Perhaps not that old.

by Lisa Y. Henderson

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Wilson Advance, 13 August 1880.

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Probably, in the 1850 census, Nash County: Berry Locust, 50, wife Beedy, 45, and children Arthur, 25, Eliza, 18, Hepsy A., 16, Ivah, 15, Alsey, 12, Henry, 10, and Seymore, 8.

In the 1860 census, Coopers, Nash County: Berry Locus, 65, wife Beaddy, 60, and daughter Hepsey, 23.