Amanuensis Monday~Petition for Guardian

Amanuensis Monday is a genealogy blogging theme. It was started by John Newmark who writes the TransylvanianDutch blog.

His definition of Amanuensis is:
Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another.

Today’s subject is a Petition for Guardian of R. A. and S. A. Whittington beginning with some background information.
About three years after returning from the Civil War, Eli Whittington married Margaret Elizabeth Brock, daughter of Samuel W. Brock and his wife Martha. Between 1869 and 1874 they had three daughters. Then in 1876, Eli Whittington suddenly died at the early age of of 36 leaving Margaret Elizabeth a widow with three small children. [1] [2]
Margaret Elizabeth then marries Joseph B. Sellers sometime after the 1880 census was enumerated. In early 1890, Margaret Elizabeth Brock Sellers dies leaving two children under the age of twenty-one. Rachel Anna Whittington was 19 years old and Sarah A. Whittington was 16 years old at the time of their Mother’s death. The below Petition for Guardian is part of Estate Folder # 200, Chesterfield County, South Carolina. James P. Brock is the brother of Margaret Elizabeth Brock Whittington Sellers.[3]
 

 
State of South Carolina} in the court of
County of Chesterfield} Probate
Ex Parte } Petition for Guardian
To H. D. Tiller Judge of probate for Chesterfield County
The Petition of the undersigned Respectfully Represents
I. That your petitioners as heirs at law of Elizabeth Sellers Deceased is entitled to the an Estate Real and personal of the value of 100 $50 fifty Dollars
II. That yore Petitioner are as I is miners ovr the age of fourteen years
III. That yore petitioner has no one to take charge of Said Estate for them wherefore yore Petitioner prays that this Court appoint Jas P Brock as there Guardian to take charge of and to controle Said Estate for them and yore Petitioners will ever pray &
Witnefs
J. F. Sellers                                                                  S. A. X Whittington
                                                                                    R. A. X Whittington
 
 
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[1]1870 U. S. Census, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, population schedule, Court House, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, Page: 296A (Stamped); Line 28, Dwelling 176, Family 176, Household of E[li] Whittington; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed 30 March 2013); citing National Archives Microfilm M593_1491.
[2]1880 U. S. Census, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, population schedule, Court House, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, enumeration district (ED) #005, Page 325C; Line 42, Dwelling 255, Family 255, Household of Sam BROCK; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed March 2012); citing National Archives Microfilm T9-1225.
[3] Chesterfield County, South Carolina, Probate Files & Loose papers, Appointment of Guardians - S. A & R. A. Whittington; digital images, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, FamilySearch (http://www.familysearch.org: viewed 30 March 2013); Estate Folder #200.