Hayslip v. Gillis

It appears from the record that Maggie Hay-slip’s father, Ben Hayslip, at the time of his .death was a resident of Lee county, where he owned a parcel of land. She was a child of very tender age when her father died. Her mother’s death occurred before her father’s. Soon after Ben Hayslip died his brother, W. T. Hayslip, took the child to his mother’s to live. The record does not disclose in what county his mother resided. Maggie lived with her grandmother until the latter died, when her husband, one English, took charge of the child, giving her to one Patterson, who carried her to Worth…