  Charles C Lemly 1859-1922
  Percy Lemly 1861-1934
  Warren Abram Lemly 1866-1889
  
  Children:
  Byron Carson Lemly 1869-1901
  Richard Carson Lemly 1875-1875
  
  Created by Linda Thompson 10 May 2014
  --  Find A Grave Memorial 129602291, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/129602291/byron-lemly
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Sources

• 1. North Carolina, Deaths, 1906-1930
• 2. Find a Grave Memorial Registry
• 3. North Carolina, Wills and Probate Records, 1665-1998