If you are fortunate enough to have a list of people who purchased property at your ancestor’s estate sale, consider locating those people in the decennial census before and after the sale–at least as a place to start finding out more about them if census records are available for the time period. Where the purchasers were from or where they moved to may help you on your ancestor.
Purchasers at an estate sale can be one way to find out names of ancestral associates. Sometimes one finds the same names (or at least last names) as neighbors of ancestors when they lived in other locations.
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