Woods v. Polhemus

Petition for partition, filed by James S. Polhemus, the plaintiff below, in January, 1850. The *61petition represents that one Thomas Woods, late of Virginia, died seized of certain lands, describing them, situate in Parke and Monroe counties, Indiana. That Thomas Woods left as his heirs four children, viz., Theodore, Edgar, John Henry and Ann Eliza Woods; and his widow, Mary Woods, surviving him. That the petitioner, James 8. Polhemus, intermarried with Ann Eliza Woods in 1840.

It is further represented that on the 29th of March, 1847, the petitioner joined with his wife, Ann Eliza, in a' deed…