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to the west right -of -way line of an alley on the formerly Seaboard Coast Line Railroad property, said alley having been closed by the Portsmouth City Council by Ordinance No. 1983 -8 adopted on February 8, 1983, a copy of which is recorded in the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia, in Deed Book 847, at page 359; and (ii) the northern one -half (1/2) of a street sixty feet (60') in width and formerly known as Sixth Street adjacent to the southern boundaries of the above lots as shown on the aforesaid plat and extending from Tyre Neck Road easterly to the west right -of -way line of the formerly Atlantic Coastline Railroad right -of -way, said street having been closed by the Norfolk County Board of Supervisors in April. 1953. by Board Order recorded in Board Order Book 15, at pages 202 -203. IT BEING as to the above- referenced lots. the same property conveyed to William Albert Copeland and Edith Elizabeth Copeland, his wife, for and during the term of their joint lives with remainder to the survivor of them, by deed from Jesse Edwin Cotton, Jr. and Mildred Teresa Cotton, his wife, dated April 25, 1949, recorded the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court of the City of Chesapeake (formerly Norfolk County), Virginia, in Deed Book 946, at page 67; and as to the above described closed portions of the alley and former street, upon such closures, title to the southern one -half (1/2) of the alley and the northern one -half (1/2) of the street, title devolved to the owners of the adjacent property being the lots described above. Upon the death of William Albert ZD Copeland on April 22, 1996, per Edith Elizabeth Copeland's List of Heirs recorded with her Will in Will File No. 070000555 in the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court of the City of Chesapeake (formerly Norfolk County), Virginia, the aforesaid property passed to Edith Elizabeth Copeland by survivorship. The said Edith Elizabeth Copeland died testate September 24, 2007, and pursuant to her will recorded in Will File No. 070000555 in the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court of the City of Chesapeake (formerly Norfolk County), Virginia, she devised the aforesaid property to her son, William A. Copeland, Jr., and her daughter, Florence C. Wynne. TOGETHER WITH an alley twenty feet (20') in width adjacent to the eastern boundary of Lot number Eighteen (18) described above and extending to the west right -of -way line of the formerly Atlantic Coastline Railroad right -of -way, as shown on the Subdivision Plat.