Administrator's Sale, Estate of Felix D. Franklin, Deceased, Bartow County, Georgia, 1886

Administrator's Sale 
Estate of Felix D. Franklin, deceased

The Cartersville American 

29 December 1886, page 2 

[Quote Begins]: 

"Administrator's Sale" 

"Georgia--Bartow County. 

  "By virtue of an order from the court of Ordinary of said county of Bartow, will be sold before the Court House door in Cartersville, Bartow county, Ga., on the first Tuesday in January, 1887, within the legal sale hours, the following real estate belonging to the estate of Felix D. Franklin, deceased, to wit: 

  "One house and lot, in the city of Cartersville, said county, bounded as follows: West by the Tennessee street, East by the Asa A. Dobbs lands, North by lands of A. M. Franklin, South by property of Mrs. Lucy Bell. Said lot containing 2 acres, more or less, and being the home place of said Felix D. Franklin, deceased. House has 4 comfortable rooms and fine well of water on lot. Sold for division. Term cash. 

        "A. M. Franklin, 

  "Dec 6th, '86.  Admr. Felix D. Franklin." 

[End of Quote] 

[Source]: A. M. Franklin, Administrator, (Felix D. Franklin, deceased), in "Administrator's Sale," /The Cartersville American/ (Cartersville, Bartow, Georgia) 1882-1886, 29 December 1886, page 2 (digital image 2), Georgia Historic Newspapers, Digital Library of Georgia (GALILEO). https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn88054140/1886-12-29/ed-1/seq-2/print/image_614x817_from_338,8471_to_1372,9847/ (clipping; full page accessed by D.K. Pritchett, 11 November 2020).

Transcript of Will of Absalum Pence of Gilmer County, Georgia, 1852

Probate of Will of Absalum Pence 

Date: 5 July 1852

Gilmer County, Georgia Probate Records
Wills (pp.175-179)

[More common spelling of name]: Absalom Pence

[Database, FamilySearch.org]:

Georgia Probate Records, 1742-1990, Gilmer, Wills, inventories and appraisements 1836-1914, images 104-106 of 304 in Film no. 005761618, Gilmer County Wills, pages 175-179, Last Will and Testament of Absalum Pence.

[Pages 175-176 (image 104)]:

Inventory and appraisement of the personal property of the Estate of Absalum Pence Deceased [Page contains an inventory list with values of the items and signatures of the appraisors]. 

[Page 177]: 

Schedule of the sale of a portion of the personal property of the estate of Absalum Pence deceased
[Page contains an inventory of items and names of persons who bought them].

[Transcript of the Will on pages 178 and 179 (images 105 and 106)]: 

[page 178]: 

Georgia
Gilmer County } Court of Ordinary
    July Term 1852

The will and testament of Absalum Pence late of said County deceased, having been proved in vacation and no objections being urged and motion being made to admit said will to record It is therefore considered that said probate is sufficient and it is ordered that said will be recorded--
July the 5 day of 1852
Moses Greer   Ordinary


In the name of God amen I Absalum Pence of the state of Georgia and County of Gilmer being of sound and perfect mind and memory Blessed be God, do this 30th day of January in the year of our Lord 1852 make and publish this my last will and testament in the manner following, that is to say first, I give and bequeath all and every of my Estate and property that I possess, to my beloved wife, Frances Pence, to have and to hold during her naturial life and at her death, the Estate to be equally divided between my Daughters that is Malinda Debord Susan Alvina Wells Mary Emily Hill Lusinda Pence
my sons I have already provided for that is Leroy Pence Caleb Posey Pence Andrew Calaway Pence I have given them lands to the amount of their part of my Estate

In witness whereof I the said Absalum Pence have to this my last will and
and testament set my hand and

[page 179]: 

seal the day and year above written
 [some words stricken] 
Absalum Pence

Signed sealed and published in the presence of us who were present at the time of signing and sealing there of

Test Nicholas K. Osborn
     Samuel Waters

     Recorded July the 9th day 1852

   Moses Greer    Ordinary

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Citation: 
"Georgia Probate Records, 1742-1990," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-8935-K8H6?cc=1999178&wc=9SBM-BZC%3A267651101%2C267687401 : 20 May 2014), Gilmer > Wills, inventories and appraisements 1836-1914 > image 104 of 304; citing Houston County Probate Court Judge, Georgia.

Record Information: 

Wills, returns, accounts, inventories and appraisements, 1836-1914 [Gilmer County, Georgia]

Authors:
Georgia. Court of Ordinary (Gilmer County) (Main Author)
Georgia. Department of Archives and History (Repository)
Georgia. Court of Ordinary (Gilmer County) (Repository)

Format: Manuscript/Manuscript on Film

Language: English

Publication: Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1960
Atlanta, Georgia : Georgia Department of History and Archives,

Physical:
1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

Notes: Georgia, Probate Records are available online (link courtesy of FamilySearch; free account required to access): https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1999178

Microfilm of manuscript at Ellijay, Gilmer County, Georgia.

Includes indexes.

Further catalog notes are available on Family Search.

Family Search tip: "View this catalog record in WorldCat for other possible copy locations."
Link provided by Family Search: https://www.worldcat.org/title/wills-returns-accounts-inventories-and-appraisements-1836-1914-gilmer-county-georgia/oclc/866003064

Subjects
Locality Subjects
United States, Georgia, Gilmer - Probate records
Location

Film/Digital Notes (The referenced family history center has 1 of 1 films/fiche.)

Note: Wills, returns, accounts, inventories and appraisements, 1836-1914

Location: Family History Library, 35 N West Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150-9005.

Collection/Shelf: United States & Canada Film

Film: 219504

DGS: 5761618

The digital image of this record is available online. Free account with log-in is required to view records on FamilySearch.org. The following link, provided by Family Search, is to the complete microfilm. Follow the link to the microfilm, then navigate to digital-image page 104 for the inventory and page 105 for the will, which then finishes at image 106.

Link to Microfilm
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L935-KDDT?mode=g&cc=1999178&cat=203466


[More common spelling]: Absalom Pence

Estate Administration for Laura Baker, Deceased, Late Wife of M A Baker, of Cumberland County, North Carolina

[Indexed information, followed by document extract; note, only one name is indexed, the deceased, Laura Baker. However, another name and a clerk of court are included in the document. The genealogical information in the document shows that Laura Baker, the deceased, was the wife of M A Baker, the applicant]:

North Carolina Estate Files, 1663-1979, Probate. Event Year: 1888. Event Place: Cumberland, North Carolina, US. Number of Names with File: 1. File Name: Laura Baker. First Image Number: 01003. Last Image Number: 01004. Number of Images: 2. Name: Laura Baker.
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[Extract of document image]:

[Page or Document] Number 629. Application for Letters of Administration--Oath and Letters of Administration. Cumberland County [North Carolina], In the Superior Court. In the matter of the Administration of the Estate of Laura C Baker } Before C.G. Cam, C.S.C., M A Baker, being sworn, doth say: That Laura C Baker late of said County, is dead, without leaving any Will and Testament, and that he - M. A. Baker as her husband is the proper person entitled to Letters of Administration on the estate of the said Laura C Baker.

Further, That the value of said estate, so far as can be ascertained at the date of this application, is about $1200 and that he the said M A Baker as her surviving husband is entitled as heirs and distributees thereof.

[Signature]: M A Baker

Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 20th day of Jan, 1888 } C.S.C.
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Oath of Administrator.--

State of North Carolina, Cumberland County.} S. S. In the Superior Court

I, M A Baker do solemnly swear (or affirm) That I believe that Laura C Baker died without leaving any last Will and Testament; and that I will well and truly administer all and singularly the Goods and Chattels, Rights and Credits of the said Laura C. Baker, and a true and perfect inventory thereof return as provided by law; and that all other duties appertaining to the charge reposed in me, I will faithfully and honestly perform with the best of my skill and ability: So help me God.

   Sworn and subscribed before me, this 21st day of June, 1888 - C.Y. Cam, C.S.C.

[Signed]: M A Baker
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[Source Citation]: "North Carolina Estate Files, 1663-1979," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VH6X-XYY : 12 March 2018), Laura Baker, 1888; citing Cumberland, North Carolina, United States, State Archives, Raleigh; FHL microfilm 1,853,959.

W.A.L. Headrick Estate in Administrators and Guardian Bonds

Murray County, Georgia
W.A.L. Headrick Estate, with H.J. Headrick

This genealogy scrap is from a search of Murray County, Georgia, Probate Court Records. I copied this from a book of Administrators and Guardians Bonds.

Administrators and Guardians Bonds
Book 2, page 89

H.J. Headrick and H.H. Headrick and Cal Fowler as securitys (bound) unto J.M. Campbell, Ord., for [Murray] County for $1,500.

Condition: 

(My own summary of the bond condition): 
If H.J. Headrick makes inventory of the W.A.L. Headrick estate which the heirs will come into (etc.) and the estate is administered according to law (etc.) and makes a just and true account (etc.), then this bond is void; otherwise to remain in effect.

Signed: 
H.J. Headrick (illeg.) LS
H.H. Headrick, sec LS
Cal Fowler, sec LS

(Note: my illegible scribbling noted above by Horace's signature could be "srs" or something. Maybe it stands for "swears" and the other two must second his oath or something. Sorry about that, I am a messy note taker.)

21 October 1931, affidavit:
H.J. Headrick swears that W.A.L. Headrick died intestate. (Signed by H.J. Headrick).
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[My Knowledge: H.J. Headrick is Horace J. Headrick, son of W.A.L. Headrick (that is, William Abraham Lincoln Headrick.]

Headrick Wills, Selected, Murray County, Georgia.

Headrick Wills.
Murray County, Georgia

This is just a scrap from one of my searches of record books at the probate court in Murray County, Georgia. I didn't keep good notes as to what I was searching. This is probably in the Index to Wills. 

Emily Vest Headrick. 6-2-78.  8-27-79.
[These are 20th-century date references: 1978-1979].

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Ottis Headrick. 2-1-65. (1968 probated).

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An Older Headrick Will:

Polly Headrick will
Will Book 2 (1872-1922), pages 146-147.

Will made 30 January 1884; sworn by John Smith 7 December 1896.
Will filed 7 December 1896. Will Recorded: 13 January 1897.

Horace F. Hall, Thomas Hall - Murray County, Georgia

Murray County, Georgia

Administrator's Dockett, 1834 - 1880.

Horace F. Hall, administrator of
Thomas Hall, deceased.

January Term 1866. Letters Granted.
May Term 1870. Letter of Dismission Granted.

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This is an old scrap that I copied from court records in Murray County, probably at the probate court (on the corner of the big town square property where the Superior Court is located).

No other details are available for this scrap.

Richard Sizemore, Dade County, Georgia, Various Documents

RICHARD SIZEMORE
Last Will & Testament (Transcript):

1. RICHARD SIZEMORE was born in 1800 near Greenville Greenville Co South Carolina and died in 1865 in DeKalb Co Alabama. . He married ELIZABETH ANN ‘BETTY' FORESTER/FOSTER about 1818 or 1819. She was born in 1804 in South Carolina and died 1 May 1879 in DeKalb Co Alabama. Her parents are FRANCIS FORESTER & UNKNOWN.  Richard & Betty are buried at Pea Ridge Cemetery DeKalb Co Alabama.

Richard is said to be the son of EPHRAIM SIZEMORE SR (1743-1836) & WINEFORD ‘WINNEY' GREEN (1745-1839), but the age of his mother would have been 55 years old when he was born. These are possibly his grandparents

The following information on Richard Sizemore from the Sand Mountain Melungeon Families website:

Richard Sizemore came from Spartansburg District, South Carolina and moved to Habersham County Georgia by 1822 and to Dade County Georgia about 1845 where he joined a group of other mixed breeds avoiding removal near Rising Fawn.  To credit descendants and relatives in Eastern Cherokee claims 1906-1924 which comprise two entire volumes of the Guion Miller Commission's report, the family came from North Carolina and Virginia and were Cherokee.  The name is cognate with Cismor and other Portuguese Jewish surnames, deriving from Sis(a)mai, a Judahite of the descendants of the daughter of Sheshan and Jarha, a Phoenician god's name, meaning water crane or swallow.  In Sephardic tradition applied to 'tax farmers.'  Sheshan had no sons, only daughters.  Sheshan had an Egyptian slave whose name was Jarha.  Eleasah begot Sisamai and Sisamai begot Shallum (1 Chronicles 2:34-40).  They were Portuguese Jews who came from London to Barbados and Jamestown, where they blended with the Saponi, Powhatan, Mattaponi, Cherokee, and Creek on the frontier.
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Will and Testament of Richard Sizemore:

Georgia, Dade County.  In the name of God, Amen, I, Richard Sizemore of said state and county, being of advanced age and knowing that must depart this life, deem it right and proper both as respects my family and myself that I should make a disposition of my property with which a kind providence has blessed me:  do therefore make my last will and testament hereby revoking all others heretofore made by same.

1st item.  I design that my body be buried in a decent and Christian-like manner suitable to my condition in life.  My soul, I trust, shall return to rest with God who gave it.

2nd item.  I design and direct that all my just debts be paid without delay by my executors hereinafter appointed, as I am unwilling my creditors should be delayed their right.

3rd item.  I give, bequeath and devise to my son Andrew Jackson and Thomas Benton and James Clayton and my daughter Malinda Elizabeth part of lot of land number two hundred and nineteen in the eleventh district of formerly Cherokee, now Dade County, containing one hundred and ten acres with all rights, members and privaliges(sic) to said lot of land in any wise appertaining or belonging forever.

4th item.  I give and bequeath to my son John one sorrel horse and two cows and calves and their increase and six head of sheep and their increase, one yoak(sic) of stears(sic) and cart, one hundred bushels of corn and ten head of hogs, and one rifle gun, and three feather beds and furnature(sic).

5th item.  I hereby appoint my son John executor of this my last will and testament this April 18th, 1850.

Richard Sizemore

Registered this 20th of April 1850.

John B Perkins, Clerk

(Thanks to Winona Jones of Weatherford Texas)
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Richard Sizemore was buried in Pea Ridge Cemetery, DeKalb County, Alabama on top of the mountain.  This cemetery also contains the graves of Coopers and Bundrens.  His widow Elizabeth moved to Fraction Township in the area known as Shraders Mill, where her neighbors were the Coopers and Shraders (Alabama 1866 State Census).  She was the daughter of Francis Forester and a Chickahominy woman and died May 1, 1879.

Very recent efforts spearheaded by Alan Lerwick of Salt Lake City, Utah, have traced the Sizemores back to a Michael Sizemore, a London merchant who died in 1685. Lerwick has also mapped two distinct DNA lines in Virginia and North Carolina, one continuing the original R1b gene type and the other an American Indian Q haplotype. He believes that Indian descent entered the Sizemore family with Henry Sizemore, born about 1698. The descendants of Henry’s older brother Ephraim are R1b.

Benjamin Mullinax, Executor: Estate of William Caler, dec'd (May 1858); admin. later revoked

May 1858: Benjamin Mullinax is appointed executor of the estate of William Caler, deceased; the administration is revoked in August (reason not stated).

Murray County Inferior Court: Administration Docket, 1834-1880, May term, 1858: Letters granted.

Benjamin Mullinax is appointed executor of the estate of William Caler, deceased. [Note that in the August term of 1858, the administration was revoked. ]
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Murray Co., Ga., Court of Ordinary, Temp. & Permanent Letters of Administrator's & Guardians (1856-1871), p.21-22, Bery* J. Mullinax is appointed as administrator of William Caylor's will, with George Caylor and Eli Caylor as security.
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*Probably "Beny" or "Benj," but I had extracted it as "Bery." The old handwriting can be difficult.

Research Note: William Caylor (born 1810-1812; died 1857-1858?); married Rhoda Jane Dunn. Benjamin Mullinax would be William Caylor's son-in-law. Benjamin married William's daughter, Mary Caylor.

[I previously published this note on Family Search, under the various individuals mentioned in the documents].

Surnames: CAYLOR, CALER, MULLINAX, MULINAX

Extract: Will of Samuel P. C. Howard, of Ophir, Placer, California (1906)

Will of Samuel P. C. Howard
Ophir, Placer, California
31 August 1906
Brief Extract by: John T. Coleman, Rabun County, Georgia

[This will mentions]:

• heirs of my deceased brother, Lafayette Howard, of Macon Co., North Carolina
• heirs of my deceased brother, Pulaske Howard, of Macon Co., North Carolina
• my sister, Rosetta Norton nee Howard of Macon Co., North Carolina, or her heirs
• my sister, Marcella McClure nee Howard of Clay Co., North Carolina, or her heirs
• my brother, Dr. Nicholas F. Howard, of Dahlonega, Georgia, or his heirs
• my brother, John H. Howard, of Greenfield, Missouri, or his heirs
• heirs of my deceased sister, Elizabeth Roane nee Howard, of Jefferson Co., Illinois

Appointed Executors: William R. Monahan and Otto F. Walter, of Ophir, Placer, California

"I wish to be buried in the Odd Fellows Cemetery at Auburn, Ophir, Placer, California."

[Dated] 31 August 1906

Witnesses: Fred Lutz

                  A. W. Ellison

__________________________________

These are just brief notes by John T. Howard; he has published a more detailed transcript of the will in a self-published book on the Howard family. It may be found at Rabun County Historical Society and other libraries in Georgia and North Carolina.

Richard Sizemore Will, Transcription

Here is his will transcribed by dkp (thanks to Winona Jones of Weatherford, Tex. for a copy of the original):

Georgia. Dade County. In the name of God, Amen. I, Richard Sizemore of said state and county, being of advanced age and knowing that must shortly depart this life, deem it right and proper both as respects my family and myself that I should make a disposition of my property with which a kind providence has blessed me; do therefore make my last will and testament hereby revoking all others heretofore made by same.

1st item. I design that my body be buried in a decent and Christian-like manner suitable to my condition in life. My soul, I trust, shall return to rest with God who gave it.

2nd item. I design and direct that all my just debts be paid without delay by my executors hereinafter appointed, as I am unwilling my creditors should be delayed in their right.

3rd item. I give, bequeath and devise to my son Andrew Jackson and Thomas Benton and James Clayton and my daughter Malinda Elizabeth part of lot of land number two hundred and nineteen in the eleventh district of formerly Cherokee, now Dade County, containing one hundred and ten acres with all the rights, members and privaliges (sic) to said lot of land in any wise appertaining or belonging forever.

4th item. I give and bequeath to my son John one sorrel horse and two cows and calves and their increase and six head of sheep and their increase, one yoak (sic) of stears (sic) and cart, one hundred bushels of corn and ten head of hogs, and one rifle gun, and three feather beds and furnature (sic).

5th item. I hereby appoint my son John executor of this my last will and testament this April 18th, 1850.

Richard Sizemore
Registered this 20th of April 1850.
John B. Perkins, Clerk

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Transcription above done by dkp, 2006; filed dated 9 March 2006.

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More About RICHARD SIZEMORE:
Born 1800-1803 Greenville, Greenville, South Carolina; died 1865, Henagar, Dekalb, Alabama; buried Pea Ridge Cemetery, DeKalb Co., Alabama.
Will dated: 18 April 1850, Dade County, Georgia

Other Reference: Find A Grave Memorial: 16562487 - Richard Sisemore
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=16562487

My Ancestor, daughter of Richard and Elizabeth (Forrester) Sizemore:  
Malinda (Lindy) Elizabeth SIZEMORE, b. 28 May 1848 [or 28 March 1848], [of Dade County], Georgia; died 18 September 1938, Long Island, Jackson County, Alabama. Malinda married Peter Cooper on 28 August 1864 in Dekalb County, Alabama.

Elijah Petty, Fannin County, Georgia: Will - 1899

W.D. Petty, Executor of Elijah Petty Will (duty complete)

Transcript of the petition to relieve
W.D. Petty of the duties as executor of the will of
Elijah Petty, following completion of his duties. (1899)

[Transcript begins]:
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Georgia Fannin County }

To the Court of the petition of W.D. Petty Executor or administrator of the last will and testament of Elijah Petty deceased showeth that he has or will fully discharged all the duties of such executor or adm that he has paid all the debts of his testate presented to date has turned over or will the residue on his books to the lawful heirs of the said Elijah Petty decd as provided in said will he therefore prays the usual citation may issue requiring all persons interested to show cause if any they can why he should not be discharged from his administration and while such citation is running his proceedings as such Executor or adm may undergo a through revision by this court

            W. D. Petty  Adm

To the Court of ordinary March term 1899  the above petition having been read and considered ordered that the prayer of petitioner be granted and that the petition be entered on the minutes of the Court

            Thos. J. Wilson  Ordinary

Georgia }
Fannin County }

Whereas W.D. Petty adm executor of Last Will of Elijah Petty represents to the court in his petition duly filed and entered on record that he has fully administered or will [on?] Elijah Pettys estate this is therefore to [lit?] all persons concerned kindred and creditors to show cause if any they can why said Executor should not be discharged from his administration and relieved letters of dismission on the first Monday in June 1899

            Thos. J. Wilson
                    Ordinary
    ____________________

[End of transcript]

Transcribed verbatim insofar as I could read the handwriting. The writing itself is fair, but there is a heaving blurry, smudged quality in the copy that I used to do the transcription. Misspelled words (such as “through” for “thorough”) left as they were in original.

Transcript by D.K. Pritchett, from the files of Southern Muse. Previously published on my Family Tree Documents blog on Tumblr.