On 8 Sept. Ancestry announced a significant and massive release of Probates records for the United States. The database can be accessed here:
http://search.ancestry.com/search/group/us_willsprobate
From the South Carolina (SC) portion of this database we can access the Probate records for Chesterfield County, South Carolina.
South Carolina, Wills and Probate Records, 1670-1980
http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=9080From this set of records I pulled this petition of I. B. Rivers for the administration of his Father's estate. Notice that this probate file (#496) is listed on Ancestry as W. S. Rivers. This is an error.
I. B. Rivers is Isaac Berkley Rivers and his father is William James Rivers.
Probate #496-William James Rivers
Petition of Isaac Berkley Rivers
State of South Carolina
County of Chesterfield
I. The petitioner I. B. Rivers shows to this court that W. J. Rivers late of the county of Chesterfield departed this life on the 16th April 1894 intestate and left a personal Estate of about three hundred Dollars situated in this county.
II. That your petitioner is the son of deceased and their being no Administration your petitioner ask that the Court do appoint him Said Administration and he ever prays
Sept. 4th 1894 I. B. Rivers
This is valid and conclusive source of the death date for William James Rivers. The source is the Ancestry Probate Database. Citing this source should be done per the Genealogical Proof Standard.
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[1] "South Carolina Probate Records, Files and Loose Papers, 1732-1964," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-19388-16531-20?cc=1911928&wc=MPPB-C68:190567401,190561002,190567402,191054401 : accessed 17 September 2015), Chesterfield > Probate Court, Estate records > 1865-1927 > Cases 0470-0553A > image 628 of 1550; county courthouses, South Carolina, and South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia.
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