NOTICE OF SERVICE BY PUBLICATION
STATE OF
NORTH CAROLINA IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE
COUNTY OF HENDERSON SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION
CIVIL ACTION NO.: 24SP001212-440
KRISTOPHER ROSS
DILLON
Petitioner,
vs.
WILLIAM NICHOLAS
FORTESCUE, JR.,
LOTTIE FORTESCUE
DERIDDER,
KENNETH BOBBY
DILLON, III,
LEONARD LEVITCH,
ANNIE ROBINSON
WELTER,
PATRICK WIESNER, and
Any Unknown Heirs, Devisees, or Assignees of Dorothy Pryor Parker and Billy Y. Pryor,
Respondents.

TO: Lottie Fortescue Deridder,
Kenneth Bobby Dillon, III and
Any Unknown Heirs, Devisees, or
Assignees of Dorothy Pryor Parker
and Billy Y. Pryor

TAKE NOTICE that a pleading seeking relief against you has been filed in the above-entitled special proceeding. The nature of the relief being sought is as follows: To determine ownership interests and partition of a two certain tracts or parcels of land lying and being in Henderson County, North Carolina, and more particularly described as follows:

PARCEL/TRACT ONE
BEGINNING at a stake in the center of the Crab Creek Road (or Kanuga Road) said stake being the northwest corner of the Lamar Paxson property and runs thence with said road South 55° 45’ West 250 feet to a stake; thence leaving said road and running thence South 34° East 1284.5 feet to a stake; thence due East 1494 feet to the center of Mud Creek; thence down said Creek North 6° East 1420 feet to a stake, the original northeast corner of the M.C. King boundary, said stake also being W. C. Hathcock’s southeast corner; thence with the original King line North 87° West 528 feet to a stake and North 86° 30’ West 252 feet to a stake, Paxson’s southeast corner; thence with Paxson’s line South 56° West 1261 feet to a stake, Paxson’s southwest corner; thence with Paxson’s southwest boundary line North 34° West 574.5 feet to the point of beginning, and containing 50 acres, more or less.

LESS and EXCEPTING that 4.71 acre tract of land as described in Deed Book 557 at Page 641, Henderson County Registry.

LESS and EXCEPTING that 14.6 acre (more or less) tract of land as described in Deed Book 503 at Page 379, Henderson County Registry.

TOGETHER WITH and SUBJECT TO that 30 foot right of way described as follows: Beginning at the point of beginning of the property described in Deed Book 231 at Page 472, Henderson County Registry, thence with the north lines, South 34 deg. East 574.5 feet and North 56 deg. East to the corner of 14.6 acre tract.

BEING a portion of that property as described in Deed Book 231 at Page 472, Henderson County Registry.

Subject to restrictions, right of ways, and easements of record.

PARCEL/TRACT TWO
Being that 88-acre tract described in deed from W.K. Lanning et al to R.M. Pryor, said deed being recorded in Deed Book 155 at Page 194, Henderson County Registry.

LESS and EXCEPTING all of that 10-1/2 acre tract described in deed from W.K. Lanning et ux to R. M. Pryor, said deed being recorded in Deed Book 177 at Page 3, Henderson County Registry.

BEING a portion of that property as described in Deed Book 393 at Page 365, Henderson County Registry.
Bounded on the north by Owen Reese Tract of land; on the east by other lands of said parties of the first part; on south by W. D. Coker estate and on west by Bellefield Public Road, and being more particularly described as follows: Beginning at an Iron Stake on the aforesaid Bellefield Public Road, in line of W. D. Coker estate and in southwest corner of tract of land herein described and running thence along said Bellefield Public Road N 20 degrees 15 minutes E 624 feet, thence still along said road N 17 degrees 15 minutes E 668 feet, thence still along said road, N 11 degrees 30 minutes E 148 feet to stake in line of Owen Reese Tract of land, thence along line of Owen Reese Tract of land S 51 degrees E 146 feet to stake, thence along chopped line S 02 degrees W 500 feet to another stake, thence S 72 degrees 30 minutes E 2025 feet to a stake between a Black Gum and a Sweet Gum corner, thence S 17 degrees 45 minutes W 1332 feet to line of W. D. Coker estate at a blown down oak with lightwood stake in stump hole, thence along line of W. D. Coker estate N 56 degrees 30 minutes W 233 feet to pine, thence N 63 degrees W 353 feet to another pine, N 65 degrees 15 minutes W 236 feet to another pine, N 58 degrees 15 minutes W 390 feet to stake, N 63 degrees 15 minutes W 561 feet to another stake, N 64 degrees 15 minutes W 561 feet to stake at the point of beginning on the aforesaid Bellefield Public Road, and containing 60 acres, more or less, as surveyed by C. R. Revelle & Son in December, 1944.

You are required to make defense to such pleading no later than November 10, 2025 and upon your failure to do so the party seeking service against you will apply to the court for the relief sought.

This is the 29th day of
September, 2025.

Karen Robins Carnegie, Esq., NCSB #51810
Carnegie Law Group
300 George Washington Highway N.
Chesapeake, Virginia
23323
Phone: 757-967-8782
kcarnegie@krcplc.com
Attorney for Petitioner

10/01, 08, 15