This 1901 plat related to Peter Powell's purchase of part of lots 48 and 49 from R.B. McArver also shows part of Irvin Spruce's adjacent land. (Floyd County GA Deed Book JJJ page 702) In 1902 Spruce purchased an additional 50 acres from McArver.
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Mary Shelton and Peter Powell were married on December 23, 1880. Mary died in 1897 and in 1902 Peter Powell and Mary's sister Lara, widow of Pinkney Franklin, were married. Peter Powell died in 1914.
Hardy and Mary Shelton's oldest daughter Lucy married Irvin Spruce about 1871. In 1902 Irvin purchased 50 acres, part of lots 48 and 49 in the 4th district, 4th section of Floyd County. In 1902 he made a second purchase, 370 acres, part of lots 25, 26, 47, and 48. Between 1910 he would use the land to secure loans from multiple individuals and mortgage companies, before losing it to O.P. Willingham in 1923.
R.B. McArver purchased part of lots 48 and 49 from Emma Watson Lankford in 1886¹, then sold 44 acres to Peter Powell in 1901 and 50 acres to Irvin Spruce in 1902.
Robert B. McArver is described by the Rome Tribune as "proprietor of a large mercantile house at Coosa," postmaster and agent of the Southern railroad, and owner of a number of small farms and part owner of a large landed estate. A former private in the (Confederate) 6th Georgia Cavalry, McArver was regarded as progressive and "doing all in his power to forward the interests of this section."*
*Rome Tribune, October 31, 1879
¹Floyd County deed book GG page 342