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Ng form tattoo. (Pw S.") o#MD AW-0 w 1024.°°rs 35 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Jacob Jackson Farm / Maple Hill Section number _$_ Page _8 Orange County, NC acres were unimproved land. The value of his farms, including land and buildings, was listed as being two thousand and five hundred dollars. It is of special note that he harvested five hundred bushels of corn in that year. In addition, his lands produced two hundred and fifty bushels of oats and one hundred and eighty bushels of wheat. The estimated value of all farm produce was five hundred and fifty dollars. He kept four horses, five milk cows, and five steers. Of these, two steers were slaughtered for meat. Twenty-five hogs roamed the woods nearby and thirty were kept penned. Four hundred pounds of butter were churned and fifty dozen eggs were collected from an unrecorded number of hens. Four acres planted in apple trees yielded two hundred bushels of apples. Diversified agriculture continued to play an important role on the Jacob Jackson Farm toward the end of the nineteenth century though it is not known what, besides whiskey, was produced there or sold. . Israel Turner died on July 24, 1893. His will directed that liquor in a bonded warehouse be sold and that the "home place where I now live consisting of one hundred and thirty-five acres more or less" be conveyed "to my single daughters, Ida Irene Turner and Nannie Israel Turner." He further stipulated that, "in the event of their marriages, they may, by mutual consent, divide the land." 'After several years, both women married and in March, 1897, the Superior Court of Orange County appointed three commissioners to divide "said land into two equal shares." The commissioner-ordered property division gave 77 acres to Nannie Turner Hughes and 471/2 acres with the house to Ida Turner Faucette on April 9, 1897.29 In keeping with a late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century trend in North Carolina and Orange County toward a decrease in farm size, the Jacob Jackson Farm now consisted of 47 1/2 acres but "Miss Ida" and Thomas "Bite" Faucette operated their farm in a manner which was otherwise atypical of the general agricultural economy.30 At a time when Piedmont cash crops were tobacco, corn, and hay, neighbors remember that "times were hard for 'Miss Ida' who kept a few cows and sold butter but otherwise didn't seem to have any way to earn a living." Thomas Faucette is described as being a tiny man who was partially paralyzed and "the work around the place was done by Edgar, a boy the Faucettes eventually adopted." He and "Miss Ida" made a meager existence from subsistence gardening and limited dairy products. Edgar attended school only when time permitted for he was required to cultivate the vegetable garden and care for the cows and chickens. "Miss Ida" allowed him relief once per week to call on neighbors Sunday evenings to play caroms. He looked forward eagerly to these occasions. Eventually, when "Miss Ida's" demands became even more stringent, Edgar departed. Another boy, Bronco Owen, came to lived with the Faucettes and worked on the "Will dated January 6, 1893,Book I,pp. 1-2,Orange County Estate Records,Hillsborough,NC. Z'Document dated April 9, 1897,Book 54,p.483,Orange County Register of Deeds Office,Hillsborough,NC. '°Lefler and Newsome,p.544.