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Wilkes: Thomas Caudill, deeds October 18, 2018 Thomas Caudill Schoolhouse Grant 1850 Wilkes Co, NC. In the 1800s, there was a schoolhouse
located near what is now 3100 Bethany Ford Rd in Roaring River. It’s about
0.9 miles east of the river. The first mention I’ve found is the 1840 grant
to Willis Holloway which has a beginning corner near the schoolhouse. Then in
1850, an 80 acre grant to Thomas Caudill also begins “near the old
schoolhouse”. The Willis Holloway grant
was soon purchased by Thomas Caudill, and in 1858 he sold it to David and
Elizabeth Edwards (DB B2, p230). It again mentions the “old schoolhouse”. The
Thomas Caudill property spanned at least a mile E-W along Bethany Ford Rd,
and at least a mile N-S between Stewart Creek and what was then called
Sloan’s Creek to the south. He owned at over 500 acres by the 1870s. Thomas Caudill was born
about 1810 and died in 1898. His sister Polly Caudill married Eli Blackburn,
and they lived on the north side of Stewart Creek. According to the Wilkes
Heritage book (Vol 1), Thomas was buried in a family cemetery on his land.
Does anyone know where that cemetery is?
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