Empty envelope. Return address:
The A. Bentley & Sons Company of Toledo, Ohio
Field Office of Quartermasters' Training Camp Contract
Jacksonville, Florida
Addressed to:
Mr. B. J. Plumley,
1440- 38th St.,
Norfolk, Va.
Marked:
Registered mail receipt required by, - Payroll Department.
REGISTERED
Postmarked Jacksonville, Florida, November 30, 1917
Empty envelope sent from Colgate & Co., 30 York St., Jersey City, N. J. to Mr. Lewis Beneau, Landrum, South Carolina. R.D.#2
Postmarked Jersey City, NJ 1917
Handwritten on back: not Gther Cotton nor Potato
State of South Carolina, Spartanburg County.
Nannie Landrum Bomar to J. O. Hall and C. W. Morgan.
Title to Real Estate Filed March 20, 1916, and recorded in Vol 5Q Page 99.
Consists of lots:
Lot No. 17 on north side of Bomar Avenue, fronting 80' and having a depth of 260', containing about 13/27 acre;
Lot No. 18 on the north side of Bomar Avenue, fronting 80' and having a depth of 260', containing about 13/27 acre;
Lot No. 19 on the north side of Bomar Avenue, fronting 80' and having a depth of 260', containing about 13/27 acre;
Lot No. 20 on the north side of Bomar Avenue, fronting 80' and having a depth of 260', containing about 13/27 acre;
Lot No. 21 on the north side of Bomar Avenue, fronting 80' and having a depth of 260', containing about 13/27 acre;
Lot No. 22 on the north side of Bomar Avenue, fronting 80' and having a depth of 260', containing about 13/27 acre;
Lot No. 23 on the north side of Bomar Avenue, fronting 52'; thence along G.M. Riddle's land in a northerly direction 287.5'; thence easterly along R.S. Lee's land 163'; thence southerly along the line of Lot 22 some 260' to Bomar, containing about 5/8 acre.
The foregoing Lots are bounded by Bomar Avenue, the lands of G.M. Riddle, R.S. Lee, G.C. Hannon, Hampton Brothers and a new Street.
Most of the return address is missing, but can still read:
veyance,
C.
e days.
Addressed to:
Mr. G. W. Plumley,
Landrum, S.C.
R.F.D. No. 2.
Handwritten on the front and back: Land Deeds
Postmarked Greenville, December 5, 1907.
Receipt for Mr. Geo. W. Plembey, to the United States Fidelity and Guaranty Co., Dr. Home Office. To the 2nd year premium on Bond No. J. 456,870-5, $2.50. Paid May 17, 1906 signed Wm Goldsmith, Jr. G/A
Pad checkbook from Piedmont Savings and Investment Company. While there is no direct indication this is related to the Plumleys, it was found in our collection beside item 2023.44.1, a Piedmont S&I account register from the same time period.
Piedmont Savings and Investment Co.,
Greenville, S. C.
In Account With
G.W. Plumley, Admr.
Wm Goldsmith Jr. Gen. Agt.
Present this book for credit of interest on the first days of February, May, August and November.
[inside: records of transactions from May 20, 1905 through February, 1907.]
Greenville County tax receipt for Evaline Plumbley. Paid $1.63 tax levied on 80 acres with 1 building valued at $85, and personal property valued at $30, for a total value of $115. Paid on Dec. 12, 1899.
Greenville County tax receipt for W. M. Plumley for $17.10, levied on 1,067 acres valued at $1,090 with one building, and personal property of $120, for a total value of $1,210. Paid on Dec. 12, 1899.
This letter claims to know who shot William Plumley's son "Pink" (Pinkney), and is asking the amount of the reward for turning it in.
W.D. Howard might be Wilborn D. Howard, 1858-1916, who became a State Constable, Deputy Sheriff at Woodside Mill for four years, and Chief of Police at West Greenville for one year. He had deep roots in the Dark Corner and was buried in the Gosnell cemetery at Glassy Mountain.
A few months after this letter, Henry Howard was arrested based on witnesses reporting that he had been bragging about the killing, and the $200 reward was claimed.
At the time of this letter, Ninevah is about 82 years old and her sister Crecy is about 63 years old. It appears that they don't write often. While Ninevah makes a bit of small talk, it is clear that she is writing to ask if Crecy knows the location or any news about "Sheerd." This is almost certainly their brother Sherod Gosnell, who went by "Sherd." He is shown in various 1800's censuses as living in Glassy Mountain; he fought in the Civil War, then is shown back at Glassy Mountain in 1880. The 1890 census does not exist, having been burned in a fire. Sherd died in Tryon, NC, in 1900.
