Chesterfield County SC Estates~Estate Folder #585~Ferguson Hale Smith

This is a new series of posting, appearing every Sunday, on selected Estate Folders from the Estate files of Chesterfield County. No known estates exist for the period before the Civil War. They were destroyed with the burning of the Courthouse. There are a few “Equity Records” in the State Archives. Do not overlook this valuable resources if you are looking for ancestors in Chesterfield County, South Carolina. 

Today we will be looking at the following Estate folders:
Folder #585
Ferguson Hale Smith.¹

This estate folder begins at image #706 and ends with image #735. (images 706-735) 

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On 14 January 1902, Ferguson Hale Smith died leaving surviving him his 3rd wife Ann Rebecca Powell and six children conceived with Ann Rebecca. Also surviving were 6 of 10 children conceived with his first wife Catherine Melton and 2 children conceived with his 2nd wife Mary Ann Graves.
Sadly, one month and 10 days after the passing of Ferguson Hale Smith his widow Ann Rebecca Powell Smith passed away on 24 February 1902. 

Ferguson left a small estate and on 27 January 1902, C. C. Griggs petitioned and made suit to the Court for Letters of Administration on the estate.
 














Transcription:
State of South Carolina}
County of Chesterfield}
The petition of C. C. Griggs respectfully shows to to this court_
First That F. H. Smith a citizen of Chesterfield County – died intestate on or about the 13^th or 14^th of Jan 1902 leaving a personal estate amounting to about Three Hundred dollars and it is necessary that others should be an administrator in order to settle the estate – wherefore your petitioner prays that Letters be granted him - and he will ever pray &C.
C. C. Griggs
 












Heirs receiving a share of the estate are named in image #732, named were 5 married daughters and 6 sons.

• Mrs. Bittle - Ellen Cenora J. Smith wife of John Wesley Bittle
• Mrs. Davis - Templeton Rebecca Jane Smith wife of  John Ferguson Davis
• Mrs. Griggs - Mary Catherine “Massie” Smith wife of James Calvin Griggs
• Mrs. Rayfield - Teresa Arassia Examina Smith wife of Peter Claude Rayfield
• Mrs. Morgan - Etna Florence Smith wife of Carl Gerome Morgan
• A. B. – Rev. Adolphus Bunyon Smith
• M. A. - Marion Augustus Smith
• A. P. -  Arthur P. Smith
• J. R. – Joseph Riley Smith
• E. B. - Elisha Brown Smith
• J. F. C. - James Ferguson Caswell Smith

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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-1-19427-40703-33?cc=1911928 : accessed 13 September 2015), Chesterfield > Probate Court, Estate records > 1865-1927 > Cases 0553B-0637 > image 706 of 1488; county courthouses, South Carolina, and South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia.
[2] Find A Grave, Inc., Find A Grave, database and digital images, (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 3 March 2013); Memorial page for Ferguson Hale Smith; (September 1815–14 January 1902); Find a Grave memorial # 50034221, Citing Ferguson H. Smith Cemetery; Chesterfield County, South Carolina, USA.