[2] In 1852, a local paper reported that S. G. Eddins of Fayetteville, Tenn. was one of the newly arrived guests at the City Hotel in Richmond, Virginia.

The issues in dispute included the price, the agreement regarding delivery/pickup/holding of the woman, the additional value of her baby once he was born, whether or not she ran away or was hidden by her legal owner, and who owed who what amount after Beccy's apparent death.

"[7] The place where Eddins held these 50 people was likely a 380-acre property later described as "two and a half miles from Fayetteville, with a good dwelling-house, a mill, and other valuable improvements.

[12] At the time of the 1860 U.S. federal census in June, S. G. Eddings, occupation "trader," lived in Fayetteville, Lincoln County, Tennessee.

[9] Of the 40 enslaved people associated with S. G. Eddins, 11 were designated as "fugitives from the state," including a 13-year-old, a 12-year-old, a seven-year-old, two five-year-olds, and a one-year-old.

[9] In January 1861, Eddins offered up number of people for sale in Greensboro, Alabama, including "six girls from 8 to 11 years old, very likely.

"[13] In May 1861, Eddins was apparently aboard the steamship Kentucky on the Mississippi River near Columbia, Arkansas, when it suffered a boiler explosion.

The Louisville Courier-Journal included Eddins on the casualty list: "S. G. Edings, Fayetteville, Tenn., badly scalded; will die.